3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
18 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
19 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
23 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
25 * Improved user interaction
28 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
29 --------------------------------
32 * Shoutcast TV listings support
35 * Support for RTSP authentication
36 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
37 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
38 * ATSC support for DVB
39 * Partial support for DVR-ms recordings
40 * Partial support for MXF and GXF fileformat
43 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
44 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
45 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
46 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
48 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc)
51 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
52 * Improved libcaca support
56 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
57 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
59 * Systray support in skins
61 * Support for Apple Remote control
62 * Fullscreen controller panel
63 * new playmode buttons
64 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
65 * Main Menu keeps accessible when playing videos in fullscreen mode
67 * Notifications using notification-daemon
70 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
72 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
73 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
74 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
75 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
76 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
78 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
87 * Updates to the libvlc API
88 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
91 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
92 ---------------------------------
95 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
96 * Support for downloading updates
100 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
101 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
102 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
103 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
105 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
106 * Improved subtitles encoding support
107 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
110 * Cook (Real audio) support
112 Playlist / Services discovery:
113 * XSPF playlist support
115 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
118 * New JACK audio output
122 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
123 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
124 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
125 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
126 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
127 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
130 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
133 * System to inform the user and request information
134 - HTTP authentication
138 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
139 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
140 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
143 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
144 - Improved playlist handling
145 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
147 - Embedded Video output
148 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
149 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
150 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
151 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
152 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
154 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
155 - A bunch of new RPN functions
158 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
161 * Mac-Intel compatibility
162 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
163 * Growl "Now playing" support
166 * Ability to log to syslog
167 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
170 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
172 * A bit more automatic testing
174 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
175 ---------------------------------
178 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
179 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
182 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
183 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
186 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
189 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
190 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
196 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
198 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
199 --------------------------------
202 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
206 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
207 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
208 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
211 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
212 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
213 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
214 * GnomeVFS input module
215 * Support for RTP packet reordering
216 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
219 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
220 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
221 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
224 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
225 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
231 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
232 Mixer and Dolby Surround
235 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
236 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
237 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
240 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
242 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
243 - New extended controls panel
244 - New bookmarks window
245 - Fixed playlist sorting
246 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
248 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
249 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
250 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
251 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
255 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
256 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
258 - Include macro to include other files
262 * Should now work outside IE as well
265 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
268 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
269 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
272 The following languages were added:
277 The following languages were re-added:
280 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
281 --------------------------------
284 * Rewrite of the playlist
286 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
287 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
288 * Preferences improvements:
289 - New organization, designed to improve usability
290 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
292 * Core image manipulation support
293 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
294 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
295 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
296 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
297 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
298 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
299 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
300 now separated by ':' instead of ','
301 * Access filter architecture
302 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
303 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
307 * Support for SOCKS proxy
308 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
309 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
310 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
311 * Better support for Kasenna streams
312 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
313 * Massive Matroska improvements
314 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
316 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
317 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
318 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
319 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
320 * Support for FTP over IPv6
323 * Dirac decoder and encoder
324 * PNG decoder/encoder
325 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
326 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
329 * New Record and Timeshift filters
332 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
333 * Brand new SAP module
334 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
335 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
336 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
337 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
338 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
339 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
343 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
346 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
347 * Image file video output (png)
348 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
349 * Improvements to wall video filter
350 * Support for font color and opacity
356 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
357 - Seeking support in VoD streams
358 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
362 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
363 - Improved preferences
364 - Improvements to the wizard
365 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
367 - Redesigned playlist
368 - Improved preferences
370 - Support for multiple actions
373 - Support for the new playlist system
375 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
378 * Screensaver disabling fix
379 * DirectShow tuner configuration
380 * Support for no-decoration windows
383 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
384 * The OpenGL video output is back
385 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
386 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
387 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
388 is not yet available in the new module
389 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
392 * Support for single-buffered overlay
401 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
404 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
407 The following languages were added:
413 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
414 -----------------------------------------------------
417 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
418 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
421 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
422 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
423 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
426 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
429 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
432 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
435 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
436 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
437 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
441 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
443 * Support of playlist group announcement
445 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
446 -----------------------------------------------------
449 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
450 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
451 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
452 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
453 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
454 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
457 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
458 (Stream your desktop)
459 * Improved DVD support:
460 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
461 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
462 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
463 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
464 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
465 (selection of titles/chapters).
468 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
469 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
470 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
471 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
472 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
473 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
474 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
475 * Improved Ogg demuxer
476 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
477 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
480 * G.726 audio support
481 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
482 * MPEG-4 text support
483 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
484 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
485 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
489 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
490 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
491 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
492 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
493 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
494 * DVB subtitles encoder
495 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
496 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
498 * Text track muxing for mp4
499 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
500 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
501 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
502 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
503 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
506 * H.263 RTP streaming support
507 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
508 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
511 * New audio equalizer filter
512 * Very trivial volume normalizer
513 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
514 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
515 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
518 * Roku HD1000 Video output
519 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
520 with support for effects.
521 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
522 - New filters can be streamed.
523 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
524 - Centralized scaling and blending
526 - "time", to display current time
527 - "marq", to display a marquee
530 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
531 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
532 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
533 * A few skins2 improvements
534 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
535 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
536 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
537 * Improved CORBA control module
540 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
541 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
542 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
545 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
546 * Experimental SVG rendering module
547 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
550 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
551 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
552 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
553 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
554 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
557 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
560 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
561 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
564 * Server/client network synchronization module
565 * VBrick streams fully supported
566 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
569 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
570 --------------------------------
573 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
574 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
575 * Improved HTTP daemon.
576 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
579 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
580 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
581 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
582 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
583 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
584 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
585 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
588 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
589 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
590 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
591 * Improved directory access module.
592 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
593 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
594 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
595 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
596 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
599 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
600 * mmsh streaming fixes.
601 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
604 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
605 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
606 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
609 * Improved session announcement system.
610 * Minimize threads usage by default.
611 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
612 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
613 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
614 * Improved transrater.
615 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
616 * New configuration system.
617 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
620 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
621 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
622 * Supports live streams and VoD.
623 * Supports scheduling.
624 * Telnet interface for vlm.
625 * HTTP interface for vlm.
628 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
629 - Ability to embed video output.
630 - Support for bitmap fonts.
631 - Lots of improvements.
632 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
633 - New design and set of icons.
634 - Ability to embed video output.
635 - Support for hotkeys.
636 - Support for bookmarks.
638 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
639 - Better hotkeys handling.
642 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
643 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
644 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
645 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
648 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
649 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
650 * Improved Windows installer.
656 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
657 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
659 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
660 ---------------------------------
663 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
664 * Playing MOD files is working now.
667 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
668 ---------------------------------
671 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
672 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
675 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
676 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
677 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
678 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
681 * Internal improvments
682 * Improved import/export
685 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
687 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
688 small and strange formats.
690 * New MOD audio demux.
691 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
692 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
693 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
694 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
697 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
698 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
699 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
705 * New opengl video output plugin.
708 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
709 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
711 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
712 ---------------------------------
715 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
716 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
717 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
718 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
719 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
720 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
721 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
722 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
725 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
730 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
731 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
732 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
733 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
734 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
735 * Reworked DVB tuning.
736 * Better Icecast support.
737 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
738 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
741 * Support for Theora video encoding.
742 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
743 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
744 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
745 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
746 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
747 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
750 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
751 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
752 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
753 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
754 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
755 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
756 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
757 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
758 * Preliminary RTP support.
759 * Fixes to SAP announces.
764 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
765 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
767 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
768 - Improvements and help in preferences
769 - New streaming wizard
770 - Revised Disc Open menu
772 - Improvements of the standard pages
773 - Support for new commands
774 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
777 * Many fixes to the SAP module
778 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
781 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
782 * Text subtitles autodetection.
783 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
784 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
785 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
786 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
787 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
788 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
789 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
792 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
794 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
795 * Support for Panther.
796 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
797 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
800 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
801 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
802 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
803 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
804 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
805 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
806 * Multimonitor support (untested).
807 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
810 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
811 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
812 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
815 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
818 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
819 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
820 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
821 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
823 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
824 ---------------------------------
827 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
830 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
831 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
834 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
835 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
838 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
841 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
842 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
845 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
848 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
851 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
852 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
855 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
856 ---------------------------------
859 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
860 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
864 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
865 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
866 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
868 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
869 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
872 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
875 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
878 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
879 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
882 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
883 ---------------------------------
886 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
887 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
891 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
892 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
893 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
894 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
895 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
898 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
899 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
900 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
903 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
904 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
905 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
908 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
909 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
910 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
911 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
912 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
915 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
916 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
917 * A new CORBA control plugin.
920 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
923 * Improved build system.
924 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
925 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
926 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
927 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
930 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
931 ---------------------------------
934 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
937 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
938 * Fixed large file support on Windows
939 * Video 4 Linux support
940 * CD Digital Audio support
941 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
944 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
945 * Support for OpenDML avi files
946 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
947 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
950 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
951 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
952 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
953 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
954 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
955 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
956 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
959 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
960 * New HTTP remote control interface
963 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
964 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
965 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
966 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
969 * New reset option for the preferences
970 * You can set your language in the prefences
971 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
972 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
973 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
974 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
977 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
978 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
979 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
982 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
983 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
984 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
985 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
986 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
987 * New icons by Davor Orel.
988 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
989 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
990 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
991 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
994 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
995 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
996 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
997 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
998 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
999 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1000 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1003 * Interface localization
1004 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1005 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1006 * New full-featured Preferences window
1008 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1009 ---------------------------------
1012 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1013 * support for skins at the interface level
1014 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1015 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1016 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1017 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1018 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1021 * fixed HTTP redirects
1022 * support for opening an entire directory
1023 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1024 * new video4linux access plug-in
1025 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1028 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1029 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1030 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1033 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1034 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1035 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1036 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1037 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1038 * new codec for raw I420 video
1039 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1042 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1043 (although it still misses some important features)
1044 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1047 * new HTTP output support
1048 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1049 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1052 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1055 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1058 * reorderable playlist
1059 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1060 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1061 * support for mono audio output devices
1062 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1063 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1064 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1065 * the messages window remembers more lines
1066 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1067 * http and ogg stream output options
1068 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1071 * new skinnable interface
1072 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1074 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1075 * support for FLAC audio format
1076 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1078 * network tab in the interface
1079 * "apply" handling in preferences
1082 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1083 ---------------------------------
1086 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1087 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1088 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1089 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1091 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1092 * DTS S/PDIF support
1095 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1096 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1097 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1098 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1101 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1102 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1105 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1108 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1111 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1113 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1114 * rc interface is now fully useable
1115 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1118 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1119 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1120 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1121 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1122 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1124 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1125 * support for mouse gestures
1126 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1129 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1130 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1133 * improved ID3 tag detection
1134 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1135 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1136 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1138 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1141 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1142 ---------------------------------
1145 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1146 English was set as the preferred language
1149 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1150 --------------------------------
1153 * new mouse gesture interface
1154 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1158 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1159 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1160 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1163 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1164 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1168 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1171 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1172 without the user consent
1175 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1177 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1178 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1179 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1182 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1183 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1184 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1185 * playlist enhancements
1186 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1187 * new step forward/step backward commands
1188 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1189 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1190 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1193 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1194 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1195 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1198 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1199 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1202 * native video output is working again
1203 * only commandline interface support
1204 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1207 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1208 --------------------------------
1211 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1212 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1213 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1214 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1215 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1216 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1217 and A/52 streams are supported)
1218 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1223 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1224 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1225 * VCD entry points support
1226 * VCD image file support
1229 * support for *.asf format
1230 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1231 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1232 * support for ogg encapsulation
1233 * support for raw DV format
1234 * support for *.wav format
1235 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1238 Stream discovery & playlists:
1239 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1240 * support for .m3u file format
1241 * support for .asx file format
1242 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1245 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1246 (only available with the .avi demux)
1247 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1248 * support for raw PCM data
1249 * support for Cinepak video codec
1250 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1251 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1252 * support for Xvid codec
1253 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1254 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1255 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1257 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1259 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1262 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1265 * new WxWindows interface
1266 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1267 device and the channels configuration
1268 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1269 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1270 format that VLC can play
1271 * new swedish translation
1272 * enhancements of the playlist window
1273 * new messages window to see debug info
1274 * fixed a few crashes
1277 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1278 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1279 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1280 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working