1 Changes between 0.9.1 and 1.0.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
8 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
9 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
10 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
11 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
13 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.1:
14 ---------------------------------
16 Note: version 0.9.0 was skipped due to bugs being discovered at the last
21 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
22 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
23 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
24 edit the ".hosts" file.
25 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
26 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
27 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
28 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
29 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
30 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
31 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
32 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
33 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
34 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
36 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
37 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
38 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
39 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
40 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
41 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
42 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
43 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
44 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
45 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
46 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
47 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
48 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
49 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
50 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
51 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
52 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
53 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
54 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
55 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
56 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
58 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
59 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
60 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
61 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
63 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
65 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
66 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
68 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
69 * Glide video output module has been removed.
70 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
71 It does not work on windows for this version. Help is needed!
77 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
78 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
79 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
82 * Vastly improved playlist support:
83 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
85 * Shoutcast TV listings
86 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
88 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
89 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
90 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
93 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
94 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
95 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
96 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
97 * JACK audio input support
98 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
99 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
100 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
101 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
102 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
103 * Experimental EyeTV access module
104 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
105 (available as a separate download).
106 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
108 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
109 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
110 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
112 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
113 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
116 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
117 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
118 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
119 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
121 * APEv1/2 tags support
122 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
123 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
125 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
126 * TiVo Series 2 support
127 * CD+G karaoke Files support
132 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
133 * Flash Screen Video support
134 * CamStudio Screen Video support
135 * DosBox Capture support
136 * Karl Morton's Video support
137 * limited atrac3 support
139 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
140 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
141 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
143 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
144 * NellyMoser ASAO support
145 * APE (Monkey audio) support
146 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
147 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
150 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
151 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
152 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
153 * AQTitle subtitles support
154 * MKV USF subtitles support
155 * HTML-based subtitles support
156 * MPSub subtitles support
157 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
158 * MPL2 subtitles support
159 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
160 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
161 * Realtext subtitle support
162 * DKS subtitle support
163 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
164 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
167 * Flash Screen Video support
168 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
170 Video outputs and filters:
171 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
172 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
173 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
174 * New puzzle video output filter
175 * Re-written motion detection video filter
176 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
178 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
179 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
180 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
181 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
182 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
183 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
184 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
185 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
186 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
187 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
188 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
189 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
190 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
191 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
193 Audio outputs and filters:
194 * Replay gain support
195 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
196 new scaletempo audio filter)
197 * New spatializer audio filter
198 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
201 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
202 * New RTP payload formats:
203 * Speex voice audio codec
204 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
205 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
206 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
207 * DCCP transport for RTP
208 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
213 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
214 end-user suitable way.
215 * Improved user interaction
216 * Improved mouse gestures
217 * Vastly improved Update checker
218 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
220 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
221 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
223 * Improved video output features
224 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
225 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
226 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
227 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
228 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
230 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
231 if libncursesw is available.
232 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
233 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
234 share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
236 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
237 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
238 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
239 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
240 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
241 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
242 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
243 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
246 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
247 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
248 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
251 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
252 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
253 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
254 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
255 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
256 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
259 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
260 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
270 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
271 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
272 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
275 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
276 ----------------------------------
279 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
282 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
283 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
284 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
285 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
286 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
287 * Updated Polish translation
290 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
291 ----------------------------------
294 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
295 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
296 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
299 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
300 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
301 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
302 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
303 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
304 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
305 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
306 to an unexpected application termination
307 * New Serbian translation
308 * Updated Romanian translation
311 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
312 ----------------------------------
315 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
316 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
317 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
318 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
319 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
320 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
321 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
322 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
325 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
326 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
327 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
328 * Fixed AAC resampling
329 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
330 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
333 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
334 ----------------------------------
337 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
338 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
339 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
340 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
341 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
344 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
345 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
346 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
347 * Close MMS access on network timeout
348 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
351 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
352 ----------------------------------
355 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
356 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
359 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
360 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
361 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
362 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
364 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
368 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
371 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
374 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
377 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
380 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
381 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
382 encoding on multi-cpu systems
383 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
384 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
386 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
387 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
388 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
389 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
392 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
395 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
396 ----------------------------------
399 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
400 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
401 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
403 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
404 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
406 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
407 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
410 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
412 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
413 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
414 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
415 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
416 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
417 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
419 * Support for current Ogg file formats
420 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
421 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
424 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
427 * The automatic updating facility was removed
428 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
429 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
430 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
433 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
434 ----------------------------------
436 Various bugfixes, notably:
437 * Windows Vista compatibility
438 * Cropping in Direct3D
439 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
440 * RSS filter string overflow
442 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
444 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
445 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
448 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
449 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
452 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
455 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
458 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
461 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
462 ----------------------------------
464 Various bugfixes, notably:
465 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
466 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
467 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
468 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
469 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
470 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
473 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
474 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
477 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
479 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
480 * Diverse usability improvements
481 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
482 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
483 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
486 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
487 ---------------------------------
490 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
493 * Fullscreen controller improvements
496 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
497 --------------------------------
500 * Shoutcast TV listings support
503 * Support for RTSP authentication
504 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
505 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
506 * ATSC support for DVB input
507 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
508 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
509 * Improved support for Flash Video files
512 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
513 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
514 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
515 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
516 * Matroska WavPack support
517 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
518 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
519 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
522 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
523 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
524 * Improved libcaca support
528 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
529 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
531 * Systray support in skins
533 * Support for Apple Remote control
534 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
535 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
536 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
537 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
539 * Notifications using notification-daemon
542 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
544 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
545 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
546 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
547 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
548 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
550 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
551 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
560 * Updates to the libvlc API
561 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
564 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
565 --------------------------------
568 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
569 * Support for downloading updates
573 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
574 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
575 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
576 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
578 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
579 * Improved subtitles encoding support
580 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
583 * Cook (Real audio) support
585 Playlist / Services discovery:
586 * XSPF playlist support
588 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
591 * New JACK audio output
595 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
596 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
597 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
598 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
599 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
600 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
603 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
606 * System to inform the user and request information
607 - HTTP authentication
611 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
612 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
613 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
616 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
617 - Improved playlist handling
618 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
620 - Embedded Video output
621 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
622 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
623 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
624 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
625 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
627 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
628 - A bunch of new RPN functions
631 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
634 * Mac-Intel compatibility
635 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
636 * Growl "Now playing" support
639 * Ability to log to syslog
640 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
643 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
645 * A bit more automatic testing
648 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
649 ---------------------------------
652 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
653 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
656 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
657 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
660 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
663 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
664 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
670 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
673 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
674 --------------------------------
677 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
681 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
682 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
683 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
686 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
687 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
688 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
689 * GnomeVFS input module
690 * Support for RTP packet reordering
691 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
694 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
695 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
696 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
699 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
700 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
706 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
707 Mixer and Dolby Surround
710 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
711 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
712 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
715 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
717 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
718 - New extended controls panel
719 - New bookmarks window
720 - Fixed playlist sorting
721 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
723 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
724 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
725 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
726 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
730 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
731 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
733 - Include macro to include other files
737 * Should now work outside IE as well
740 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
743 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
744 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
747 The following languages were added:
752 The following languages were re-added:
756 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
757 --------------------------------
760 * Rewrite of the playlist
762 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
763 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
764 * Preferences improvements:
765 - New organization, designed to improve usability
766 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
768 * Core image manipulation support
769 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
770 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
771 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
772 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
773 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
774 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
775 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
776 now separated by ':' instead of ','
777 * Access filter architecture
778 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
779 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
783 * Support for SOCKS proxy
784 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
785 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
786 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
787 * Better support for Kasenna streams
788 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
789 * Massive Matroska improvements
790 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
792 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
793 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
794 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
795 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
796 * Support for FTP over IPv6
799 * Dirac decoder and encoder
800 * PNG decoder/encoder
801 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
802 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
805 * New Record and Timeshift filters
808 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
809 * Brand new SAP module
810 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
811 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
812 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
813 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
814 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
815 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
819 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
822 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
823 * Image file video output (png)
824 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
825 * Improvements to wall video filter
826 * Support for font color and opacity
832 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
833 - Seeking support in VoD streams
834 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
838 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
839 - Improved preferences
840 - Improvements to the wizard
841 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
843 - Redesigned playlist
844 - Improved preferences
846 - Support for multiple actions
849 - Support for the new playlist system
851 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
854 * Screensaver disabling fix
855 * DirectShow tuner configuration
856 * Support for no-decoration windows
859 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
860 * The OpenGL video output is back
861 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
862 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
863 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
864 is not yet available in the new module
865 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
868 * Support for single-buffered overlay
877 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
880 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
883 The following languages were added:
889 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
890 --------------------------------
893 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
894 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
897 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
898 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
899 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
902 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
905 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
908 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
911 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
912 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
913 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
917 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
919 * Support of playlist group announcement
922 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
923 --------------------------------
926 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
927 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
928 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
929 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
930 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
931 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
934 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
935 (Stream your desktop)
936 * Improved DVD support:
937 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
938 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
939 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
940 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
941 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
942 (selection of titles/chapters).
945 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
946 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
947 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
948 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
949 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
950 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
951 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
952 * Improved Ogg demuxer
953 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
954 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
957 * G.726 audio support
958 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
959 * MPEG-4 text support
960 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
961 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
962 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
966 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
967 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
968 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
969 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
970 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
971 * DVB subtitles encoder
972 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
973 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
975 * Text track muxing for mp4
976 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
977 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
978 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
979 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
980 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
983 * H.263 RTP streaming support
984 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
985 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
988 * New audio equalizer filter
989 * Very trivial volume normalizer
990 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
991 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
992 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
995 * Roku HD1000 Video output
996 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
997 with support for effects.
998 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
999 - New filters can be streamed.
1000 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1001 - Centralized scaling and blending
1003 - "time", to display current time
1004 - "marq", to display a marquee
1007 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1008 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1009 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1010 * A few skins2 improvements
1011 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1012 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1013 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1014 * Improved CORBA control module
1017 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1018 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1019 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1022 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1023 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1024 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1027 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1028 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1029 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1030 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1031 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1034 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1037 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1038 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1041 * Server/client network synchronization module
1042 * VBrick streams fully supported
1043 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1047 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1048 --------------------------------
1051 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1052 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1053 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1054 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1057 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1058 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1059 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1060 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1061 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1062 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1063 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1066 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1067 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1068 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1069 * Improved directory access module.
1070 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1071 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1072 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1073 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1074 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1077 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1078 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1079 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1082 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1083 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1084 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1087 * Improved session announcement system.
1088 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1089 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1090 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1091 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1092 * Improved transrater.
1093 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1094 * New configuration system.
1095 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1098 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1099 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1100 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1101 * Supports scheduling.
1102 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1103 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1106 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1107 - Ability to embed video output.
1108 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1109 - Lots of improvements.
1110 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1111 - New design and set of icons.
1112 - Ability to embed video output.
1113 - Support for hotkeys.
1114 - Support for bookmarks.
1116 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1117 - Better hotkeys handling.
1120 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1121 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1122 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1123 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1126 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1127 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1128 * Improved Windows installer.
1134 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1135 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1138 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1139 ---------------------------------
1142 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1143 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1146 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1151 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1154 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1155 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1156 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1157 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1160 * Internal improvments
1161 * Improved import/export
1164 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1166 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1167 small and strange formats.
1169 * New MOD audio demux.
1170 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1171 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1172 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1173 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1176 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1177 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1178 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1184 * New opengl video output plugin.
1187 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1188 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1191 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1192 --------------------------------
1195 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1196 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1197 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1198 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1199 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1200 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1201 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1202 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1205 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1210 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1211 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1212 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1213 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1214 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1215 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1216 * Better Icecast support.
1217 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1218 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1221 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1222 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1223 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1224 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1225 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1226 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1227 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1230 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1231 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1232 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1233 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1234 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1235 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1236 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1237 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1238 * Preliminary RTP support.
1239 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1244 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1245 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1247 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1248 - Improvements and help in preferences
1249 - New streaming wizard
1250 - Revised Disc Open menu
1252 - Improvements of the standard pages
1253 - Support for new commands
1254 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1257 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1258 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1261 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1262 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1263 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1264 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1265 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1266 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1267 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1268 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1269 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1272 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1274 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1275 * Support for Panther.
1276 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1277 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1280 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1281 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1282 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1283 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1284 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1285 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1286 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1287 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1290 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1291 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1292 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1295 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1298 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1299 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1300 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1301 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1304 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1305 --------------------------------
1308 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1311 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1312 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1315 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1316 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1319 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1322 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1323 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1326 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1329 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1332 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1333 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1337 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1338 --------------------------------
1341 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1342 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1346 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1347 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1348 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1350 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1351 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1354 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1357 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1360 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1361 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1365 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1366 --------------------------------
1369 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1370 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1374 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1375 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1376 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1377 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1378 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1381 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1382 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1383 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1386 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1387 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1388 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1391 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1392 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1393 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1394 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1395 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1398 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1399 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1400 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1403 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1406 * Improved build system.
1407 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1408 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1409 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1410 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1413 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1414 --------------------------------
1417 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1420 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1421 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1422 * Video 4 Linux support
1423 * CD Digital Audio support
1424 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1427 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1428 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1429 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1430 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1433 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1434 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1435 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1436 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1437 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1438 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1439 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1442 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1443 * New HTTP remote control interface
1446 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1447 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1448 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1449 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1452 * New reset option for the preferences
1453 * You can set your language in the prefences
1454 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1455 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1456 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1457 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1460 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1461 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1462 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1465 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1466 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1467 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1468 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1469 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1470 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1471 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1472 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1473 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1474 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1477 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1478 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1479 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1480 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1481 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1482 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1483 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1486 * Interface localization
1487 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1488 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1489 * New full-featured Preferences window
1492 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1493 --------------------------------
1496 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1497 * support for skins at the interface level
1498 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1499 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1500 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1501 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1502 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1505 * fixed HTTP redirects
1506 * support for opening an entire directory
1507 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1508 * new video4linux access plug-in
1509 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1512 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1513 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1514 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1517 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1518 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1519 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1520 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1521 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1522 * new codec for raw I420 video
1523 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1526 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1527 (although it still misses some important features)
1528 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1531 * new HTTP output support
1532 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1533 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1536 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1539 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1542 * reorderable playlist
1543 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1544 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1545 * support for mono audio output devices
1546 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1547 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1548 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1549 * the messages window remembers more lines
1550 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1551 * http and ogg stream output options
1552 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1555 * new skinnable interface
1556 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1558 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1559 * support for FLAC audio format
1560 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1562 * network tab in the interface
1563 * "apply" handling in preferences
1566 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1567 ---------------------------------
1570 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1571 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1572 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1573 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1575 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1576 * DTS S/PDIF support
1579 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1580 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1581 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1582 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1585 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1586 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1589 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1592 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1595 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1597 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1598 * rc interface is now fully useable
1599 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1602 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1603 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1604 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1605 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1606 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1608 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1609 * support for mouse gestures
1610 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1613 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1614 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1617 * improved ID3 tag detection
1618 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1619 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1620 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1622 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1625 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1626 ---------------------------------
1629 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1630 English was set as the preferred language
1633 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1634 --------------------------------
1637 * new mouse gesture interface
1638 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1642 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1643 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1644 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1647 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1648 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1652 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1655 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1656 without the user consent
1659 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1661 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1662 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1663 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1666 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1667 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1668 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1669 * playlist enhancements
1670 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1671 * new step forward/step backward commands
1672 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1673 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1674 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1677 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1678 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1679 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1682 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1683 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1686 * native video output is working again
1687 * only commandline interface support
1688 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1691 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1692 --------------------------------
1695 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1696 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1697 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1698 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1699 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1700 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1701 and A/52 streams are supported)
1702 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1707 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1708 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1709 * VCD entry points support
1710 * VCD image file support
1713 * support for *.asf format
1714 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1715 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1716 * support for ogg encapsulation
1717 * support for raw DV format
1718 * support for *.wav format
1719 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1722 Stream discovery & playlists:
1723 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1724 * support for .m3u file format
1725 * support for .asx file format
1726 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1729 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1730 (only available with the .avi demux)
1731 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1732 * support for raw PCM data
1733 * support for Cinepak video codec
1734 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1735 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1736 * support for Xvid codec
1737 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1738 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1739 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1741 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1743 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1746 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1749 * new WxWindows interface
1750 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1751 device and the channels configuration
1752 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1753 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1754 format that VLC can play
1755 * new swedish translation
1756 * enhancements of the playlist window
1757 * new messages window to see debug info
1758 * fixed a few crashes
1761 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1762 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1763 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1764 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working