1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
9 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
12 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
15 * new remapping channel filter
16 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
17 * new VSXu visualization plugin
20 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
23 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
26 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
27 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
30 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
31 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
32 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
35 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
36 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
37 VLC's internal volume level
38 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
39 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
40 * re-added an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
43 * portaudio audio output
44 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
45 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
48 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
49 --------------------------------
52 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
53 * fix the samba module compilation
54 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
55 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
56 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
57 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
60 * Support for MXPEG files
61 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
62 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
65 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
66 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
67 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
70 * Fix ogm header creation
73 * limit spatializer filter distortions
74 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
77 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
78 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
79 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
80 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
83 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
86 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
87 * allow to hide the sidebar
88 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
89 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
90 * noticebly faster launch time
91 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
92 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
93 * improve track synchronization panel
94 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
95 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
98 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
99 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
100 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
101 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
104 * fix for menus display
105 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
106 * documentation update
109 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
110 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
113 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
114 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
115 * Update Jamendo selections
119 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
120 * fix a crash on VLM close
123 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
124 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
125 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
126 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
129 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
132 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
133 ---------------------------------
136 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
137 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
138 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
139 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
140 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
141 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
142 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
143 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
144 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
145 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
146 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
147 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
148 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
149 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
150 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
151 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
152 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
153 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
154 --http-crl (optional CRL).
155 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
156 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
157 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
158 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
159 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
160 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
161 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
163 Important changes for packagers:
164 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
165 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
166 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
167 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
168 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
169 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
170 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
171 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
172 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
173 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
176 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
177 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
178 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
179 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
180 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
181 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
182 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
185 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
186 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
187 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
188 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
189 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
190 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
191 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
192 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
193 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
194 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
195 * PulseAudio audio input support
196 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
197 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
198 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
199 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
200 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
201 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
202 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
203 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
206 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
207 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
208 are notably concerned.
209 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
210 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
211 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
212 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
213 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
214 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
215 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
216 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
217 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
218 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
219 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
220 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
221 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
222 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
223 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
226 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
227 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
228 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
229 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
230 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
231 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
232 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
233 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
234 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
235 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
236 * Improved support of tracker files
237 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
240 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
241 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
242 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
243 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
244 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
245 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
246 and important cleanups and optimisations
247 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
248 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
249 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
250 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
251 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
252 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
253 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
254 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
255 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
256 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
257 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
258 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
259 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
260 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
261 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
262 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
263 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
264 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
265 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
266 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
267 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
270 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
271 * New video output for iOS platform
272 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
273 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
274 * Various vmem improvements
275 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
276 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
277 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
278 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
279 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
280 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
282 Audio Output and Filters:
283 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
284 * New audio output in memory (amem)
285 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
286 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
287 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
288 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
289 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
290 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
291 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
292 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
295 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
296 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
297 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
298 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
299 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
300 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
301 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
302 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
303 * New anti-flickering filter
304 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
305 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
306 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
307 blackbox and customizable shadow.
308 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
309 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
310 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
313 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
314 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
315 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
316 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
317 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
318 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
319 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
320 * Major rework of VoD support
321 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
322 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
323 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
324 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
325 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
326 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
327 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
328 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
329 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
330 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
333 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
334 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
337 * New capabilities for libVLC:
338 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
339 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
340 list of available audio and video filters
341 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
342 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
343 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
346 * asademux, subsass: use libass
347 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
348 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
350 * upnp: use upnp_intel
351 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
352 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
353 * removal of the noise filter
354 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
355 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
356 removed in Growl's next release, too.
357 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
360 * Update of translations for most languages.
361 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
364 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
365 ----------------------------------
368 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
369 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
372 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
373 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
376 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
377 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
378 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
381 * Camtasia decoding fix.
384 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
385 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
388 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
391 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
392 ----------------------------------
395 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
396 including support for OS X Lion
397 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
398 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
401 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
404 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
405 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
406 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
409 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
412 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
413 ----------------------------------
416 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
417 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
420 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
421 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
422 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
423 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
424 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
426 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
427 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
428 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
430 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
431 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
434 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
437 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
440 * Fix quitting on Linux
441 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
445 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
448 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
451 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
452 ---------------------------------
454 Windows and Mac OS X:
455 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
458 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
459 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
462 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
465 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
468 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
470 Miscellaneous fixes in:
471 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
473 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
474 * RTP output and XML export
475 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
479 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
480 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
481 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
482 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
485 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
486 --------------------------------
488 Windows and Mac OS X:
489 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
492 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
495 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
496 * Improve Apple Remote handling
497 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
498 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
499 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
500 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
503 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
504 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
508 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
509 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
510 * New Luganda Translation
513 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
514 --------------------------------
517 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
520 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
521 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
522 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
523 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
526 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
528 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
529 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
530 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
531 * mp4 demuxer improvements
532 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
533 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
534 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
535 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
537 Miscellaneous fixes in:
538 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
539 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
540 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
541 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
542 * Configure and build system improvements
543 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
546 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
547 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
548 * New icelandic translation
551 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
552 --------------------------------
555 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
559 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
560 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
561 and stability reasons
564 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
568 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
571 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
572 ----------------------------------
575 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
578 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
579 ---------------------------------
582 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
583 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
584 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
585 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
588 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
591 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
592 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
593 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
594 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
597 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
598 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
599 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
601 Subtitles and renderer:
602 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
603 * Mark more freetype options as safe
604 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
605 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
606 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
609 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
610 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
611 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
612 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
615 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
616 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
619 * KDE device solid actions
621 * Transcode integer overflow
622 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
623 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
626 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
627 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
628 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
631 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
632 ----------------------------------
635 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
639 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
642 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
645 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
646 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
647 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
648 * Taglib thread-safety fix
651 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
655 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
658 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
661 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
662 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
664 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
668 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
669 * Miscellaneous fixes
672 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
673 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
675 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
676 * New Asturian translation
679 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
680 ----------------------------------
683 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
685 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
688 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
691 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
692 * Various fixes for Windows
695 * New Armenian translation
696 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
697 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
700 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
701 --------------------------------
704 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
706 * Fix folders opening from the interface
709 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
710 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
713 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
714 --------------------------------
717 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
718 * fix for podcasts parsing
719 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
722 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
723 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
726 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
727 * fix m3u playlists exports
730 * fix video autoresize behaviour
733 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
736 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
739 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
742 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
745 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
746 --------------------------------
749 * Avformat fps displaying fix
750 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
753 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
754 of mono streams, especially on Windows
757 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
758 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
759 * fix console output encoding
761 Interface and extensions:
762 * Youtube and other scripts updates
763 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
766 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
767 --------------------------------
770 * New capabilities for libVLC:
771 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
772 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
773 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
774 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
775 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
776 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
777 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
778 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
779 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
780 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
781 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
782 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
783 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
784 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
785 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
789 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
790 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
791 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
792 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
793 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
796 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
799 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
800 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
801 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
805 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
808 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
809 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
810 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
813 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
814 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
815 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
816 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
819 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
820 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
823 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
824 --------------------------------
826 Important changes for users:
827 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
828 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
830 Important changes for packagers:
831 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
832 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
833 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
834 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
835 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
837 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
839 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
840 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
841 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
842 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
843 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
846 * Support for the sftp protocol
847 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
848 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
849 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
850 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
851 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
854 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
855 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
856 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
858 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
859 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
860 * Invmem module improvements
861 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
862 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
863 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
864 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
865 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
866 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
867 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
868 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
869 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
870 * Support for VP8 codec
871 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
874 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
875 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
876 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
877 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
878 * Various EGP improvements
879 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
880 * Metadata and cover art improvements
883 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
884 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
885 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
886 * Podcast images are now displayed
889 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
890 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
891 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
892 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
893 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
894 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
895 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
896 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
897 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
898 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
899 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
902 * New content extensions lua framework
905 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
906 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
907 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
908 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
909 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
910 * NEON assembly audio converter module
911 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
914 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
915 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
916 * Service discovery based on libudev
917 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
920 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
921 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
922 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
923 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
924 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
925 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
926 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
929 * New smem module, streaming to memory
930 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
931 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
934 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
936 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
937 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
940 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
943 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
944 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
945 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
946 by Andy Matuschak et al.
947 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
948 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
949 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
952 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
953 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
956 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
957 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
958 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
962 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
963 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
964 * Improved Solaris port
967 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
968 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
971 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
972 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
973 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
974 * transrate: broken since too long
975 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
976 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
977 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
978 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
979 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
980 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
981 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
982 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
983 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
984 * cddax: use cdda instead.
985 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
986 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
987 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
988 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
991 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
992 --------------------------------
995 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
997 Decoders/Packetizers:
998 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1001 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1002 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1003 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1004 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1005 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1008 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1009 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1012 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1013 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1016 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1017 and Walloon translations updated
1018 * Sinhala translation started
1021 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1022 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1025 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1030 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1033 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1036 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1037 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1040 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1041 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1042 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1043 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1046 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1047 --------------------------------
1050 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1051 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1054 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1055 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1058 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1059 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1062 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1065 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1066 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1069 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1070 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1073 * New Walloon translation
1074 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1077 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1078 --------------------------------
1081 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1082 regressions in most popular drivers
1083 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1086 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1087 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1088 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1091 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1092 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1095 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1096 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1097 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1098 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1099 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1102 * New udev module for linux
1105 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1108 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1111 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1112 --------------------------------
1115 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1116 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1117 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1120 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1121 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1124 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1125 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1128 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1131 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1132 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1133 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1134 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1137 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1138 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1139 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1140 - no support for Goom and SDL
1141 - limited text rendering support
1142 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1145 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1146 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1147 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1148 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1149 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1150 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1151 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1152 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1153 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1157 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1160 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1163 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1164 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1165 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1166 Arabic and French translation updates
1169 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1170 --------------------------------
1173 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1174 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1175 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1176 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1177 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1178 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1181 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1182 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1183 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1186 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1187 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1188 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1191 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1194 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1195 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1198 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1199 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1200 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1201 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1202 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1203 * Fix various crashes
1206 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1208 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1212 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1213 ---------------------------------
1217 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1218 See 'Access:' for more info.
1219 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1222 * Instantaneous pausing
1223 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1224 * Finer speed control
1225 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1226 * Timeshift for most medias
1227 * RTSP trickplay support
1228 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1231 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1232 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1233 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1234 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1235 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1236 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1237 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1238 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1239 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1240 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1243 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1244 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1245 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1246 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1247 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1248 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1249 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1252 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1253 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1256 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1257 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1258 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1259 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1260 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1261 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1262 * DVB scanning on linux
1263 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1264 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1265 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1266 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1267 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1268 * MTP device access on Unix
1269 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1270 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1273 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1274 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1275 Windows and Mac OS X.
1278 * Export the playlist in HTML
1279 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1280 * Better metadata handling and reading
1282 Linux/Windows interface:
1283 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1284 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1285 * Recently played items list
1286 * Interface toolbar customizations
1287 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1288 - More menus actions
1289 - Finer speed slider
1290 - Improvements on many dialogs
1291 - New dialog for plugins listing
1292 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1293 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1294 * Better integration in GTK environments
1297 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1298 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1299 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1300 * Additional usability improvements
1303 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1304 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1305 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1306 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1307 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1310 * New Maemo port with:
1311 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1312 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1315 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1318 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1319 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1320 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1321 * Support for latest iSight models
1324 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1325 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1328 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1329 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1330 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1331 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1332 The old image video output has been removed.
1333 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1334 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1337 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1345 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1346 --------------------------------------
1352 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1353 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1354 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1355 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1356 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1357 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1358 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1360 Various fixes to the following modules:
1363 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1364 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1365 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1367 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1372 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1373 ---------------------------------
1376 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1377 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1380 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1381 ---------------------------------
1384 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1387 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1390 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1391 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1392 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1393 main controller window.
1394 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1397 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1402 * Updates of other localizations
1405 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1406 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1407 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1408 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1409 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1412 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1413 ---------------------------------
1416 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1418 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1421 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1422 --------------------------------
1427 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1428 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1431 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1432 --------------------------------
1434 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1435 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1438 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1441 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1442 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1445 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1446 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1449 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1450 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1451 * Various fixed in playlist
1454 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1457 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1460 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1461 ------------------------------------
1463 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1464 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1467 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1468 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1469 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1472 * Stability fix for the video output.
1475 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1476 --------------------------------
1479 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1480 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1481 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1482 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1483 * Fixed update system bugs
1484 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1487 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1488 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1489 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1490 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1491 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1492 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1493 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1494 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1495 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1496 modern Mac OS X versions
1499 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1500 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1502 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1503 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1506 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1507 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1508 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1509 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1510 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1511 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1514 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1515 --------------------------------
1517 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1518 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1519 * Multiple bugfixes.
1522 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1523 --------------------------------
1525 * Multiple bug fixes.
1528 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1529 ---------------------------------
1533 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1534 recent to work correctly
1535 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1536 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1537 edit the ".hosts" file.
1538 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1539 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1540 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1541 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1542 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1543 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1544 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1545 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1546 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1547 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1548 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1549 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1550 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1551 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1552 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1553 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1554 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1555 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1556 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1557 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1558 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1559 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1560 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1561 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1562 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1563 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1564 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1565 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1566 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1567 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1568 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1569 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1570 and postproc modules.
1571 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1572 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1573 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1574 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1576 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1577 filter. For example:
1578 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1579 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1581 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1582 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1588 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1590 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1591 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1594 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1595 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1597 * Shoutcast TV listings
1598 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1600 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1601 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1603 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1606 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1607 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1608 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1609 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1610 * JACK audio input support
1611 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1612 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1613 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1614 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1615 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1616 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1617 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1618 (available as a separate download).
1619 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1620 * RTMP input support
1621 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1622 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1623 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1625 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1626 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1629 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1630 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1631 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1632 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1634 * APEv1/2 tags support
1635 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1636 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1638 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1639 * TiVo Series 2 support
1640 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1645 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1646 * Flash Screen Video support
1647 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1648 * DosBox Capture support
1649 * Karl Morton's Video support
1650 * limited atrac3 support
1652 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1653 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1654 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1655 * H.264 PAFF support
1656 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1657 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1658 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1659 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1660 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1663 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1664 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1665 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1666 * AQTitle subtitles support
1667 * MKV USF subtitles support
1668 * HTML-based subtitles support
1669 * MPSub subtitles support
1670 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1671 * MPL2 subtitles support
1672 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1673 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1674 * Realtext subtitle support
1675 * DKS subtitle support
1676 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1677 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1680 * Flash Screen Video support
1681 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1683 Video outputs and filters:
1684 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1685 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1686 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1687 * New puzzle video output filter
1688 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1689 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1691 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1692 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1693 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1694 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1695 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1696 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1697 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1698 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1699 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1700 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1701 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1702 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1703 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1704 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1706 Audio outputs and filters:
1707 * Replay gain support
1708 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1709 new scaletempo audio filter)
1710 * New spatializer audio filter
1711 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1714 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1715 * New RTP payload formats:
1716 * Speex voice audio codec
1717 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1718 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1719 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1720 * DCCP transport for RTP
1721 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1726 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1727 end-user suitable way.
1728 * Improved user interaction
1729 * Improved mouse gestures
1730 * Vastly improved Update checker
1731 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1733 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1734 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1736 * Improved video output features
1737 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1738 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1739 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1740 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1741 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1743 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1744 if libncursesw is available.
1745 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1746 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1747 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1749 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1750 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1751 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1752 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1753 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1754 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1755 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1756 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1759 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1760 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1761 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1764 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1765 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1766 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1767 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1768 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1769 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1772 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1773 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1783 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1784 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1785 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1788 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1789 ----------------------------------
1792 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1795 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1796 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1797 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1798 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1799 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1800 * Updated Polish translation
1803 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1804 ----------------------------------
1807 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1808 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1809 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1812 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1813 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1814 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1815 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1816 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1817 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1818 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1819 to an unexpected application termination
1820 * New Serbian translation
1821 * Updated Romanian translation
1824 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1825 ----------------------------------
1828 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1829 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1830 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1831 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1832 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1833 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1834 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1835 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1838 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1839 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1840 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1841 * Fixed AAC resampling
1842 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1843 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1846 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1847 ----------------------------------
1850 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1851 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1852 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1853 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1854 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1857 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1858 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1859 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1860 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1861 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1864 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1865 ----------------------------------
1868 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1869 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1872 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1873 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1874 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1875 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1877 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1881 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1884 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1887 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1890 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1893 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1894 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1895 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1896 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1897 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1899 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1900 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1901 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1902 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1905 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1908 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1909 ----------------------------------
1912 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1913 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1914 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1916 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1917 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1919 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1920 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1923 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1925 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1926 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1927 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1928 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1929 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1930 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1931 two different movies
1932 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1933 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1934 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1937 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1940 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1941 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1942 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1943 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1946 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1947 ----------------------------------
1949 Various bugfixes, notably:
1950 * Windows Vista compatibility
1951 * Cropping in Direct3D
1952 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1953 * RSS filter string overflow
1955 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1957 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1958 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1961 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1962 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1965 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1968 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1971 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1974 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1975 ----------------------------------
1977 Various bugfixes, notably:
1978 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1979 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1980 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1981 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1982 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1983 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1986 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1987 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1990 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1992 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1993 * Diverse usability improvements
1994 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1995 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1996 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1999 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2000 ---------------------------------
2002 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2003 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2006 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2009 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2010 --------------------------------
2013 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2016 * Support for RTSP authentication
2017 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2018 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2019 * ATSC support for DVB input
2020 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2021 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2022 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2025 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2026 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2027 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2028 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2029 * Matroska WavPack support
2030 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2031 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2032 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2035 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2036 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2037 * Improved libcaca support
2041 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2042 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2044 * Systray support in skins
2046 * Support for Apple Remote control
2047 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2048 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2049 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2050 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2052 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2055 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2056 Windows 9x/ME users:
2057 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2058 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2059 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2060 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2061 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2063 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2064 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2073 * Updates to the libvlc API
2074 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2077 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2078 --------------------------------
2081 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2082 * Support for downloading updates
2086 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2087 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2088 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2089 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2091 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2092 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2093 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2096 * Cook (Real audio) support
2098 Playlist / Services discovery:
2099 * XSPF playlist support
2101 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2104 * New JACK audio output
2107 * New video filters:
2108 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2109 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2110 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2111 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2112 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2113 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2116 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2119 * System to inform the user and request information
2120 - HTTP authentication
2124 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2125 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2126 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2129 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2130 - Improved playlist handling
2131 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2133 - Embedded Video output
2134 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2135 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2136 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2137 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2138 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2140 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2141 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2144 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2147 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2148 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2149 * Growl "Now playing" support
2152 * Ability to log to syslog
2153 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2156 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2158 * A bit more automatic testing
2161 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2162 ---------------------------------
2165 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2166 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2169 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2170 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2173 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2176 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2177 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2183 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2186 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2187 --------------------------------
2190 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2194 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2195 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2196 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2199 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2200 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2201 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2202 * GnomeVFS input module
2203 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2204 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2207 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2208 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2209 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2212 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2213 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2219 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2220 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2223 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2224 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2225 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2228 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2230 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2231 - New extended controls panel
2232 - New bookmarks window
2233 - Fixed playlist sorting
2234 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2236 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2237 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2238 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2239 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2243 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2244 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2246 - Include macro to include other files
2250 * Should now work outside IE as well
2253 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2256 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2257 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2260 The following languages were added:
2264 * Simplified Chinese
2265 The following languages were re-added:
2269 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2270 --------------------------------
2273 * Rewrite of the playlist
2275 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2276 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2277 * Preferences improvements:
2278 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2279 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2281 * Core image manipulation support
2282 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2283 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2284 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2285 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2286 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2287 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2288 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2289 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2290 * Access filter architecture
2291 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2292 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2296 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2297 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2298 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2299 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2300 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2301 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2302 * Massive Matroska improvements
2303 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2305 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2306 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2307 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2308 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2309 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2311 Decoders / Encoders:
2312 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2313 * PNG decoder/encoder
2314 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2315 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2318 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2321 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2322 * Brand new SAP module
2323 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2324 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2325 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2326 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2327 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2328 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2332 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2335 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2336 * Image file video output (png)
2337 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2338 * Improvements to wall video filter
2339 * Support for font color and opacity
2345 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2346 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2347 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2351 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2352 - Improved preferences
2353 - Improvements to the wizard
2354 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2356 - Redesigned playlist
2357 - Improved preferences
2359 - Support for multiple actions
2362 - Support for the new playlist system
2364 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2367 * Screensaver disabling fix
2368 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2369 * Support for no-decoration windows
2372 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2373 * The OpenGL video output is back
2374 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2375 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2376 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2377 is not yet available in the new module
2378 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2381 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2390 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2393 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2396 The following languages were added:
2402 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2403 --------------------------------
2406 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2407 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2410 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2411 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2412 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2415 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2418 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2421 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2424 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2425 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2426 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2430 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2432 * Support of playlist group announcement
2435 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2436 --------------------------------
2439 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2440 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2441 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2442 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2443 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2444 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2447 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2448 (Stream your desktop)
2449 * Improved DVD support:
2450 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2451 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2452 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2453 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2454 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2455 (selection of titles/chapters).
2458 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2459 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2460 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2461 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2462 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2463 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2464 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2465 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2466 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2467 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2470 * G.726 audio support
2471 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2472 * MPEG-4 text support
2473 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2474 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2475 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2479 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2480 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2481 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2482 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2483 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2484 * DVB subtitles encoder
2485 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2486 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2488 * Text track muxing for mp4
2489 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2490 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2491 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2492 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2493 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2494 * Improved ASF muxer
2496 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2497 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2498 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2501 * New audio equalizer filter
2502 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2503 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2504 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2505 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2508 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2509 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2510 with support for effects.
2511 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2512 - New filters can be streamed.
2513 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2514 - Centralized scaling and blending
2516 - "time", to display current time
2517 - "marq", to display a marquee
2520 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2521 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2522 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2523 * A few skins2 improvements
2524 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2525 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2526 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2527 * Improved CORBA control module
2530 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2531 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2532 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2535 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2536 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2537 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2540 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2541 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2542 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2543 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2544 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2547 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2550 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2551 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2554 * Server/client network synchronization module
2555 * VBrick streams fully supported
2556 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2560 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2561 --------------------------------
2564 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2565 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2566 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2567 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2570 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2571 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2572 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2573 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2574 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2575 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2576 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2579 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2580 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2581 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2582 * Improved directory access module.
2583 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2584 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2585 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2586 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2587 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2590 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2591 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2592 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2595 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2596 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2597 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2600 * Improved session announcement system.
2601 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2602 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2603 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2604 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2605 * Improved transrater.
2606 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2607 * New configuration system.
2608 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2611 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2612 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2613 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2614 * Supports scheduling.
2615 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2616 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2619 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2620 - Ability to embed video output.
2621 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2622 - Lots of improvements.
2623 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2624 - New design and set of icons.
2625 - Ability to embed video output.
2626 - Support for hotkeys.
2627 - Support for bookmarks.
2629 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2630 - Better hotkeys handling.
2633 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2634 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2635 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2636 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2639 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2640 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2641 * Improved Windows installer.
2647 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2648 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2651 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2652 ---------------------------------
2655 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2656 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2659 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2660 --------------------------------
2663 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2664 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2667 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2668 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2669 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2670 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2673 * Internal improvments
2674 * Improved import/export
2677 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2679 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2680 small and strange formats.
2682 * New MOD audio demux.
2683 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2684 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2685 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2686 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2689 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2690 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2691 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2697 * New opengl video output plugin.
2700 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2701 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2704 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2705 --------------------------------
2708 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2709 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2710 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2711 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2712 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2713 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2714 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2715 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2718 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2723 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2724 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2725 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2726 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2727 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2728 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2729 * Better Icecast support.
2730 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2731 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2734 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2735 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2736 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2737 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2738 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2739 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2740 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2743 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2744 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2745 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2746 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2747 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2748 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2749 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2750 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2751 * Preliminary RTP support.
2752 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2757 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2758 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2760 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2761 - Improvements and help in preferences
2762 - New streaming wizard
2763 - Revised Disc Open menu
2765 - Improvements of the standard pages
2766 - Support for new commands
2767 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2770 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2771 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2774 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2775 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2776 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2777 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2778 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2779 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2780 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2781 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2782 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2785 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2787 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2788 * Support for Panther.
2789 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2790 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2793 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2794 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2795 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2796 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2797 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2798 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2799 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2800 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2803 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2804 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2805 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2808 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2811 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2812 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2813 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2814 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2817 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2818 --------------------------------
2821 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2824 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2825 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2828 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2829 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2832 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2835 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2836 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2839 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2842 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2845 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2846 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2850 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2851 --------------------------------
2854 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2855 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2859 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2860 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2861 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2863 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2864 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2867 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2870 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2873 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2874 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2878 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2879 --------------------------------
2882 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2883 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2887 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2888 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2889 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2890 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2891 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2894 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2895 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2896 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2899 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2900 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2901 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2904 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2905 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2906 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2907 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2908 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2911 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2912 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2913 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2916 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2919 * Improved build system.
2920 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2921 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2922 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2923 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2926 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2927 --------------------------------
2930 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2933 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2934 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2935 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2936 * Video 4 Linux support
2937 * CD Digital Audio support
2938 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2941 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2942 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2943 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2944 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2947 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2948 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2949 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2950 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2951 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2952 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2953 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2956 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2957 * New HTTP remote control interface
2960 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2961 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2962 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2963 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2964 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2967 * New reset option for the preferences
2968 * You can set your language in the prefences
2969 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2970 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2971 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2972 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2975 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2976 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2977 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2980 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2981 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2982 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2983 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2984 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2985 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2986 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2987 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2988 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2989 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2992 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2993 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2994 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2995 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2996 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2997 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2998 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3001 * Interface localization
3002 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3003 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3004 * New full-featured Preferences window
3007 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3008 --------------------------------
3011 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3012 * support for skins at the interface level
3013 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3014 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3015 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3016 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3017 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3020 * fixed HTTP redirects
3021 * support for opening an entire directory
3022 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3023 * new video4linux access plug-in
3024 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3027 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3028 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3029 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3032 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3033 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3034 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3035 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3036 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3037 * new codec for raw I420 video
3038 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3041 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3042 (although it still misses some important features)
3043 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3046 * new HTTP output support
3047 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3048 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3051 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3054 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3057 * reorderable playlist
3058 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3059 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3060 * support for mono audio output devices
3061 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3062 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3063 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3064 * the messages window remembers more lines
3065 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3066 * http and ogg stream output options
3067 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3070 * new skinnable interface
3071 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3073 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3074 * support for FLAC audio format
3075 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3077 * network tab in the interface
3078 * "apply" handling in preferences
3081 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3082 ---------------------------------
3085 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3086 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3087 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3088 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3090 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3091 * DTS S/PDIF support
3094 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3095 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3096 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3097 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3100 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3101 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3104 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3107 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3110 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3112 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3113 * rc interface is now fully useable
3114 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3117 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3118 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3119 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3120 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3121 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3123 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3124 * support for mouse gestures
3125 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3128 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3129 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3132 * improved ID3 tag detection
3133 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3134 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3135 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3137 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3140 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3141 ---------------------------------
3144 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3145 English was set as the preferred language
3148 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3149 --------------------------------
3152 * new mouse gesture interface
3153 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3157 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3158 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3159 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3162 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3163 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3167 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3170 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3171 without the user consent
3174 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3176 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3177 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3178 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3181 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3182 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3183 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3184 * playlist enhancements
3185 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3186 * new step forward/step backward commands
3187 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3188 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3189 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3192 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3193 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3194 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3197 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3198 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3201 * native video output is working again
3202 * only commandline interface support
3203 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3206 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3207 --------------------------------
3210 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3211 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3212 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3213 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3214 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3215 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3216 and A/52 streams are supported)
3217 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3222 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3223 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3224 * VCD entry points support
3225 * VCD image file support
3228 * support for *.asf format
3229 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3230 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3231 * support for ogg encapsulation
3232 * support for raw DV format
3233 * support for *.wav format
3234 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3237 Stream discovery & playlists:
3238 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3239 * support for .m3u file format
3240 * support for .asx file format
3241 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3244 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3245 (only available with the .avi demux)
3246 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3247 * support for raw PCM data
3248 * support for Cinepak video codec
3249 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3250 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3251 * support for Xvid codec
3252 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3253 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3254 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3256 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3258 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3261 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3264 * new WxWindows interface
3265 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3266 device and the channels configuration
3267 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3268 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3269 format that VLC can play
3270 * new swedish translation
3271 * enhancements of the playlist window
3272 * new messages window to see debug info
3273 * fixed a few crashes
3276 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3277 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3278 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3279 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working