1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
13 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
16 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
19 * new remapping channel filter
20 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
21 * new VSXu visualization plugin
24 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
27 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
30 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
31 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
34 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
35 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
36 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
39 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
40 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
41 VLC's internal volume level
42 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
43 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
46 * portaudio audio output
47 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
48 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
51 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
52 --------------------------------
55 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
56 * fix the samba module compilation
57 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
58 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
59 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
60 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
63 * Support for MXPEG files
64 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
65 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
68 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
69 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
70 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
73 * Fix ogm header creation
76 * limit spatializer filter distortions
77 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
80 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
81 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
82 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
83 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
86 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
89 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
90 * allow to hide the sidebar
91 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
92 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
93 * noticebly faster launch time
94 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
95 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
96 * improve track synchronization panel
97 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
98 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
101 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
102 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
103 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
104 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
107 * fix for menus display
108 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
109 * documentation update
112 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
113 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
116 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
117 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
118 * Update Jamendo selections
122 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
123 * fix a crash on VLM close
126 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
127 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
128 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
129 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
132 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
135 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
136 ---------------------------------
139 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
140 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
141 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
142 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
143 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
144 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
145 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
146 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
147 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
148 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
149 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
150 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
151 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
152 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
153 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
154 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
155 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
156 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
157 --http-crl (optional CRL).
158 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
159 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
160 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
161 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
162 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
163 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
164 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
166 Important changes for packagers:
167 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
168 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
169 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
170 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
171 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
172 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
173 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
174 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
175 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
176 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
179 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
180 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
181 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
182 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
183 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
184 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
185 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
188 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
189 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
190 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
191 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
192 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
193 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
194 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
195 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
196 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
197 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
198 * PulseAudio audio input support
199 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
200 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
201 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
202 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
203 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
204 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
205 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
206 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
209 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
210 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
211 are notably concerned.
212 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
213 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
214 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
215 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
216 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
217 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
218 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
219 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
220 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
221 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
222 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
223 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
224 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
225 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
226 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
229 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
230 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
231 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
232 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
233 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
234 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
235 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
236 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
237 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
238 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
239 * Improved support of tracker files
240 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
243 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
244 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
245 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
246 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
247 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
248 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
249 and important cleanups and optimisations
250 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
251 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
252 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
253 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
254 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
255 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
256 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
257 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
258 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
259 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
260 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
261 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
262 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
263 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
264 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
265 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
266 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
267 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
268 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
269 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
270 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
273 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
274 * New video output for iOS platform
275 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
276 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
277 * Various vmem improvements
278 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
279 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
280 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
281 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
282 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
283 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
285 Audio Output and Filters:
286 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
287 * New audio output in memory (amem)
288 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
289 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
290 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
291 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
292 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
293 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
294 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
295 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
298 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
299 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
300 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
301 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
302 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
303 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
304 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
305 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
306 * New anti-flickering filter
307 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
308 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
309 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
310 blackbox and customizable shadow.
311 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
312 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
313 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
316 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
317 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
318 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
319 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
320 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
321 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
322 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
323 * Major rework of VoD support
324 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
325 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
326 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
327 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
328 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
329 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
330 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
331 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
332 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
333 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
336 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
337 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
340 * New capabilities for libVLC:
341 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
342 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
343 list of available audio and video filters
344 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
345 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
346 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
349 * asademux, subsass: use libass
350 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
351 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
353 * upnp: use upnp_intel
354 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
355 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
356 * removal of the noise filter
357 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
358 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
359 removed in Growl's next release, too.
360 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
363 * Update of translations for most languages.
364 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
367 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
368 ----------------------------------
371 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
372 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
375 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
376 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
379 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
380 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
381 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
384 * Camtasia decoding fix.
387 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
388 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
391 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
394 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
395 ----------------------------------
398 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
399 including support for OS X Lion
400 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
401 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
404 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
407 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
408 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
409 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
412 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
415 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
416 ----------------------------------
419 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
420 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
423 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
424 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
425 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
426 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
427 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
429 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
430 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
431 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
433 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
434 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
437 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
440 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
443 * Fix quitting on Linux
444 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
448 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
451 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
454 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
455 ---------------------------------
457 Windows and Mac OS X:
458 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
461 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
462 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
465 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
468 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
471 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
473 Miscellaneous fixes in:
474 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
476 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
477 * RTP output and XML export
478 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
482 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
483 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
484 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
485 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
488 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
489 --------------------------------
491 Windows and Mac OS X:
492 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
495 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
498 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
499 * Improve Apple Remote handling
500 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
501 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
502 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
503 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
506 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
507 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
511 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
512 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
513 * New Luganda Translation
516 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
517 --------------------------------
520 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
523 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
524 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
525 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
526 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
529 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
531 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
532 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
533 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
534 * mp4 demuxer improvements
535 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
536 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
537 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
538 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
540 Miscellaneous fixes in:
541 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
542 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
543 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
544 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
545 * Configure and build system improvements
546 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
549 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
550 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
551 * New icelandic translation
554 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
555 --------------------------------
558 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
562 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
563 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
564 and stability reasons
567 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
571 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
574 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
575 ----------------------------------
578 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
581 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
582 ---------------------------------
585 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
586 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
587 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
588 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
591 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
594 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
595 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
596 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
597 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
600 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
601 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
602 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
604 Subtitles and renderer:
605 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
606 * Mark more freetype options as safe
607 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
608 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
609 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
612 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
613 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
614 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
615 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
618 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
619 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
622 * KDE device solid actions
624 * Transcode integer overflow
625 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
626 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
629 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
630 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
631 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
634 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
635 ----------------------------------
638 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
642 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
645 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
648 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
649 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
650 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
651 * Taglib thread-safety fix
654 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
658 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
661 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
664 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
665 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
667 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
671 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
672 * Miscellaneous fixes
675 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
676 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
678 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
679 * New Asturian translation
682 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
683 ----------------------------------
686 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
688 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
691 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
694 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
695 * Various fixes for Windows
698 * New Armenian translation
699 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
700 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
703 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
704 --------------------------------
707 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
709 * Fix folders opening from the interface
712 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
713 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
716 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
717 --------------------------------
720 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
721 * fix for podcasts parsing
722 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
725 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
726 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
729 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
730 * fix m3u playlists exports
733 * fix video autoresize behaviour
736 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
739 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
742 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
745 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
748 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
749 --------------------------------
752 * Avformat fps displaying fix
753 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
756 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
757 of mono streams, especially on Windows
760 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
761 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
762 * fix console output encoding
764 Interface and extensions:
765 * Youtube and other scripts updates
766 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
769 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
770 --------------------------------
773 * New capabilities for libVLC:
774 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
775 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
776 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
777 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
778 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
779 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
780 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
781 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
782 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
783 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
784 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
785 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
786 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
787 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
788 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
792 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
793 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
794 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
795 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
796 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
799 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
802 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
803 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
804 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
808 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
811 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
812 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
813 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
816 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
817 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
818 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
819 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
822 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
823 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
826 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
827 --------------------------------
829 Important changes for users:
830 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
831 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
833 Important changes for packagers:
834 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
835 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
836 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
837 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
838 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
840 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
842 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
843 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
844 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
845 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
846 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
849 * Support for the sftp protocol
850 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
851 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
852 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
853 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
854 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
857 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
858 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
859 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
861 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
862 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
863 * Invmem module improvements
864 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
865 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
866 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
867 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
868 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
869 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
870 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
871 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
872 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
873 * Support for VP8 codec
874 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
877 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
878 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
879 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
880 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
881 * Various EGP improvements
882 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
883 * Metadata and cover art improvements
886 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
887 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
888 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
889 * Podcast images are now displayed
892 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
893 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
894 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
895 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
896 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
897 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
898 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
899 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
900 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
901 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
902 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
905 * New content extensions lua framework
908 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
909 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
910 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
911 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
912 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
913 * NEON assembly audio converter module
914 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
917 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
918 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
919 * Service discovery based on libudev
920 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
923 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
924 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
925 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
926 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
927 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
928 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
929 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
932 * New smem module, streaming to memory
933 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
934 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
937 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
939 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
940 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
943 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
946 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
947 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
948 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
949 by Andy Matuschak et al.
950 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
951 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
952 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
955 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
956 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
959 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
960 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
961 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
965 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
966 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
967 * Improved Solaris port
970 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
971 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
974 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
975 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
976 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
977 * transrate: broken since too long
978 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
979 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
980 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
981 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
982 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
983 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
984 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
985 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
986 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
987 * cddax: use cdda instead.
988 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
989 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
990 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
991 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
994 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
995 --------------------------------
998 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1000 Decoders/Packetizers:
1001 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1004 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1005 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1006 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1007 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1008 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1011 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1012 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1015 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1016 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1019 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1020 and Walloon translations updated
1021 * Sinhala translation started
1024 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1025 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1028 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1029 --------------------------------
1032 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1033 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1036 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1039 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1040 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1043 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1044 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1045 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1046 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1049 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1050 --------------------------------
1053 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1054 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1057 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1058 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1061 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1062 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1065 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1068 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1069 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1072 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1073 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1076 * New Walloon translation
1077 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1080 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1081 --------------------------------
1084 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1085 regressions in most popular drivers
1086 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1089 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1090 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1091 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1094 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1095 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1098 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1099 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1100 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1101 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1102 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1105 * New udev module for linux
1108 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1111 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1114 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1119 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1120 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1123 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1124 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1127 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1128 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1131 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1134 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1135 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1136 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1137 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1140 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1141 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1142 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1143 - no support for Goom and SDL
1144 - limited text rendering support
1145 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1148 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1149 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1150 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1151 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1152 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1153 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1154 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1155 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1156 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1160 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1163 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1166 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1167 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1168 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1169 Arabic and French translation updates
1172 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1173 --------------------------------
1176 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1177 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1178 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1179 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1180 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1181 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1184 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1185 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1186 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1189 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1190 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1191 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1194 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1197 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1198 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1201 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1202 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1203 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1204 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1205 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1206 * Fix various crashes
1209 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1211 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1215 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1216 ---------------------------------
1220 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1221 See 'Access:' for more info.
1222 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1225 * Instantaneous pausing
1226 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1227 * Finer speed control
1228 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1229 * Timeshift for most medias
1230 * RTSP trickplay support
1231 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1234 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1235 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1236 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1237 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1238 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1239 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1240 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1241 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1242 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1243 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1246 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1247 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1248 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1249 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1250 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1251 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1252 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1255 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1256 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1259 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1260 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1261 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1262 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1263 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1264 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1265 * DVB scanning on linux
1266 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1267 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1268 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1269 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1270 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1271 * MTP device access on Unix
1272 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1273 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1276 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1277 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1278 Windows and Mac OS X.
1281 * Export the playlist in HTML
1282 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1283 * Better metadata handling and reading
1285 Linux/Windows interface:
1286 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1287 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1288 * Recently played items list
1289 * Interface toolbar customizations
1290 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1291 - More menus actions
1292 - Finer speed slider
1293 - Improvements on many dialogs
1294 - New dialog for plugins listing
1295 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1296 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1297 * Better integration in GTK environments
1300 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1301 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1302 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1303 * Additional usability improvements
1306 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1307 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1308 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1309 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1310 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1313 * New Maemo port with:
1314 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1315 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1318 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1321 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1322 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1323 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1324 * Support for latest iSight models
1327 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1328 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1331 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1332 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1333 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1334 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1335 The old image video output has been removed.
1336 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1337 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1340 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1348 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1349 --------------------------------------
1355 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1356 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1357 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1358 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1359 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1360 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1361 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1363 Various fixes to the following modules:
1366 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1367 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1368 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1370 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1375 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1376 ---------------------------------
1379 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1380 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1383 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1384 ---------------------------------
1387 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1390 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1393 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1394 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1395 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1396 main controller window.
1397 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1400 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1405 * Updates of other localizations
1408 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1409 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1410 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1411 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1412 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1415 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1416 ---------------------------------
1419 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1421 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1424 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1425 --------------------------------
1430 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1431 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1434 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1435 --------------------------------
1437 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1438 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1441 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1444 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1445 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1448 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1449 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1452 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1453 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1454 * Various fixed in playlist
1457 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1460 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1463 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1464 ------------------------------------
1466 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1467 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1470 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1471 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1472 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1475 * Stability fix for the video output.
1478 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1479 --------------------------------
1482 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1483 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1484 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1485 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1486 * Fixed update system bugs
1487 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1490 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1491 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1492 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1493 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1494 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1495 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1496 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1497 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1498 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1499 modern Mac OS X versions
1502 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1503 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1505 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1506 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1509 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1510 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1511 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1512 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1513 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1514 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1517 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1518 --------------------------------
1520 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1521 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1522 * Multiple bugfixes.
1525 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1526 --------------------------------
1528 * Multiple bug fixes.
1531 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1532 ---------------------------------
1536 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1537 recent to work correctly
1538 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1539 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1540 edit the ".hosts" file.
1541 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1542 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1543 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1544 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1545 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1546 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1547 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1548 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1549 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1550 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1551 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1552 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1553 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1554 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1555 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1556 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1557 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1558 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1559 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1560 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1561 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1562 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1563 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1564 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1565 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1566 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1567 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1568 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1569 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1570 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1571 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1572 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1573 and postproc modules.
1574 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1575 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1576 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1577 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1579 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1580 filter. For example:
1581 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1582 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1584 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1585 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1591 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1593 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1594 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1597 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1598 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1600 * Shoutcast TV listings
1601 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1603 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1604 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1606 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1609 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1610 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1611 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1612 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1613 * JACK audio input support
1614 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1615 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1616 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1617 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1618 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1619 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1620 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1621 (available as a separate download).
1622 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1623 * RTMP input support
1624 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1625 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1626 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1628 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1629 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1632 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1633 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1634 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1635 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1637 * APEv1/2 tags support
1638 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1639 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1641 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1642 * TiVo Series 2 support
1643 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1648 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1649 * Flash Screen Video support
1650 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1651 * DosBox Capture support
1652 * Karl Morton's Video support
1653 * limited atrac3 support
1655 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1656 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1657 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1658 * H.264 PAFF support
1659 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1660 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1661 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1662 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1663 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1666 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1667 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1668 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1669 * AQTitle subtitles support
1670 * MKV USF subtitles support
1671 * HTML-based subtitles support
1672 * MPSub subtitles support
1673 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1674 * MPL2 subtitles support
1675 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1676 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1677 * Realtext subtitle support
1678 * DKS subtitle support
1679 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1680 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1683 * Flash Screen Video support
1684 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1686 Video outputs and filters:
1687 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1688 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1689 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1690 * New puzzle video output filter
1691 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1692 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1694 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1695 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1696 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1697 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1698 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1699 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1700 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1701 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1702 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1703 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1704 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1705 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1706 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1707 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1709 Audio outputs and filters:
1710 * Replay gain support
1711 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1712 new scaletempo audio filter)
1713 * New spatializer audio filter
1714 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1717 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1718 * New RTP payload formats:
1719 * Speex voice audio codec
1720 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1721 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1722 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1723 * DCCP transport for RTP
1724 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1729 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1730 end-user suitable way.
1731 * Improved user interaction
1732 * Improved mouse gestures
1733 * Vastly improved Update checker
1734 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1736 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1737 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1739 * Improved video output features
1740 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1741 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1742 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1743 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1744 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1746 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1747 if libncursesw is available.
1748 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1749 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1750 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1752 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1753 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1754 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1755 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1756 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1757 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1758 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1759 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1762 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1763 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1764 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1767 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1768 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1769 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1770 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1771 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1772 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1775 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1776 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1786 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1787 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1788 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1791 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1792 ----------------------------------
1795 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1798 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1799 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1800 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1801 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1802 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1803 * Updated Polish translation
1806 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1807 ----------------------------------
1810 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1811 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1812 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1815 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1816 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1817 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1818 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1819 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1820 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1821 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1822 to an unexpected application termination
1823 * New Serbian translation
1824 * Updated Romanian translation
1827 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1828 ----------------------------------
1831 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1832 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1833 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1834 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1835 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1836 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1837 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1838 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1841 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1842 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1843 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1844 * Fixed AAC resampling
1845 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1846 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1849 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1850 ----------------------------------
1853 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1854 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1855 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1856 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1857 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1860 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1861 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1862 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1863 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1864 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1867 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1868 ----------------------------------
1871 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1872 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1875 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1876 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1877 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1878 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1880 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1884 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1887 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1890 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1893 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1896 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1897 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1898 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1899 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1900 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1902 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1903 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1904 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1905 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1908 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1911 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1912 ----------------------------------
1915 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1916 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1917 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1919 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1920 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1922 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1923 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1926 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1928 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1929 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1930 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1931 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1932 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1933 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1934 two different movies
1935 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1936 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1937 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1940 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1943 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1944 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1945 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1946 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1949 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1950 ----------------------------------
1952 Various bugfixes, notably:
1953 * Windows Vista compatibility
1954 * Cropping in Direct3D
1955 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1956 * RSS filter string overflow
1958 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1960 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1961 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1964 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1965 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1968 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1971 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1974 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1977 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1978 ----------------------------------
1980 Various bugfixes, notably:
1981 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1982 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1983 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1984 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1985 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1986 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1989 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1990 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1993 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1995 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1996 * Diverse usability improvements
1997 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1998 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1999 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2002 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2003 ---------------------------------
2005 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2006 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2009 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2012 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2013 --------------------------------
2016 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2019 * Support for RTSP authentication
2020 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2021 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2022 * ATSC support for DVB input
2023 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2024 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2025 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2028 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2029 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2030 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2031 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2032 * Matroska WavPack support
2033 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2034 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2035 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2038 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2039 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2040 * Improved libcaca support
2044 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2045 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2047 * Systray support in skins
2049 * Support for Apple Remote control
2050 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2051 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2052 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2053 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2055 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2058 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2059 Windows 9x/ME users:
2060 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2061 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2062 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2063 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2064 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2066 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2067 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2076 * Updates to the libvlc API
2077 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2080 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2081 --------------------------------
2084 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2085 * Support for downloading updates
2089 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2090 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2091 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2092 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2094 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2095 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2096 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2099 * Cook (Real audio) support
2101 Playlist / Services discovery:
2102 * XSPF playlist support
2104 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2107 * New JACK audio output
2110 * New video filters:
2111 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2112 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2113 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2114 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2115 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2116 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2119 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2122 * System to inform the user and request information
2123 - HTTP authentication
2127 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2128 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2129 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2132 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2133 - Improved playlist handling
2134 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2136 - Embedded Video output
2137 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2138 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2139 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2140 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2141 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2143 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2144 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2147 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2150 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2151 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2152 * Growl "Now playing" support
2155 * Ability to log to syslog
2156 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2159 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2161 * A bit more automatic testing
2164 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2165 ---------------------------------
2168 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2169 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2172 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2173 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2176 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2179 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2180 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2186 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2189 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2190 --------------------------------
2193 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2197 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2198 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2199 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2202 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2203 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2204 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2205 * GnomeVFS input module
2206 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2207 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2210 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2211 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2212 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2215 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2216 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2222 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2223 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2226 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2227 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2228 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2231 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2233 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2234 - New extended controls panel
2235 - New bookmarks window
2236 - Fixed playlist sorting
2237 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2239 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2240 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2241 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2242 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2246 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2247 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2249 - Include macro to include other files
2253 * Should now work outside IE as well
2256 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2259 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2260 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2263 The following languages were added:
2267 * Simplified Chinese
2268 The following languages were re-added:
2272 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2273 --------------------------------
2276 * Rewrite of the playlist
2278 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2279 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2280 * Preferences improvements:
2281 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2282 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2284 * Core image manipulation support
2285 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2286 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2287 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2288 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2289 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2290 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2291 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2292 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2293 * Access filter architecture
2294 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2295 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2299 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2300 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2301 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2302 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2303 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2304 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2305 * Massive Matroska improvements
2306 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2308 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2309 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2310 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2311 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2312 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2314 Decoders / Encoders:
2315 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2316 * PNG decoder/encoder
2317 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2318 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2321 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2324 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2325 * Brand new SAP module
2326 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2327 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2328 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2329 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2330 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2331 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2335 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2338 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2339 * Image file video output (png)
2340 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2341 * Improvements to wall video filter
2342 * Support for font color and opacity
2348 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2349 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2350 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2354 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2355 - Improved preferences
2356 - Improvements to the wizard
2357 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2359 - Redesigned playlist
2360 - Improved preferences
2362 - Support for multiple actions
2365 - Support for the new playlist system
2367 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2370 * Screensaver disabling fix
2371 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2372 * Support for no-decoration windows
2375 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2376 * The OpenGL video output is back
2377 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2378 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2379 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2380 is not yet available in the new module
2381 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2384 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2393 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2396 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2399 The following languages were added:
2405 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2406 --------------------------------
2409 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2410 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2413 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2414 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2415 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2418 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2421 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2424 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2427 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2428 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2429 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2433 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2435 * Support of playlist group announcement
2438 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2439 --------------------------------
2442 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2443 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2444 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2445 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2446 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2447 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2450 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2451 (Stream your desktop)
2452 * Improved DVD support:
2453 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2454 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2455 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2456 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2457 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2458 (selection of titles/chapters).
2461 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2462 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2463 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2464 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2465 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2466 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2467 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2468 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2469 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2470 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2473 * G.726 audio support
2474 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2475 * MPEG-4 text support
2476 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2477 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2478 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2482 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2483 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2484 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2485 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2486 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2487 * DVB subtitles encoder
2488 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2489 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2491 * Text track muxing for mp4
2492 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2493 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2494 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2495 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2496 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2497 * Improved ASF muxer
2499 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2500 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2501 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2504 * New audio equalizer filter
2505 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2506 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2507 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2508 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2511 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2512 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2513 with support for effects.
2514 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2515 - New filters can be streamed.
2516 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2517 - Centralized scaling and blending
2519 - "time", to display current time
2520 - "marq", to display a marquee
2523 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2524 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2525 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2526 * A few skins2 improvements
2527 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2528 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2529 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2530 * Improved CORBA control module
2533 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2534 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2535 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2538 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2539 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2540 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2543 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2544 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2545 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2546 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2547 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2550 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2553 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2554 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2557 * Server/client network synchronization module
2558 * VBrick streams fully supported
2559 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2563 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2564 --------------------------------
2567 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2568 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2569 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2570 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2573 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2574 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2575 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2576 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2577 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2578 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2579 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2582 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2583 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2584 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2585 * Improved directory access module.
2586 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2587 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2588 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2589 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2590 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2593 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2594 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2595 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2598 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2599 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2600 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2603 * Improved session announcement system.
2604 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2605 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2606 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2607 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2608 * Improved transrater.
2609 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2610 * New configuration system.
2611 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2614 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2615 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2616 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2617 * Supports scheduling.
2618 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2619 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2622 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2623 - Ability to embed video output.
2624 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2625 - Lots of improvements.
2626 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2627 - New design and set of icons.
2628 - Ability to embed video output.
2629 - Support for hotkeys.
2630 - Support for bookmarks.
2632 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2633 - Better hotkeys handling.
2636 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2637 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2638 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2639 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2642 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2643 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2644 * Improved Windows installer.
2650 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2651 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2654 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2655 ---------------------------------
2658 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2659 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2662 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2663 --------------------------------
2666 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2667 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2670 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2671 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2672 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2673 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2676 * Internal improvments
2677 * Improved import/export
2680 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2682 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2683 small and strange formats.
2685 * New MOD audio demux.
2686 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2687 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2688 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2689 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2692 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2693 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2694 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2700 * New opengl video output plugin.
2703 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2704 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2707 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2708 --------------------------------
2711 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2712 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2713 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2714 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2715 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2716 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2717 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2718 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2721 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2726 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2727 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2728 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2729 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2730 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2731 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2732 * Better Icecast support.
2733 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2734 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2737 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2738 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2739 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2740 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2741 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2742 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2743 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2746 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2747 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2748 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2749 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2750 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2751 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2752 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2753 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2754 * Preliminary RTP support.
2755 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2760 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2761 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2763 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2764 - Improvements and help in preferences
2765 - New streaming wizard
2766 - Revised Disc Open menu
2768 - Improvements of the standard pages
2769 - Support for new commands
2770 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2773 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2774 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2777 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2778 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2779 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2780 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2781 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2782 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2783 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2784 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2785 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2788 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2790 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2791 * Support for Panther.
2792 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2793 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2796 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2797 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2798 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2799 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2800 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2801 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2802 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2803 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2806 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2807 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2808 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2811 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2814 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2815 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2816 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2817 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2820 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2821 --------------------------------
2824 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2827 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2828 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2831 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2832 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2835 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2838 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2839 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2842 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2845 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2848 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2849 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2853 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2854 --------------------------------
2857 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2858 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2862 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2863 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2864 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2866 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2867 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2870 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2873 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2876 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2877 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2881 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2882 --------------------------------
2885 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2886 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2890 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2891 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2892 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2893 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2894 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2897 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2898 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2899 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2902 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2903 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2904 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2907 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2908 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2909 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2910 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2911 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2914 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2915 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2916 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2919 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2922 * Improved build system.
2923 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2924 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2925 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2926 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2929 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2930 --------------------------------
2933 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2936 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2937 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2938 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2939 * Video 4 Linux support
2940 * CD Digital Audio support
2941 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2944 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2945 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2946 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2947 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2950 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2951 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2952 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2953 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2954 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2955 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2956 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2959 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2960 * New HTTP remote control interface
2963 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2964 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2965 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2966 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2967 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2970 * New reset option for the preferences
2971 * You can set your language in the prefences
2972 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2973 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2974 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2975 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2978 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2979 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2980 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2983 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2984 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2985 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2986 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2987 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2988 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2989 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2990 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2991 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2992 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2995 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2996 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2997 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2998 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2999 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3000 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3001 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3004 * Interface localization
3005 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3006 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3007 * New full-featured Preferences window
3010 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3011 --------------------------------
3014 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3015 * support for skins at the interface level
3016 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3017 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3018 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3019 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3020 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3023 * fixed HTTP redirects
3024 * support for opening an entire directory
3025 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3026 * new video4linux access plug-in
3027 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3030 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3031 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3032 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3035 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3036 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3037 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3038 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3039 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3040 * new codec for raw I420 video
3041 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3044 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3045 (although it still misses some important features)
3046 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3049 * new HTTP output support
3050 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3051 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3054 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3057 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3060 * reorderable playlist
3061 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3062 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3063 * support for mono audio output devices
3064 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3065 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3066 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3067 * the messages window remembers more lines
3068 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3069 * http and ogg stream output options
3070 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3073 * new skinnable interface
3074 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3076 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3077 * support for FLAC audio format
3078 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3080 * network tab in the interface
3081 * "apply" handling in preferences
3084 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3085 ---------------------------------
3088 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3089 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3090 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3091 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3093 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3094 * DTS S/PDIF support
3097 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3098 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3099 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3100 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3103 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3104 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3107 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3110 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3113 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3115 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3116 * rc interface is now fully useable
3117 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3120 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3121 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3122 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3123 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3124 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3126 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3127 * support for mouse gestures
3128 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3131 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3132 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3135 * improved ID3 tag detection
3136 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3137 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3138 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3140 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3143 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3144 ---------------------------------
3147 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3148 English was set as the preferred language
3151 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3152 --------------------------------
3155 * new mouse gesture interface
3156 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3160 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3161 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3162 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3165 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3166 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3170 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3173 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3174 without the user consent
3177 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3179 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3180 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3181 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3184 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3185 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3186 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3187 * playlist enhancements
3188 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3189 * new step forward/step backward commands
3190 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3191 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3192 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3195 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3196 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3197 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3200 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3201 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3204 * native video output is working again
3205 * only commandline interface support
3206 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3209 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3210 --------------------------------
3213 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3214 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3215 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3216 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3217 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3218 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3219 and A/52 streams are supported)
3220 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3225 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3226 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3227 * VCD entry points support
3228 * VCD image file support
3231 * support for *.asf format
3232 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3233 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3234 * support for ogg encapsulation
3235 * support for raw DV format
3236 * support for *.wav format
3237 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3240 Stream discovery & playlists:
3241 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3242 * support for .m3u file format
3243 * support for .asx file format
3244 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3247 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3248 (only available with the .avi demux)
3249 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3250 * support for raw PCM data
3251 * support for Cinepak video codec
3252 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3253 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3254 * support for Xvid codec
3255 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3256 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3257 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3259 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3261 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3264 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3267 * new WxWindows interface
3268 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3269 device and the channels configuration
3270 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3271 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3272 format that VLC can play
3273 * new swedish translation
3274 * enhancements of the playlist window
3275 * new messages window to see debug info
3276 * fixed a few crashes
3279 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3280 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3281 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3282 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working