1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
13 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
16 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
19 * new remapping channel filter
20 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
21 * new VSXu visualization plugin
24 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
27 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
30 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
31 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
34 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
35 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
36 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
39 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
40 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
41 VLC's internal volume level
42 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
43 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
44 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
48 * portaudio audio output
49 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
50 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
53 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
54 --------------------------------
57 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
58 * fix the samba module compilation
59 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
60 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
61 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
62 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
65 * Support for MXPEG files
66 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
67 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
70 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
71 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
72 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
75 * Fix ogm header creation
78 * limit spatializer filter distortions
79 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
82 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
83 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
84 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
85 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
88 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
91 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
92 * allow to hide the sidebar
93 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
94 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
95 * noticebly faster launch time
96 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
97 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
98 * improve track synchronization panel
99 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
100 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
103 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
104 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
105 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
106 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
109 * fix for menus display
110 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
111 * documentation update
114 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
115 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
118 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
119 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
120 * Update Jamendo selections
124 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
125 * fix a crash on VLM close
128 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
129 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
130 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
131 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
134 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
137 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
138 ---------------------------------
141 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
142 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
143 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
144 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
145 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
146 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
147 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
148 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
149 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
150 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
151 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
152 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
153 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
154 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
155 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
156 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
157 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
158 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
159 --http-crl (optional CRL).
160 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
161 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
162 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
163 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
164 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
165 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
166 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
168 Important changes for packagers:
169 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
170 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
171 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
172 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
173 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
174 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
175 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
176 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
177 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
178 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
181 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
182 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
183 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
184 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
185 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
186 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
187 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
190 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
191 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
192 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
193 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
194 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
195 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
196 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
197 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
198 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
199 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
200 * PulseAudio audio input support
201 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
202 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
203 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
204 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
205 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
206 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
207 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
208 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
211 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
212 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
213 are notably concerned.
214 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
215 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
216 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
217 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
218 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
219 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
220 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
221 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
222 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
223 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
224 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
225 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
226 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
227 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
228 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
231 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
232 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
233 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
234 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
235 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
236 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
237 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
238 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
239 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
240 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
241 * Improved support of tracker files
242 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
245 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
246 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
247 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
248 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
249 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
250 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
251 and important cleanups and optimisations
252 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
253 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
254 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
255 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
256 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
257 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
258 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
259 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
260 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
261 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
262 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
263 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
264 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
265 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
266 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
267 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
268 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
269 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
270 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
271 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
272 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
275 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
276 * New video output for iOS platform
277 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
278 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
279 * Various vmem improvements
280 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
281 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
282 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
283 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
284 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
285 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
287 Audio Output and Filters:
288 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
289 * New audio output in memory (amem)
290 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
291 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
292 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
293 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
294 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
295 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
296 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
297 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
300 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
301 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
302 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
303 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
304 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
305 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
306 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
307 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
308 * New anti-flickering filter
309 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
310 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
311 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
312 blackbox and customizable shadow.
313 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
314 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
315 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
318 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
319 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
320 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
321 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
322 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
323 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
324 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
325 * Major rework of VoD support
326 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
327 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
328 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
329 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
330 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
331 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
332 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
333 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
334 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
335 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
338 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
339 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
342 * New capabilities for libVLC:
343 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
344 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
345 list of available audio and video filters
346 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
347 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
348 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
351 * asademux, subsass: use libass
352 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
353 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
355 * upnp: use upnp_intel
356 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
357 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
358 * removal of the noise filter
359 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
360 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
361 removed in Growl's next release, too.
362 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
365 * Update of translations for most languages.
366 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
369 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
370 ----------------------------------
373 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
374 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
377 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
378 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
381 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
382 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
383 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
386 * Camtasia decoding fix.
389 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
390 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
393 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
396 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
397 ----------------------------------
400 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
401 including support for OS X Lion
402 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
403 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
406 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
409 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
410 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
411 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
414 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
417 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
418 ----------------------------------
421 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
422 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
425 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
426 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
427 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
428 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
429 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
431 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
432 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
433 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
435 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
436 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
439 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
442 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
445 * Fix quitting on Linux
446 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
450 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
453 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
456 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
457 ---------------------------------
459 Windows and Mac OS X:
460 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
463 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
464 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
467 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
470 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
473 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
475 Miscellaneous fixes in:
476 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
478 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
479 * RTP output and XML export
480 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
484 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
485 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
486 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
487 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
490 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
491 --------------------------------
493 Windows and Mac OS X:
494 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
497 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
500 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
501 * Improve Apple Remote handling
502 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
503 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
504 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
505 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
508 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
509 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
513 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
514 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
515 * New Luganda Translation
518 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
519 --------------------------------
522 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
525 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
526 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
527 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
528 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
531 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
533 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
534 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
535 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
536 * mp4 demuxer improvements
537 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
538 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
539 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
540 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
542 Miscellaneous fixes in:
543 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
544 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
545 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
546 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
547 * Configure and build system improvements
548 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
551 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
552 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
553 * New icelandic translation
556 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
557 --------------------------------
560 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
564 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
565 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
566 and stability reasons
569 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
573 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
576 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
577 ----------------------------------
580 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
583 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
584 ---------------------------------
587 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
588 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
589 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
590 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
593 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
596 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
597 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
598 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
599 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
602 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
603 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
604 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
606 Subtitles and renderer:
607 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
608 * Mark more freetype options as safe
609 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
610 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
611 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
614 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
615 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
616 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
617 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
620 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
621 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
624 * KDE device solid actions
626 * Transcode integer overflow
627 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
628 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
631 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
632 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
633 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
636 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
637 ----------------------------------
640 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
644 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
647 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
650 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
651 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
652 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
653 * Taglib thread-safety fix
656 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
660 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
663 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
666 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
667 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
669 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
673 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
674 * Miscellaneous fixes
677 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
678 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
680 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
681 * New Asturian translation
684 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
685 ----------------------------------
688 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
690 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
693 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
696 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
697 * Various fixes for Windows
700 * New Armenian translation
701 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
702 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
705 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
706 --------------------------------
709 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
711 * Fix folders opening from the interface
714 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
715 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
718 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
719 --------------------------------
722 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
723 * fix for podcasts parsing
724 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
727 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
728 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
731 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
732 * fix m3u playlists exports
735 * fix video autoresize behaviour
738 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
741 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
744 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
747 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
750 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
751 --------------------------------
754 * Avformat fps displaying fix
755 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
758 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
759 of mono streams, especially on Windows
762 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
763 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
764 * fix console output encoding
766 Interface and extensions:
767 * Youtube and other scripts updates
768 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
771 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
772 --------------------------------
775 * New capabilities for libVLC:
776 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
777 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
778 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
779 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
780 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
781 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
782 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
783 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
784 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
785 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
786 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
787 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
788 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
789 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
790 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
794 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
795 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
796 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
797 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
798 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
801 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
804 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
805 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
806 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
810 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
813 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
814 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
815 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
818 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
819 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
820 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
821 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
824 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
825 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
828 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
829 --------------------------------
831 Important changes for users:
832 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
833 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
835 Important changes for packagers:
836 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
837 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
838 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
839 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
840 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
842 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
844 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
845 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
846 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
847 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
848 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
851 * Support for the sftp protocol
852 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
853 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
854 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
855 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
856 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
859 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
860 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
861 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
863 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
864 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
865 * Invmem module improvements
866 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
867 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
868 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
869 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
870 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
871 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
872 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
873 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
874 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
875 * Support for VP8 codec
876 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
879 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
880 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
881 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
882 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
883 * Various EGP improvements
884 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
885 * Metadata and cover art improvements
888 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
889 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
890 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
891 * Podcast images are now displayed
894 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
895 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
896 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
897 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
898 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
899 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
900 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
901 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
902 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
903 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
904 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
907 * New content extensions lua framework
910 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
911 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
912 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
913 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
914 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
915 * NEON assembly audio converter module
916 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
919 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
920 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
921 * Service discovery based on libudev
922 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
925 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
926 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
927 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
928 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
929 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
930 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
931 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
934 * New smem module, streaming to memory
935 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
936 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
939 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
941 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
942 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
945 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
948 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
949 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
950 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
951 by Andy Matuschak et al.
952 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
953 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
954 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
957 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
958 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
961 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
962 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
963 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
967 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
968 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
969 * Improved Solaris port
972 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
973 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
976 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
977 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
978 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
979 * transrate: broken since too long
980 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
981 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
982 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
983 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
984 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
985 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
986 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
987 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
988 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
989 * cddax: use cdda instead.
990 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
991 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
992 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
993 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
996 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
997 --------------------------------
1000 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1002 Decoders/Packetizers:
1003 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1006 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1007 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1008 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1009 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1010 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1013 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1014 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1017 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1018 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1021 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1022 and Walloon translations updated
1023 * Sinhala translation started
1026 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1027 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1030 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1035 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1038 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1041 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1042 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1045 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1046 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1047 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1048 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1051 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1052 --------------------------------
1055 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1056 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1059 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1060 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1063 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1064 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1067 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1070 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1071 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1074 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1075 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1078 * New Walloon translation
1079 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1082 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1083 --------------------------------
1086 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1087 regressions in most popular drivers
1088 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1091 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1092 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1093 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1096 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1097 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1100 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1101 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1102 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1103 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1104 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1107 * New udev module for linux
1110 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1113 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1116 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1117 --------------------------------
1120 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1121 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1122 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1125 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1126 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1129 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1130 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1133 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1136 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1137 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1138 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1139 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1142 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1143 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1144 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1145 - no support for Goom and SDL
1146 - limited text rendering support
1147 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1150 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1151 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1152 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1153 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1154 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1155 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1156 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1157 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1158 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1162 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1165 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1168 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1169 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1170 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1171 Arabic and French translation updates
1174 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1175 --------------------------------
1178 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1179 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1180 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1181 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1182 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1183 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1186 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1187 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1188 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1191 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1192 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1193 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1196 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1199 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1200 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1203 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1204 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1205 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1206 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1207 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1208 * Fix various crashes
1211 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1213 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1217 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1218 ---------------------------------
1222 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1223 See 'Access:' for more info.
1224 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1227 * Instantaneous pausing
1228 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1229 * Finer speed control
1230 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1231 * Timeshift for most medias
1232 * RTSP trickplay support
1233 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1236 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1237 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1238 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1239 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1240 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1241 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1242 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1243 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1244 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1245 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1248 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1249 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1250 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1251 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1252 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1253 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1254 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1257 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1258 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1261 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1262 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1263 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1264 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1265 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1266 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1267 * DVB scanning on linux
1268 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1269 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1270 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1271 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1272 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1273 * MTP device access on Unix
1274 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1275 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1278 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1279 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1280 Windows and Mac OS X.
1283 * Export the playlist in HTML
1284 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1285 * Better metadata handling and reading
1287 Linux/Windows interface:
1288 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1289 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1290 * Recently played items list
1291 * Interface toolbar customizations
1292 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1293 - More menus actions
1294 - Finer speed slider
1295 - Improvements on many dialogs
1296 - New dialog for plugins listing
1297 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1298 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1299 * Better integration in GTK environments
1302 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1303 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1304 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1305 * Additional usability improvements
1308 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1309 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1310 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1311 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1312 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1315 * New Maemo port with:
1316 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1317 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1320 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1323 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1324 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1325 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1326 * Support for latest iSight models
1329 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1330 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1333 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1334 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1335 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1336 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1337 The old image video output has been removed.
1338 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1339 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1342 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1350 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1351 --------------------------------------
1357 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1358 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1359 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1360 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1361 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1362 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1363 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1365 Various fixes to the following modules:
1368 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1369 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1370 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1372 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1377 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1378 ---------------------------------
1381 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1382 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1385 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1386 ---------------------------------
1389 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1392 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1395 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1396 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1397 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1398 main controller window.
1399 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1402 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1407 * Updates of other localizations
1410 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1411 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1412 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1413 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1414 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1417 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1418 ---------------------------------
1421 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1423 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1426 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1427 --------------------------------
1432 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1433 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1436 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1437 --------------------------------
1439 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1440 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1443 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1446 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1447 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1450 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1451 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1454 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1455 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1456 * Various fixed in playlist
1459 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1462 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1465 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1466 ------------------------------------
1468 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1469 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1472 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1473 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1474 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1477 * Stability fix for the video output.
1480 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1481 --------------------------------
1484 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1485 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1486 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1487 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1488 * Fixed update system bugs
1489 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1492 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1493 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1494 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1495 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1496 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1497 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1498 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1499 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1500 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1501 modern Mac OS X versions
1504 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1505 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1507 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1508 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1511 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1512 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1513 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1514 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1515 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1516 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1519 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1520 --------------------------------
1522 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1523 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1524 * Multiple bugfixes.
1527 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1528 --------------------------------
1530 * Multiple bug fixes.
1533 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1534 ---------------------------------
1538 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1539 recent to work correctly
1540 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1541 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1542 edit the ".hosts" file.
1543 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1544 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1545 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1546 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1547 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1548 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1549 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1550 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1551 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1552 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1553 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1554 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1555 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1556 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1557 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1558 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1559 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1560 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1561 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1562 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1563 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1564 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1565 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1566 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1567 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1568 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1569 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1570 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1571 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1572 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1573 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1574 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1575 and postproc modules.
1576 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1577 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1578 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1579 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1581 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1582 filter. For example:
1583 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1584 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1586 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1587 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1593 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1595 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1596 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1599 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1600 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1602 * Shoutcast TV listings
1603 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1605 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1606 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1608 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1611 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1612 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1613 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1614 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1615 * JACK audio input support
1616 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1617 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1618 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1619 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1620 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1621 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1622 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1623 (available as a separate download).
1624 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1625 * RTMP input support
1626 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1627 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1628 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1630 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1631 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1634 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1635 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1636 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1637 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1639 * APEv1/2 tags support
1640 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1641 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1643 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1644 * TiVo Series 2 support
1645 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1650 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1651 * Flash Screen Video support
1652 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1653 * DosBox Capture support
1654 * Karl Morton's Video support
1655 * limited atrac3 support
1657 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1658 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1659 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1660 * H.264 PAFF support
1661 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1662 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1663 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1664 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1665 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1668 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1669 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1670 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1671 * AQTitle subtitles support
1672 * MKV USF subtitles support
1673 * HTML-based subtitles support
1674 * MPSub subtitles support
1675 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1676 * MPL2 subtitles support
1677 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1678 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1679 * Realtext subtitle support
1680 * DKS subtitle support
1681 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1682 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1685 * Flash Screen Video support
1686 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1688 Video outputs and filters:
1689 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1690 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1691 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1692 * New puzzle video output filter
1693 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1694 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1696 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1697 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1698 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1699 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1700 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1701 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1702 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1703 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1704 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1705 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1706 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1707 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1708 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1709 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1711 Audio outputs and filters:
1712 * Replay gain support
1713 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1714 new scaletempo audio filter)
1715 * New spatializer audio filter
1716 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1719 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1720 * New RTP payload formats:
1721 * Speex voice audio codec
1722 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1723 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1724 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1725 * DCCP transport for RTP
1726 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1731 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1732 end-user suitable way.
1733 * Improved user interaction
1734 * Improved mouse gestures
1735 * Vastly improved Update checker
1736 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1738 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1739 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1741 * Improved video output features
1742 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1743 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1744 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1745 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1746 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1748 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1749 if libncursesw is available.
1750 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1751 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1752 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1754 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1755 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1756 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1757 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1758 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1759 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1760 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1761 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1764 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1765 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1766 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1769 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1770 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1771 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1772 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1773 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1774 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1777 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1778 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1788 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1789 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1790 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1793 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1794 ----------------------------------
1797 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1800 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1801 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1802 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1803 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1804 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1805 * Updated Polish translation
1808 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1809 ----------------------------------
1812 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1813 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1814 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1817 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1818 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1819 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1820 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1821 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1822 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1823 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1824 to an unexpected application termination
1825 * New Serbian translation
1826 * Updated Romanian translation
1829 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1830 ----------------------------------
1833 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1834 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1835 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1836 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1837 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1838 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1839 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1840 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1843 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1844 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1845 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1846 * Fixed AAC resampling
1847 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1848 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1851 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1852 ----------------------------------
1855 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1856 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1857 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1858 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1859 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1862 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1863 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1864 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1865 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1866 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1869 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1870 ----------------------------------
1873 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1874 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1877 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1878 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1879 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1880 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1882 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1886 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1889 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1892 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1895 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1898 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1899 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1900 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1901 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1902 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1904 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1905 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1906 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1907 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1910 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1913 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1914 ----------------------------------
1917 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1918 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1919 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1921 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1922 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1924 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1925 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1928 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1930 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1931 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1932 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1933 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1934 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1935 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1936 two different movies
1937 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1938 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1939 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1942 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1945 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1946 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1947 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1948 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1951 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1952 ----------------------------------
1954 Various bugfixes, notably:
1955 * Windows Vista compatibility
1956 * Cropping in Direct3D
1957 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1958 * RSS filter string overflow
1960 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1962 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1963 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1966 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1967 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1970 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1973 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1976 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1979 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1980 ----------------------------------
1982 Various bugfixes, notably:
1983 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1984 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1985 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1986 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1987 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1988 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1991 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1992 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1995 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1997 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1998 * Diverse usability improvements
1999 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2000 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2001 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2004 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2005 ---------------------------------
2007 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2008 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2011 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2014 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2015 --------------------------------
2018 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2021 * Support for RTSP authentication
2022 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2023 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2024 * ATSC support for DVB input
2025 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2026 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2027 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2030 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2031 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2032 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2033 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2034 * Matroska WavPack support
2035 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2036 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2037 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2040 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2041 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2042 * Improved libcaca support
2046 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2047 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2049 * Systray support in skins
2051 * Support for Apple Remote control
2052 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2053 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2054 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2055 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2057 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2060 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2061 Windows 9x/ME users:
2062 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2063 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2064 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2065 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2066 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2068 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2069 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2078 * Updates to the libvlc API
2079 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2082 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2083 --------------------------------
2086 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2087 * Support for downloading updates
2091 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2092 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2093 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2094 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2096 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2097 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2098 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2101 * Cook (Real audio) support
2103 Playlist / Services discovery:
2104 * XSPF playlist support
2106 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2109 * New JACK audio output
2112 * New video filters:
2113 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2114 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2115 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2116 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2117 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2118 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2121 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2124 * System to inform the user and request information
2125 - HTTP authentication
2129 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2130 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2131 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2134 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2135 - Improved playlist handling
2136 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2138 - Embedded Video output
2139 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2140 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2141 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2142 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2143 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2145 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2146 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2149 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2152 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2153 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2154 * Growl "Now playing" support
2157 * Ability to log to syslog
2158 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2161 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2163 * A bit more automatic testing
2166 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2167 ---------------------------------
2170 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2171 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2174 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2175 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2178 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2181 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2182 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2188 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2191 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2192 --------------------------------
2195 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2199 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2200 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2201 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2204 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2205 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2206 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2207 * GnomeVFS input module
2208 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2209 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2212 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2213 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2214 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2217 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2218 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2224 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2225 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2228 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2229 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2230 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2233 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2235 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2236 - New extended controls panel
2237 - New bookmarks window
2238 - Fixed playlist sorting
2239 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2241 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2242 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2243 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2244 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2248 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2249 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2251 - Include macro to include other files
2255 * Should now work outside IE as well
2258 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2261 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2262 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2265 The following languages were added:
2269 * Simplified Chinese
2270 The following languages were re-added:
2274 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2275 --------------------------------
2278 * Rewrite of the playlist
2280 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2281 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2282 * Preferences improvements:
2283 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2284 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2286 * Core image manipulation support
2287 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2288 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2289 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2290 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2291 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2292 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2293 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2294 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2295 * Access filter architecture
2296 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2297 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2301 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2302 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2303 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2304 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2305 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2306 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2307 * Massive Matroska improvements
2308 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2310 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2311 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2312 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2313 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2314 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2316 Decoders / Encoders:
2317 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2318 * PNG decoder/encoder
2319 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2320 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2323 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2326 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2327 * Brand new SAP module
2328 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2329 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2330 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2331 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2332 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2333 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2337 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2340 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2341 * Image file video output (png)
2342 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2343 * Improvements to wall video filter
2344 * Support for font color and opacity
2350 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2351 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2352 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2356 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2357 - Improved preferences
2358 - Improvements to the wizard
2359 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2361 - Redesigned playlist
2362 - Improved preferences
2364 - Support for multiple actions
2367 - Support for the new playlist system
2369 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2372 * Screensaver disabling fix
2373 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2374 * Support for no-decoration windows
2377 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2378 * The OpenGL video output is back
2379 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2380 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2381 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2382 is not yet available in the new module
2383 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2386 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2395 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2398 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2401 The following languages were added:
2407 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2408 --------------------------------
2411 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2412 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2415 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2416 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2417 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2420 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2423 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2426 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2429 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2430 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2431 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2435 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2437 * Support of playlist group announcement
2440 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2441 --------------------------------
2444 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2445 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2446 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2447 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2448 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2449 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2452 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2453 (Stream your desktop)
2454 * Improved DVD support:
2455 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2456 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2457 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2458 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2459 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2460 (selection of titles/chapters).
2463 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2464 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2465 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2466 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2467 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2468 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2469 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2470 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2471 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2472 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2475 * G.726 audio support
2476 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2477 * MPEG-4 text support
2478 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2479 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2480 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2484 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2485 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2486 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2487 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2488 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2489 * DVB subtitles encoder
2490 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2491 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2493 * Text track muxing for mp4
2494 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2495 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2496 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2497 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2498 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2499 * Improved ASF muxer
2501 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2502 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2503 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2506 * New audio equalizer filter
2507 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2508 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2509 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2510 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2513 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2514 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2515 with support for effects.
2516 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2517 - New filters can be streamed.
2518 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2519 - Centralized scaling and blending
2521 - "time", to display current time
2522 - "marq", to display a marquee
2525 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2526 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2527 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2528 * A few skins2 improvements
2529 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2530 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2531 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2532 * Improved CORBA control module
2535 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2536 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2537 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2540 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2541 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2542 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2545 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2546 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2547 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2548 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2549 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2552 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2555 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2556 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2559 * Server/client network synchronization module
2560 * VBrick streams fully supported
2561 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2565 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2566 --------------------------------
2569 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2570 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2571 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2572 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2575 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2576 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2577 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2578 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2579 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2580 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2581 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2584 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2585 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2586 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2587 * Improved directory access module.
2588 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2589 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2590 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2591 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2592 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2595 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2596 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2597 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2600 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2601 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2602 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2605 * Improved session announcement system.
2606 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2607 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2608 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2609 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2610 * Improved transrater.
2611 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2612 * New configuration system.
2613 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2616 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2617 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2618 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2619 * Supports scheduling.
2620 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2621 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2624 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2625 - Ability to embed video output.
2626 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2627 - Lots of improvements.
2628 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2629 - New design and set of icons.
2630 - Ability to embed video output.
2631 - Support for hotkeys.
2632 - Support for bookmarks.
2634 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2635 - Better hotkeys handling.
2638 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2639 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2640 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2641 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2644 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2645 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2646 * Improved Windows installer.
2652 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2653 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2656 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2657 ---------------------------------
2660 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2661 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2664 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2665 --------------------------------
2668 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2669 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2672 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2673 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2674 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2675 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2678 * Internal improvments
2679 * Improved import/export
2682 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2684 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2685 small and strange formats.
2687 * New MOD audio demux.
2688 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2689 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2690 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2691 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2694 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2695 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2696 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2702 * New opengl video output plugin.
2705 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2706 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2709 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2710 --------------------------------
2713 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2714 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2715 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2716 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2717 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2718 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2719 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2720 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2723 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2728 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2729 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2730 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2731 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2732 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2733 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2734 * Better Icecast support.
2735 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2736 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2739 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2740 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2741 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2742 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2743 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2744 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2745 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2748 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2749 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2750 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2751 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2752 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2753 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2754 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2755 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2756 * Preliminary RTP support.
2757 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2762 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2763 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2765 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2766 - Improvements and help in preferences
2767 - New streaming wizard
2768 - Revised Disc Open menu
2770 - Improvements of the standard pages
2771 - Support for new commands
2772 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2775 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2776 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2779 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2780 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2781 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2782 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2783 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2784 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2785 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2786 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2787 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2790 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2792 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2793 * Support for Panther.
2794 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2795 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2798 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2799 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2800 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2801 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2802 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2803 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2804 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2805 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2808 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2809 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2810 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2813 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2816 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2817 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2818 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2819 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2822 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2823 --------------------------------
2826 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2829 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2830 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2833 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2834 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2837 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2840 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2841 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2844 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2847 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2850 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2851 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2855 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2856 --------------------------------
2859 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2860 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2864 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2865 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2866 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2868 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2869 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2872 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2875 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2878 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2879 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2883 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2884 --------------------------------
2887 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2888 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2892 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2893 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2894 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2895 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2896 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2899 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2900 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2901 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2904 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2905 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2906 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2909 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2910 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2911 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2912 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2913 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2916 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2917 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2918 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2921 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2924 * Improved build system.
2925 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2926 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2927 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2928 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2931 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2932 --------------------------------
2935 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2938 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2939 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2940 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2941 * Video 4 Linux support
2942 * CD Digital Audio support
2943 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2946 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2947 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2948 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2949 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2952 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2953 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2954 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2955 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2956 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2957 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2958 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2961 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2962 * New HTTP remote control interface
2965 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2966 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2967 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2968 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2969 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2972 * New reset option for the preferences
2973 * You can set your language in the prefences
2974 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2975 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2976 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2977 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2980 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2981 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2982 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2985 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2986 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2987 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2988 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2989 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2990 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2991 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2992 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2993 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2994 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2997 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2998 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2999 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3000 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3001 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3002 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3003 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3006 * Interface localization
3007 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3008 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3009 * New full-featured Preferences window
3012 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3013 --------------------------------
3016 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3017 * support for skins at the interface level
3018 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3019 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3020 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3021 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3022 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3025 * fixed HTTP redirects
3026 * support for opening an entire directory
3027 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3028 * new video4linux access plug-in
3029 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3032 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3033 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3034 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3037 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3038 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3039 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3040 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3041 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3042 * new codec for raw I420 video
3043 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3046 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3047 (although it still misses some important features)
3048 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3051 * new HTTP output support
3052 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3053 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3056 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3059 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3062 * reorderable playlist
3063 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3064 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3065 * support for mono audio output devices
3066 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3067 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3068 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3069 * the messages window remembers more lines
3070 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3071 * http and ogg stream output options
3072 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3075 * new skinnable interface
3076 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3078 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3079 * support for FLAC audio format
3080 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3082 * network tab in the interface
3083 * "apply" handling in preferences
3086 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3087 ---------------------------------
3090 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3091 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3092 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3093 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3095 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3096 * DTS S/PDIF support
3099 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3100 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3101 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3102 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3105 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3106 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3109 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3112 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3115 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3117 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3118 * rc interface is now fully useable
3119 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3122 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3123 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3124 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3125 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3126 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3128 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3129 * support for mouse gestures
3130 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3133 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3134 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3137 * improved ID3 tag detection
3138 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3139 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3140 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3142 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3145 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3146 ---------------------------------
3149 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3150 English was set as the preferred language
3153 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3154 --------------------------------
3157 * new mouse gesture interface
3158 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3162 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3163 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3164 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3167 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3168 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3172 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3175 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3176 without the user consent
3179 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3181 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3182 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3183 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3186 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3187 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3188 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3189 * playlist enhancements
3190 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3191 * new step forward/step backward commands
3192 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3193 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3194 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3197 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3198 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3199 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3202 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3203 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3206 * native video output is working again
3207 * only commandline interface support
3208 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3211 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3212 --------------------------------
3215 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3216 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3217 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3218 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3219 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3220 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3221 and A/52 streams are supported)
3222 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3227 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3228 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3229 * VCD entry points support
3230 * VCD image file support
3233 * support for *.asf format
3234 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3235 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3236 * support for ogg encapsulation
3237 * support for raw DV format
3238 * support for *.wav format
3239 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3242 Stream discovery & playlists:
3243 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3244 * support for .m3u file format
3245 * support for .asx file format
3246 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3249 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3250 (only available with the .avi demux)
3251 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3252 * support for raw PCM data
3253 * support for Cinepak video codec
3254 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3255 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3256 * support for Xvid codec
3257 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3258 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3259 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3261 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3263 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3266 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3269 * new WxWindows interface
3270 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3271 device and the channels configuration
3272 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3273 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3274 format that VLC can play
3275 * new swedish translation
3276 * enhancements of the playlist window
3277 * new messages window to see debug info
3278 * fixed a few crashes
3281 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3282 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3283 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3284 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working