3 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4-svn (not yet released):
4 -----------------------------------------------------
7 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
11 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
12 * New --monitor-aspect-ratio option
15 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
16 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
17 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
18 * GnomeVFS input module
21 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
22 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
25 * UPnP service discovery
26 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
32 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
33 Mixer and Dolby Surround
36 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
37 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
41 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
42 - New extended controls panel
43 - New bookmarks window
44 - Fixed playlist sorting
45 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
47 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
48 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
50 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
54 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
55 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
57 - Include macro to include other files
61 * Should now work outside IE as well
64 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
67 The following languages were added:
72 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
73 --------------------------------
76 * Rewrite of the playlist
78 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
79 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
80 * Preferences improvements:
81 - New organization, designed to improve usability
82 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
84 * Core image manipulation support
85 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
86 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
87 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
88 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
89 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
90 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
91 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
92 now separated by ':' instead of ','
93 * Access filter architecture
94 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
95 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
99 * Support for SOCKS proxy
100 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
101 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
102 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
103 * Better support for Kasenna streams
104 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
105 * Massive Matroska improvements
106 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
108 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
109 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
110 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
111 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
112 * Support for FTP over IPv6
115 * Dirac decoder and encoder
116 * PNG decoder/encoder
117 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
118 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
121 * New Record and Timeshift filters
124 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
125 * Brand new SAP module
126 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
127 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
128 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
129 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
130 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
131 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
135 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
138 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
139 * Image file video output (png)
140 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
141 * Improvements to wall video filter
142 * Support for font color and opacity
148 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
149 - Seeking support in VoD streams
150 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
154 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
155 - Improved preferences
156 - Improvements to the wizard
157 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
159 - Redesigned playlist
160 - Improved preferences
162 - Support for multiple actions
165 - Support for the new playlist system
167 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
170 * Screensaver disabling fix
171 * DirectShow tuner configuration
172 * Support for no-decoration windows
175 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
176 * The OpenGL video output is back
177 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
178 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
179 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
180 is not yet available in the new module
181 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
184 * Support for single-buffered overlay
193 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
196 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
199 The following languages were added:
205 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
206 -----------------------------------------------------
209 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
210 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
213 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
214 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
215 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
218 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
221 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
224 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
227 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
228 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
229 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
233 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
235 * Support of playlist group announcement
237 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
238 -----------------------------------------------------
241 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
242 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
243 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
244 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
245 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
246 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
249 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
250 (Stream your desktop)
251 * Improved DVD support:
252 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
253 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
254 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
255 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
256 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
257 (selection of titles/chapters).
260 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
261 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
262 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
263 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
264 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
265 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
266 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
267 * Improved Ogg demuxer
268 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
269 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
272 * G.726 audio support
273 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
274 * MPEG-4 text support
275 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
276 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
277 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
281 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
282 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
283 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
284 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
285 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
286 * DVB subtitles encoder
287 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
288 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
290 * Text track muxing for mp4
291 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
292 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
293 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
294 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
295 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
298 * H.263 RTP streaming support
299 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
300 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
303 * New audio equalizer filter
304 * Very trivial volume normalizer
305 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
306 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
307 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
310 * Roku HD1000 Video output
311 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
312 with support for effects.
313 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
314 - New filters can be streamed.
315 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
316 - Centralized scaling and blending
318 - "time", to display current time
319 - "marq", to display a marquee
322 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
323 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
324 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
325 * A few skins2 improvements
326 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
327 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
328 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
329 * Improved CORBA control module
332 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
333 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
334 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
337 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
338 * Experimental SVG rendering module
339 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
342 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
343 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
344 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
345 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
346 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
349 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
352 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
353 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
356 * Server/client network synchronization module
357 * VBrick streams fully supported
358 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
361 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
362 --------------------------------
365 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
366 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
367 * Improved HTTP daemon.
368 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
371 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
372 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
373 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
374 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
375 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
376 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
377 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
380 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
381 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
382 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
383 * Improved directory access module.
384 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
385 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
386 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
387 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
388 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
391 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
392 * mmsh streaming fixes.
393 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
396 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
397 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
398 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
401 * Improved session announcement system.
402 * Minimize threads usage by default.
403 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
404 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
405 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
406 * Improved transrater.
407 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
408 * New configuration system.
409 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
412 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
413 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
414 * Supports live streams and VoD.
415 * Supports scheduling.
416 * Telnet interface for vlm.
417 * HTTP interface for vlm.
420 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
421 - Ability to embed video output.
422 - Support for bitmap fonts.
423 - Lots of improvements.
424 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
425 - New design and set of icons.
426 - Ability to embed video output.
427 - Support for hotkeys.
428 - Support for bookmarks.
430 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
431 - Better hotkeys handling.
434 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
435 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
436 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
437 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
440 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
441 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
442 * Improved Windows installer.
448 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
449 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
451 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
452 ---------------------------------
455 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
456 * Playing MOD files is working now.
459 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
460 ---------------------------------
463 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
464 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
467 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
468 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
469 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
470 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
473 * Internal improvments
474 * Improved import/export
477 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
479 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
480 small and strange formats.
482 * New MOD audio demux.
483 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
484 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
485 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
486 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
489 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
490 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
491 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
497 * New opengl video output plugin.
500 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
501 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
503 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
504 ---------------------------------
507 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
508 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
509 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
510 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
511 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
512 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
513 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
514 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
517 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
522 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
523 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
524 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
525 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
526 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
527 * Reworked DVB tuning.
528 * Better Icecast support.
529 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
530 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
533 * Support for Theora video encoding.
534 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
535 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
536 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
537 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
538 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
539 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
542 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
543 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
544 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
545 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
546 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
547 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
548 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
549 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
550 * Preliminary RTP support.
551 * Fixes to SAP announces.
556 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
557 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
559 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
560 - Improvements and help in preferences
561 - New streaming wizard
562 - Revised Disc Open menu
564 - Improvements of the standard pages
565 - Support for new commands
566 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
569 * Many fixes to the SAP module
570 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
573 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
574 * Text subtitles autodetection.
575 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
576 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
577 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
578 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
579 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
580 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
581 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
584 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
586 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
587 * Support for Panther.
588 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
589 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
592 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
593 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
594 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
595 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
596 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
597 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
598 * Multimonitor support (untested).
599 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
602 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
603 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
604 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
607 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
610 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
611 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
612 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
613 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
615 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
616 ---------------------------------
619 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
622 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
623 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
626 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
627 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
630 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
633 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
634 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
637 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
640 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
643 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
644 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
647 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
648 ---------------------------------
651 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
652 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
656 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
657 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
658 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
660 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
661 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
664 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
667 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
670 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
671 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
674 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
675 ---------------------------------
678 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
679 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
683 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
684 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
685 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
686 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
687 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
690 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
691 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
692 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
695 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
696 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
697 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
700 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
701 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
702 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
703 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
704 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
707 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
708 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
709 * A new CORBA control plugin.
712 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
715 * Improved build system.
716 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
717 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
718 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
719 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
722 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
723 ---------------------------------
726 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
729 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
730 * Fixed large file support on Windows
731 * Video 4 Linux support
732 * CD Digital Audio support
733 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
736 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
737 * Support for OpenDML avi files
738 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
739 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
742 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
743 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
744 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
745 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
746 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
747 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
748 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
751 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
752 * New HTTP remote control interface
755 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
756 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
757 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
758 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
761 * New reset option for the preferences
762 * You can set your language in the prefences
763 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
764 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
765 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
766 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
769 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
770 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
771 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
774 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
775 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
776 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
777 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
778 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
779 * New icons by Davor Orel.
780 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
781 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
782 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
783 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
786 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
787 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
788 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
789 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
790 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
791 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
792 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
795 * Interface localization
796 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
797 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
798 * New full-featured Preferences window
800 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
801 ---------------------------------
804 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
805 * support for skins at the interface level
806 * new OSD module using Freetype2
807 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
808 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
809 input level before dropping out of date frames.
810 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
813 * fixed HTTP redirects
814 * support for opening an entire directory
815 * EOF should be detected more reliably
816 * new video4linux access plug-in
817 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
820 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
821 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
822 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
825 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
826 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
827 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
828 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
829 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
830 * new codec for raw I420 video
831 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
834 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
835 (although it still misses some important features)
836 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
839 * new HTTP output support
840 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
841 * fixed AV synchronization issues
844 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
847 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
850 * reorderable playlist
851 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
852 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
853 * support for mono audio output devices
854 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
855 * fixed several cosmetic issues
856 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
857 * the messages window remembers more lines
858 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
859 * http and ogg stream output options
860 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
863 * new skinnable interface
864 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
866 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
867 * support for FLAC audio format
868 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
870 * network tab in the interface
871 * "apply" handling in preferences
874 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
875 ---------------------------------
878 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
879 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
880 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
881 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
883 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
887 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
888 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
889 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
890 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
893 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
894 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
897 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
900 * fixed the GNU-pth support
903 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
905 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
906 * rc interface is now fully useable
907 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
910 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
911 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
912 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
913 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
914 * VLC now uses the default audio device
916 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
917 * support for mouse gestures
918 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
921 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
922 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
925 * improved ID3 tag detection
926 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
927 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
928 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
930 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
933 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
934 ---------------------------------
937 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
938 English was set as the preferred language
941 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
942 --------------------------------
945 * new mouse gesture interface
946 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
950 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
951 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
952 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
955 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
956 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
960 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
963 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
964 without the user consent
967 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
969 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
970 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
971 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
974 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
975 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
976 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
977 * playlist enhancements
978 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
979 * new step forward/step backward commands
980 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
981 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
982 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
985 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
986 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
987 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
990 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
991 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
994 * native video output is working again
995 * only commandline interface support
996 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
999 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1004 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1005 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1006 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1007 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1008 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1009 and A/52 streams are supported)
1010 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1015 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1016 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1017 * VCD entry points support
1018 * VCD image file support
1021 * support for *.asf format
1022 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1023 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1024 * support for ogg encapsulation
1025 * support for raw DV format
1026 * support for *.wav format
1027 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1030 Stream discovery & playlists:
1031 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1032 * support for .m3u file format
1033 * support for .asx file format
1034 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1037 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1038 (only available with the .avi demux)
1039 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1040 * support for raw PCM data
1041 * support for Cinepak video codec
1042 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1043 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1044 * support for Xvid codec
1045 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1046 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1047 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1049 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1051 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1054 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1057 * new WxWindows interface
1058 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1059 device and the channels configuration
1060 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1061 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1062 format that VLC can play
1063 * new swedish translation
1064 * enhancements of the playlist window
1065 * new messages window to see debug info
1066 * fixed a few crashes
1069 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1070 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1071 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1072 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working