1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
18 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
19 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
20 x11 (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
21 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
22 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
23 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
26 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
27 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
28 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
29 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
30 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
31 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
32 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
33 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
34 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
35 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
36 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
37 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
38 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
41 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
42 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
43 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
44 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
45 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
48 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
49 * Ogg seeking improvements
50 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
53 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
54 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
55 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
56 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
57 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
58 and important cleanups and optimisations
59 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
60 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
61 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
64 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
65 * New video output for iOS platform
66 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
67 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
68 * Various vmem improvements
71 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
74 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
75 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
76 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
77 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
78 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
79 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
80 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
81 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
84 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
87 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
88 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
89 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
90 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
91 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
92 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
93 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
94 * Major rework of VoD support
95 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
96 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
97 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
98 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
99 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
100 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
101 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
102 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
103 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
106 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
107 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
110 * New capabilities for libVLC:
111 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
112 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
113 list of available audio and video filters
116 * asademux: use libass only
117 * subsass: use libass
118 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
119 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
121 * upnp: use upnp_intel
122 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
123 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
126 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
127 --------------------------------
129 Windows and Mac OS X:
130 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
133 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
136 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
137 * Improve Apple Remote handling
138 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
139 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
140 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
141 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
144 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
145 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
149 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
150 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
151 * New Luganda Translation
154 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
155 --------------------------------
158 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
161 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
162 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
163 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
164 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
167 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
169 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
170 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
171 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
172 * mp4 demuxer improvements
173 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
174 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
175 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
176 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
178 Miscellaneous fixes in:
179 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
180 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
181 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
182 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
183 * Configure and build system improvements
184 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
187 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
188 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
189 * New icelandic translation
192 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
193 --------------------------------
196 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
200 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
201 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
202 and stability reasons
205 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
209 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
212 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
213 ----------------------------------
216 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
219 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
220 ---------------------------------
223 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
224 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
225 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
226 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
229 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
232 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
233 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
234 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
235 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
238 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
239 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
240 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
242 Subtitles and renderer:
243 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
244 * Mark more freetype options as safe
245 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
246 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
247 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
250 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
251 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
252 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
253 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
256 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
257 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
260 * KDE device solid actions
262 * Transcode integer overflow
263 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
264 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
267 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
268 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
269 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
272 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
273 ----------------------------------
276 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
280 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
283 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
286 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
287 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
288 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
289 * Taglib thread-safety fix
292 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
296 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
299 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
302 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
303 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
305 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
309 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
310 * Miscellaneous fixes
313 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
314 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
316 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
317 * New Asturian translation
320 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
321 ----------------------------------
324 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
326 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
329 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
332 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
333 * Various fixes for Windows
336 * New Armenian translation
337 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
338 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
341 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
342 --------------------------------
345 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
347 * Fix folders opening from the interface
350 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
351 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
354 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
355 --------------------------------
358 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
359 * fix for podcasts parsing
360 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
363 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
364 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
367 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
368 * fix m3u playlists exports
371 * fix video autoresize behaviour
374 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
377 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
380 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
383 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
386 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
387 --------------------------------
390 * Avformat fps displaying fix
391 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
394 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
395 of mono streams, especially on Windows
398 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
399 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
400 * fix console output encoding
402 Interface and extensions:
403 * Youtube and other scripts updates
404 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
407 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
408 --------------------------------
411 * New capabilities for libVLC:
412 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
413 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
414 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
415 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
416 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
417 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
418 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
419 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
420 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
421 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
422 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
423 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
424 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
425 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
426 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
430 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
431 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
432 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
433 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
434 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
437 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
440 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
441 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
442 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
446 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
449 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
450 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
451 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
454 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
455 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
456 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
457 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
460 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
461 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
464 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
465 --------------------------------
467 Important changes for users:
468 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
469 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
471 Important changes for packagers:
472 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
473 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
474 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
475 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
476 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
478 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
480 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
481 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
482 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
483 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
484 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
487 * Support for the sftp protocol
488 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
489 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
490 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
491 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
492 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
495 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
496 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
497 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
499 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
500 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
501 * Invmem module improvements
502 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
503 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
504 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
505 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
506 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
507 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
508 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
509 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
510 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
511 * Support for VP8 codec
512 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
515 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
516 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
517 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
518 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
519 * Various EGP improvements
520 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
521 * Metadata and cover art improvements
524 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
525 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
526 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
527 * Podcast images are now displayed
530 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
531 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
532 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
533 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
534 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
535 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
536 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
537 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
538 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
539 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
540 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
543 * New content extensions lua framework
546 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
547 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
548 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
549 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
550 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
551 * NEON assembly audio converter module
552 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
555 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
556 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
557 * Service discovery based on libudev
558 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
561 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
562 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
563 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
564 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
565 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
566 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
567 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
570 * New smem module, streaming to memory
571 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
572 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
575 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
577 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
578 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
581 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
584 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
585 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
586 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
587 by Andy Matuschak et al.
588 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
589 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
590 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
593 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
594 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
597 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
598 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
599 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
603 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
604 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
605 * Improved Solaris port
608 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
609 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
612 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
613 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
614 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
615 * transrate: broken since too long
616 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
617 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
618 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
619 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
620 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
621 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
622 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
623 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
624 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
625 * cddax: use cdda instead.
626 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
627 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
628 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
629 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
632 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
633 --------------------------------
636 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
638 Decoders/Packetizers:
639 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
642 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
643 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
644 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
645 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
646 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
649 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
650 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
653 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
654 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
657 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
658 and Walloon translations updated
659 * Sinhala translation started
662 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
663 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
666 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
667 --------------------------------
670 * SubRip extra styles improvements
671 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
674 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
677 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
678 increase performance and fix x264 issues
681 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
682 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
683 Russian, Slovak translation updates
684 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
687 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
688 --------------------------------
691 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
692 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
695 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
696 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
699 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
700 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
703 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
706 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
707 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
710 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
711 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
714 * New Walloon translation
715 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
718 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
719 --------------------------------
722 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
723 regressions in most popular drivers
724 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
727 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
728 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
729 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
732 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
733 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
736 * Update for appletrailers lua script
737 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
738 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
739 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
740 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
743 * New udev module for linux
746 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
749 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
752 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
753 --------------------------------
756 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
757 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
758 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
761 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
762 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
765 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
766 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
769 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
772 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
773 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
774 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
775 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
778 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
779 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
780 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
781 - no support for Goom and SDL
782 - limited text rendering support
783 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
786 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
787 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
788 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
789 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
790 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
791 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
792 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
793 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
794 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
798 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
801 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
804 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
805 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
806 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
807 Arabic and French translation updates
810 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
811 --------------------------------
814 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
815 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
816 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
817 * Fix Dailymotion access script
818 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
819 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
822 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
823 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
826 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
827 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
828 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
831 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
834 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
835 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
838 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
839 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
840 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
841 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
842 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
843 * Fix various crashes
846 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
848 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
851 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
852 ---------------------------------
856 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
857 See 'Access:' for more info.
858 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
861 * Instantaneous pausing
862 * Frame-by-Frame playback
863 * Finer speed control
864 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
865 * Timeshift for most medias
866 * RTSP trickplay support
867 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
870 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
871 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
872 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
873 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
874 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
875 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
876 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
877 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
878 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
879 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
882 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
883 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
884 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
885 * Metadata for mod files are supported
886 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
887 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
888 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
891 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
892 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
895 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
896 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
897 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
898 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
899 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
900 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
901 * DVB scanning on linux
902 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
903 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
904 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
905 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
906 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
907 * MTP device access on Unix
908 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
909 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
912 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
913 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
914 Windows and Mac OS X.
917 * Export the playlist in HTML
918 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
919 * Better metadata handling and reading
921 Linux/Windows interface:
922 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
923 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
924 * Recently played items list
925 * Interface toolbar customizations
926 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
929 - Improvements on many dialogs
930 - New dialog for plugins listing
931 - Fixed-size mode for videos
932 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
933 * Better integration in GTK environments
936 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
937 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
938 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
939 * Additional usability improvements
942 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
943 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
944 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
945 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
946 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
949 * New Maemo port with:
950 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
951 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
954 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
957 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
958 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
959 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
960 * Support for latest iSight models
963 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
964 * Surround support for PulseAudio
967 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
968 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
969 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
970 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
971 The old image video output has been removed.
972 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
973 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
976 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
984 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
985 --------------------------------------
991 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
992 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
993 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
994 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
995 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
996 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
997 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
999 Various fixes to the following modules:
1002 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1003 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1004 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1006 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1011 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1012 ---------------------------------
1015 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1016 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1019 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1020 ---------------------------------
1023 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1026 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1029 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1030 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1031 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1032 main controller window.
1033 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1036 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1041 * Updates of other localizations
1044 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1045 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1046 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1047 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1048 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1051 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1052 ---------------------------------
1055 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1057 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1060 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1061 --------------------------------
1066 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1067 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1070 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1071 --------------------------------
1073 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1074 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1077 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1080 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1081 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1084 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1085 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1088 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1089 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1090 * Various fixed in playlist
1093 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1096 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1099 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1100 ------------------------------------
1102 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1103 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1106 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1107 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1108 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1111 * Stability fix for the video output.
1114 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1119 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1120 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1121 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1122 * Fixed update system bugs
1123 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1126 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1127 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1128 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1129 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1130 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1131 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1132 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1133 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1134 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1135 modern Mac OS X versions
1138 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1139 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1141 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1142 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1145 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1146 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1147 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1148 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1149 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1150 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1153 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1154 --------------------------------
1156 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1157 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1158 * Multiple bugfixes.
1161 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1162 --------------------------------
1164 * Multiple bug fixes.
1167 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1168 ---------------------------------
1172 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1173 recent to work correctly
1174 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1175 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1176 edit the ".hosts" file.
1177 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1178 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1179 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1180 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1181 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1182 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1183 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1184 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1185 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1186 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1187 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1188 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1189 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1190 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1191 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1192 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1193 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1194 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1195 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1196 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1197 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1198 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1199 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1200 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1201 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1202 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1203 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1204 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1205 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1206 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1207 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1208 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1209 and postproc modules.
1210 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1211 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1212 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1213 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1215 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1216 filter. For example:
1217 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1218 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1220 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1221 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1227 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1229 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1230 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1233 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1234 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1236 * Shoutcast TV listings
1237 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1239 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1240 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1242 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1245 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1246 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1247 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1248 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1249 * JACK audio input support
1250 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1251 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1252 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1253 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1254 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1255 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1256 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1257 (available as a separate download).
1258 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1259 * RTMP input support
1260 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1261 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1262 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1264 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1265 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1268 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1269 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1270 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1271 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1273 * APEv1/2 tags support
1274 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1275 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1277 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1278 * TiVo Series 2 support
1279 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1284 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1285 * Flash Screen Video support
1286 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1287 * DosBox Capture support
1288 * Karl Morton's Video support
1289 * limited atrac3 support
1291 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1292 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1293 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1294 * H.264 PAFF support
1295 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1296 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1297 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1298 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1299 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1302 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1303 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1304 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1305 * AQTitle subtitles support
1306 * MKV USF subtitles support
1307 * HTML-based subtitles support
1308 * MPSub subtitles support
1309 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1310 * MPL2 subtitles support
1311 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1312 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1313 * Realtext subtitle support
1314 * DKS subtitle support
1315 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1316 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1319 * Flash Screen Video support
1320 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1322 Video outputs and filters:
1323 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1324 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1325 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1326 * New puzzle video output filter
1327 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1328 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1330 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1331 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1332 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1333 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1334 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1335 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1336 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1337 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1338 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1339 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1340 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1341 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1342 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1343 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1345 Audio outputs and filters:
1346 * Replay gain support
1347 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1348 new scaletempo audio filter)
1349 * New spatializer audio filter
1350 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1353 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1354 * New RTP payload formats:
1355 * Speex voice audio codec
1356 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1357 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1358 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1359 * DCCP transport for RTP
1360 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1365 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1366 end-user suitable way.
1367 * Improved user interaction
1368 * Improved mouse gestures
1369 * Vastly improved Update checker
1370 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1372 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1373 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1375 * Improved video output features
1376 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1377 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1378 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1379 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1380 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1382 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1383 if libncursesw is available.
1384 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1385 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1386 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1388 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1389 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1390 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1391 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1392 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1393 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1394 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1395 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1398 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1399 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1400 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1403 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1404 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1405 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1406 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1407 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1408 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1411 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1412 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1422 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1423 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1424 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1427 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1428 ----------------------------------
1431 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1434 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1435 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1436 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1437 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1438 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1439 * Updated Polish translation
1442 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1443 ----------------------------------
1446 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1447 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1448 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1451 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1452 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1453 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1454 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1455 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1456 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1457 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1458 to an unexpected application termination
1459 * New Serbian translation
1460 * Updated Romanian translation
1463 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1464 ----------------------------------
1467 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1468 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1469 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1470 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1471 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1472 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1473 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1474 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1477 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1478 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1479 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1480 * Fixed AAC resampling
1481 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1482 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1485 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1486 ----------------------------------
1489 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1490 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1491 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1492 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1493 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1496 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1497 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1498 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1499 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1500 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1503 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1504 ----------------------------------
1507 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1508 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1511 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1512 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1513 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1514 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1516 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1520 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1523 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1526 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1529 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1532 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1533 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1534 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1535 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1536 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1538 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1539 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1540 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1541 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1544 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1547 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1548 ----------------------------------
1551 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1552 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1553 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1555 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1556 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1558 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1559 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1562 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1564 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1565 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1566 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1567 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1568 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1569 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1570 two different movies
1571 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1572 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1573 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1576 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1579 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1580 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1581 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1582 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1585 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1586 ----------------------------------
1588 Various bugfixes, notably:
1589 * Windows Vista compatibility
1590 * Cropping in Direct3D
1591 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1592 * RSS filter string overflow
1594 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1596 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1597 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1600 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1601 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1604 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1607 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1610 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1613 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1614 ----------------------------------
1616 Various bugfixes, notably:
1617 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1618 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1619 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1620 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1621 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1622 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1625 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1626 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1629 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1631 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1632 * Diverse usability improvements
1633 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1634 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1635 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1638 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1639 ---------------------------------
1641 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1642 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1645 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1648 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1655 * Support for RTSP authentication
1656 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1657 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1658 * ATSC support for DVB input
1659 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1660 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1661 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1664 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1665 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1666 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1667 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1668 * Matroska WavPack support
1669 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1670 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1671 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1674 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1675 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1676 * Improved libcaca support
1680 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1681 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1683 * Systray support in skins
1685 * Support for Apple Remote control
1686 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1687 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1688 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1689 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1691 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1694 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1695 Windows 9x/ME users:
1696 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1697 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1698 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1699 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1700 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1702 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1703 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1712 * Updates to the libvlc API
1713 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1716 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1717 --------------------------------
1720 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1721 * Support for downloading updates
1725 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1726 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1727 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1728 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1730 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1731 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1732 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1735 * Cook (Real audio) support
1737 Playlist / Services discovery:
1738 * XSPF playlist support
1740 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1743 * New JACK audio output
1746 * New video filters:
1747 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1748 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1749 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1750 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1751 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1752 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1755 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1758 * System to inform the user and request information
1759 - HTTP authentication
1763 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1764 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1765 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1768 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1769 - Improved playlist handling
1770 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1772 - Embedded Video output
1773 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1774 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1775 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1776 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1777 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1779 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1780 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1783 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1786 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1787 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1788 * Growl "Now playing" support
1791 * Ability to log to syslog
1792 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1795 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1797 * A bit more automatic testing
1800 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1801 ---------------------------------
1804 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1805 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1808 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1809 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1812 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1815 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1816 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1822 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1825 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1826 --------------------------------
1829 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1833 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1834 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1835 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1838 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1839 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1840 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1841 * GnomeVFS input module
1842 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1843 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1846 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1847 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1848 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1851 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1852 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1858 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1859 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1862 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1863 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1864 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1867 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1869 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1870 - New extended controls panel
1871 - New bookmarks window
1872 - Fixed playlist sorting
1873 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1875 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1876 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1877 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1878 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1882 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1883 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1885 - Include macro to include other files
1889 * Should now work outside IE as well
1892 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1895 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1896 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1899 The following languages were added:
1903 * Simplified Chinese
1904 The following languages were re-added:
1908 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1909 --------------------------------
1912 * Rewrite of the playlist
1914 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1915 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1916 * Preferences improvements:
1917 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1918 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1920 * Core image manipulation support
1921 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1922 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1923 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1924 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1925 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1926 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1927 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1928 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1929 * Access filter architecture
1930 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1931 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1935 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1936 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1937 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1938 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1939 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1940 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1941 * Massive Matroska improvements
1942 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1944 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1945 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1946 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1947 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1948 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1950 Decoders / Encoders:
1951 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1952 * PNG decoder/encoder
1953 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1954 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1957 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1960 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1961 * Brand new SAP module
1962 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1963 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1964 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1965 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1966 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1967 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1971 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1974 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1975 * Image file video output (png)
1976 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1977 * Improvements to wall video filter
1978 * Support for font color and opacity
1984 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1985 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1986 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1990 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1991 - Improved preferences
1992 - Improvements to the wizard
1993 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1995 - Redesigned playlist
1996 - Improved preferences
1998 - Support for multiple actions
2001 - Support for the new playlist system
2003 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2006 * Screensaver disabling fix
2007 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2008 * Support for no-decoration windows
2011 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2012 * The OpenGL video output is back
2013 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2014 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2015 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2016 is not yet available in the new module
2017 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2020 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2029 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2032 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2035 The following languages were added:
2041 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2042 --------------------------------
2045 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2046 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2049 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2050 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2051 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2054 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2057 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2060 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2063 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2064 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2065 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2069 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2071 * Support of playlist group announcement
2074 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2075 --------------------------------
2078 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2079 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2080 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2081 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2082 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2083 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2086 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2087 (Stream your desktop)
2088 * Improved DVD support:
2089 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2090 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2091 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2092 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2093 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2094 (selection of titles/chapters).
2097 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2098 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2099 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2100 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2101 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2102 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2103 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2104 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2105 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2106 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2109 * G.726 audio support
2110 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2111 * MPEG-4 text support
2112 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2113 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2114 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2118 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2119 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2120 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2121 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2122 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2123 * DVB subtitles encoder
2124 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2125 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2127 * Text track muxing for mp4
2128 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2129 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2130 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2131 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2132 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2133 * Improved ASF muxer
2135 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2136 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2137 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2140 * New audio equalizer filter
2141 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2142 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2143 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2144 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2147 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2148 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2149 with support for effects.
2150 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2151 - New filters can be streamed.
2152 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2153 - Centralized scaling and blending
2155 - "time", to display current time
2156 - "marq", to display a marquee
2159 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2160 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2161 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2162 * A few skins2 improvements
2163 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2164 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2165 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2166 * Improved CORBA control module
2169 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2170 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2171 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2174 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2175 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2176 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2179 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2180 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2181 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2182 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2183 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2186 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2189 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2190 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2193 * Server/client network synchronization module
2194 * VBrick streams fully supported
2195 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2199 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2200 --------------------------------
2203 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2204 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2205 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2206 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2209 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2210 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2211 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2212 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2213 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2214 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2215 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2218 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2219 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2220 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2221 * Improved directory access module.
2222 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2223 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2224 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2225 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2226 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2229 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2230 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2231 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2234 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2235 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2236 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2239 * Improved session announcement system.
2240 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2241 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2242 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2243 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2244 * Improved transrater.
2245 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2246 * New configuration system.
2247 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2250 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2251 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2252 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2253 * Supports scheduling.
2254 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2255 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2258 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2259 - Ability to embed video output.
2260 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2261 - Lots of improvements.
2262 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2263 - New design and set of icons.
2264 - Ability to embed video output.
2265 - Support for hotkeys.
2266 - Support for bookmarks.
2268 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2269 - Better hotkeys handling.
2272 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2273 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2274 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2275 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2278 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2279 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2280 * Improved Windows installer.
2286 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2287 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2290 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2291 ---------------------------------
2294 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2295 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2298 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2299 --------------------------------
2302 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2303 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2306 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2307 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2308 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2309 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2312 * Internal improvments
2313 * Improved import/export
2316 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2318 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2319 small and strange formats.
2321 * New MOD audio demux.
2322 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2323 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2324 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2325 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2328 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2329 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2330 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2336 * New opengl video output plugin.
2339 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2340 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2343 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2344 --------------------------------
2347 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2348 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2349 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2350 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2351 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2352 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2353 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2354 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2357 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2362 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2363 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2364 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2365 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2366 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2367 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2368 * Better Icecast support.
2369 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2370 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2373 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2374 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2375 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2376 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2377 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2378 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2379 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2382 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2383 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2384 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2385 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2386 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2387 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2388 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2389 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2390 * Preliminary RTP support.
2391 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2396 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2397 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2399 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2400 - Improvements and help in preferences
2401 - New streaming wizard
2402 - Revised Disc Open menu
2404 - Improvements of the standard pages
2405 - Support for new commands
2406 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2409 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2410 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2413 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2414 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2415 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2416 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2417 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2418 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2419 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2420 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2421 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2424 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2426 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2427 * Support for Panther.
2428 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2429 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2432 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2433 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2434 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2435 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2436 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2437 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2438 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2439 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2442 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2443 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2444 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2447 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2450 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2451 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2452 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2453 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2456 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2457 --------------------------------
2460 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2463 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2464 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2467 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2468 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2471 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2474 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2475 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2478 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2481 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2484 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2485 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2489 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2490 --------------------------------
2493 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2494 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2498 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2499 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2500 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2502 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2503 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2506 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2509 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2512 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2513 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2517 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2518 --------------------------------
2521 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2522 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2526 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2527 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2528 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2529 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2530 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2533 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2534 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2535 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2538 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2539 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2540 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2543 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2544 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2545 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2546 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2547 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2550 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2551 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2552 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2555 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2558 * Improved build system.
2559 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2560 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2561 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2562 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2565 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2566 --------------------------------
2569 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2572 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2573 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2574 * Video 4 Linux support
2575 * CD Digital Audio support
2576 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2579 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2580 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2581 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2582 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2585 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2586 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2587 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2588 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2589 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2590 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2591 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2594 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2595 * New HTTP remote control interface
2598 * 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.
2599 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2600 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2601 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2604 * New reset option for the preferences
2605 * You can set your language in the prefences
2606 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2607 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2608 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2609 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2612 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2613 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2614 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2617 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2618 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2619 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2620 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2621 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2622 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2623 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2624 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2625 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2626 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2629 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2630 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2631 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2632 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2633 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2634 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2635 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2638 * Interface localization
2639 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2640 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2641 * New full-featured Preferences window
2644 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2645 --------------------------------
2648 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2649 * support for skins at the interface level
2650 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2651 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2652 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2653 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2654 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2657 * fixed HTTP redirects
2658 * support for opening an entire directory
2659 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2660 * new video4linux access plug-in
2661 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2664 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2665 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2666 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2669 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2670 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2671 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2672 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2673 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2674 * new codec for raw I420 video
2675 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2678 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2679 (although it still misses some important features)
2680 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2683 * new HTTP output support
2684 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2685 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2688 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2691 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2694 * reorderable playlist
2695 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2696 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2697 * support for mono audio output devices
2698 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2699 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2700 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2701 * the messages window remembers more lines
2702 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2703 * http and ogg stream output options
2704 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2707 * new skinnable interface
2708 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2710 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2711 * support for FLAC audio format
2712 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2714 * network tab in the interface
2715 * "apply" handling in preferences
2718 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2719 ---------------------------------
2722 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2723 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2724 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2725 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2727 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2728 * DTS S/PDIF support
2731 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2732 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2733 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2734 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2737 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2738 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2741 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2744 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2747 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2749 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2750 * rc interface is now fully useable
2751 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2754 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2755 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2756 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2757 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2758 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2760 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2761 * support for mouse gestures
2762 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2765 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2766 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2769 * improved ID3 tag detection
2770 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2771 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2772 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2774 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2777 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2778 ---------------------------------
2781 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2782 English was set as the preferred language
2785 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2786 --------------------------------
2789 * new mouse gesture interface
2790 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2794 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2795 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2796 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2799 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2800 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2804 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2807 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2808 without the user consent
2811 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2813 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2814 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2815 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2818 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2819 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2820 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2821 * playlist enhancements
2822 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2823 * new step forward/step backward commands
2824 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2825 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2826 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2829 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2830 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2831 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2834 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2835 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2838 * native video output is working again
2839 * only commandline interface support
2840 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2843 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2844 --------------------------------
2847 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2848 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2849 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2850 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2851 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2852 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2853 and A/52 streams are supported)
2854 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2859 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2860 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2861 * VCD entry points support
2862 * VCD image file support
2865 * support for *.asf format
2866 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2867 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2868 * support for ogg encapsulation
2869 * support for raw DV format
2870 * support for *.wav format
2871 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2874 Stream discovery & playlists:
2875 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2876 * support for .m3u file format
2877 * support for .asx file format
2878 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2881 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2882 (only available with the .avi demux)
2883 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2884 * support for raw PCM data
2885 * support for Cinepak video codec
2886 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2887 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2888 * support for Xvid codec
2889 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2890 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2891 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2893 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2895 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2898 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2901 * new WxWindows interface
2902 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2903 device and the channels configuration
2904 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2905 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2906 format that VLC can play
2907 * new swedish translation
2908 * enhancements of the playlist window
2909 * new messages window to see debug info
2910 * fixed a few crashes
2913 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2914 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2915 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2916 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working