3 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
4 This version is in development and not yet released.
5 --------------------------------
8 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
9 * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
10 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
11 * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
12 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
14 * Technical improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
17 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X (Stream your desktop)
18 * Improved DVD support:
19 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
20 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
21 * Experimental --input-slave option to start playing with multi-input
22 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
23 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access (selection of titles/chapters).
26 * Support iTunes Music Store previews
27 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
28 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
29 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
30 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
31 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
32 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skin2 is the current interface)
33 * Improved Ogg demuxer
37 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
39 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
40 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
43 * Text track muxing for mp4
44 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
45 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
46 * H.263 RTP streaming support
47 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
48 * Experimental WAV muxer
49 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
50 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
52 * DVB subtitles encoder
53 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
54 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
55 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
56 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
57 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
60 * New audio equalizer filter
61 * Very trivial volume normalizer
64 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
65 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
66 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
67 * A few skins2 improvements
68 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
69 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
70 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
71 * Improved CORBA control module
74 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
75 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
76 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
79 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
80 * Experimental SVG rendering module
83 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
84 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
85 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
86 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
87 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
90 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
91 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
94 * Roku HD1000 Video output
95 * Server/client network synchronization module
96 * VBrick streams fully supported
97 * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
98 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
99 * Experimental OpenGL video output for X11 and win32
101 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
102 --------------------------------
105 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
106 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
107 * Improved HTTP daemon.
108 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
111 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
112 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
113 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
114 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
115 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
116 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
117 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
120 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
121 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
122 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
123 * Improved directory access module.
124 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
125 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
126 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
127 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
128 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
131 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
132 * mmsh streaming fixes.
133 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
136 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
137 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
138 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
141 * Improved session announcement system.
142 * Minimize threads usage by default.
143 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
144 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
145 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
146 * Improved transrater.
147 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
148 * New configuration system.
149 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
152 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
153 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
154 * Supports live streams and VoD.
155 * Supports scheduling.
156 * Telnet interface for vlm.
157 * HTTP interface for vlm.
160 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
161 - Ability to embed video output.
162 - Support for bitmap fonts.
163 - Lots of improvements.
164 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
165 - New design and set of icons.
166 - Ability to embed video output.
167 - Support for hotkeys.
168 - Support for bookmarks.
170 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
171 - Better hotkeys handling.
174 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
175 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
176 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
177 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
180 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
181 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
182 * Improved Windows installer.
188 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
189 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
191 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
192 ---------------------------------
195 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
196 * Playing MOD files is working now.
199 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
200 ---------------------------------
203 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
204 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
207 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
208 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
209 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
210 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
213 * Internal improvments
214 * Improved import/export
217 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
219 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
220 small and strange formats.
222 * New MOD audio demux.
223 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
224 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
225 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
226 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
229 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
230 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
231 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
237 * New opengl video output plugin.
240 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
241 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
243 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
244 ---------------------------------
247 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
248 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
249 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
250 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
251 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
252 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
253 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
254 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
257 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
262 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
263 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
264 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
265 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
266 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
267 * Reworked DVB tuning.
268 * Better Icecast support.
269 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
270 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
273 * Support for Theora video encoding.
274 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
275 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
276 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
277 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
278 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
279 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
282 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
283 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
284 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
285 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
286 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
287 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
288 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
289 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
290 * Preliminary RTP support.
291 * Fixes to SAP announces.
296 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
297 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
299 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
300 - Improvements and help in preferences
301 - New streaming wizard
302 - Revised Disc Open menu
304 - Improvements of the standard pages
305 - Support for new commands
306 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
309 * Many fixes to the SAP module
310 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
313 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
314 * Text subtitles autodetection.
315 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
316 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
317 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
318 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
319 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
320 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
321 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
324 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
326 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
327 * Support for Panther.
328 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
329 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
332 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
333 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
334 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
335 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
336 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
337 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
338 * Multimonitor support (untested).
339 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
342 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
343 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
344 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
347 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
350 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
351 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
352 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
353 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
355 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
356 ---------------------------------
359 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
362 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
363 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
366 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
367 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
370 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
373 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
374 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
377 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
380 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
383 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
384 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
387 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
388 ---------------------------------
391 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
392 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
396 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
397 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
398 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
400 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
401 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
404 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
407 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
410 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
411 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
414 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
415 ---------------------------------
418 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
419 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
423 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
424 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
425 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
426 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
427 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
430 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
431 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
432 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
435 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
436 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
437 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
440 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
441 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
442 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
443 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
444 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
447 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
448 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
449 * A new CORBA control plugin.
452 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
455 * Improved build system.
456 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
457 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
458 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
459 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
462 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
463 ---------------------------------
466 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
469 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
470 * Fixed large file support on Windows
471 * Video 4 Linux support
472 * CD Digital Audio support
473 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
476 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
477 * Support for OpenDML avi files
478 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
479 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
482 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
483 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
484 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
485 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
486 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
487 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
488 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
491 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
492 * New HTTP remote control interface
495 * 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.
496 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
497 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
498 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
501 * New reset option for the preferences
502 * You can set your language in the prefences
503 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
504 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
505 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
506 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
509 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
510 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
511 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
514 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
515 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
516 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
517 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
518 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
519 * New icons by Davor Orel.
520 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
521 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
522 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
523 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
526 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
527 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
528 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
529 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
530 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
531 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
532 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
535 * Interface localization
536 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
537 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
538 * New full-featured Preferences window
540 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
541 ---------------------------------
544 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
545 * support for skins at the interface level
546 * new OSD module using Freetype2
547 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
548 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
549 input level before dropping out of date frames.
550 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
553 * fixed HTTP redirects
554 * support for opening an entire directory
555 * EOF should be detected more reliably
556 * new video4linux access plug-in
557 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
560 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
561 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
562 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
565 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
566 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
567 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
568 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
569 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
570 * new codec for raw I420 video
571 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
574 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
575 (although it still misses some important features)
576 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
579 * new HTTP output support
580 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
581 * fixed AV synchronization issues
584 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
587 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
590 * reorderable playlist
591 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
592 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
593 * support for mono audio output devices
594 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
595 * fixed several cosmetic issues
596 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
597 * the messages window remembers more lines
598 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
599 * http and ogg stream output options
600 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
603 * new skinnable interface
604 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
606 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
607 * support for FLAC audio format
608 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
610 * network tab in the interface
611 * "apply" handling in preferences
614 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
615 ---------------------------------
618 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
619 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
620 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
621 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
623 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
627 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
628 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
629 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
630 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
633 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
634 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
637 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
640 * fixed the GNU-pth support
643 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
645 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
646 * rc interface is now fully useable
647 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
650 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
651 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
652 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
653 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
654 * VLC now uses the default audio device
656 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
657 * support for mouse gestures
658 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
661 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
662 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
665 * improved ID3 tag detection
666 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
667 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
668 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
670 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
673 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
674 ---------------------------------
677 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
678 English was set as the preferred language
681 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
682 --------------------------------
685 * new mouse gesture interface
686 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
690 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
691 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
692 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
695 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
696 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
700 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
703 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
704 without the user consent
707 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
709 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
710 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
711 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
714 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
715 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
716 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
717 * playlist enhancements
718 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
719 * new step forward/step backward commands
720 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
721 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
722 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
725 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
726 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
727 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
730 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
731 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
734 * native video output is working again
735 * only commandline interface support
736 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
739 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
740 --------------------------------
743 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
744 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
745 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
746 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
747 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
748 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
749 and A/52 streams are supported)
750 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
755 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
756 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
757 * VCD entry points support
758 * VCD image file support
761 * support for *.asf format
762 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
763 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
764 * support for ogg encapsulation
765 * support for raw DV format
766 * support for *.wav format
767 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
770 Stream discovery & playlists:
771 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
772 * support for .m3u file format
773 * support for .asx file format
774 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
777 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
778 (only available with the .avi demux)
779 * support for ADPCM audio codec
780 * support for raw PCM data
781 * support for Cinepak video codec
782 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
783 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
784 * support for Xvid codec
785 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
786 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
787 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
789 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
791 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
794 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
797 * new WxWindows interface
798 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
799 device and the channels configuration
800 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
801 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
802 format that VLC can play
803 * new swedish translation
804 * enhancements of the playlist window
805 * new messages window to see debug info
806 * fixed a few crashes
809 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
810 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
811 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
812 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working