1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
17 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
18 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
21 * portaudio audio output
23 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
24 ---------------------------------
27 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
28 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
29 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
30 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
31 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
32 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
33 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
34 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
35 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
36 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
37 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
38 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
39 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
40 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
41 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
42 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
43 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
44 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
45 --http-crl (optional CRL).
46 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
47 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
48 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
49 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
50 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
51 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
52 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
54 Important changes for packagers:
55 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
56 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
57 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
58 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
59 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
60 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
61 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
62 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
63 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
64 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
67 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
68 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
69 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
70 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
71 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
72 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
73 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
76 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
77 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
78 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
79 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
80 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
81 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
82 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
83 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
84 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
85 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
86 * PulseAudio audio input support
87 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
88 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
89 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
90 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
91 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
92 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
93 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
94 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
97 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
98 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
99 are notably concerned.
100 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
101 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
102 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
103 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
104 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
105 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
106 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
107 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
108 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
109 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
110 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
111 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
112 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
113 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
114 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
117 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
118 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
119 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
120 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
121 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
122 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
123 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
124 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
125 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
126 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
127 * Improved support of tracker files
130 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
131 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
132 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
133 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
134 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
135 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
136 and important cleanups and optimisations
137 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
138 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
139 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
140 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
141 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
142 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
143 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
144 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
145 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
146 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
147 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
148 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
149 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
150 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
151 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
152 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
153 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
154 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
155 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
156 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
157 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
160 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
161 * New video output for iOS platform
162 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
163 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
164 * Various vmem improvements
165 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
166 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
167 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
168 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
169 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
170 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
172 Audio Output and Filters:
173 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
174 * New audio output in memory (amem)
175 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
176 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
177 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
178 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
179 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
180 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
181 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
182 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
185 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
186 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
187 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
188 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
189 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
190 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
191 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
192 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
193 * New anti-flickering filter
194 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
195 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
196 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
197 blackbox and customizable shadow.
198 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
199 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
200 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
203 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
204 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
205 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
206 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
207 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
208 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
209 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
210 * Major rework of VoD support
211 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
212 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
213 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
214 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
215 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
216 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
217 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
218 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
219 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
220 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
223 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
224 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
227 * New capabilities for libVLC:
228 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
229 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
230 list of available audio and video filters
231 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
232 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
233 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
236 * asademux: use libass only
237 * subsass: use libass
238 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
239 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
241 * upnp: use upnp_intel
242 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
243 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
244 * removal of the noise filter
245 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
246 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
247 removed in Growl's next release, too.
248 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
251 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
252 ----------------------------------
255 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
256 including support for OS X Lion
257 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
258 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
261 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
264 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
265 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
266 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
269 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
272 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
273 ----------------------------------
276 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
277 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
280 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
281 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
282 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
283 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
284 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
286 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
287 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
288 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
290 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
291 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
294 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
297 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
300 * Fix quitting on Linux
301 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
305 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
308 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
311 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
312 ---------------------------------
314 Windows and Mac OS X:
315 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
318 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
319 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
322 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
325 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
328 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
330 Miscellaneous fixes in:
331 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
333 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
334 * RTP output and XML export
335 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
339 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
340 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
341 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
342 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
345 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
346 --------------------------------
348 Windows and Mac OS X:
349 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
352 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
355 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
356 * Improve Apple Remote handling
357 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
358 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
359 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
360 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
363 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
364 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
368 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
369 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
370 * New Luganda Translation
373 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
374 --------------------------------
377 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
380 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
381 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
382 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
383 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
386 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
388 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
389 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
390 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
391 * mp4 demuxer improvements
392 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
393 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
394 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
395 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
397 Miscellaneous fixes in:
398 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
399 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
400 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
401 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
402 * Configure and build system improvements
403 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
406 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
407 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
408 * New icelandic translation
411 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
412 --------------------------------
415 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
419 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
420 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
421 and stability reasons
424 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
428 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
431 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
432 ----------------------------------
435 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
438 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
439 ---------------------------------
442 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
443 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
444 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
445 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
448 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
451 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
452 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
453 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
454 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
457 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
458 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
459 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
461 Subtitles and renderer:
462 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
463 * Mark more freetype options as safe
464 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
465 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
466 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
469 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
470 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
471 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
472 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
475 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
476 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
479 * KDE device solid actions
481 * Transcode integer overflow
482 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
483 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
486 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
487 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
488 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
491 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
492 ----------------------------------
495 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
499 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
502 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
505 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
506 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
507 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
508 * Taglib thread-safety fix
511 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
515 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
518 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
521 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
522 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
524 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
528 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
529 * Miscellaneous fixes
532 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
533 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
535 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
536 * New Asturian translation
539 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
540 ----------------------------------
543 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
545 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
548 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
551 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
552 * Various fixes for Windows
555 * New Armenian translation
556 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
557 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
560 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
561 --------------------------------
564 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
566 * Fix folders opening from the interface
569 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
570 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
573 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
574 --------------------------------
577 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
578 * fix for podcasts parsing
579 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
582 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
583 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
586 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
587 * fix m3u playlists exports
590 * fix video autoresize behaviour
593 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
596 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
599 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
602 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
605 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
606 --------------------------------
609 * Avformat fps displaying fix
610 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
613 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
614 of mono streams, especially on Windows
617 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
618 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
619 * fix console output encoding
621 Interface and extensions:
622 * Youtube and other scripts updates
623 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
626 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
627 --------------------------------
630 * New capabilities for libVLC:
631 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
632 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
633 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
634 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
635 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
636 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
637 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
638 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
639 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
640 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
641 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
642 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
643 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
644 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
645 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
649 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
650 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
651 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
652 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
653 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
656 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
659 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
660 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
661 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
665 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
668 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
669 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
670 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
673 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
674 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
675 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
676 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
679 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
680 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
683 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
684 --------------------------------
686 Important changes for users:
687 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
688 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
690 Important changes for packagers:
691 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
692 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
693 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
694 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
695 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
697 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
699 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
700 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
701 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
702 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
703 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
706 * Support for the sftp protocol
707 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
708 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
709 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
710 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
711 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
714 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
715 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
716 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
718 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
719 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
720 * Invmem module improvements
721 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
722 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
723 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
724 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
725 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
726 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
727 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
728 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
729 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
730 * Support for VP8 codec
731 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
734 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
735 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
736 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
737 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
738 * Various EGP improvements
739 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
740 * Metadata and cover art improvements
743 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
744 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
745 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
746 * Podcast images are now displayed
749 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
750 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
751 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
752 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
753 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
754 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
755 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
756 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
757 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
758 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
759 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
762 * New content extensions lua framework
765 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
766 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
767 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
768 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
769 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
770 * NEON assembly audio converter module
771 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
774 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
775 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
776 * Service discovery based on libudev
777 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
780 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
781 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
782 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
783 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
784 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
785 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
786 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
789 * New smem module, streaming to memory
790 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
791 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
794 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
796 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
797 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
800 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
803 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
804 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
805 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
806 by Andy Matuschak et al.
807 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
808 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
809 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
812 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
813 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
816 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
817 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
818 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
822 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
823 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
824 * Improved Solaris port
827 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
828 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
831 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
832 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
833 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
834 * transrate: broken since too long
835 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
836 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
837 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
838 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
839 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
840 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
841 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
842 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
843 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
844 * cddax: use cdda instead.
845 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
846 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
847 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
848 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
851 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
852 --------------------------------
855 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
857 Decoders/Packetizers:
858 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
861 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
862 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
863 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
864 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
865 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
868 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
869 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
872 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
873 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
876 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
877 and Walloon translations updated
878 * Sinhala translation started
881 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
882 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
885 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
886 --------------------------------
889 * SubRip extra styles improvements
890 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
893 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
896 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
897 increase performance and fix x264 issues
900 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
901 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
902 Russian, Slovak translation updates
903 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
906 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
907 --------------------------------
910 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
911 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
914 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
915 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
918 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
919 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
922 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
925 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
926 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
929 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
930 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
933 * New Walloon translation
934 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
937 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
938 --------------------------------
941 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
942 regressions in most popular drivers
943 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
946 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
947 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
948 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
951 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
952 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
955 * Update for appletrailers lua script
956 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
957 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
958 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
959 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
962 * New udev module for linux
965 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
968 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
971 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
972 --------------------------------
975 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
976 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
977 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
980 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
981 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
984 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
985 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
988 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
991 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
992 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
993 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
994 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
997 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
998 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
999 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1000 - no support for Goom and SDL
1001 - limited text rendering support
1002 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1005 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1006 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1007 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1008 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1009 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1010 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1011 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1012 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1013 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1017 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1020 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1023 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1024 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1025 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1026 Arabic and French translation updates
1029 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1030 --------------------------------
1033 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1034 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1035 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1036 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1037 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1038 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1041 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1042 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1043 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1046 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1047 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1048 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1051 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1054 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1055 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1058 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1059 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1060 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1061 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1062 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1063 * Fix various crashes
1066 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1068 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1072 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1073 ---------------------------------
1077 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1078 See 'Access:' for more info.
1079 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1082 * Instantaneous pausing
1083 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1084 * Finer speed control
1085 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1086 * Timeshift for most medias
1087 * RTSP trickplay support
1088 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1091 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1092 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1093 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1094 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1095 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1096 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1097 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1098 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1099 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1100 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1103 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1104 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1105 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1106 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1107 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1108 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1109 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1112 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1113 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1116 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1117 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1118 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1119 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1120 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1121 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1122 * DVB scanning on linux
1123 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1124 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1125 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1126 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1127 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1128 * MTP device access on Unix
1129 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1130 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1133 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1134 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1135 Windows and Mac OS X.
1138 * Export the playlist in HTML
1139 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1140 * Better metadata handling and reading
1142 Linux/Windows interface:
1143 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1144 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1145 * Recently played items list
1146 * Interface toolbar customizations
1147 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1148 - More menus actions
1149 - Finer speed slider
1150 - Improvements on many dialogs
1151 - New dialog for plugins listing
1152 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1153 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1154 * Better integration in GTK environments
1157 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1158 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1159 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1160 * Additional usability improvements
1163 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1164 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1165 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1166 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1167 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1170 * New Maemo port with:
1171 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1172 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1175 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1178 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1179 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1180 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1181 * Support for latest iSight models
1184 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1185 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1188 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1189 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1190 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1191 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1192 The old image video output has been removed.
1193 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1194 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1197 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1205 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1206 --------------------------------------
1212 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1213 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1214 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1215 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1216 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1217 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1218 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1220 Various fixes to the following modules:
1223 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1224 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1225 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1227 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1232 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1233 ---------------------------------
1236 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1237 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1240 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1241 ---------------------------------
1244 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1247 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1250 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1251 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1252 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1253 main controller window.
1254 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1257 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1262 * Updates of other localizations
1265 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1266 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1267 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1268 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1269 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1272 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1273 ---------------------------------
1276 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1278 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1281 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1282 --------------------------------
1287 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1288 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1291 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1292 --------------------------------
1294 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1295 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1298 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1301 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1302 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1305 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1306 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1309 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1310 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1311 * Various fixed in playlist
1314 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1317 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1320 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1321 ------------------------------------
1323 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1324 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1327 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1328 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1329 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1332 * Stability fix for the video output.
1335 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1336 --------------------------------
1339 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1340 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1341 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1342 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1343 * Fixed update system bugs
1344 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1347 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1348 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1349 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1350 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1351 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1352 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1353 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1354 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1355 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1356 modern Mac OS X versions
1359 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1360 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1362 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1363 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1366 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1367 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1368 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1369 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1370 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1371 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1374 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1375 --------------------------------
1377 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1378 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1379 * Multiple bugfixes.
1382 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1383 --------------------------------
1385 * Multiple bug fixes.
1388 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1389 ---------------------------------
1393 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1394 recent to work correctly
1395 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1396 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1397 edit the ".hosts" file.
1398 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1399 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1400 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1401 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1402 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1403 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1404 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1405 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1406 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1407 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1408 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1409 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1410 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1411 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1412 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1413 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1414 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1415 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1416 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1417 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1418 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1419 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1420 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1421 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1422 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1423 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1424 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1425 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1426 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1427 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1428 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1429 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1430 and postproc modules.
1431 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1432 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1433 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1434 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1436 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1437 filter. For example:
1438 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1439 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1441 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1442 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1448 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1450 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1451 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1454 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1455 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1457 * Shoutcast TV listings
1458 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1460 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1461 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1463 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1466 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1467 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1468 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1469 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1470 * JACK audio input support
1471 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1472 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1473 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1474 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1475 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1476 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1477 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1478 (available as a separate download).
1479 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1480 * RTMP input support
1481 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1482 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1483 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1485 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1486 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1489 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1490 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1491 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1492 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1494 * APEv1/2 tags support
1495 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1496 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1498 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1499 * TiVo Series 2 support
1500 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1505 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1506 * Flash Screen Video support
1507 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1508 * DosBox Capture support
1509 * Karl Morton's Video support
1510 * limited atrac3 support
1512 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1513 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1514 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1515 * H.264 PAFF support
1516 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1517 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1518 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1519 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1520 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1523 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1524 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1525 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1526 * AQTitle subtitles support
1527 * MKV USF subtitles support
1528 * HTML-based subtitles support
1529 * MPSub subtitles support
1530 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1531 * MPL2 subtitles support
1532 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1533 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1534 * Realtext subtitle support
1535 * DKS subtitle support
1536 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1537 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1540 * Flash Screen Video support
1541 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1543 Video outputs and filters:
1544 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1545 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1546 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1547 * New puzzle video output filter
1548 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1549 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1551 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1552 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1553 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1554 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1555 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1556 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1557 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1558 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1559 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1560 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1561 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1562 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1563 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1564 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1566 Audio outputs and filters:
1567 * Replay gain support
1568 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1569 new scaletempo audio filter)
1570 * New spatializer audio filter
1571 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1574 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1575 * New RTP payload formats:
1576 * Speex voice audio codec
1577 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1578 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1579 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1580 * DCCP transport for RTP
1581 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1586 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1587 end-user suitable way.
1588 * Improved user interaction
1589 * Improved mouse gestures
1590 * Vastly improved Update checker
1591 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1593 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1594 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1596 * Improved video output features
1597 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1598 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1599 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1600 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1601 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1603 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1604 if libncursesw is available.
1605 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1606 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1607 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1609 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1610 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1611 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1612 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1613 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1614 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1615 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1616 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1619 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1620 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1621 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1624 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1625 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1626 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1627 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1628 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1629 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1632 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1633 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1643 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1644 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1645 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1648 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1649 ----------------------------------
1652 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1655 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1656 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1657 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1658 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1659 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1660 * Updated Polish translation
1663 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1664 ----------------------------------
1667 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1668 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1669 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1672 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1673 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1674 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1675 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1676 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1677 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1678 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1679 to an unexpected application termination
1680 * New Serbian translation
1681 * Updated Romanian translation
1684 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1685 ----------------------------------
1688 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1689 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1690 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1691 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1692 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1693 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1694 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1695 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1698 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1699 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1700 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1701 * Fixed AAC resampling
1702 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1703 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1706 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1707 ----------------------------------
1710 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1711 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1712 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1713 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1714 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1717 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1718 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1719 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1720 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1721 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1724 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1725 ----------------------------------
1728 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1729 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1732 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1733 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1734 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1735 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1737 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1741 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1744 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1747 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1750 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1753 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1754 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1755 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1756 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1757 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1759 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1760 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1761 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1762 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1765 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1768 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1769 ----------------------------------
1772 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1773 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1774 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1776 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1777 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1779 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1780 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1783 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1785 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1786 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1787 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1788 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1789 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1790 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1791 two different movies
1792 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1793 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1794 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1797 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1800 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1801 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1802 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1803 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1806 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1807 ----------------------------------
1809 Various bugfixes, notably:
1810 * Windows Vista compatibility
1811 * Cropping in Direct3D
1812 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1813 * RSS filter string overflow
1815 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1817 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1818 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1821 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1822 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1825 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1828 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1831 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1834 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1835 ----------------------------------
1837 Various bugfixes, notably:
1838 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1839 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1840 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1841 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1842 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1843 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1846 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1847 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1850 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1852 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1853 * Diverse usability improvements
1854 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1855 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1856 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1859 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1860 ---------------------------------
1862 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1863 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1866 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1869 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1870 --------------------------------
1873 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1876 * Support for RTSP authentication
1877 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1878 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1879 * ATSC support for DVB input
1880 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1881 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1882 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1885 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1886 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1887 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1888 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1889 * Matroska WavPack support
1890 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1891 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1892 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1895 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1896 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1897 * Improved libcaca support
1901 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1902 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1904 * Systray support in skins
1906 * Support for Apple Remote control
1907 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1908 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1909 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1910 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1912 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1915 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1916 Windows 9x/ME users:
1917 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1918 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1919 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1920 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1921 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1923 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1924 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1933 * Updates to the libvlc API
1934 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1937 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1938 --------------------------------
1941 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1942 * Support for downloading updates
1946 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1947 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1948 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1949 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1951 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1952 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1953 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1956 * Cook (Real audio) support
1958 Playlist / Services discovery:
1959 * XSPF playlist support
1961 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1964 * New JACK audio output
1967 * New video filters:
1968 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1969 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1970 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1971 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1972 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1973 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1976 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1979 * System to inform the user and request information
1980 - HTTP authentication
1984 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1985 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1986 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1989 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1990 - Improved playlist handling
1991 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1993 - Embedded Video output
1994 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1995 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1996 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1997 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1998 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2000 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2001 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2004 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2007 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2008 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2009 * Growl "Now playing" support
2012 * Ability to log to syslog
2013 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2016 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2018 * A bit more automatic testing
2021 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2022 ---------------------------------
2025 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2026 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2029 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2030 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2033 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2036 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2037 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2043 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2046 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2047 --------------------------------
2050 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2054 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2055 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2056 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2059 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2060 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2061 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2062 * GnomeVFS input module
2063 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2064 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2067 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2068 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2069 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2072 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2073 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2079 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2080 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2083 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2084 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2085 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2088 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2090 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2091 - New extended controls panel
2092 - New bookmarks window
2093 - Fixed playlist sorting
2094 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2096 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2097 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2098 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2099 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2103 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2104 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2106 - Include macro to include other files
2110 * Should now work outside IE as well
2113 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2116 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2117 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2120 The following languages were added:
2124 * Simplified Chinese
2125 The following languages were re-added:
2129 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2130 --------------------------------
2133 * Rewrite of the playlist
2135 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2136 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2137 * Preferences improvements:
2138 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2139 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2141 * Core image manipulation support
2142 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2143 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2144 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2145 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2146 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2147 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2148 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2149 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2150 * Access filter architecture
2151 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2152 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2156 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2157 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2158 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2159 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2160 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2161 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2162 * Massive Matroska improvements
2163 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2165 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2166 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2167 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2168 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2169 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2171 Decoders / Encoders:
2172 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2173 * PNG decoder/encoder
2174 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2175 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2178 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2181 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2182 * Brand new SAP module
2183 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2184 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2185 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2186 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2187 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2188 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2192 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2195 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2196 * Image file video output (png)
2197 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2198 * Improvements to wall video filter
2199 * Support for font color and opacity
2205 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2206 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2207 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2211 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2212 - Improved preferences
2213 - Improvements to the wizard
2214 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2216 - Redesigned playlist
2217 - Improved preferences
2219 - Support for multiple actions
2222 - Support for the new playlist system
2224 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2227 * Screensaver disabling fix
2228 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2229 * Support for no-decoration windows
2232 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2233 * The OpenGL video output is back
2234 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2235 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2236 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2237 is not yet available in the new module
2238 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2241 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2250 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2253 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2256 The following languages were added:
2262 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2263 --------------------------------
2266 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2267 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2270 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2271 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2272 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2275 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2278 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2281 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2284 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2285 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2286 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2290 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2292 * Support of playlist group announcement
2295 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2296 --------------------------------
2299 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2300 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2301 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2302 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2303 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2304 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2307 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2308 (Stream your desktop)
2309 * Improved DVD support:
2310 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2311 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2312 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2313 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2314 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2315 (selection of titles/chapters).
2318 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2319 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2320 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2321 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2322 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2323 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2324 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2325 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2326 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2327 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2330 * G.726 audio support
2331 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2332 * MPEG-4 text support
2333 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2334 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2335 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2339 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2340 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2341 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2342 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2343 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2344 * DVB subtitles encoder
2345 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2346 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2348 * Text track muxing for mp4
2349 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2350 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2351 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2352 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2353 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2354 * Improved ASF muxer
2356 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2357 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2358 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2361 * New audio equalizer filter
2362 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2363 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2364 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2365 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2368 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2369 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2370 with support for effects.
2371 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2372 - New filters can be streamed.
2373 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2374 - Centralized scaling and blending
2376 - "time", to display current time
2377 - "marq", to display a marquee
2380 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2381 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2382 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2383 * A few skins2 improvements
2384 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2385 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2386 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2387 * Improved CORBA control module
2390 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2391 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2392 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2395 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2396 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2397 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2400 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2401 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2402 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2403 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2404 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2407 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2410 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2411 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2414 * Server/client network synchronization module
2415 * VBrick streams fully supported
2416 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2420 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2421 --------------------------------
2424 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2425 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2426 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2427 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2430 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2431 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2432 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2433 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2434 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2435 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2436 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2439 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2440 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2441 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2442 * Improved directory access module.
2443 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2444 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2445 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2446 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2447 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2450 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2451 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2452 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2455 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2456 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2457 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2460 * Improved session announcement system.
2461 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2462 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2463 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2464 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2465 * Improved transrater.
2466 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2467 * New configuration system.
2468 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2471 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2472 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2473 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2474 * Supports scheduling.
2475 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2476 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2479 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2480 - Ability to embed video output.
2481 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2482 - Lots of improvements.
2483 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2484 - New design and set of icons.
2485 - Ability to embed video output.
2486 - Support for hotkeys.
2487 - Support for bookmarks.
2489 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2490 - Better hotkeys handling.
2493 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2494 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2495 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2496 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2499 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2500 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2501 * Improved Windows installer.
2507 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2508 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2511 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2512 ---------------------------------
2515 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2516 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2519 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2520 --------------------------------
2523 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2524 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2527 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2528 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2529 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2530 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2533 * Internal improvments
2534 * Improved import/export
2537 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2539 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2540 small and strange formats.
2542 * New MOD audio demux.
2543 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2544 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2545 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2546 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2549 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2550 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2551 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2557 * New opengl video output plugin.
2560 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2561 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2564 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2565 --------------------------------
2568 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2569 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2570 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2571 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2572 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2573 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2574 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2575 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2578 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2583 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2584 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2585 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2586 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2587 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2588 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2589 * Better Icecast support.
2590 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2591 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2594 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2595 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2596 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2597 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2598 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2599 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2600 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2603 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2604 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2605 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2606 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2607 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2608 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2609 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2610 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2611 * Preliminary RTP support.
2612 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2617 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2618 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2620 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2621 - Improvements and help in preferences
2622 - New streaming wizard
2623 - Revised Disc Open menu
2625 - Improvements of the standard pages
2626 - Support for new commands
2627 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2630 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2631 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2634 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2635 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2636 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2637 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2638 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2639 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2640 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2641 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2642 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2645 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2647 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2648 * Support for Panther.
2649 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2650 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2653 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2654 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2655 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2656 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2657 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2658 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2659 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2660 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2663 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2664 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2665 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2668 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2671 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2672 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2673 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2674 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2677 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2678 --------------------------------
2681 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2684 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2685 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2688 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2689 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2692 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2695 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2696 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2699 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2702 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2705 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2706 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2710 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2711 --------------------------------
2714 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2715 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2719 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2720 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2721 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2723 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2724 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2727 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2730 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2733 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2734 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2738 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2739 --------------------------------
2742 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2743 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2747 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2748 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2749 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2750 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2751 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2754 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2755 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2756 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2759 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2760 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2761 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2764 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2765 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2766 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2767 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2768 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2771 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2772 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2773 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2776 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2779 * Improved build system.
2780 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2781 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2782 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2783 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2786 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2787 --------------------------------
2790 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2793 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2794 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2795 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2796 * Video 4 Linux support
2797 * CD Digital Audio support
2798 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2801 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2802 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2803 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2804 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2807 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2808 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2809 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2810 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2811 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2812 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2813 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2816 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2817 * New HTTP remote control interface
2820 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2821 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2822 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2823 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2824 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2827 * New reset option for the preferences
2828 * You can set your language in the prefences
2829 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2830 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2831 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2832 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2835 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2836 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2837 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2840 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2841 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2842 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2843 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2844 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2845 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2846 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2847 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2848 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2849 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2852 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2853 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2854 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2855 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2856 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2857 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2858 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2861 * Interface localization
2862 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2863 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2864 * New full-featured Preferences window
2867 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2868 --------------------------------
2871 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2872 * support for skins at the interface level
2873 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2874 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2875 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2876 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2877 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2880 * fixed HTTP redirects
2881 * support for opening an entire directory
2882 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2883 * new video4linux access plug-in
2884 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2887 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2888 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2889 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2892 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2893 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2894 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2895 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2896 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2897 * new codec for raw I420 video
2898 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2901 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2902 (although it still misses some important features)
2903 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2906 * new HTTP output support
2907 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2908 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2911 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2914 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2917 * reorderable playlist
2918 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2919 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2920 * support for mono audio output devices
2921 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2922 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2923 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2924 * the messages window remembers more lines
2925 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2926 * http and ogg stream output options
2927 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2930 * new skinnable interface
2931 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2933 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2934 * support for FLAC audio format
2935 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2937 * network tab in the interface
2938 * "apply" handling in preferences
2941 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2942 ---------------------------------
2945 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2946 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2947 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2948 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2950 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2951 * DTS S/PDIF support
2954 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2955 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2956 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2957 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2960 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2961 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2964 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2967 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2970 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2972 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2973 * rc interface is now fully useable
2974 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2977 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2978 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2979 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2980 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2981 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2983 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2984 * support for mouse gestures
2985 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2988 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2989 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2992 * improved ID3 tag detection
2993 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2994 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2995 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2997 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3000 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3001 ---------------------------------
3004 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3005 English was set as the preferred language
3008 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3009 --------------------------------
3012 * new mouse gesture interface
3013 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3017 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3018 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3019 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3022 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3023 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3027 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3030 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3031 without the user consent
3034 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3036 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3037 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3038 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3041 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3042 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3043 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3044 * playlist enhancements
3045 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3046 * new step forward/step backward commands
3047 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3048 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3049 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3052 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3053 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3054 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3057 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3058 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3061 * native video output is working again
3062 * only commandline interface support
3063 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3066 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3067 --------------------------------
3070 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3071 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3072 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3073 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3074 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3075 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3076 and A/52 streams are supported)
3077 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3082 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3083 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3084 * VCD entry points support
3085 * VCD image file support
3088 * support for *.asf format
3089 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3090 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3091 * support for ogg encapsulation
3092 * support for raw DV format
3093 * support for *.wav format
3094 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3097 Stream discovery & playlists:
3098 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3099 * support for .m3u file format
3100 * support for .asx file format
3101 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3104 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3105 (only available with the .avi demux)
3106 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3107 * support for raw PCM data
3108 * support for Cinepak video codec
3109 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3110 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3111 * support for Xvid codec
3112 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3113 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3114 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3116 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3118 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3121 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3124 * new WxWindows interface
3125 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3126 device and the channels configuration
3127 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3128 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3129 format that VLC can play
3130 * new swedish translation
3131 * enhancements of the playlist window
3132 * new messages window to see debug info
3133 * fixed a few crashes
3136 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3137 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3138 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3139 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working