3 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5-svn (not yet released):
4 --------------------------------------------------------
7 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
8 * Support for downloading update
11 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
12 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
13 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
14 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
16 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
17 * Improved subtitles encoding support
18 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
21 * Cook (Real audio) support
23 Playlist / Services discovery :
27 * New JACK audio output
31 - magnify : allows you to zoom on part of the image
32 - gradient and edge detection : "cartoon-like" effect
33 - bluescreen : overlay a video transparently on another one
34 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
35 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
36 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
39 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
42 * System to inform the user and request information
47 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
48 - Improve the media information panel (show statistics, metadata, ...)
49 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
51 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
52 - Improved playlist handling
53 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
55 - Embedded Video output
56 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
57 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
58 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
60 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM
61 - A bunch of new RPN functions
64 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
67 * Mac-Intel compatibility
68 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
69 * Growl "Now playing" support
72 * Ability to log to syslog
73 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
76 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
78 * A bit more automatic testing
80 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
81 ---------------------------------
84 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
85 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
88 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
89 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
92 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
95 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
96 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
102 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
104 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
105 --------------------------------
108 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
112 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
113 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
114 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
117 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
118 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
119 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
120 * GnomeVFS input module
121 * Support for RTP packet reordering
122 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
125 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
126 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
127 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
130 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
131 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
137 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
138 Mixer and Dolby Surround
141 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
142 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
143 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
146 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
148 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
149 - New extended controls panel
150 - New bookmarks window
151 - Fixed playlist sorting
152 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
154 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
155 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
156 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
157 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
161 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
162 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
164 - Include macro to include other files
168 * Should now work outside IE as well
171 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
174 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
175 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
178 The following languages were added:
183 The following languages were re-added:
186 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
187 --------------------------------
190 * Rewrite of the playlist
192 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
193 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
194 * Preferences improvements:
195 - New organization, designed to improve usability
196 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
198 * Core image manipulation support
199 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
200 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
201 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
202 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
203 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
204 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
205 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
206 now separated by ':' instead of ','
207 * Access filter architecture
208 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
209 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
213 * Support for SOCKS proxy
214 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
215 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
216 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
217 * Better support for Kasenna streams
218 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
219 * Massive Matroska improvements
220 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
222 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
223 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
224 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
225 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
226 * Support for FTP over IPv6
229 * Dirac decoder and encoder
230 * PNG decoder/encoder
231 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
232 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
235 * New Record and Timeshift filters
238 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
239 * Brand new SAP module
240 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
241 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
242 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
243 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
244 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
245 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
249 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
252 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
253 * Image file video output (png)
254 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
255 * Improvements to wall video filter
256 * Support for font color and opacity
262 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
263 - Seeking support in VoD streams
264 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
268 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
269 - Improved preferences
270 - Improvements to the wizard
271 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
273 - Redesigned playlist
274 - Improved preferences
276 - Support for multiple actions
279 - Support for the new playlist system
281 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
284 * Screensaver disabling fix
285 * DirectShow tuner configuration
286 * Support for no-decoration windows
289 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
290 * The OpenGL video output is back
291 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
292 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
293 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
294 is not yet available in the new module
295 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
298 * Support for single-buffered overlay
307 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
310 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
313 The following languages were added:
319 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
320 -----------------------------------------------------
323 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
324 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
327 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
328 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
329 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
332 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
335 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
338 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
341 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
342 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
343 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
347 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
349 * Support of playlist group announcement
351 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
352 -----------------------------------------------------
355 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
356 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
357 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
358 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
359 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
360 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
363 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
364 (Stream your desktop)
365 * Improved DVD support:
366 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
367 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
368 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
369 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
370 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
371 (selection of titles/chapters).
374 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
375 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
376 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
377 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
378 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
379 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
380 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
381 * Improved Ogg demuxer
382 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
383 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
386 * G.726 audio support
387 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
388 * MPEG-4 text support
389 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
390 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
391 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
395 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
396 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
397 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
398 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
399 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
400 * DVB subtitles encoder
401 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
402 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
404 * Text track muxing for mp4
405 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
406 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
407 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
408 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
409 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
412 * H.263 RTP streaming support
413 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
414 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
417 * New audio equalizer filter
418 * Very trivial volume normalizer
419 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
420 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
421 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
424 * Roku HD1000 Video output
425 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
426 with support for effects.
427 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
428 - New filters can be streamed.
429 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
430 - Centralized scaling and blending
432 - "time", to display current time
433 - "marq", to display a marquee
436 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
437 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
438 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
439 * A few skins2 improvements
440 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
441 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
442 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
443 * Improved CORBA control module
446 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
447 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
448 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
451 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
452 * Experimental SVG rendering module
453 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
456 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
457 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
458 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
459 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
460 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
463 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
466 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
467 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
470 * Server/client network synchronization module
471 * VBrick streams fully supported
472 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
475 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
476 --------------------------------
479 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
480 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
481 * Improved HTTP daemon.
482 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
485 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
486 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
487 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
488 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
489 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
490 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
491 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
494 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
495 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
496 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
497 * Improved directory access module.
498 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
499 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
500 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
501 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
502 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
505 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
506 * mmsh streaming fixes.
507 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
510 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
511 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
512 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
515 * Improved session announcement system.
516 * Minimize threads usage by default.
517 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
518 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
519 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
520 * Improved transrater.
521 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
522 * New configuration system.
523 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
526 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
527 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
528 * Supports live streams and VoD.
529 * Supports scheduling.
530 * Telnet interface for vlm.
531 * HTTP interface for vlm.
534 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
535 - Ability to embed video output.
536 - Support for bitmap fonts.
537 - Lots of improvements.
538 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
539 - New design and set of icons.
540 - Ability to embed video output.
541 - Support for hotkeys.
542 - Support for bookmarks.
544 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
545 - Better hotkeys handling.
548 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
549 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
550 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
551 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
554 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
555 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
556 * Improved Windows installer.
562 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
563 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
565 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
566 ---------------------------------
569 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
570 * Playing MOD files is working now.
573 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
574 ---------------------------------
577 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
578 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
581 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
582 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
583 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
584 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
587 * Internal improvments
588 * Improved import/export
591 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
593 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
594 small and strange formats.
596 * New MOD audio demux.
597 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
598 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
599 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
600 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
603 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
604 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
605 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
611 * New opengl video output plugin.
614 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
615 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
617 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
618 ---------------------------------
621 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
622 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
623 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
624 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
625 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
626 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
627 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
628 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
631 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
636 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
637 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
638 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
639 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
640 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
641 * Reworked DVB tuning.
642 * Better Icecast support.
643 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
644 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
647 * Support for Theora video encoding.
648 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
649 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
650 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
651 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
652 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
653 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
656 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
657 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
658 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
659 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
660 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
661 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
662 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
663 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
664 * Preliminary RTP support.
665 * Fixes to SAP announces.
670 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
671 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
673 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
674 - Improvements and help in preferences
675 - New streaming wizard
676 - Revised Disc Open menu
678 - Improvements of the standard pages
679 - Support for new commands
680 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
683 * Many fixes to the SAP module
684 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
687 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
688 * Text subtitles autodetection.
689 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
690 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
691 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
692 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
693 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
694 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
695 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
698 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
700 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
701 * Support for Panther.
702 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
703 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
706 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
707 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
708 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
709 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
710 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
711 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
712 * Multimonitor support (untested).
713 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
716 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
717 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
718 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
721 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
724 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
725 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
726 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
727 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
729 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
730 ---------------------------------
733 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
736 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
737 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
740 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
741 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
744 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
747 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
748 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
751 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
754 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
757 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
758 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
761 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
762 ---------------------------------
765 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
766 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
770 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
771 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
772 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
774 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
775 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
778 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
781 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
784 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
785 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
788 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
789 ---------------------------------
792 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
793 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
797 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
798 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
799 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
800 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
801 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
804 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
805 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
806 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
809 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
810 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
811 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
814 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
815 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
816 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
817 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
818 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
821 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
822 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
823 * A new CORBA control plugin.
826 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
829 * Improved build system.
830 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
831 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
832 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
833 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
836 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
837 ---------------------------------
840 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
843 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
844 * Fixed large file support on Windows
845 * Video 4 Linux support
846 * CD Digital Audio support
847 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
850 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
851 * Support for OpenDML avi files
852 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
853 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
856 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
857 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
858 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
859 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
860 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
861 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
862 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
865 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
866 * New HTTP remote control interface
869 * 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.
870 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
871 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
872 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
875 * New reset option for the preferences
876 * You can set your language in the prefences
877 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
878 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
879 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
880 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
883 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
884 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
885 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
888 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
889 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
890 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
891 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
892 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
893 * New icons by Davor Orel.
894 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
895 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
896 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
897 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
900 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
901 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
902 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
903 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
904 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
905 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
906 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
909 * Interface localization
910 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
911 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
912 * New full-featured Preferences window
914 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
915 ---------------------------------
918 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
919 * support for skins at the interface level
920 * new OSD module using Freetype2
921 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
922 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
923 input level before dropping out of date frames.
924 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
927 * fixed HTTP redirects
928 * support for opening an entire directory
929 * EOF should be detected more reliably
930 * new video4linux access plug-in
931 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
934 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
935 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
936 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
939 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
940 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
941 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
942 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
943 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
944 * new codec for raw I420 video
945 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
948 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
949 (although it still misses some important features)
950 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
953 * new HTTP output support
954 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
955 * fixed AV synchronization issues
958 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
961 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
964 * reorderable playlist
965 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
966 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
967 * support for mono audio output devices
968 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
969 * fixed several cosmetic issues
970 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
971 * the messages window remembers more lines
972 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
973 * http and ogg stream output options
974 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
977 * new skinnable interface
978 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
980 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
981 * support for FLAC audio format
982 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
984 * network tab in the interface
985 * "apply" handling in preferences
988 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
989 ---------------------------------
992 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
993 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
994 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
995 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
997 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1001 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1002 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1003 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1004 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1007 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1008 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1011 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1014 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1017 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1019 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1020 * rc interface is now fully useable
1021 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1024 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1025 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1026 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1027 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1028 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1030 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1031 * support for mouse gestures
1032 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1035 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1036 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1039 * improved ID3 tag detection
1040 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1041 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1042 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1044 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1047 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1048 ---------------------------------
1051 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1052 English was set as the preferred language
1055 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1056 --------------------------------
1059 * new mouse gesture interface
1060 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1064 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1065 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1066 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1069 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1070 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1074 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1077 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1078 without the user consent
1081 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1083 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1084 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1085 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1088 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1089 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1090 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1091 * playlist enhancements
1092 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1093 * new step forward/step backward commands
1094 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1095 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1096 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1099 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1100 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1101 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1104 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1105 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1108 * native video output is working again
1109 * only commandline interface support
1110 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1113 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1114 --------------------------------
1117 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1118 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1119 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1120 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1121 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1122 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1123 and A/52 streams are supported)
1124 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1129 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1130 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1131 * VCD entry points support
1132 * VCD image file support
1135 * support for *.asf format
1136 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1137 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1138 * support for ogg encapsulation
1139 * support for raw DV format
1140 * support for *.wav format
1141 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1144 Stream discovery & playlists:
1145 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1146 * support for .m3u file format
1147 * support for .asx file format
1148 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1151 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1152 (only available with the .avi demux)
1153 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1154 * support for raw PCM data
1155 * support for Cinepak video codec
1156 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1157 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1158 * support for Xvid codec
1159 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1160 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1161 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1163 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1165 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1168 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1171 * new WxWindows interface
1172 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1173 device and the channels configuration
1174 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1175 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1176 format that VLC can play
1177 * new swedish translation
1178 * enhancements of the playlist window
1179 * new messages window to see debug info
1180 * fixed a few crashes
1183 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1184 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1185 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1186 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working