1 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
21 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
22 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
23 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
24 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
25 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
26 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
27 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
30 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
31 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
32 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
33 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
34 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
39 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
42 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
43 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
44 * Ogg seeking improvements
45 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
48 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
49 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
50 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
51 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
52 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
53 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
54 and important cleanups and optimisations
55 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
58 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
59 * New video output for iOS platform
60 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
61 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
62 * Various vmem improvements
65 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
66 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
67 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
68 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
69 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
72 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
75 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
78 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
79 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
80 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
81 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
82 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
83 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
84 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
85 * Major rework of VoD support
86 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
87 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
88 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
89 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
90 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
91 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
92 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
93 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
96 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
99 * New capabilities for libVLC:
100 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
101 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
102 list of available audio and video filters
105 * asademux: use libass only
106 * fake: use the new image demuxers
107 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
109 * upnp: use upnp_intel
112 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
113 --------------------------------
116 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
120 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
121 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
122 and stability reasons
125 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
129 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
132 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
133 ----------------------------------
136 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
139 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
140 ---------------------------------
143 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
144 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
145 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
146 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
149 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
152 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
153 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
154 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
155 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
158 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
159 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
160 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
162 Subtitles and renderer:
163 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
164 * Mark more freetype options as safe
165 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
166 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
167 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
170 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
171 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
172 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
173 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
176 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
177 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
180 * KDE device solid actions
182 * Transcode integer overflow
183 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
184 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
187 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
188 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
189 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
192 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
193 ----------------------------------
196 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
200 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
203 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
206 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
207 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
208 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
209 * Taglib thread-safety fix
212 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
216 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
219 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
222 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
223 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
225 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
229 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
230 * Miscellaneous fixes
233 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
234 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
236 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
237 * New Asturian translation
240 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
241 ----------------------------------
244 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
246 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
249 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
252 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
253 * Various fixes for Windows
256 * New Armenian translation
257 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
258 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
261 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
262 --------------------------------
265 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
267 * Fix folders opening from the interface
270 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
271 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
274 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
275 --------------------------------
278 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
279 * fix for podcasts parsing
280 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
283 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
284 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
287 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
288 * fix m3u playlists exports
291 * fix video autoresize behaviour
294 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
297 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
300 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
303 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
306 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
307 --------------------------------
310 * Avformat fps displaying fix
311 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
314 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
315 of mono streams, especially on Windows
318 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
319 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
320 * fix console output encoding
322 Interface and extensions:
323 * Youtube and other scripts updates
324 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
327 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
328 --------------------------------
331 * New capabilities for libVLC:
332 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
333 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
334 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
335 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
336 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
337 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
338 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
339 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
340 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
341 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
342 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
343 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
344 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
345 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
346 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
350 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
351 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
352 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
353 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
354 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
357 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
360 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
361 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
362 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
366 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
369 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
370 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
371 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
374 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
375 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
376 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
377 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
380 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
381 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
384 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
385 --------------------------------
387 Important changes for users:
388 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
389 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
391 Important changes for packagers:
392 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
393 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
394 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
395 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
396 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
398 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
400 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
401 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
402 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
403 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
404 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
407 * Support for the sftp protocol
408 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
409 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
410 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
411 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
412 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
415 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
416 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
417 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
419 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
420 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
421 * Invmem module improvements
422 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
423 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
424 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
425 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
426 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
427 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
428 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
429 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
430 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
431 * Support for VP8 codec
432 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
435 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
436 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
437 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
438 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
439 * Various EGP improvements
440 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
441 * Metadata and cover art improvements
444 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
445 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
446 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
447 * Podcast images are now displayed
450 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
451 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
452 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
453 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
454 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
455 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
456 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
457 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
458 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
459 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
460 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
463 * New content extensions lua framework
466 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
467 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
468 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
469 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
470 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
471 * NEON assembly audio converter module
472 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
475 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
476 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
477 * Service discovery based on libudev
478 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
481 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
482 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
483 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
484 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
485 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
486 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
487 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
490 * New smem module, streaming to memory
491 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
492 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
495 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
497 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
498 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
501 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
504 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
505 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
506 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
507 by Andy Matuschak et al.
508 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
509 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
510 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
513 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
514 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
517 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
518 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
519 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
523 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
524 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
525 * Improved Solaris port
528 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
529 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
532 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
533 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
534 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
535 * transrate: broken since too long
536 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
537 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
538 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
539 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
540 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
541 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
542 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
543 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
544 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
545 * cddax: use cdda instead.
546 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
547 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
548 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
549 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
552 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
553 --------------------------------
556 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
558 Decoders/Packetizers:
559 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
562 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
563 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
564 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
565 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
566 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
569 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
570 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
573 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
574 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
577 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
578 and Walloon translations updated
579 * Sinhala translation started
582 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
583 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
586 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
587 --------------------------------
590 * SubRip extra styles improvements
591 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
594 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
597 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
598 increase performance and fix x264 issues
601 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
602 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
603 Russian, Slovak translation updates
604 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
607 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
608 --------------------------------
611 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
612 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
615 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
616 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
619 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
620 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
623 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
626 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
627 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
630 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
631 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
634 * New Walloon translation
635 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
638 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
639 --------------------------------
642 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
643 regressions in most popular drivers
644 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
647 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
648 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
649 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
652 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
653 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
656 * Update for appletrailers lua script
657 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
658 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
659 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
660 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
663 * New udev module for linux
666 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
669 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
672 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
673 --------------------------------
676 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
677 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
678 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
681 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
682 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
685 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
686 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
689 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
692 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
693 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
694 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
695 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
698 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
699 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
700 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
701 - no support for Goom and SDL
702 - limited text rendering support
703 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
706 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
707 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
708 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
709 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
710 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
711 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
712 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
713 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
714 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
718 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
721 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
724 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
725 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
726 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
727 Arabic and French translation updates
730 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
731 --------------------------------
734 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
735 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
736 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
737 * Fix Dailymotion access script
738 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
739 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
742 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
743 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
746 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
747 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
748 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
751 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
754 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
755 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
758 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
759 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
760 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
761 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
762 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
763 * Fix various crashes
766 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
768 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
771 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
772 ---------------------------------
776 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
777 See 'Access:' for more info.
778 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
781 * Instantaneous pausing
782 * Frame-by-Frame playback
783 * Finer speed control
784 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
785 * Timeshift for most medias
786 * RTSP trickplay support
787 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
790 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
791 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
792 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
793 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
794 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
795 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
796 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
797 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
798 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
799 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
802 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
803 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
804 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
805 * Metadata for mod files are supported
806 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
807 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
808 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
811 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
812 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
815 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
816 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
817 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
818 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
819 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
820 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
821 * DVB scanning on linux
822 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
823 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
824 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
825 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
826 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
827 * MTP device access on Unix
828 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
829 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
832 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
833 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
834 Windows and Mac OS X.
837 * Export the playlist in HTML
838 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
839 * Better metadata handling and reading
841 Linux/Windows interface:
842 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
843 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
844 * Recently played items list
845 * Interface toolbar customizations
846 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
849 - Improvements on many dialogs
850 - New dialog for plugins listing
851 - Fixed-size mode for videos
852 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
853 * Better integration in GTK environments
856 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
857 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
858 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
859 * Additional usability improvements
862 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
863 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
864 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
865 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
866 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
869 * New Maemo port with:
870 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
871 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
874 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
877 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
878 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
879 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
880 * Support for latest iSight models
883 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
884 * Surround support for PulseAudio
887 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
888 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
889 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
890 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
891 The old image video output has been removed.
892 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
893 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
896 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
904 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
905 --------------------------------------
911 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
912 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
913 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
914 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
915 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
916 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
917 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
919 Various fixes to the following modules:
922 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
923 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
926 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
931 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
932 ---------------------------------
935 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
936 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
939 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
940 ---------------------------------
943 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
946 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
949 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
950 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
951 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
952 main controller window.
953 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
956 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
961 * Updates of other localizations
964 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
965 * Lots of small bugfixes.
966 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
967 * Telnet fixes on Windows
968 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
971 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
972 ---------------------------------
975 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
977 Bunch of small bugfixes.
980 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
981 --------------------------------
986 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
987 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
990 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
991 --------------------------------
993 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
994 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
997 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1000 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1001 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1004 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1005 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1008 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1009 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1010 * Various fixed in playlist
1013 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1016 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1019 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1020 ------------------------------------
1022 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1023 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1026 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1027 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1028 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1031 * Stability fix for the video output.
1034 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1035 --------------------------------
1038 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1039 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1040 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1041 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1042 * Fixed update system bugs
1043 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1046 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1047 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1048 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1049 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1050 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1051 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1052 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1053 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1054 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1055 modern Mac OS X versions
1058 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1059 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1061 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1062 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1065 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1066 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1067 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1068 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1069 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1070 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1073 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1074 --------------------------------
1076 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1077 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1078 * Multiple bugfixes.
1081 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1082 --------------------------------
1084 * Multiple bug fixes.
1087 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1088 ---------------------------------
1092 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1093 recent to work correctly
1094 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1095 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1096 edit the ".hosts" file.
1097 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1098 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1099 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1100 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1101 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1102 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1103 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1104 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1105 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1106 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1107 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1108 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1109 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1110 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1111 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1112 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1113 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1114 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1115 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1116 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1117 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1118 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1119 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1120 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1121 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1122 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1123 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1124 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1125 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1126 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1127 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1128 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1129 and postproc modules.
1130 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1131 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1132 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1133 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1135 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1136 filter. For example:
1137 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1138 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1140 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1141 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1147 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1149 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1150 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1153 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1154 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1156 * Shoutcast TV listings
1157 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1159 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1160 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1162 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1165 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1166 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1167 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1168 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1169 * JACK audio input support
1170 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1171 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1172 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1173 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1174 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1175 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1176 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1177 (available as a separate download).
1178 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1179 * RTMP input support
1180 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1181 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1182 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1184 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1185 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1188 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1189 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1190 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1191 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1193 * APEv1/2 tags support
1194 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1195 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1197 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1198 * TiVo Series 2 support
1199 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1204 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1205 * Flash Screen Video support
1206 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1207 * DosBox Capture support
1208 * Karl Morton's Video support
1209 * limited atrac3 support
1211 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1212 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1213 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1214 * H.264 PAFF support
1215 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1216 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1217 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1218 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1219 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1222 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1223 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1224 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1225 * AQTitle subtitles support
1226 * MKV USF subtitles support
1227 * HTML-based subtitles support
1228 * MPSub subtitles support
1229 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1230 * MPL2 subtitles support
1231 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1232 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1233 * Realtext subtitle support
1234 * DKS subtitle support
1235 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1236 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1239 * Flash Screen Video support
1240 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1242 Video outputs and filters:
1243 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1244 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1245 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1246 * New puzzle video output filter
1247 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1248 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1250 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1251 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1252 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1253 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1254 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1255 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1256 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1257 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1258 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1259 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1260 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1261 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1262 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1263 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1265 Audio outputs and filters:
1266 * Replay gain support
1267 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1268 new scaletempo audio filter)
1269 * New spatializer audio filter
1270 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1273 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1274 * New RTP payload formats:
1275 * Speex voice audio codec
1276 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1277 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1278 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1279 * DCCP transport for RTP
1280 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1285 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1286 end-user suitable way.
1287 * Improved user interaction
1288 * Improved mouse gestures
1289 * Vastly improved Update checker
1290 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1292 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1293 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1295 * Improved video output features
1296 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1297 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1298 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1299 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1300 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1302 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1303 if libncursesw is available.
1304 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1305 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1306 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1308 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1309 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1310 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1311 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1312 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1313 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1314 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1315 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1318 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1319 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1320 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1323 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1324 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1325 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1326 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1327 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1328 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1331 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1332 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1342 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1343 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1344 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1347 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1348 ----------------------------------
1351 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1354 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1355 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1356 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1357 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1358 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1359 * Updated Polish translation
1362 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1363 ----------------------------------
1366 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1367 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1368 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1371 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1372 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1373 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1374 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1375 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1376 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1377 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1378 to an unexpected application termination
1379 * New Serbian translation
1380 * Updated Romanian translation
1383 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1384 ----------------------------------
1387 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1388 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1389 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1390 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1391 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1392 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1393 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1394 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1397 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1398 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1399 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1400 * Fixed AAC resampling
1401 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1402 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1405 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1406 ----------------------------------
1409 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1410 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1411 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1412 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1413 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1416 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1417 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1418 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1419 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1420 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1423 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1428 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1431 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1432 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1433 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1434 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1436 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1440 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1443 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1446 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1449 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1452 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1453 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1454 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1455 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1456 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1458 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1459 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1460 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1461 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1464 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1467 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1468 ----------------------------------
1471 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1472 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1473 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1475 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1476 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1478 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1479 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1482 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1484 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1485 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1486 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1487 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1488 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1489 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1490 two different movies
1491 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1492 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1493 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1496 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1499 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1500 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1501 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1502 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1505 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1506 ----------------------------------
1508 Various bugfixes, notably:
1509 * Windows Vista compatibility
1510 * Cropping in Direct3D
1511 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1512 * RSS filter string overflow
1514 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1516 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1517 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1520 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1521 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1524 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1527 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1530 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1533 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1534 ----------------------------------
1536 Various bugfixes, notably:
1537 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1538 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1539 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1540 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1541 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1542 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1545 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1546 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1549 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1551 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1552 * Diverse usability improvements
1553 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1554 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1555 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1558 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1559 ---------------------------------
1561 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1562 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1565 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1568 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1569 --------------------------------
1572 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1575 * Support for RTSP authentication
1576 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1577 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1578 * ATSC support for DVB input
1579 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1580 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1581 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1584 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1585 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1586 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1587 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1588 * Matroska WavPack support
1589 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1590 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1591 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1594 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1595 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1596 * Improved libcaca support
1600 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1601 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1603 * Systray support in skins
1605 * Support for Apple Remote control
1606 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1607 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1608 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1609 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1611 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1614 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1615 Windows 9x/ME users:
1616 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1617 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1618 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1619 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1620 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1622 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1623 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1632 * Updates to the libvlc API
1633 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1636 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1637 --------------------------------
1640 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1641 * Support for downloading updates
1645 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1646 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1647 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1648 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1650 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1651 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1652 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1655 * Cook (Real audio) support
1657 Playlist / Services discovery:
1658 * XSPF playlist support
1660 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1663 * New JACK audio output
1666 * New video filters:
1667 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1668 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1669 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1670 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1671 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1672 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1675 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1678 * System to inform the user and request information
1679 - HTTP authentication
1683 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1684 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1685 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1688 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1689 - Improved playlist handling
1690 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1692 - Embedded Video output
1693 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1694 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1695 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1696 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1697 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1699 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1700 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1703 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1706 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1707 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1708 * Growl "Now playing" support
1711 * Ability to log to syslog
1712 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1715 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1717 * A bit more automatic testing
1720 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1721 ---------------------------------
1724 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1725 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1728 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1729 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1732 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1735 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1736 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1742 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1745 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1746 --------------------------------
1749 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1753 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1754 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1755 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1758 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1759 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1760 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1761 * GnomeVFS input module
1762 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1763 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1766 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1767 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1768 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1771 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1772 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1778 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1779 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1782 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1783 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1784 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1787 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1789 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1790 - New extended controls panel
1791 - New bookmarks window
1792 - Fixed playlist sorting
1793 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1795 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1796 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1797 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1798 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1802 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1803 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1805 - Include macro to include other files
1809 * Should now work outside IE as well
1812 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1815 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1816 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1819 The following languages were added:
1823 * Simplified Chinese
1824 The following languages were re-added:
1828 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1829 --------------------------------
1832 * Rewrite of the playlist
1834 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1835 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1836 * Preferences improvements:
1837 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1838 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1840 * Core image manipulation support
1841 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1842 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1843 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1844 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1845 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1846 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1847 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1848 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1849 * Access filter architecture
1850 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1851 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1855 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1856 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1857 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1858 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1859 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1860 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1861 * Massive Matroska improvements
1862 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1864 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1865 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1866 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1867 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1868 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1870 Decoders / Encoders:
1871 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1872 * PNG decoder/encoder
1873 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1874 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1877 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1880 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1881 * Brand new SAP module
1882 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1883 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1884 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1885 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1886 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1887 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1891 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1894 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1895 * Image file video output (png)
1896 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1897 * Improvements to wall video filter
1898 * Support for font color and opacity
1904 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1905 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1906 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1910 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1911 - Improved preferences
1912 - Improvements to the wizard
1913 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1915 - Redesigned playlist
1916 - Improved preferences
1918 - Support for multiple actions
1921 - Support for the new playlist system
1923 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1926 * Screensaver disabling fix
1927 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1928 * Support for no-decoration windows
1931 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1932 * The OpenGL video output is back
1933 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1934 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1935 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1936 is not yet available in the new module
1937 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1940 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1949 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1952 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1955 The following languages were added:
1961 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1962 --------------------------------
1965 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1966 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1969 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1970 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1971 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1974 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1977 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1980 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1983 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1984 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1985 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1989 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1991 * Support of playlist group announcement
1994 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1995 --------------------------------
1998 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1999 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2000 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2001 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2002 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2003 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2006 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2007 (Stream your desktop)
2008 * Improved DVD support:
2009 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2010 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2011 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2012 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2013 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2014 (selection of titles/chapters).
2017 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2018 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2019 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2020 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2021 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2022 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2023 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2024 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2025 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2026 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2029 * G.726 audio support
2030 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2031 * MPEG-4 text support
2032 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2033 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2034 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2038 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2039 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2040 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2041 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2042 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2043 * DVB subtitles encoder
2044 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2045 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2047 * Text track muxing for mp4
2048 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2049 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2050 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2051 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2052 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2053 * Improved ASF muxer
2055 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2056 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2057 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2060 * New audio equalizer filter
2061 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2062 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2063 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2064 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2067 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2068 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2069 with support for effects.
2070 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2071 - New filters can be streamed.
2072 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2073 - Centralized scaling and blending
2075 - "time", to display current time
2076 - "marq", to display a marquee
2079 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2080 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2081 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2082 * A few skins2 improvements
2083 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2084 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2085 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2086 * Improved CORBA control module
2089 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2090 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2091 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2094 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2095 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2096 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2099 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2100 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2101 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2102 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2103 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2106 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2109 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2110 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2113 * Server/client network synchronization module
2114 * VBrick streams fully supported
2115 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2119 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2120 --------------------------------
2123 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2124 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2125 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2126 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2129 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2130 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2131 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2132 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2133 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2134 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2135 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2138 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2139 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2140 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2141 * Improved directory access module.
2142 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2143 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2144 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2145 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2146 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2149 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2150 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2151 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2154 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2155 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2156 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2159 * Improved session announcement system.
2160 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2161 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2162 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2163 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2164 * Improved transrater.
2165 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2166 * New configuration system.
2167 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2170 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2171 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2172 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2173 * Supports scheduling.
2174 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2175 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2178 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2179 - Ability to embed video output.
2180 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2181 - Lots of improvements.
2182 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2183 - New design and set of icons.
2184 - Ability to embed video output.
2185 - Support for hotkeys.
2186 - Support for bookmarks.
2188 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2189 - Better hotkeys handling.
2192 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2193 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2194 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2195 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2198 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2199 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2200 * Improved Windows installer.
2206 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2207 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2210 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2211 ---------------------------------
2214 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2215 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2218 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2219 --------------------------------
2222 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2223 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2226 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2227 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2228 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2229 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2232 * Internal improvments
2233 * Improved import/export
2236 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2238 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2239 small and strange formats.
2241 * New MOD audio demux.
2242 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2243 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2244 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2245 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2248 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2249 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2250 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2256 * New opengl video output plugin.
2259 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2260 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2263 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2264 --------------------------------
2267 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2268 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2269 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2270 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2271 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2272 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2273 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2274 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2277 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2282 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2283 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2284 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2285 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2286 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2287 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2288 * Better Icecast support.
2289 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2290 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2293 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2294 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2295 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2296 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2297 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2298 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2299 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2302 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2303 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2304 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2305 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2306 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2307 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2308 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2309 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2310 * Preliminary RTP support.
2311 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2316 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2317 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2319 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2320 - Improvements and help in preferences
2321 - New streaming wizard
2322 - Revised Disc Open menu
2324 - Improvements of the standard pages
2325 - Support for new commands
2326 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2329 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2330 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2333 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2334 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2335 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2336 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2337 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2338 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2339 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2340 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2341 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2344 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2346 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2347 * Support for Panther.
2348 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2349 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2352 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2353 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2354 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2355 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2356 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2357 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2358 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2359 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2362 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2363 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2364 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2367 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2370 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2371 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2372 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2373 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2376 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2383 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2384 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2387 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2388 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2391 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2394 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2395 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2398 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2401 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2404 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2405 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2409 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2410 --------------------------------
2413 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2414 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2418 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2419 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2420 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2422 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2423 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2426 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2429 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2432 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2433 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2437 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2438 --------------------------------
2441 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2442 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2446 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2447 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2448 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2449 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2450 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2453 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2454 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2455 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2458 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2459 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2460 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2463 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2464 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2465 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2466 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2467 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2470 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2471 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2472 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2475 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2478 * Improved build system.
2479 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2480 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2481 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2482 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2485 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2486 --------------------------------
2489 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2492 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2493 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2494 * Video 4 Linux support
2495 * CD Digital Audio support
2496 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2499 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2500 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2501 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2502 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2505 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2506 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2507 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2508 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2509 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2510 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2511 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2514 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2515 * New HTTP remote control interface
2518 * 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.
2519 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2520 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2521 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2524 * New reset option for the preferences
2525 * You can set your language in the prefences
2526 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2527 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2528 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2529 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2532 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2533 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2534 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2537 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2538 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2539 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2540 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2541 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2542 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2543 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2544 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2545 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2546 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2549 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2550 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2551 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2552 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2553 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2554 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2555 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2558 * Interface localization
2559 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2560 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2561 * New full-featured Preferences window
2564 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2565 --------------------------------
2568 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2569 * support for skins at the interface level
2570 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2571 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2572 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2573 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2574 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2577 * fixed HTTP redirects
2578 * support for opening an entire directory
2579 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2580 * new video4linux access plug-in
2581 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2584 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2585 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2586 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2589 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2590 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2591 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2592 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2593 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2594 * new codec for raw I420 video
2595 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2598 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2599 (although it still misses some important features)
2600 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2603 * new HTTP output support
2604 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2605 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2608 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2611 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2614 * reorderable playlist
2615 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2616 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2617 * support for mono audio output devices
2618 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2619 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2620 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2621 * the messages window remembers more lines
2622 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2623 * http and ogg stream output options
2624 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2627 * new skinnable interface
2628 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2630 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2631 * support for FLAC audio format
2632 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2634 * network tab in the interface
2635 * "apply" handling in preferences
2638 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2639 ---------------------------------
2642 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2643 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2644 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2645 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2647 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2648 * DTS S/PDIF support
2651 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2652 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2653 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2654 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2657 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2658 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2661 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2664 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2667 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2669 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2670 * rc interface is now fully useable
2671 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2674 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2675 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2676 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2677 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2678 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2680 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2681 * support for mouse gestures
2682 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2685 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2686 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2689 * improved ID3 tag detection
2690 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2691 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2692 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2694 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2697 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2698 ---------------------------------
2701 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2702 English was set as the preferred language
2705 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2706 --------------------------------
2709 * new mouse gesture interface
2710 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2714 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2715 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2716 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2719 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2720 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2724 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2727 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2728 without the user consent
2731 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2733 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2734 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2735 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2738 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2739 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2740 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2741 * playlist enhancements
2742 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2743 * new step forward/step backward commands
2744 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2745 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2746 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2749 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2750 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2751 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2754 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2755 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2758 * native video output is working again
2759 * only commandline interface support
2760 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2763 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2764 --------------------------------
2767 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2768 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2769 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2770 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2771 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2772 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2773 and A/52 streams are supported)
2774 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2779 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2780 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2781 * VCD entry points support
2782 * VCD image file support
2785 * support for *.asf format
2786 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2787 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2788 * support for ogg encapsulation
2789 * support for raw DV format
2790 * support for *.wav format
2791 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2794 Stream discovery & playlists:
2795 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2796 * support for .m3u file format
2797 * support for .asx file format
2798 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2801 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2802 (only available with the .avi demux)
2803 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2804 * support for raw PCM data
2805 * support for Cinepak video codec
2806 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2807 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2808 * support for Xvid codec
2809 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2810 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2811 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2813 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2815 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2818 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2821 * new WxWindows interface
2822 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2823 device and the channels configuration
2824 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2825 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2826 format that VLC can play
2827 * new swedish translation
2828 * enhancements of the playlist window
2829 * new messages window to see debug info
2830 * fixed a few crashes
2833 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2834 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2835 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2836 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working