1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
28 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
32 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
33 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
34 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
35 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
36 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
37 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
38 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
39 * Support for more MJPEG streams
42 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
43 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
44 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
47 * new remapping channel filter
48 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
49 * new VSXu visualization plugin
52 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
56 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
57 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
58 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
59 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
60 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
61 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
64 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
67 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
68 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
69 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
70 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
71 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
74 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
75 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
78 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
80 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
81 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
82 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
83 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
84 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
85 VLC's internal volume level
86 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
87 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
88 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
89 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
91 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
92 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
93 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
94 * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while the user
96 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
100 * Partial support for Qt5.0
101 * Menus modifications and improvements
102 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
103 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
107 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
108 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
109 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
110 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
113 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
114 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
115 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
116 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
117 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
119 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
120 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
123 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
124 --------------------------------
127 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
130 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
131 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
134 * Add GateKeeper support
135 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
136 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
137 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
140 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
143 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
144 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
145 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
146 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
147 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
150 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
151 --------------------------------
154 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
155 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
156 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
157 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
158 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
159 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
160 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
161 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
162 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
163 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
164 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
168 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
169 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
170 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
171 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
172 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
173 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
174 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
175 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
176 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
177 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
178 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
179 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
182 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
183 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
185 * Fix MP3 free format support
188 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
189 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
190 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
191 * Fix for DVB channels file support
192 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
195 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
196 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
198 Audio filters and output:
199 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
200 * Fix DirectSound device selection
201 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
202 * Do not apply volume in file output
203 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
204 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
207 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
208 the persistant media library
209 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
210 to the media library or the temporary playlist
211 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
212 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
213 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
214 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
215 press on the Play/Pause button
216 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
217 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
218 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
219 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
220 * Many Fullscreen fixes
221 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
222 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
223 Synchronization panel
224 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
225 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
226 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
227 * Fix crashes on exit
228 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
230 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
231 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
232 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
233 automatically reset on the first launch.
234 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
235 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
236 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
239 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
240 * Fixes for icecast SD
243 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
244 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
245 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
246 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
247 * Fix tags and file names display
248 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
251 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
252 * Fix for key events and focus loss
255 * Fix display of some buttons
256 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
257 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
260 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
261 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
262 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
265 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
266 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
267 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
268 Thai translations update
269 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
272 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
273 --------------------------------
276 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
277 * fix the samba module compilation
278 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
279 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
280 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
281 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
284 * Support for MXPEG files
285 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
286 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
289 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
290 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
291 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
294 * Fix ogm header creation
297 * limit spatializer filter distortions
298 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
301 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
302 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
303 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
304 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
307 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
310 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
311 * allow to hide the sidebar
312 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
313 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
314 * noticebly faster launch time
315 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
316 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
317 * improve track synchronization panel
318 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
319 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
322 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
323 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
324 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
325 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
328 * fix for menus display
329 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
330 * documentation update
333 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
334 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
337 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
338 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
339 * Update Jamendo selections
343 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
344 * fix a crash on VLM close
347 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
348 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
349 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
350 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
353 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
356 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
357 ---------------------------------
360 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
361 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
362 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
363 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
364 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
365 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
366 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
367 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
368 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
369 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
370 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
371 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
372 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
373 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
374 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
375 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
376 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
377 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
378 --http-crl (optional CRL).
379 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
380 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
381 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
382 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
383 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
384 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
385 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
387 Important changes for packagers:
388 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
389 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
390 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
391 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
392 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
393 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
394 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
395 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
396 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
397 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
400 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
401 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
402 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
403 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
404 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
405 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
406 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
409 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
410 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
411 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
412 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
413 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
414 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
415 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
416 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
417 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
418 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
419 * PulseAudio audio input support
420 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
421 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
422 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
423 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
424 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
425 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
426 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
427 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
430 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
431 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
432 are notably concerned.
433 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
434 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
435 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
436 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
437 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
438 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
439 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
440 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
441 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
442 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
443 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
444 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
445 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
446 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
447 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
450 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
451 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
452 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
453 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
454 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
455 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
456 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
457 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
458 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
459 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
460 * Improved support of tracker files
461 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
464 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
465 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
466 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
467 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
468 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
469 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
470 and important cleanups and optimisations
471 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
472 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
473 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
474 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
475 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
476 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
477 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
478 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
479 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
480 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
481 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
482 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
483 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
484 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
485 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
486 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
487 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
488 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
489 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
490 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
491 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
494 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
495 * New video output for iOS platform
496 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
497 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
498 * Various vmem improvements
499 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
500 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
501 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
502 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
503 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
504 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
506 Audio Output and Filters:
507 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
508 * New audio output in memory (amem)
509 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
510 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
511 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
512 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
513 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
514 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
515 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
516 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
519 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
520 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
521 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
522 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
523 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
524 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
525 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
526 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
527 * New anti-flickering filter
528 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
529 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
530 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
531 blackbox and customizable shadow.
532 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
533 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
534 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
537 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
538 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
539 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
540 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
541 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
542 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
543 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
544 * Major rework of VoD support
545 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
546 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
547 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
548 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
549 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
550 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
551 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
552 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
553 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
554 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
557 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
558 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
561 * New capabilities for libVLC:
562 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
563 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
564 list of available audio and video filters
565 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
566 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
567 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
570 * asademux, subsass: use libass
571 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
572 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
574 * upnp: use upnp_intel
575 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
576 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
577 * removal of the noise filter
578 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
579 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
580 removed in Growl's next release, too.
581 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
584 * Update of translations for most languages.
585 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
588 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
589 ----------------------------------
592 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
593 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
596 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
597 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
600 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
601 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
602 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
605 * Camtasia decoding fix.
608 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
609 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
612 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
615 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
616 ----------------------------------
619 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
620 including support for OS X Lion
621 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
622 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
625 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
628 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
629 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
630 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
633 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
636 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
637 ----------------------------------
640 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
641 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
644 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
645 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
646 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
647 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
648 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
650 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
651 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
652 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
654 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
655 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
658 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
661 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
664 * Fix quitting on Linux
665 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
669 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
672 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
675 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
676 ---------------------------------
678 Windows and Mac OS X:
679 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
682 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
683 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
686 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
689 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
692 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
694 Miscellaneous fixes in:
695 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
697 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
698 * RTP output and XML export
699 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
703 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
704 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
705 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
706 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
709 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
710 --------------------------------
712 Windows and Mac OS X:
713 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
716 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
719 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
720 * Improve Apple Remote handling
721 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
722 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
723 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
724 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
727 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
728 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
732 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
733 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
734 * New Luganda Translation
737 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
738 --------------------------------
741 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
744 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
745 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
746 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
747 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
750 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
752 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
753 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
754 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
755 * mp4 demuxer improvements
756 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
757 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
758 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
759 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
761 Miscellaneous fixes in:
762 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
763 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
764 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
765 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
766 * Configure and build system improvements
767 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
770 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
771 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
772 * New icelandic translation
775 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
776 --------------------------------
779 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
783 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
784 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
785 and stability reasons
788 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
792 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
795 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
796 ----------------------------------
799 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
802 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
803 ---------------------------------
806 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
807 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
808 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
809 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
812 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
815 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
816 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
817 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
818 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
821 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
822 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
823 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
825 Subtitles and renderer:
826 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
827 * Mark more freetype options as safe
828 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
829 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
830 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
833 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
834 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
835 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
836 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
839 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
840 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
843 * KDE device solid actions
845 * Transcode integer overflow
846 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
847 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
850 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
851 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
852 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
855 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
856 ----------------------------------
859 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
863 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
866 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
869 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
870 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
871 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
872 * Taglib thread-safety fix
875 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
879 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
882 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
885 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
886 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
888 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
892 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
893 * Miscellaneous fixes
896 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
897 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
899 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
900 * New Asturian translation
903 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
904 ----------------------------------
907 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
909 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
912 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
915 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
916 * Various fixes for Windows
919 * New Armenian translation
920 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
921 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
924 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
925 --------------------------------
928 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
930 * Fix folders opening from the interface
933 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
934 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
937 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
938 --------------------------------
941 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
942 * fix for podcasts parsing
943 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
946 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
947 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
950 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
951 * fix m3u playlists exports
954 * fix video autoresize behaviour
957 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
960 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
963 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
966 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
969 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
970 --------------------------------
973 * Avformat fps displaying fix
974 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
977 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
978 of mono streams, especially on Windows
981 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
982 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
983 * fix console output encoding
985 Interface and extensions:
986 * Youtube and other scripts updates
987 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
990 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
991 --------------------------------
994 * New capabilities for libVLC:
995 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
996 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
997 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
998 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
999 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1000 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1001 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1002 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1003 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1004 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1005 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1006 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1007 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1008 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1009 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1013 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1014 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1015 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1016 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1017 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1020 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1023 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1024 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1025 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1029 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1032 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1033 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1034 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1037 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1038 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1039 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1040 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1043 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1044 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1047 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1048 --------------------------------
1050 Important changes for users:
1051 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1052 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1054 Important changes for packagers:
1055 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1056 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1057 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1058 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1059 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1061 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1063 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1064 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1065 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1066 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1067 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1070 * Support for the sftp protocol
1071 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1072 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1073 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1074 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1075 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1078 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1079 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1080 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1082 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1083 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1084 * Invmem module improvements
1085 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1086 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1087 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1088 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1089 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1090 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1091 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1092 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1093 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1094 * Support for VP8 codec
1095 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1098 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1099 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1100 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1101 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1102 * Various EGP improvements
1103 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1104 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1107 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1108 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1109 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1110 * Podcast images are now displayed
1113 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1114 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1115 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1116 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1117 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1118 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1119 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1120 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1121 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1122 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1123 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1126 * New content extensions lua framework
1129 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1130 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1131 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1132 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1133 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1134 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1135 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1138 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1139 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1140 * Service discovery based on libudev
1141 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1144 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1145 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1146 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1147 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1148 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1149 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1150 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1153 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1154 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1155 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1158 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1160 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1161 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1164 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1167 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1168 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1169 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1170 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1171 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1172 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1173 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1176 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1177 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1180 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1181 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1182 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1186 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1187 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1188 * Improved Solaris port
1191 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1192 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1195 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1196 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1197 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1198 * transrate: broken since too long
1199 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1200 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1201 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1202 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1203 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1204 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1205 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1206 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1207 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1208 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1209 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1210 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1211 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1212 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1215 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1216 --------------------------------
1219 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1221 Decoders/Packetizers:
1222 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1225 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1226 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1227 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1228 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1229 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1232 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1233 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1236 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1237 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1240 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1241 and Walloon translations updated
1242 * Sinhala translation started
1245 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1246 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1249 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1250 --------------------------------
1253 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1254 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1257 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1260 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1261 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1264 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1265 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1266 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1267 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1270 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1271 --------------------------------
1274 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1275 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1278 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1279 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1282 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1283 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1286 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1289 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1290 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1293 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1294 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1297 * New Walloon translation
1298 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1301 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1306 regressions in most popular drivers
1307 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1310 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1311 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1312 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1315 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1316 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1319 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1320 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1321 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1322 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1323 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1326 * New udev module for linux
1329 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1332 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1335 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1336 --------------------------------
1339 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1340 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1341 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1344 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1345 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1348 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1349 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1352 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1355 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1356 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1357 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1358 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1361 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1362 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1363 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1364 - no support for Goom and SDL
1365 - limited text rendering support
1366 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1369 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1370 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1371 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1372 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1373 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1374 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1375 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1376 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1377 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1381 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1384 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1387 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1388 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1389 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1390 Arabic and French translation updates
1393 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1394 --------------------------------
1397 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1398 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1399 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1400 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1401 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1402 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1405 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1406 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1407 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1410 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1411 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1412 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1415 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1418 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1419 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1422 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1423 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1424 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1425 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1426 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1427 * Fix various crashes
1430 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1432 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1436 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1437 ---------------------------------
1441 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1442 See 'Access:' for more info.
1443 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1446 * Instantaneous pausing
1447 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1448 * Finer speed control
1449 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1450 * Timeshift for most medias
1451 * RTSP trickplay support
1452 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1455 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1456 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1457 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1458 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1459 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1460 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1461 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1462 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1463 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1464 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1467 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1468 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1469 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1470 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1471 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1472 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1473 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1476 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1477 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1480 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1481 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1482 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1483 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1484 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1485 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1486 * DVB scanning on linux
1487 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1488 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1489 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1490 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1491 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1492 * MTP device access on Unix
1493 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1494 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1497 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1498 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1499 Windows and Mac OS X.
1502 * Export the playlist in HTML
1503 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1504 * Better metadata handling and reading
1506 Linux/Windows interface:
1507 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1508 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1509 * Recently played items list
1510 * Interface toolbar customizations
1511 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1512 - More menus actions
1513 - Finer speed slider
1514 - Improvements on many dialogs
1515 - New dialog for plugins listing
1516 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1517 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1518 * Better integration in GTK environments
1521 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1522 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1523 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1524 * Additional usability improvements
1527 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1528 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1529 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1530 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1531 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1534 * New Maemo port with:
1535 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1536 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1539 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1542 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1543 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1544 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1545 * Support for latest iSight models
1548 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1549 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1552 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1553 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1554 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1555 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1556 The old image video output has been removed.
1557 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1558 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1561 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1569 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1570 --------------------------------------
1576 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1577 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1578 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1579 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1580 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1581 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1582 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1584 Various fixes to the following modules:
1587 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1588 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1589 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1591 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1596 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1597 ---------------------------------
1600 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1601 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1604 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1605 ---------------------------------
1608 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1611 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1614 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1615 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1616 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1617 main controller window.
1618 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1621 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1626 * Updates of other localizations
1629 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1630 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1631 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1632 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1633 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1636 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1637 ---------------------------------
1640 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1642 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1645 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1646 --------------------------------
1651 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1652 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1655 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1656 --------------------------------
1658 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1659 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1662 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1665 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1666 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1669 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1670 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1673 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1674 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1675 * Various fixed in playlist
1678 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1681 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1684 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1685 ------------------------------------
1687 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1688 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1691 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1692 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1693 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1696 * Stability fix for the video output.
1699 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1700 --------------------------------
1703 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1704 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1705 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1706 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1707 * Fixed update system bugs
1708 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1711 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1712 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1713 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1714 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1715 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1716 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1717 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1718 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1719 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1720 modern Mac OS X versions
1723 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1724 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1726 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1727 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1730 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1731 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1732 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1733 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1734 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1735 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1738 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1739 --------------------------------
1741 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1742 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1743 * Multiple bugfixes.
1746 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1747 --------------------------------
1749 * Multiple bug fixes.
1752 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1753 ---------------------------------
1757 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1758 recent to work correctly
1759 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1760 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1761 edit the ".hosts" file.
1762 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1763 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1764 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1765 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1766 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1767 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1768 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1769 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1770 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1771 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1772 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1773 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1774 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1775 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1776 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1777 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1778 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1779 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1780 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1781 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1782 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1783 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1784 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1785 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1786 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1787 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1788 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1789 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1790 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1791 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1792 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1793 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1794 and postproc modules.
1795 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1796 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1797 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1798 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1800 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1801 filter. For example:
1802 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1803 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1805 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1806 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1812 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1814 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1815 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1818 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1819 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1821 * Shoutcast TV listings
1822 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1824 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1825 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1827 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1830 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1831 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1832 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1833 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1834 * JACK audio input support
1835 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1836 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1837 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1838 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1839 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1840 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1841 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1842 (available as a separate download).
1843 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1844 * RTMP input support
1845 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1846 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1847 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1849 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1850 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1853 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1854 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1855 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1856 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1858 * APEv1/2 tags support
1859 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1860 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1862 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1863 * TiVo Series 2 support
1864 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1869 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1870 * Flash Screen Video support
1871 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1872 * DosBox Capture support
1873 * Karl Morton's Video support
1874 * limited atrac3 support
1876 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1877 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1878 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1879 * H.264 PAFF support
1880 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1881 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1882 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1883 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1884 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1887 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1888 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1889 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1890 * AQTitle subtitles support
1891 * MKV USF subtitles support
1892 * HTML-based subtitles support
1893 * MPSub subtitles support
1894 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1895 * MPL2 subtitles support
1896 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1897 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1898 * Realtext subtitle support
1899 * DKS subtitle support
1900 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1901 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1904 * Flash Screen Video support
1905 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1907 Video outputs and filters:
1908 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1909 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1910 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1911 * New puzzle video output filter
1912 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1913 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1915 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1916 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1917 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1918 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1919 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1920 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1921 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1922 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1923 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1924 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1925 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1926 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1927 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1928 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1930 Audio outputs and filters:
1931 * Replay gain support
1932 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1933 new scaletempo audio filter)
1934 * New spatializer audio filter
1935 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1938 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1939 * New RTP payload formats:
1940 * Speex voice audio codec
1941 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1942 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1943 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1944 * DCCP transport for RTP
1945 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1950 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1951 end-user suitable way.
1952 * Improved user interaction
1953 * Improved mouse gestures
1954 * Vastly improved Update checker
1955 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1957 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1958 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1960 * Improved video output features
1961 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1962 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1963 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1964 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1965 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1967 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1968 if libncursesw is available.
1969 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1970 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1971 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1973 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1974 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1975 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1976 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1977 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1978 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1979 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1980 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1983 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1984 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1985 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1988 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1989 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1990 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1991 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1992 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1993 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1996 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1997 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2007 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2008 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2009 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2012 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2013 ----------------------------------
2016 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2019 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2020 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2021 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2022 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2023 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2024 * Updated Polish translation
2027 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2028 ----------------------------------
2031 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2032 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2033 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2036 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2037 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2038 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2039 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2040 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2041 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2042 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2043 to an unexpected application termination
2044 * New Serbian translation
2045 * Updated Romanian translation
2048 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2049 ----------------------------------
2052 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2053 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2054 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2055 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2056 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2057 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2058 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2059 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2062 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2063 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2064 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2065 * Fixed AAC resampling
2066 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2067 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2070 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2071 ----------------------------------
2074 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2075 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2076 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2077 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2078 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2081 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2082 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2083 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2084 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2085 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2088 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2089 ----------------------------------
2092 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2093 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2096 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2097 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2098 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2099 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2101 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2105 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2108 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2111 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2114 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2117 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2118 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2119 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2120 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2121 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2123 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2124 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2125 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2126 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2129 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2132 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2133 ----------------------------------
2136 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2137 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2138 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2140 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2141 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2143 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2144 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2147 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2149 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2150 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2151 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2152 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2153 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2154 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2155 two different movies
2156 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2157 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2158 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2161 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2164 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2165 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2166 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2167 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2170 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2171 ----------------------------------
2173 Various bugfixes, notably:
2174 * Windows Vista compatibility
2175 * Cropping in Direct3D
2176 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2177 * RSS filter string overflow
2179 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2181 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2182 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2185 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2186 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2189 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2192 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2195 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2198 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2199 ----------------------------------
2201 Various bugfixes, notably:
2202 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2203 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2204 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2205 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2206 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2207 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2210 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2211 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2214 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2216 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2217 * Diverse usability improvements
2218 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2219 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2220 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2223 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2224 ---------------------------------
2226 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2227 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2230 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2233 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2234 --------------------------------
2237 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2240 * Support for RTSP authentication
2241 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2242 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2243 * ATSC support for DVB input
2244 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2245 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2246 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2249 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2250 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2251 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2252 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2253 * Matroska WavPack support
2254 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2255 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2256 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2259 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2260 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2261 * Improved libcaca support
2265 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2266 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2268 * Systray support in skins
2270 * Support for Apple Remote control
2271 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2272 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2273 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2274 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2276 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2279 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2280 Windows 9x/ME users:
2281 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2282 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2283 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2284 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2285 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2287 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2288 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2297 * Updates to the libvlc API
2298 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2301 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2302 --------------------------------
2305 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2306 * Support for downloading updates
2310 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2311 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2312 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2313 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2315 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2316 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2317 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2320 * Cook (Real audio) support
2322 Playlist / Services discovery:
2323 * XSPF playlist support
2325 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2328 * New JACK audio output
2331 * New video filters:
2332 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2333 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2334 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2335 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2336 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2337 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2340 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2343 * System to inform the user and request information
2344 - HTTP authentication
2348 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2349 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2350 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2353 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2354 - Improved playlist handling
2355 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2357 - Embedded Video output
2358 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2359 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2360 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2361 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2362 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2364 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2365 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2368 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2371 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2372 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2373 * Growl "Now playing" support
2376 * Ability to log to syslog
2377 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2380 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2382 * A bit more automatic testing
2385 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2386 ---------------------------------
2389 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2390 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2393 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2394 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2397 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2400 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2401 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2407 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2410 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2411 --------------------------------
2414 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2418 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2419 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2420 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2423 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2424 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2425 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2426 * GnomeVFS input module
2427 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2428 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2431 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2432 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2433 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2436 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2437 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2443 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2444 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2447 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2448 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2449 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2452 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2454 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2455 - New extended controls panel
2456 - New bookmarks window
2457 - Fixed playlist sorting
2458 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2460 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2461 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2462 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2463 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2467 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2468 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2470 - Include macro to include other files
2474 * Should now work outside IE as well
2477 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2480 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2481 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2484 The following languages were added:
2488 * Simplified Chinese
2489 The following languages were re-added:
2493 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2494 --------------------------------
2497 * Rewrite of the playlist
2499 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2500 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2501 * Preferences improvements:
2502 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2503 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2505 * Core image manipulation support
2506 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2507 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2508 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2509 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2510 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2511 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2512 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2513 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2514 * Access filter architecture
2515 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2516 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2520 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2521 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2522 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2523 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2524 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2525 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2526 * Massive Matroska improvements
2527 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2529 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2530 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2531 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2532 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2533 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2535 Decoders / Encoders:
2536 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2537 * PNG decoder/encoder
2538 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2539 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2542 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2545 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2546 * Brand new SAP module
2547 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2548 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2549 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2550 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2551 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2552 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2556 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2559 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2560 * Image file video output (png)
2561 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2562 * Improvements to wall video filter
2563 * Support for font color and opacity
2569 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2570 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2571 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2575 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2576 - Improved preferences
2577 - Improvements to the wizard
2578 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2580 - Redesigned playlist
2581 - Improved preferences
2583 - Support for multiple actions
2586 - Support for the new playlist system
2588 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2591 * Screensaver disabling fix
2592 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2593 * Support for no-decoration windows
2596 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2597 * The OpenGL video output is back
2598 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2599 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2600 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2601 is not yet available in the new module
2602 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2605 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2614 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2617 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2620 The following languages were added:
2626 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2627 --------------------------------
2630 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2631 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2634 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2635 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2636 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2639 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2642 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2645 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2648 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2649 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2650 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2654 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2656 * Support of playlist group announcement
2659 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2660 --------------------------------
2663 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2664 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2665 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2666 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2667 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2668 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2671 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2672 (Stream your desktop)
2673 * Improved DVD support:
2674 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2675 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2676 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2677 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2678 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2679 (selection of titles/chapters).
2682 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2683 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2684 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2685 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2686 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2687 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2688 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2689 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2690 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2691 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2694 * G.726 audio support
2695 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2696 * MPEG-4 text support
2697 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2698 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2699 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2703 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2704 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2705 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2706 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2707 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2708 * DVB subtitles encoder
2709 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2710 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2712 * Text track muxing for mp4
2713 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2714 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2715 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2716 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2717 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2718 * Improved ASF muxer
2720 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2721 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2722 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2725 * New audio equalizer filter
2726 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2727 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2728 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2729 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2732 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2733 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2734 with support for effects.
2735 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2736 - New filters can be streamed.
2737 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2738 - Centralized scaling and blending
2740 - "time", to display current time
2741 - "marq", to display a marquee
2744 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2745 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2746 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2747 * A few skins2 improvements
2748 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2749 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2750 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2751 * Improved CORBA control module
2754 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2755 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2756 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2759 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2760 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2761 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2764 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2765 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2766 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2767 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2768 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2771 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2774 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2775 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2778 * Server/client network synchronization module
2779 * VBrick streams fully supported
2780 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2784 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2785 --------------------------------
2788 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2789 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2790 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2791 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2794 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2795 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2796 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2797 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2798 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2799 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2800 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2803 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2804 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2805 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2806 * Improved directory access module.
2807 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2808 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2809 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2810 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2811 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2814 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2815 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2816 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2819 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2820 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2821 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2824 * Improved session announcement system.
2825 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2826 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2827 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2828 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2829 * Improved transrater.
2830 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2831 * New configuration system.
2832 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2835 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2836 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2837 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2838 * Supports scheduling.
2839 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2840 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2843 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2844 - Ability to embed video output.
2845 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2846 - Lots of improvements.
2847 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2848 - New design and set of icons.
2849 - Ability to embed video output.
2850 - Support for hotkeys.
2851 - Support for bookmarks.
2853 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2854 - Better hotkeys handling.
2857 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2858 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2859 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2860 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2863 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2864 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2865 * Improved Windows installer.
2871 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2872 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2875 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2876 ---------------------------------
2879 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2880 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2883 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2884 --------------------------------
2887 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2888 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2891 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2892 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2893 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2894 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2897 * Internal improvments
2898 * Improved import/export
2901 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2903 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2904 small and strange formats.
2906 * New MOD audio demux.
2907 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2908 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2909 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2910 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2913 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2914 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2915 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2921 * New opengl video output plugin.
2924 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2925 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2928 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2929 --------------------------------
2932 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2933 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2934 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2935 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2936 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2937 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2938 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2939 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2942 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2947 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2948 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2949 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2950 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2951 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2952 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2953 * Better Icecast support.
2954 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2955 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2958 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2959 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2960 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2961 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2962 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2963 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2964 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2967 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2968 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2969 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2970 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2971 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2972 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2973 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2974 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2975 * Preliminary RTP support.
2976 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2981 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2982 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2984 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2985 - Improvements and help in preferences
2986 - New streaming wizard
2987 - Revised Disc Open menu
2989 - Improvements of the standard pages
2990 - Support for new commands
2991 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2994 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2995 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2998 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2999 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3000 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3001 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3002 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3003 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3004 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3005 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3006 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3009 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3011 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3012 * Support for Panther.
3013 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3014 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3017 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3018 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3019 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3020 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3021 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3022 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3023 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3024 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3027 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3028 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3029 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3032 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3035 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3036 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3037 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3038 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3041 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3042 --------------------------------
3045 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3048 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3049 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3052 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3053 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3056 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3059 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3060 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3063 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3066 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3069 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3070 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3074 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3075 --------------------------------
3078 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3079 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3083 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3084 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3085 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3087 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3088 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3091 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3094 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3097 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3098 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3102 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3103 --------------------------------
3106 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3107 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3111 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3112 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3113 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3114 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3115 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3118 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3119 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3120 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3123 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3124 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3125 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3128 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3129 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3130 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3131 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3132 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3135 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3136 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3137 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3140 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3143 * Improved build system.
3144 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3145 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3146 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3147 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3150 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3151 --------------------------------
3154 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3157 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3158 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3159 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3160 * Video 4 Linux support
3161 * CD Digital Audio support
3162 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3165 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3166 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3167 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3168 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3171 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3172 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3173 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3174 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3175 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3176 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3177 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3180 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3181 * New HTTP remote control interface
3184 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3185 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3186 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3187 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3188 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3191 * New reset option for the preferences
3192 * You can set your language in the prefences
3193 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3194 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3195 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3196 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3199 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3200 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3201 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3204 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3205 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3206 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3207 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3208 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3209 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3210 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3211 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3212 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3213 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3216 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3217 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3218 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3219 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3220 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3221 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3222 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3225 * Interface localization
3226 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3227 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3228 * New full-featured Preferences window
3231 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3232 --------------------------------
3235 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3236 * support for skins at the interface level
3237 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3238 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3239 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3240 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3241 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3244 * fixed HTTP redirects
3245 * support for opening an entire directory
3246 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3247 * new video4linux access plug-in
3248 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3251 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3252 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3253 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3256 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3257 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3258 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3259 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3260 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3261 * new codec for raw I420 video
3262 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3265 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3266 (although it still misses some important features)
3267 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3270 * new HTTP output support
3271 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3272 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3275 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3278 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3281 * reorderable playlist
3282 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3283 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3284 * support for mono audio output devices
3285 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3286 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3287 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3288 * the messages window remembers more lines
3289 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3290 * http and ogg stream output options
3291 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3294 * new skinnable interface
3295 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3297 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3298 * support for FLAC audio format
3299 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3301 * network tab in the interface
3302 * "apply" handling in preferences
3305 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3306 ---------------------------------
3309 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3310 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3311 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3312 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3314 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3315 * DTS S/PDIF support
3318 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3319 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3320 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3321 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3324 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3325 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3328 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3331 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3334 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3336 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3337 * rc interface is now fully useable
3338 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3341 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3342 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3343 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3344 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3345 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3347 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3348 * support for mouse gestures
3349 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3352 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3353 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3356 * improved ID3 tag detection
3357 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3358 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3359 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3361 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3364 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3365 ---------------------------------
3368 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3369 English was set as the preferred language
3372 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3373 --------------------------------
3376 * new mouse gesture interface
3377 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3381 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3382 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3383 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3386 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3387 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3391 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3394 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3395 without the user consent
3398 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3400 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3401 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3402 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3405 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3406 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3407 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3408 * playlist enhancements
3409 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3410 * new step forward/step backward commands
3411 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3412 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3413 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3416 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3417 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3418 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3421 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3422 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3425 * native video output is working again
3426 * only commandline interface support
3427 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3430 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3431 --------------------------------
3434 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3435 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3436 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3437 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3438 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3439 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3440 and A/52 streams are supported)
3441 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3446 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3447 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3448 * VCD entry points support
3449 * VCD image file support
3452 * support for *.asf format
3453 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3454 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3455 * support for ogg encapsulation
3456 * support for raw DV format
3457 * support for *.wav format
3458 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3461 Stream discovery & playlists:
3462 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3463 * support for .m3u file format
3464 * support for .asx file format
3465 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3468 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3469 (only available with the .avi demux)
3470 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3471 * support for raw PCM data
3472 * support for Cinepak video codec
3473 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3474 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3475 * support for Xvid codec
3476 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3477 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3478 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3480 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3482 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3485 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3488 * new WxWindows interface
3489 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3490 device and the channels configuration
3491 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3492 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3493 format that VLC can play
3494 * new swedish translation
3495 * enhancements of the playlist window
3496 * new messages window to see debug info
3497 * fixed a few crashes
3500 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3501 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3502 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3503 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working