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.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
34 remove support for previous OS X releases
35 * Major improvements in DASH support
36 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
37 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
38 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
39 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
40 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
43 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
44 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
45 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
46 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
47 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
48 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
49 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
50 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
51 * Support for more MJPEG streams
52 * Add support for liveleak streams
55 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
56 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
57 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
58 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
59 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
60 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
61 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
62 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
63 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
64 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
67 * new remapping channel filter
68 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
69 * new VSXu visualization plugin
72 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
73 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
74 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
75 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
78 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
79 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
80 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
81 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
82 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
83 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
86 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
87 * Options support for AVIO output module
90 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
91 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
92 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
93 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
94 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
95 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
99 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
102 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
103 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
106 * add support for multiple video outputs
107 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
109 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
110 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
111 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
112 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
113 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
114 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
115 VLC's internal volume level
116 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
117 selection and to manage the list of presets
118 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
119 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
120 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
121 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
122 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
123 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
124 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
125 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
127 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
128 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
129 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
130 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
131 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
132 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
136 * Partial support for Qt5.0
137 * Menus modifications and improvements
138 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
139 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
143 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
144 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
145 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
146 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
147 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
148 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
149 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
152 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
153 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
154 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
155 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
156 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
157 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
159 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
160 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
163 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
164 --------------------------------
167 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
170 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
171 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
172 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
175 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
176 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
177 * Fix koreus lua parser
178 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
179 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
180 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
181 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
184 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
185 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
188 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
191 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
192 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
193 * Fix Time counter UI look
194 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
197 * Fix https streaming
200 * Fix audio and video track selection:
201 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
202 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
205 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
206 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
207 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
208 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
209 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
212 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
213 --------------------------------
216 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
217 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
218 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
219 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
220 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
221 during playback on Mac OS X
224 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
225 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
226 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
229 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
230 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
231 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
232 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
233 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
236 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
237 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
238 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
239 * Support Youtube live streams
242 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
245 * Fix media info dialog update
246 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
247 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
248 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
249 * Fix album art display at start
252 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
253 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
254 * Fix menus display and behavior
255 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
256 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
257 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
258 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
259 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
260 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
261 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
264 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
265 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
266 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
267 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
268 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
269 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
270 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
271 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
272 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
275 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
276 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
277 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
278 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
279 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
282 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
283 --------------------------------
286 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
289 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
290 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
293 * Add GateKeeper support
294 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
295 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
296 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
299 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
302 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
303 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
304 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
305 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
306 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
309 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
310 --------------------------------
313 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
314 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
315 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
316 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
317 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
318 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
319 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
320 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
321 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
322 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
323 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
327 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
328 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
329 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
330 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
331 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
332 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
333 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
334 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
335 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
336 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
337 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
338 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
341 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
342 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
344 * Fix MP3 free format support
347 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
348 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
349 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
350 * Fix for DVB channels file support
351 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
354 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
355 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
357 Audio filters and output:
358 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
359 * Fix DirectSound device selection
360 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
361 * Do not apply volume in file output
362 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
363 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
366 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
367 the persistant media library
368 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
369 to the media library or the temporary playlist
370 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
371 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
372 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
373 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
374 press on the Play/Pause button
375 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
376 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
377 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
378 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
379 * Many Fullscreen fixes
380 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
381 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
382 Synchronization panel
383 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
384 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
385 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
386 * Fix crashes on exit
387 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
389 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
390 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
391 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
392 automatically reset on the first launch.
393 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
394 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
395 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
398 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
399 * Fixes for icecast SD
402 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
403 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
404 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
405 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
406 * Fix tags and file names display
407 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
410 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
411 * Fix for key events and focus loss
414 * Fix display of some buttons
415 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
416 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
419 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
420 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
421 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
424 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
425 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
426 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
427 Thai translations update
428 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
431 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
432 --------------------------------
435 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
436 * fix the samba module compilation
437 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
438 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
439 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
440 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
443 * Support for MXPEG files
444 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
445 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
448 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
449 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
450 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
453 * Fix ogm header creation
456 * limit spatializer filter distortions
457 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
460 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
461 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
462 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
463 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
466 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
469 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
470 * allow to hide the sidebar
471 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
472 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
473 * noticebly faster launch time
474 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
475 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
476 * improve track synchronization panel
477 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
478 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
481 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
482 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
483 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
484 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
487 * fix for menus display
488 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
489 * documentation update
492 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
493 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
496 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
497 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
498 * Update Jamendo selections
502 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
503 * fix a crash on VLM close
506 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
507 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
508 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
509 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
512 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
515 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
516 ---------------------------------
519 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
520 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
521 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
522 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
523 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
524 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
525 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
526 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
527 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
528 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
529 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
530 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
531 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
532 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
533 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
534 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
535 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
536 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
537 --http-crl (optional CRL).
538 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
539 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
540 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
541 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
542 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
543 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
544 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
546 Important changes for packagers:
547 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
548 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
549 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
550 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
551 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
552 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
553 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
554 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
555 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
556 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
559 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
560 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
561 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
562 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
563 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
564 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
565 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
568 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
569 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
570 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
571 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
572 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
573 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
574 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
575 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
576 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
577 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
578 * PulseAudio audio input support
579 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
580 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
581 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
582 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
583 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
584 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
585 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
586 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
589 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
590 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
591 are notably concerned.
592 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
593 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
594 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
595 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
596 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
597 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
598 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
599 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
600 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
601 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
602 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
603 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
604 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
605 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
606 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
609 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
610 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
611 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
612 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
613 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
614 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
615 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
616 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
617 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
618 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
619 * Improved support of tracker files
620 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
623 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
624 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
625 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
626 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
627 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
628 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
629 and important cleanups and optimisations
630 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
631 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
632 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
633 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
634 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
635 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
636 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
637 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
638 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
639 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
640 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
641 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
642 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
643 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
644 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
645 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
646 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
647 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
648 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
649 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
650 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
653 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
654 * New video output for iOS platform
655 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
656 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
657 * Various vmem improvements
658 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
659 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
660 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
661 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
662 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
663 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
665 Audio Output and Filters:
666 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
667 * New audio output in memory (amem)
668 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
669 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
670 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
671 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
672 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
673 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
674 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
675 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
678 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
679 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
680 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
681 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
682 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
683 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
684 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
685 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
686 * New anti-flickering filter
687 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
688 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
689 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
690 blackbox and customizable shadow.
691 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
692 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
693 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
696 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
697 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
698 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
699 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
700 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
701 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
702 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
703 * Major rework of VoD support
704 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
705 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
706 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
707 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
708 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
709 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
710 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
711 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
712 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
713 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
716 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
717 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
720 * New capabilities for libVLC:
721 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
722 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
723 list of available audio and video filters
724 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
725 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
726 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
729 * asademux, subsass: use libass
730 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
731 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
733 * upnp: use upnp_intel
734 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
735 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
736 * removal of the noise filter
737 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
738 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
739 removed in Growl's next release, too.
740 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
743 * Update of translations for most languages.
744 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
747 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
748 ----------------------------------
751 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
752 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
755 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
756 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
759 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
760 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
761 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
764 * Camtasia decoding fix.
767 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
768 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
771 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
774 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
775 ----------------------------------
778 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
779 including support for OS X Lion
780 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
781 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
784 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
787 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
788 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
789 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
792 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
795 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
796 ----------------------------------
799 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
800 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
803 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
804 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
805 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
806 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
807 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
809 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
810 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
811 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
813 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
814 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
817 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
820 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
823 * Fix quitting on Linux
824 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
828 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
831 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
834 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
835 ---------------------------------
837 Windows and Mac OS X:
838 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
841 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
842 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
845 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
848 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
851 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
853 Miscellaneous fixes in:
854 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
856 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
857 * RTP output and XML export
858 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
862 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
863 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
864 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
865 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
868 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
869 --------------------------------
871 Windows and Mac OS X:
872 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
875 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
878 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
879 * Improve Apple Remote handling
880 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
881 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
882 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
883 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
886 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
887 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
891 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
892 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
893 * New Luganda Translation
896 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
897 --------------------------------
900 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
903 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
904 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
905 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
906 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
909 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
911 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
912 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
913 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
914 * mp4 demuxer improvements
915 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
916 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
917 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
918 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
920 Miscellaneous fixes in:
921 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
922 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
923 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
924 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
925 * Configure and build system improvements
926 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
929 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
930 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
931 * New icelandic translation
934 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
935 --------------------------------
938 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
942 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
943 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
944 and stability reasons
947 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
951 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
954 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
955 ----------------------------------
958 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
961 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
962 ---------------------------------
965 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
966 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
967 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
968 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
971 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
974 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
975 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
976 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
977 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
980 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
981 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
982 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
984 Subtitles and renderer:
985 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
986 * Mark more freetype options as safe
987 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
988 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
989 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
992 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
993 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
994 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
995 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
998 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
999 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1001 Miscellaneous fixes:
1002 * KDE device solid actions
1004 * Transcode integer overflow
1005 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1006 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1009 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1010 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1011 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1014 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1015 ----------------------------------
1018 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1022 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1025 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1028 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1029 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1030 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1031 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1034 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1038 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1041 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1044 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1045 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1047 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1051 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1052 * Miscellaneous fixes
1055 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1056 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1057 French and Ukrainian
1058 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1059 * New Asturian translation
1062 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1063 ----------------------------------
1066 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1068 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1071 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1074 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1075 * Various fixes for Windows
1078 * New Armenian translation
1079 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1080 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1083 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1084 --------------------------------
1087 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1088 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1089 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1092 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1093 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1096 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1097 --------------------------------
1099 Access and demuxers:
1100 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1101 * fix for podcasts parsing
1102 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1105 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1106 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1109 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1110 * fix m3u playlists exports
1113 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1116 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1119 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1122 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1125 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1128 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1133 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1136 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1137 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1140 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1141 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1142 * fix console output encoding
1144 Interface and extensions:
1145 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1146 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1149 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1150 --------------------------------
1153 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1154 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1155 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1156 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1157 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1158 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1159 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1160 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1161 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1162 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1163 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1164 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1165 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1166 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1167 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1168 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1172 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1173 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1174 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1175 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1176 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1179 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1182 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1183 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1184 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1188 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1191 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1192 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1193 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1196 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1197 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1198 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1199 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1202 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1203 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1206 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1207 --------------------------------
1209 Important changes for users:
1210 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1211 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1213 Important changes for packagers:
1214 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1215 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1216 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1217 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1218 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1220 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1222 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1223 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1224 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1225 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1226 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1229 * Support for the sftp protocol
1230 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1231 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1232 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1233 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1234 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1237 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1238 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1239 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1241 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1242 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1243 * Invmem module improvements
1244 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1245 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1246 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1247 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1248 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1249 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1250 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1251 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1252 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1253 * Support for VP8 codec
1254 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1257 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1258 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1259 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1260 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1261 * Various EGP improvements
1262 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1263 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1266 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1267 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1268 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1269 * Podcast images are now displayed
1272 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1273 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1274 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1275 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1276 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1277 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1278 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1279 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1280 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1281 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1282 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1285 * New content extensions lua framework
1288 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1289 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1290 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1291 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1292 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1293 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1294 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1297 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1298 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1299 * Service discovery based on libudev
1300 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1303 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1304 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1305 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1306 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1307 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1308 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1309 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1312 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1313 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1314 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1317 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1319 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1320 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1323 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1326 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1327 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1328 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1329 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1330 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1331 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1332 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1335 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1336 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1339 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1340 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1341 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1345 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1346 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1347 * Improved Solaris port
1350 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1351 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1354 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1355 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1356 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1357 * transrate: broken since too long
1358 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1359 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1360 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1361 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1362 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1363 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1364 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1365 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1366 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1367 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1368 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1369 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1370 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1371 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1374 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1375 --------------------------------
1378 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1380 Decoders/Packetizers:
1381 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1384 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1385 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1386 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1387 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1388 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1391 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1392 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1395 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1396 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1399 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1400 and Walloon translations updated
1401 * Sinhala translation started
1404 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1405 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1408 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1409 --------------------------------
1412 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1413 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1416 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1419 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1420 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1423 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1424 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1425 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1426 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1429 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1430 --------------------------------
1433 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1434 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1437 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1438 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1441 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1442 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1445 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1448 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1449 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1452 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1453 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1456 * New Walloon translation
1457 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1460 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1461 --------------------------------
1464 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1465 regressions in most popular drivers
1466 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1469 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1470 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1471 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1474 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1475 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1478 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1479 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1480 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1481 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1482 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1485 * New udev module for linux
1488 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1491 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1494 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1495 --------------------------------
1498 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1499 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1500 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1503 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1504 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1507 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1508 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1511 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1514 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1515 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1516 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1517 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1520 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1521 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1522 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1523 - no support for Goom and SDL
1524 - limited text rendering support
1525 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1528 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1529 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1530 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1531 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1532 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1533 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1534 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1535 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1536 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1540 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1543 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1546 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1547 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1548 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1549 Arabic and French translation updates
1552 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1553 --------------------------------
1556 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1557 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1558 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1559 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1560 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1561 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1564 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1565 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1566 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1569 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1570 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1571 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1574 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1577 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1578 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1581 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1582 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1583 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1584 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1585 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1586 * Fix various crashes
1589 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1591 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1595 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1596 ---------------------------------
1600 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1601 See 'Access:' for more info.
1602 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1605 * Instantaneous pausing
1606 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1607 * Finer speed control
1608 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1609 * Timeshift for most medias
1610 * RTSP trickplay support
1611 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1614 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1615 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1616 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1617 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1618 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1619 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1620 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1621 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1622 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1623 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1626 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1627 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1628 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1629 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1630 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1631 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1632 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1635 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1636 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1639 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1640 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1641 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1642 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1643 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1644 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1645 * DVB scanning on linux
1646 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1647 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1648 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1649 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1650 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1651 * MTP device access on Unix
1652 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1653 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1656 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1657 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1658 Windows and Mac OS X.
1661 * Export the playlist in HTML
1662 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1663 * Better metadata handling and reading
1665 Linux/Windows interface:
1666 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1667 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1668 * Recently played items list
1669 * Interface toolbar customizations
1670 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1671 - More menus actions
1672 - Finer speed slider
1673 - Improvements on many dialogs
1674 - New dialog for plugins listing
1675 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1676 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1677 * Better integration in GTK environments
1680 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1681 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1682 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1683 * Additional usability improvements
1686 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1687 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1688 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1689 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1690 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1693 * New Maemo port with:
1694 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1695 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1698 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1701 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1702 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1703 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1704 * Support for latest iSight models
1707 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1708 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1711 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1712 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1713 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1714 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1715 The old image video output has been removed.
1716 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1717 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1720 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1728 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1729 --------------------------------------
1735 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1736 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1737 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1738 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1739 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1740 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1741 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1743 Various fixes to the following modules:
1746 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1747 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1748 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1750 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1755 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1756 ---------------------------------
1759 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1760 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1763 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1764 ---------------------------------
1767 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1770 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1773 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1774 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1775 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1776 main controller window.
1777 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1780 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1785 * Updates of other localizations
1788 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1789 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1790 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1791 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1792 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1795 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1796 ---------------------------------
1799 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1801 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1804 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1805 --------------------------------
1810 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1811 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1814 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1815 --------------------------------
1817 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1818 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1821 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1824 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1825 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1828 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1829 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1832 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1833 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1834 * Various fixed in playlist
1837 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1840 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1843 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1844 ------------------------------------
1846 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1847 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1850 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1851 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1852 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1855 * Stability fix for the video output.
1858 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1859 --------------------------------
1862 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1863 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1864 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1865 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1866 * Fixed update system bugs
1867 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1870 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1871 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1872 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1873 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1874 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1875 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1876 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1877 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1878 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1879 modern Mac OS X versions
1882 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1883 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1885 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1886 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1889 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1890 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1891 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1892 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1893 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1894 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1897 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1898 --------------------------------
1900 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1901 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1902 * Multiple bugfixes.
1905 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1906 --------------------------------
1908 * Multiple bug fixes.
1911 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1912 ---------------------------------
1916 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1917 recent to work correctly
1918 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1919 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1920 edit the ".hosts" file.
1921 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1922 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1923 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1924 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1925 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1926 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1927 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1928 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1929 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1930 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1931 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1932 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1933 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1934 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1935 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1936 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1937 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1938 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1939 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1940 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1941 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1942 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1943 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1944 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1945 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1946 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1947 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1948 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1949 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1950 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1951 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1952 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1953 and postproc modules.
1954 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1955 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1956 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1957 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1959 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1960 filter. For example:
1961 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1962 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1964 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1965 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1971 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1973 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1974 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1977 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1978 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1980 * Shoutcast TV listings
1981 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1983 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1984 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1986 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1989 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1990 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1991 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1992 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1993 * JACK audio input support
1994 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1995 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1996 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1997 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1998 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1999 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2000 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2001 (available as a separate download).
2002 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2003 * RTMP input support
2004 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2005 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2006 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2008 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2009 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2012 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2013 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2014 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2015 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2017 * APEv1/2 tags support
2018 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2019 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2021 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2022 * TiVo Series 2 support
2023 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2028 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2029 * Flash Screen Video support
2030 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2031 * DosBox Capture support
2032 * Karl Morton's Video support
2033 * limited atrac3 support
2035 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2036 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2037 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2038 * H.264 PAFF support
2039 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2040 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2041 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2042 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2043 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2046 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2047 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2048 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2049 * AQTitle subtitles support
2050 * MKV USF subtitles support
2051 * HTML-based subtitles support
2052 * MPSub subtitles support
2053 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2054 * MPL2 subtitles support
2055 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2056 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2057 * Realtext subtitle support
2058 * DKS subtitle support
2059 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2060 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2063 * Flash Screen Video support
2064 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2066 Video outputs and filters:
2067 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2068 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2069 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2070 * New puzzle video output filter
2071 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2072 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2074 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2075 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2076 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2077 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2078 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2079 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2080 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2081 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2082 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2083 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2084 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2085 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2086 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2087 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2089 Audio outputs and filters:
2090 * Replay gain support
2091 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2092 new scaletempo audio filter)
2093 * New spatializer audio filter
2094 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2097 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2098 * New RTP payload formats:
2099 * Speex voice audio codec
2100 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2101 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2102 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2103 * DCCP transport for RTP
2104 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2109 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2110 end-user suitable way.
2111 * Improved user interaction
2112 * Improved mouse gestures
2113 * Vastly improved Update checker
2114 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2116 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2117 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2119 * Improved video output features
2120 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2121 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2122 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2123 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2124 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2126 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2127 if libncursesw is available.
2128 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2129 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2130 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2132 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2133 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2134 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2135 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2136 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2137 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2138 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2139 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2142 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2143 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2144 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2147 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2148 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2149 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2150 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2151 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2152 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2155 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2156 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2166 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2167 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2168 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2171 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2172 ----------------------------------
2175 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2178 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2179 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2180 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2181 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2182 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2183 * Updated Polish translation
2186 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2187 ----------------------------------
2190 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2191 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2192 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2195 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2196 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2197 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2198 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2199 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2200 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2201 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2202 to an unexpected application termination
2203 * New Serbian translation
2204 * Updated Romanian translation
2207 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2208 ----------------------------------
2211 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2212 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2213 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2214 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2215 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2216 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2217 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2218 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2221 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2222 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2223 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2224 * Fixed AAC resampling
2225 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2226 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2229 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2230 ----------------------------------
2233 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2234 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2235 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2236 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2237 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2240 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2241 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2242 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2243 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2244 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2247 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2248 ----------------------------------
2251 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2252 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2255 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2256 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2257 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2258 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2260 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2264 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2267 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2270 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2273 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2276 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2277 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2278 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2279 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2280 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2282 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2283 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2284 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2285 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2288 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2291 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2292 ----------------------------------
2295 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2296 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2297 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2299 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2300 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2302 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2303 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2306 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2308 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2309 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2310 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2311 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2312 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2313 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2314 two different movies
2315 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2316 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2317 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2320 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2323 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2324 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2325 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2326 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2329 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2330 ----------------------------------
2332 Various bugfixes, notably:
2333 * Windows Vista compatibility
2334 * Cropping in Direct3D
2335 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2336 * RSS filter string overflow
2338 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2340 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2341 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2344 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2345 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2348 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2351 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2354 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2357 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2358 ----------------------------------
2360 Various bugfixes, notably:
2361 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2362 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2363 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2364 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2365 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2366 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2369 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2370 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2373 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2375 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2376 * Diverse usability improvements
2377 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2378 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2379 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2382 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2383 ---------------------------------
2385 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2386 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2389 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2392 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2393 --------------------------------
2396 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2399 * Support for RTSP authentication
2400 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2401 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2402 * ATSC support for DVB input
2403 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2404 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2405 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2408 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2409 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2410 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2411 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2412 * Matroska WavPack support
2413 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2414 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2415 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2418 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2419 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2420 * Improved libcaca support
2424 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2425 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2427 * Systray support in skins
2429 * Support for Apple Remote control
2430 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2431 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2432 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2433 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2435 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2438 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2439 Windows 9x/ME users:
2440 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2441 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2442 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2443 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2444 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2446 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2447 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2456 * Updates to the libvlc API
2457 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2460 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2461 --------------------------------
2464 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2465 * Support for downloading updates
2469 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2470 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2471 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2472 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2474 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2475 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2476 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2479 * Cook (Real audio) support
2481 Playlist / Services discovery:
2482 * XSPF playlist support
2484 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2487 * New JACK audio output
2490 * New video filters:
2491 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2492 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2493 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2494 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2495 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2496 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2499 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2502 * System to inform the user and request information
2503 - HTTP authentication
2507 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2508 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2509 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2512 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2513 - Improved playlist handling
2514 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2516 - Embedded Video output
2517 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2518 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2519 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2520 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2521 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2523 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2524 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2527 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2530 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2531 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2532 * Growl "Now playing" support
2535 * Ability to log to syslog
2536 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2539 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2541 * A bit more automatic testing
2544 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2545 ---------------------------------
2548 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2549 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2552 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2553 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2556 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2559 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2560 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2566 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2569 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2570 --------------------------------
2573 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2577 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2578 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2579 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2582 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2583 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2584 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2585 * GnomeVFS input module
2586 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2587 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2590 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2591 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2592 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2595 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2596 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2602 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2603 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2606 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2607 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2608 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2611 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2613 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2614 - New extended controls panel
2615 - New bookmarks window
2616 - Fixed playlist sorting
2617 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2619 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2620 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2621 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2622 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2626 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2627 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2629 - Include macro to include other files
2633 * Should now work outside IE as well
2636 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2639 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2640 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2643 The following languages were added:
2647 * Simplified Chinese
2648 The following languages were re-added:
2652 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2653 --------------------------------
2656 * Rewrite of the playlist
2658 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2659 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2660 * Preferences improvements:
2661 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2662 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2664 * Core image manipulation support
2665 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2666 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2667 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2668 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2669 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2670 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2671 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2672 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2673 * Access filter architecture
2674 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2675 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2679 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2680 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2681 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2682 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2683 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2684 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2685 * Massive Matroska improvements
2686 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2688 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2689 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2690 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2691 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2692 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2694 Decoders / Encoders:
2695 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2696 * PNG decoder/encoder
2697 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2698 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2701 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2704 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2705 * Brand new SAP module
2706 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2707 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2708 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2709 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2710 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2711 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2715 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2718 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2719 * Image file video output (png)
2720 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2721 * Improvements to wall video filter
2722 * Support for font color and opacity
2728 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2729 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2730 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2734 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2735 - Improved preferences
2736 - Improvements to the wizard
2737 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2739 - Redesigned playlist
2740 - Improved preferences
2742 - Support for multiple actions
2745 - Support for the new playlist system
2747 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2750 * Screensaver disabling fix
2751 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2752 * Support for no-decoration windows
2755 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2756 * The OpenGL video output is back
2757 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2758 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2759 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2760 is not yet available in the new module
2761 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2764 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2773 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2776 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2779 The following languages were added:
2785 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2786 --------------------------------
2789 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2790 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2793 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2794 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2795 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2798 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2801 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2804 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2807 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2808 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2809 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2813 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2815 * Support of playlist group announcement
2818 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2819 --------------------------------
2822 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2823 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2824 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2825 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2826 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2827 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2830 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2831 (Stream your desktop)
2832 * Improved DVD support:
2833 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2834 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2835 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2836 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2837 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2838 (selection of titles/chapters).
2841 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2842 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2843 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2844 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2845 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2846 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2847 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2848 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2849 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2850 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2853 * G.726 audio support
2854 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2855 * MPEG-4 text support
2856 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2857 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2858 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2862 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2863 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2864 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2865 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2866 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2867 * DVB subtitles encoder
2868 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2869 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2871 * Text track muxing for mp4
2872 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2873 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2874 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2875 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2876 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2877 * Improved ASF muxer
2879 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2880 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2881 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2884 * New audio equalizer filter
2885 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2886 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2887 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2888 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2891 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2892 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2893 with support for effects.
2894 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2895 - New filters can be streamed.
2896 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2897 - Centralized scaling and blending
2899 - "time", to display current time
2900 - "marq", to display a marquee
2903 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2904 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2905 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2906 * A few skins2 improvements
2907 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2908 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2909 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2910 * Improved CORBA control module
2913 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2914 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2915 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2918 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2919 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2920 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2923 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2924 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2925 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2926 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2927 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2930 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2933 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2934 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2937 * Server/client network synchronization module
2938 * VBrick streams fully supported
2939 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2943 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2944 --------------------------------
2947 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2948 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2949 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2950 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2953 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2954 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2955 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2956 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2957 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2958 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2959 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2962 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2963 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2964 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2965 * Improved directory access module.
2966 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2967 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2968 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2969 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2970 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2973 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2974 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2975 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2978 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2979 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2980 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2983 * Improved session announcement system.
2984 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2985 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2986 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2987 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2988 * Improved transrater.
2989 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2990 * New configuration system.
2991 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2994 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2995 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2996 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2997 * Supports scheduling.
2998 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2999 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3002 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3003 - Ability to embed video output.
3004 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3005 - Lots of improvements.
3006 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3007 - New design and set of icons.
3008 - Ability to embed video output.
3009 - Support for hotkeys.
3010 - Support for bookmarks.
3012 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3013 - Better hotkeys handling.
3016 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3017 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3018 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3019 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3022 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3023 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3024 * Improved Windows installer.
3030 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3031 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3034 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3035 ---------------------------------
3038 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3039 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3042 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3043 --------------------------------
3046 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3047 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3050 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3051 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3052 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3053 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3056 * Internal improvments
3057 * Improved import/export
3060 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3062 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3063 small and strange formats.
3065 * New MOD audio demux.
3066 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3067 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3068 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3069 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3072 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3073 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3074 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3080 * New opengl video output plugin.
3083 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3084 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3087 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3088 --------------------------------
3091 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3092 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3093 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3094 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3095 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3096 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3097 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3098 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3101 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3106 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3107 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3108 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3109 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3110 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3111 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3112 * Better Icecast support.
3113 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3114 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3117 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3118 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3119 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3120 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3121 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3122 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3123 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3126 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3127 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3128 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3129 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3130 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3131 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3132 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3133 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3134 * Preliminary RTP support.
3135 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3140 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3141 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3143 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3144 - Improvements and help in preferences
3145 - New streaming wizard
3146 - Revised Disc Open menu
3148 - Improvements of the standard pages
3149 - Support for new commands
3150 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3153 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3154 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3157 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3158 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3159 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3160 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3161 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3162 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3163 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3164 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3165 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3168 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3170 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3171 * Support for Panther.
3172 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3173 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3176 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3177 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3178 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3179 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3180 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3181 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3182 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3183 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3186 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3187 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3188 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3191 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3194 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3195 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3196 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3197 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3200 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3201 --------------------------------
3204 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3207 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3208 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3211 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3212 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3215 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3218 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3219 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3222 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3225 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3228 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3229 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3233 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3234 --------------------------------
3237 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3238 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3242 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3243 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3244 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3246 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3247 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3250 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3253 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3256 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3257 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3261 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3262 --------------------------------
3265 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3266 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3270 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3271 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3272 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3273 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3274 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3277 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3278 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3279 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3282 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3283 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3284 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3287 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3288 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3289 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3290 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3291 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3294 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3295 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3296 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3299 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3302 * Improved build system.
3303 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3304 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3305 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3306 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3309 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3310 --------------------------------
3313 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3316 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3317 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3318 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3319 * Video 4 Linux support
3320 * CD Digital Audio support
3321 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3324 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3325 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3326 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3327 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3330 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3331 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3332 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3333 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3334 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3335 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3336 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3339 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3340 * New HTTP remote control interface
3343 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3344 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3345 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3346 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3347 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3350 * New reset option for the preferences
3351 * You can set your language in the prefences
3352 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3353 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3354 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3355 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3358 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3359 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3360 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3363 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3364 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3365 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3366 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3367 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3368 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3369 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3370 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3371 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3372 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3375 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3376 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3377 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3378 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3379 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3380 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3381 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3384 * Interface localization
3385 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3386 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3387 * New full-featured Preferences window
3390 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3391 --------------------------------
3394 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3395 * support for skins at the interface level
3396 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3397 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3398 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3399 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3400 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3403 * fixed HTTP redirects
3404 * support for opening an entire directory
3405 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3406 * new video4linux access plug-in
3407 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3410 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3411 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3412 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3415 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3416 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3417 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3418 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3419 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3420 * new codec for raw I420 video
3421 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3424 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3425 (although it still misses some important features)
3426 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3429 * new HTTP output support
3430 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3431 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3434 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3437 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3440 * reorderable playlist
3441 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3442 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3443 * support for mono audio output devices
3444 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3445 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3446 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3447 * the messages window remembers more lines
3448 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3449 * http and ogg stream output options
3450 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3453 * new skinnable interface
3454 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3456 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3457 * support for FLAC audio format
3458 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3460 * network tab in the interface
3461 * "apply" handling in preferences
3464 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3465 ---------------------------------
3468 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3469 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3470 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3471 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3473 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3474 * DTS S/PDIF support
3477 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3478 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3479 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3480 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3483 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3484 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3487 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3490 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3493 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3495 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3496 * rc interface is now fully useable
3497 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3500 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3501 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3502 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3503 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3504 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3506 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3507 * support for mouse gestures
3508 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3511 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3512 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3515 * improved ID3 tag detection
3516 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3517 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3518 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3520 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3523 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3524 ---------------------------------
3527 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3528 English was set as the preferred language
3531 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3532 --------------------------------
3535 * new mouse gesture interface
3536 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3540 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3541 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3542 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3545 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3546 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3550 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3553 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3554 without the user consent
3557 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3559 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3560 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3561 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3564 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3565 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3566 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3567 * playlist enhancements
3568 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3569 * new step forward/step backward commands
3570 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3571 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3572 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3575 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3576 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3577 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3580 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3581 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3584 * native video output is working again
3585 * only commandline interface support
3586 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3589 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3590 --------------------------------
3593 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3594 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3595 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3596 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3597 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3598 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3599 and A/52 streams are supported)
3600 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3605 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3606 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3607 * VCD entry points support
3608 * VCD image file support
3611 * support for *.asf format
3612 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3613 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3614 * support for ogg encapsulation
3615 * support for raw DV format
3616 * support for *.wav format
3617 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3620 Stream discovery & playlists:
3621 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3622 * support for .m3u file format
3623 * support for .asx file format
3624 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3627 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3628 (only available with the .avi demux)
3629 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3630 * support for raw PCM data
3631 * support for Cinepak video codec
3632 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3633 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3634 * support for Xvid codec
3635 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3636 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3637 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3639 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3641 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3644 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3647 * new WxWindows interface
3648 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3649 device and the channels configuration
3650 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3651 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3652 format that VLC can play
3653 * new swedish translation
3654 * enhancements of the playlist window
3655 * new messages window to see debug info
3656 * fixed a few crashes
3659 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3660 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3661 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3662 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working