3 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
4 --------------------------------
7 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
8 * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
9 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
10 * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
11 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
15 * Support iTunes Music Store previews
16 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
17 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
21 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
25 * text track muxing for mp4
26 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
27 * H.263 RTP streaming support
30 * added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
31 * added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
32 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
33 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
34 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
37 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
40 * added a lot of javascript accessible funtionality
41 * volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
44 * Roku HD1000 Video output
45 * Experimental network synchronization module
46 * Experimental SVG rendering module
47 * VBrick streams fully supported
48 * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
49 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
51 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
52 --------------------------------
55 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
56 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
57 * Improved HTTP daemon.
58 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
61 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
62 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
63 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
64 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
65 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
66 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
67 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
70 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
71 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
72 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
73 * Improved directory access module.
74 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
75 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
76 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
77 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
78 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
81 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
82 * mmsh streaming fixes.
83 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
86 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
87 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
88 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
91 * Improved session announcement system.
92 * Minimize threads usage by default.
93 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
94 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
95 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
96 * Improved transrater.
97 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
98 * New configuration system.
99 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
102 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
103 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
104 * Supports live streams and VoD.
105 * Supports scheduling.
106 * Telnet interface for vlm.
107 * HTTP interface for vlm.
110 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
111 - Ability to embed video output.
112 - Support for bitmap fonts.
113 - Lots of improvements.
114 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
115 - New design and set of icons.
116 - Ability to embed video output.
117 - Support for hotkeys.
118 - Support for bookmarks.
120 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
121 - Better hotkeys handling.
124 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
125 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
126 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
127 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
130 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
131 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
132 * Improved Windows installer.
138 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
139 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
141 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
142 ---------------------------------
145 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
146 * Playing MOD files is working now.
149 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
150 ---------------------------------
153 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
154 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
157 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
158 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
159 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
160 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
163 * Internal improvments
164 * Improved import/export
167 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
169 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
170 small and strange formats.
172 * New MOD audio demux.
173 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
174 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
175 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
176 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
179 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
180 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
181 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
187 * New opengl video output plugin.
190 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
191 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
193 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
194 ---------------------------------
197 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
198 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
199 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
200 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
201 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
202 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
203 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
204 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
207 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
212 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
213 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
214 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
215 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
216 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
217 * Reworked DVB tuning.
218 * Better Icecast support.
219 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
220 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
223 * Support for Theora video encoding.
224 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
225 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
226 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
227 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
228 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
229 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
232 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
233 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
234 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
235 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
236 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
237 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
238 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
239 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
240 * Preliminary RTP support.
241 * Fixes to SAP announces.
246 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
247 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
249 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
250 - Improvements and help in preferences
251 - New streaming wizard
252 - Revised Disc Open menu
254 - Improvements of the standard pages
255 - Support for new commands
256 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
259 * Many fixes to the SAP module
260 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
263 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
264 * Text subtitles autodetection.
265 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
266 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
267 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
268 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
269 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
270 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
271 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
274 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
276 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
277 * Support for Panther.
278 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
279 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
282 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
283 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
284 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
285 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
286 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
287 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
288 * Multimonitor support (untested).
289 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
292 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
293 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
294 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
297 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
300 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
301 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
302 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
303 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
305 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
306 ---------------------------------
309 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
312 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
313 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
316 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
317 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
320 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
323 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
324 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
327 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
330 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
333 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
334 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
337 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
338 ---------------------------------
341 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
342 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
346 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
347 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
348 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
350 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
351 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
354 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
357 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
360 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
361 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
364 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
365 ---------------------------------
368 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
369 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
373 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
374 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
375 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
376 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
377 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
380 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
381 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
382 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
385 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
386 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
387 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
390 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
391 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
392 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
393 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
394 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
397 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
398 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
399 * A new CORBA control plugin.
402 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
405 * Improved build system.
406 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
407 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
408 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
409 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
412 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
413 ---------------------------------
416 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
419 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
420 * Fixed large file support on Windows
421 * Video 4 Linux support
422 * CD Digital Audio support
423 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
426 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
427 * Support for OpenDML avi files
428 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
429 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
432 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
433 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
434 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
435 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
436 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
437 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
438 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
441 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
442 * New HTTP remote control interface
445 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
446 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
447 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
448 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
451 * New reset option for the preferences
452 * You can set your language in the prefences
453 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
454 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
455 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
456 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
459 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
460 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
461 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
464 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
465 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
466 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
467 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
468 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
469 * New icons by Davor Orel.
470 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
471 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
472 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
473 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
476 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
477 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
478 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
479 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
480 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
481 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
482 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
485 * Interface localization
486 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
487 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
488 * New full-featured Preferences window
490 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
491 ---------------------------------
494 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
495 * support for skins at the interface level
496 * new OSD module using Freetype2
497 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
498 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
499 input level before dropping out of date frames.
500 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
503 * fixed HTTP redirects
504 * support for opening an entire directory
505 * EOF should be detected more reliably
506 * new video4linux access plug-in
507 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
510 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
511 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
512 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
515 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
516 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
517 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
518 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
519 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
520 * new codec for raw I420 video
521 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
524 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
525 (although it still misses some important features)
526 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
529 * new HTTP output support
530 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
531 * fixed AV synchronization issues
534 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
537 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
540 * reorderable playlist
541 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
542 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
543 * support for mono audio output devices
544 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
545 * fixed several cosmetic issues
546 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
547 * the messages window remembers more lines
548 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
549 * http and ogg stream output options
550 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
553 * new skinnable interface
554 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
556 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
557 * support for FLAC audio format
558 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
560 * network tab in the interface
561 * "apply" handling in preferences
564 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
565 ---------------------------------
568 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
569 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
570 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
571 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
573 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
577 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
578 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
579 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
580 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
583 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
584 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
587 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
590 * fixed the GNU-pth support
593 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
595 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
596 * rc interface is now fully useable
597 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
600 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
601 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
602 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
603 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
604 * VLC now uses the default audio device
606 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
607 * support for mouse gestures
608 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
611 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
612 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
615 * improved ID3 tag detection
616 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
617 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
618 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
620 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
623 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
624 ---------------------------------
627 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
628 English was set as the preferred language
631 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
632 --------------------------------
635 * new mouse gesture interface
636 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
640 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
641 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
642 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
645 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
646 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
650 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
653 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
654 without the user consent
657 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
659 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
660 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
661 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
664 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
665 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
666 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
667 * playlist enhancements
668 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
669 * new step forward/step backward commands
670 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
671 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
672 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
675 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
676 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
677 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
680 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
681 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
684 * native video output is working again
685 * only commandline interface support
686 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
689 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
690 --------------------------------
693 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
694 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
695 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
696 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
697 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
698 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
699 and A/52 streams are supported)
700 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
705 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
706 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
707 * VCD entry points support
708 * VCD image file support
711 * support for *.asf format
712 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
713 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
714 * support for ogg encapsulation
715 * support for raw DV format
716 * support for *.wav format
717 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
720 Stream discovery & playlists:
721 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
722 * support for .m3u file format
723 * support for .asx file format
724 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
727 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
728 (only available with the .avi demux)
729 * support for ADPCM audio codec
730 * support for raw PCM data
731 * support for Cinepak video codec
732 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
733 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
734 * support for Xvid codec
735 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
736 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
737 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
739 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
741 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
744 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
747 * new WxWindows interface
748 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
749 device and the channels configuration
750 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
751 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
752 format that VLC can play
753 * new swedish translation
754 * enhancements of the playlist window
755 * new messages window to see debug info
756 * fixed a few crashes
759 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
760 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
761 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
762 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working