3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
50 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
51 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
52 * JACK audio input support
53 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
54 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
55 * Fixed aiff stereo file
56 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
57 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
59 * APEv1/2 tags support
60 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
61 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
63 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
64 * Tivo Series 2 support
65 * v4l2 access module support
66 * CD+G karaoke Files support
69 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
70 * MKV USF subtitles support
71 * HTML based subtitles support
72 * Flash Screen Video support
73 * CamStudio Screen Video support
74 * DosBox Capture support
75 * Karl Morton's Video support
76 * limited atrac3 support
77 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
78 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
79 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
80 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
82 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
85 * Flash Screen Video support
87 Video output and filters:
88 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
89 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
90 * New puzzle video output filter
91 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
92 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
94 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
95 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
96 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
98 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
99 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
100 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
101 was previously part of the mosaic module.
102 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
103 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
104 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
105 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
107 Audio output and filters
108 * Replay gain support.
109 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
110 * New spatializer audio filter.
113 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
114 * New RTP payload formats:
115 * Speex voice audio codec
116 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
117 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
118 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
119 * DCCP transport for RTP
120 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
124 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
126 * Improved user interaction
127 * Improved mouse gestures
129 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
130 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
131 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
132 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
133 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
134 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
135 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
136 when using an UTF-8 locale.
137 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
140 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
141 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
142 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
145 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
154 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
155 ----------------------------------
157 Various bugfixes, notably:
158 * Windows Vista compatibility
159 * Cropping in Direct3D
160 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
161 * RSS filter string overflow
163 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
165 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
166 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
169 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
172 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
175 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
178 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
181 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
182 ----------------------------------
184 Various bugfixes, notably:
185 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
186 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
187 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
188 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
189 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
190 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
193 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
194 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
197 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
199 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
200 * Diverse usability improvements
201 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
202 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
203 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
206 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
207 ---------------------------------
210 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
213 * Fullscreen controller improvements
216 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
217 --------------------------------
220 * Shoutcast TV listings support
223 * Support for RTSP authentication
224 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
225 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
226 * ATSC support for DVB input
227 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
228 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
229 * Improved support for Flash Video files
232 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
233 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
234 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
235 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
236 * Matroska WavPack support
237 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
238 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
239 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
242 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
243 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
244 * Improved libcaca support
248 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
249 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
251 * Systray support in skins
253 * Support for Apple Remote control
254 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
255 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
256 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
257 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
259 * Notifications using notification-daemon
262 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
264 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
265 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
266 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
267 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
268 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
270 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
271 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
280 * Updates to the libvlc API
281 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
284 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
285 --------------------------------
288 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
289 * Support for downloading updates
293 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
294 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
295 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
296 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
298 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
299 * Improved subtitles encoding support
300 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
303 * Cook (Real audio) support
305 Playlist / Services discovery:
306 * XSPF playlist support
308 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
311 * New JACK audio output
315 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
316 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
317 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
318 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
319 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
320 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
323 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
326 * System to inform the user and request information
327 - HTTP authentication
331 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
332 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
333 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
336 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
337 - Improved playlist handling
338 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
340 - Embedded Video output
341 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
342 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
343 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
344 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
345 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
347 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
348 - A bunch of new RPN functions
351 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
354 * Mac-Intel compatibility
355 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
356 * Growl "Now playing" support
359 * Ability to log to syslog
360 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
363 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
365 * A bit more automatic testing
368 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
369 ---------------------------------
372 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
373 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
376 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
377 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
380 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
383 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
384 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
390 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
393 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
394 --------------------------------
397 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
401 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
402 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
403 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
406 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
407 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
408 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
409 * GnomeVFS input module
410 * Support for RTP packet reordering
411 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
414 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
415 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
416 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
419 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
420 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
426 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
427 Mixer and Dolby Surround
430 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
431 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
432 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
435 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
437 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
438 - New extended controls panel
439 - New bookmarks window
440 - Fixed playlist sorting
441 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
443 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
444 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
445 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
446 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
450 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
451 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
453 - Include macro to include other files
457 * Should now work outside IE as well
460 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
463 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
464 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
467 The following languages were added:
472 The following languages were re-added:
476 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
477 --------------------------------
480 * Rewrite of the playlist
482 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
483 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
484 * Preferences improvements:
485 - New organization, designed to improve usability
486 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
488 * Core image manipulation support
489 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
490 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
491 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
492 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
493 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
494 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
495 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
496 now separated by ':' instead of ','
497 * Access filter architecture
498 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
499 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
503 * Support for SOCKS proxy
504 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
505 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
506 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
507 * Better support for Kasenna streams
508 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
509 * Massive Matroska improvements
510 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
512 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
513 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
514 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
515 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
516 * Support for FTP over IPv6
519 * Dirac decoder and encoder
520 * PNG decoder/encoder
521 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
522 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
525 * New Record and Timeshift filters
528 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
529 * Brand new SAP module
530 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
531 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
532 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
533 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
534 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
535 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
539 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
542 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
543 * Image file video output (png)
544 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
545 * Improvements to wall video filter
546 * Support for font color and opacity
552 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
553 - Seeking support in VoD streams
554 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
558 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
559 - Improved preferences
560 - Improvements to the wizard
561 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
563 - Redesigned playlist
564 - Improved preferences
566 - Support for multiple actions
569 - Support for the new playlist system
571 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
574 * Screensaver disabling fix
575 * DirectShow tuner configuration
576 * Support for no-decoration windows
579 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
580 * The OpenGL video output is back
581 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
582 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
583 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
584 is not yet available in the new module
585 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
588 * Support for single-buffered overlay
597 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
600 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
603 The following languages were added:
609 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
610 --------------------------------
613 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
614 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
617 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
618 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
619 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
622 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
625 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
628 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
631 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
632 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
633 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
637 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
639 * Support of playlist group announcement
642 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
643 --------------------------------
646 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
647 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
648 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
649 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
650 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
651 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
654 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
655 (Stream your desktop)
656 * Improved DVD support:
657 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
658 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
659 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
660 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
661 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
662 (selection of titles/chapters).
665 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
666 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
667 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
668 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
669 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
670 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
671 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
672 * Improved Ogg demuxer
673 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
674 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
677 * G.726 audio support
678 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
679 * MPEG-4 text support
680 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
681 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
682 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
686 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
687 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
688 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
689 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
690 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
691 * DVB subtitles encoder
692 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
693 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
695 * Text track muxing for mp4
696 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
697 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
698 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
699 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
700 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
703 * H.263 RTP streaming support
704 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
705 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
708 * New audio equalizer filter
709 * Very trivial volume normalizer
710 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
711 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
712 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
715 * Roku HD1000 Video output
716 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
717 with support for effects.
718 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
719 - New filters can be streamed.
720 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
721 - Centralized scaling and blending
723 - "time", to display current time
724 - "marq", to display a marquee
727 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
728 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
729 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
730 * A few skins2 improvements
731 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
732 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
733 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
734 * Improved CORBA control module
737 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
738 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
739 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
742 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
743 * Experimental SVG rendering module
744 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
747 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
748 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
749 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
750 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
751 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
754 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
757 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
758 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
761 * Server/client network synchronization module
762 * VBrick streams fully supported
763 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
767 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
768 --------------------------------
771 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
772 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
773 * Improved HTTP daemon.
774 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
777 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
778 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
779 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
780 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
781 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
782 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
783 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
786 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
787 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
788 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
789 * Improved directory access module.
790 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
791 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
792 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
793 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
794 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
797 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
798 * mmsh streaming fixes.
799 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
802 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
803 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
804 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
807 * Improved session announcement system.
808 * Minimize threads usage by default.
809 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
810 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
811 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
812 * Improved transrater.
813 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
814 * New configuration system.
815 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
818 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
819 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
820 * Supports live streams and VoD.
821 * Supports scheduling.
822 * Telnet interface for vlm.
823 * HTTP interface for vlm.
826 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
827 - Ability to embed video output.
828 - Support for bitmap fonts.
829 - Lots of improvements.
830 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
831 - New design and set of icons.
832 - Ability to embed video output.
833 - Support for hotkeys.
834 - Support for bookmarks.
836 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
837 - Better hotkeys handling.
840 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
841 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
842 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
843 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
846 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
847 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
848 * Improved Windows installer.
854 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
855 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
858 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
859 ---------------------------------
862 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
863 * Playing MOD files is working now.
866 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
867 --------------------------------
870 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
871 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
874 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
875 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
876 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
877 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
880 * Internal improvments
881 * Improved import/export
884 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
886 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
887 small and strange formats.
889 * New MOD audio demux.
890 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
891 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
892 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
893 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
896 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
897 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
898 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
904 * New opengl video output plugin.
907 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
908 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
911 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
912 --------------------------------
915 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
916 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
917 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
918 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
919 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
920 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
921 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
922 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
925 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
930 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
931 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
932 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
933 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
934 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
935 * Reworked DVB tuning.
936 * Better Icecast support.
937 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
938 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
941 * Support for Theora video encoding.
942 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
943 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
944 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
945 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
946 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
947 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
950 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
951 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
952 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
953 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
954 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
955 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
956 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
957 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
958 * Preliminary RTP support.
959 * Fixes to SAP announces.
964 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
965 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
967 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
968 - Improvements and help in preferences
969 - New streaming wizard
970 - Revised Disc Open menu
972 - Improvements of the standard pages
973 - Support for new commands
974 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
977 * Many fixes to the SAP module
978 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
981 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
982 * Text subtitles autodetection.
983 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
984 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
985 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
986 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
987 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
988 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
989 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
992 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
994 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
995 * Support for Panther.
996 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
997 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1000 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1001 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1002 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1003 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1004 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1005 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1006 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1007 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1010 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1011 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1012 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1015 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1018 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1019 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1020 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1021 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1024 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1025 --------------------------------
1028 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1031 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1032 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1035 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1036 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1039 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1042 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1043 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1046 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1049 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1052 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1053 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1057 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1058 --------------------------------
1061 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1062 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1066 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1067 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1068 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1070 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1071 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1074 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1077 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1080 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1081 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1085 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1086 --------------------------------
1089 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1090 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1094 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1095 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1096 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1097 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1098 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1101 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1102 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1103 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1106 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1107 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1108 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1111 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1112 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1113 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1114 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1115 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1118 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1119 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1120 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1123 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1126 * Improved build system.
1127 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1128 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1129 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1130 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1133 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1134 --------------------------------
1137 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1140 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1141 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1142 * Video 4 Linux support
1143 * CD Digital Audio support
1144 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1147 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1148 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1149 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1150 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1153 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1154 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1155 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1156 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1157 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1158 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1159 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1162 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1163 * New HTTP remote control interface
1166 * 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.
1167 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1168 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1169 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1172 * New reset option for the preferences
1173 * You can set your language in the prefences
1174 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1175 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1176 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1177 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1180 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1181 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1182 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1185 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1186 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1187 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1188 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1189 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1190 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1191 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1192 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1193 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1194 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1197 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1198 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1199 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1200 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1201 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1202 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1203 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1206 * Interface localization
1207 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1208 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1209 * New full-featured Preferences window
1212 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1213 --------------------------------
1216 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1217 * support for skins at the interface level
1218 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1219 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1220 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1221 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1222 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1225 * fixed HTTP redirects
1226 * support for opening an entire directory
1227 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1228 * new video4linux access plug-in
1229 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1232 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1233 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1234 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1237 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1238 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1239 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1240 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1241 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1242 * new codec for raw I420 video
1243 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1246 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1247 (although it still misses some important features)
1248 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1251 * new HTTP output support
1252 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1253 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1256 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1259 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1262 * reorderable playlist
1263 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1264 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1265 * support for mono audio output devices
1266 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1267 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1268 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1269 * the messages window remembers more lines
1270 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1271 * http and ogg stream output options
1272 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1275 * new skinnable interface
1276 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1278 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1279 * support for FLAC audio format
1280 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1282 * network tab in the interface
1283 * "apply" handling in preferences
1286 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1287 ---------------------------------
1290 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1291 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1292 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1293 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1295 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1296 * DTS S/PDIF support
1299 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1300 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1301 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1302 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1305 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1306 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1309 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1312 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1315 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1317 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1318 * rc interface is now fully useable
1319 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1322 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1323 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1324 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1325 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1326 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1328 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1329 * support for mouse gestures
1330 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1333 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1334 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1337 * improved ID3 tag detection
1338 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1339 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1340 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1342 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1345 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1346 ---------------------------------
1349 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1350 English was set as the preferred language
1353 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1354 --------------------------------
1357 * new mouse gesture interface
1358 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1362 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1363 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1364 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1367 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1368 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1372 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1375 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1376 without the user consent
1379 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1381 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1382 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1383 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1386 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1387 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1388 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1389 * playlist enhancements
1390 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1391 * new step forward/step backward commands
1392 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1393 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1394 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1397 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1398 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1399 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1402 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1403 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1406 * native video output is working again
1407 * only commandline interface support
1408 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1411 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1412 --------------------------------
1415 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1416 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1417 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1418 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1419 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1420 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1421 and A/52 streams are supported)
1422 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1427 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1428 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1429 * VCD entry points support
1430 * VCD image file support
1433 * support for *.asf format
1434 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1435 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1436 * support for ogg encapsulation
1437 * support for raw DV format
1438 * support for *.wav format
1439 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1442 Stream discovery & playlists:
1443 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1444 * support for .m3u file format
1445 * support for .asx file format
1446 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1449 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1450 (only available with the .avi demux)
1451 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1452 * support for raw PCM data
1453 * support for Cinepak video codec
1454 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1455 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1456 * support for Xvid codec
1457 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1458 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1459 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1461 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1463 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1466 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1469 * new WxWindows interface
1470 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1471 device and the channels configuration
1472 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1473 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1474 format that VLC can play
1475 * new swedish translation
1476 * enhancements of the playlist window
1477 * new messages window to see debug info
1478 * fixed a few crashes
1481 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1482 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1483 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1484 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working