3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet)
4 -------------------------------------------------------
7 * Vastly improved playlist support:
8 * Media library support
10 * Shoutcast TV listings
11 * Audioscrobbler / last.fm support
14 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
15 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support
18 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now splited into Wave, Ripple, Gradient
19 and Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
23 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
25 * Support for Apple Remote control
26 * Right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
28 * Improved user interaction
30 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6
31 --------------------------------
34 * Shoutcast TV listings support
37 * Support for RTSP authentication
38 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
39 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
40 * ATSC support for DVB
43 * Native WMV3 / VC-1 support
44 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
47 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
48 * Improved libcaca support
51 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
52 * Systray support in skins (Windows only)
53 * Support for Apple Remote control
54 * Notifications using notification-daemon on Linux
55 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
61 * Updates to the libvlc API
64 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
65 ---------------------------------
68 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
69 * Support for downloading updates
73 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
74 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
75 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
76 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
78 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
79 * Improved subtitles encoding support
80 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
83 * Cook (Real audio) support
85 Playlist / Services discovery:
86 * XSPF playlist support
88 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
91 * New JACK audio output
95 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
96 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
97 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
98 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
99 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
100 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
103 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
106 * System to inform the user and request information
107 - HTTP authentication
111 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
112 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
113 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
116 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
117 - Improved playlist handling
118 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
120 - Embedded Video output
121 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
122 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
123 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
124 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
125 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
127 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
128 - A bunch of new RPN functions
131 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
134 * Mac-Intel compatibility
135 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
136 * Growl "Now playing" support
139 * Ability to log to syslog
140 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
143 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
145 * A bit more automatic testing
147 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
148 ---------------------------------
151 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
152 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
155 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
156 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
159 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
162 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
163 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
169 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
171 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
172 --------------------------------
175 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
179 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
180 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
181 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
184 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
185 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
186 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
187 * GnomeVFS input module
188 * Support for RTP packet reordering
189 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
192 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
193 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
194 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
197 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
198 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
204 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
205 Mixer and Dolby Surround
208 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
209 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
210 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
213 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
215 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
216 - New extended controls panel
217 - New bookmarks window
218 - Fixed playlist sorting
219 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
221 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
222 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
223 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
224 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
228 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
229 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
231 - Include macro to include other files
235 * Should now work outside IE as well
238 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
241 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
242 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
245 The following languages were added:
250 The following languages were re-added:
253 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
254 --------------------------------
257 * Rewrite of the playlist
259 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
260 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
261 * Preferences improvements:
262 - New organization, designed to improve usability
263 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
265 * Core image manipulation support
266 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
267 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
268 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
269 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
270 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
271 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
272 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
273 now separated by ':' instead of ','
274 * Access filter architecture
275 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
276 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
280 * Support for SOCKS proxy
281 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
282 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
283 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
284 * Better support for Kasenna streams
285 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
286 * Massive Matroska improvements
287 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
289 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
290 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
291 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
292 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
293 * Support for FTP over IPv6
296 * Dirac decoder and encoder
297 * PNG decoder/encoder
298 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
299 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
302 * New Record and Timeshift filters
305 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
306 * Brand new SAP module
307 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
308 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
309 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
310 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
311 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
312 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
316 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
319 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
320 * Image file video output (png)
321 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
322 * Improvements to wall video filter
323 * Support for font color and opacity
329 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
330 - Seeking support in VoD streams
331 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
335 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
336 - Improved preferences
337 - Improvements to the wizard
338 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
340 - Redesigned playlist
341 - Improved preferences
343 - Support for multiple actions
346 - Support for the new playlist system
348 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
351 * Screensaver disabling fix
352 * DirectShow tuner configuration
353 * Support for no-decoration windows
356 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
357 * The OpenGL video output is back
358 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
359 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
360 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
361 is not yet available in the new module
362 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
365 * Support for single-buffered overlay
374 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
377 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
380 The following languages were added:
386 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
387 -----------------------------------------------------
390 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
391 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
394 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
395 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
396 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
399 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
402 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
405 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
408 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
409 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
410 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
414 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
416 * Support of playlist group announcement
418 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
419 -----------------------------------------------------
422 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
423 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
424 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
425 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
426 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
427 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
430 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
431 (Stream your desktop)
432 * Improved DVD support:
433 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
434 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
435 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
436 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
437 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
438 (selection of titles/chapters).
441 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
442 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
443 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
444 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
445 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
446 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
447 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
448 * Improved Ogg demuxer
449 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
450 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
453 * G.726 audio support
454 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
455 * MPEG-4 text support
456 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
457 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
458 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
462 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
463 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
464 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
465 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
466 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
467 * DVB subtitles encoder
468 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
469 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
471 * Text track muxing for mp4
472 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
473 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
474 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
475 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
476 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
479 * H.263 RTP streaming support
480 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
481 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
484 * New audio equalizer filter
485 * Very trivial volume normalizer
486 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
487 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
488 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
491 * Roku HD1000 Video output
492 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
493 with support for effects.
494 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
495 - New filters can be streamed.
496 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
497 - Centralized scaling and blending
499 - "time", to display current time
500 - "marq", to display a marquee
503 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
504 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
505 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
506 * A few skins2 improvements
507 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
508 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
509 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
510 * Improved CORBA control module
513 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
514 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
515 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
518 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
519 * Experimental SVG rendering module
520 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
523 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
524 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
525 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
526 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
527 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
530 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
533 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
534 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
537 * Server/client network synchronization module
538 * VBrick streams fully supported
539 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
542 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
543 --------------------------------
546 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
547 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
548 * Improved HTTP daemon.
549 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
552 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
553 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
554 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
555 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
556 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
557 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
558 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
561 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
562 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
563 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
564 * Improved directory access module.
565 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
566 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
567 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
568 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
569 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
572 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
573 * mmsh streaming fixes.
574 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
577 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
578 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
579 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
582 * Improved session announcement system.
583 * Minimize threads usage by default.
584 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
585 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
586 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
587 * Improved transrater.
588 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
589 * New configuration system.
590 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
593 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
594 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
595 * Supports live streams and VoD.
596 * Supports scheduling.
597 * Telnet interface for vlm.
598 * HTTP interface for vlm.
601 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
602 - Ability to embed video output.
603 - Support for bitmap fonts.
604 - Lots of improvements.
605 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
606 - New design and set of icons.
607 - Ability to embed video output.
608 - Support for hotkeys.
609 - Support for bookmarks.
611 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
612 - Better hotkeys handling.
615 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
616 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
617 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
618 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
621 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
622 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
623 * Improved Windows installer.
629 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
630 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
632 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
633 ---------------------------------
636 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
637 * Playing MOD files is working now.
640 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
641 ---------------------------------
644 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
645 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
648 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
649 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
650 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
651 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
654 * Internal improvments
655 * Improved import/export
658 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
660 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
661 small and strange formats.
663 * New MOD audio demux.
664 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
665 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
666 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
667 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
670 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
671 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
672 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
678 * New opengl video output plugin.
681 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
682 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
684 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
685 ---------------------------------
688 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
689 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
690 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
691 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
692 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
693 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
694 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
695 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
698 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
703 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
704 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
705 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
706 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
707 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
708 * Reworked DVB tuning.
709 * Better Icecast support.
710 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
711 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
714 * Support for Theora video encoding.
715 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
716 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
717 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
718 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
719 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
720 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
723 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
724 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
725 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
726 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
727 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
728 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
729 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
730 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
731 * Preliminary RTP support.
732 * Fixes to SAP announces.
737 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
738 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
740 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
741 - Improvements and help in preferences
742 - New streaming wizard
743 - Revised Disc Open menu
745 - Improvements of the standard pages
746 - Support for new commands
747 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
750 * Many fixes to the SAP module
751 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
754 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
755 * Text subtitles autodetection.
756 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
757 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
758 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
759 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
760 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
761 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
762 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
765 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
767 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
768 * Support for Panther.
769 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
770 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
773 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
774 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
775 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
776 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
777 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
778 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
779 * Multimonitor support (untested).
780 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
783 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
784 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
785 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
788 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
791 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
792 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
793 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
794 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
796 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
797 ---------------------------------
800 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
803 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
804 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
807 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
808 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
811 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
814 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
815 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
818 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
821 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
824 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
825 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
828 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
829 ---------------------------------
832 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
833 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
837 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
838 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
839 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
841 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
842 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
845 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
848 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
851 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
852 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
855 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
856 ---------------------------------
859 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
860 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
864 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
865 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
866 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
867 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
868 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
871 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
872 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
873 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
876 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
877 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
878 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
881 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
882 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
883 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
884 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
885 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
888 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
889 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
890 * A new CORBA control plugin.
893 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
896 * Improved build system.
897 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
898 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
899 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
900 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
903 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
904 ---------------------------------
907 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
910 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
911 * Fixed large file support on Windows
912 * Video 4 Linux support
913 * CD Digital Audio support
914 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
917 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
918 * Support for OpenDML avi files
919 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
920 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
923 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
924 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
925 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
926 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
927 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
928 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
929 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
932 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
933 * New HTTP remote control interface
936 * 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.
937 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
938 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
939 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
942 * New reset option for the preferences
943 * You can set your language in the prefences
944 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
945 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
946 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
947 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
950 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
951 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
952 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
955 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
956 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
957 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
958 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
959 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
960 * New icons by Davor Orel.
961 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
962 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
963 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
964 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
967 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
968 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
969 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
970 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
971 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
972 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
973 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
976 * Interface localization
977 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
978 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
979 * New full-featured Preferences window
981 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
982 ---------------------------------
985 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
986 * support for skins at the interface level
987 * new OSD module using Freetype2
988 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
989 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
990 input level before dropping out of date frames.
991 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
994 * fixed HTTP redirects
995 * support for opening an entire directory
996 * EOF should be detected more reliably
997 * new video4linux access plug-in
998 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1001 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1002 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1003 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1006 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1007 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1008 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1009 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1010 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1011 * new codec for raw I420 video
1012 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1015 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1016 (although it still misses some important features)
1017 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1020 * new HTTP output support
1021 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1022 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1025 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1028 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1031 * reorderable playlist
1032 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1033 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1034 * support for mono audio output devices
1035 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1036 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1037 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1038 * the messages window remembers more lines
1039 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1040 * http and ogg stream output options
1041 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1044 * new skinnable interface
1045 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1047 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1048 * support for FLAC audio format
1049 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1051 * network tab in the interface
1052 * "apply" handling in preferences
1055 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1056 ---------------------------------
1059 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1060 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1061 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1062 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1064 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1065 * DTS S/PDIF support
1068 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1069 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1070 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1071 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1074 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1075 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1078 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1081 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1084 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1086 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1087 * rc interface is now fully useable
1088 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1091 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1092 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1093 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1094 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1095 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1097 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1098 * support for mouse gestures
1099 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1102 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1103 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1106 * improved ID3 tag detection
1107 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1108 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1109 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1111 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1114 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1115 ---------------------------------
1118 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1119 English was set as the preferred language
1122 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1123 --------------------------------
1126 * new mouse gesture interface
1127 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1131 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1132 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1133 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1136 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1137 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1141 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1144 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1145 without the user consent
1148 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1150 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1151 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1152 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1155 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1156 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1157 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1158 * playlist enhancements
1159 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1160 * new step forward/step backward commands
1161 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1162 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1163 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1166 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1167 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1168 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1171 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1172 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1175 * native video output is working again
1176 * only commandline interface support
1177 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1180 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1181 --------------------------------
1184 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1185 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1186 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1187 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1188 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1189 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1190 and A/52 streams are supported)
1191 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1196 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1197 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1198 * VCD entry points support
1199 * VCD image file support
1202 * support for *.asf format
1203 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1204 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1205 * support for ogg encapsulation
1206 * support for raw DV format
1207 * support for *.wav format
1208 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1211 Stream discovery & playlists:
1212 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1213 * support for .m3u file format
1214 * support for .asx file format
1215 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1218 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1219 (only available with the .avi demux)
1220 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1221 * support for raw PCM data
1222 * support for Cinepak video codec
1223 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1224 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1225 * support for Xvid codec
1226 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1227 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1228 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1230 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1232 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1235 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1238 * new WxWindows interface
1239 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1240 device and the channels configuration
1241 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1242 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1243 format that VLC can play
1244 * new swedish translation
1245 * enhancements of the playlist window
1246 * new messages window to see debug info
1247 * fixed a few crashes
1250 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1251 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1252 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1253 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working