1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
22 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
23 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
26 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
27 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
30 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
31 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
32 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
35 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
36 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
37 * Ogg seeking improvements
38 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten from scratch using the C api
41 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
42 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
43 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
44 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
45 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
46 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
49 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
50 * New video output for iOS platform
51 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
52 * Various vmem improvements
55 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
56 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
57 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
58 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
61 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
64 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
67 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
68 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
69 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
70 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
71 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
72 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
73 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
74 * Major rework of VoD support
77 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
80 * New capabilities for libVLC:
81 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
84 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
85 ----------------------------------
88 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
92 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
95 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
98 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
99 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
100 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
101 * Taglib thread-safety fix
104 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
108 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
111 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
114 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
115 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
117 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
121 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
122 * Miscellaneous fixes
125 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
126 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
128 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
129 * New Asturian translation
132 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
133 ----------------------------------
136 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
138 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
141 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
144 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
145 * Various fixes for Windows
148 * New Armenian translation
149 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
150 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
153 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
154 --------------------------------
157 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
159 * Fix folders opening from the interface
162 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
163 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
166 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
167 --------------------------------
170 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
171 * fix for podcasts parsing
172 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
175 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
176 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
179 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
180 * fix m3u playlists exports
183 * fix video autoresize behaviour
186 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
189 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
192 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
195 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
198 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
199 --------------------------------
202 * Avformat fps displaying fix
203 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
206 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
207 of mono streams, especially on Windows
210 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
211 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
212 * fix console output encoding
214 Interface and extensions:
215 * Youtube and other scripts updates
216 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
219 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
220 --------------------------------
223 * New capabilities for libVLC:
224 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
225 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
226 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
227 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
228 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
229 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
230 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
231 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
232 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
233 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
234 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
235 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
236 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
237 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
238 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
242 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
243 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
244 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
245 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
246 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
249 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
252 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
253 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
254 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
258 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
261 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
262 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
263 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
266 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
267 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
268 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
269 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
272 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
273 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
276 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
277 --------------------------------
279 Important changes for users:
280 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
281 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
283 Important changes for packagers:
284 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
285 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
286 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
287 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
288 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
290 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
292 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
293 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
294 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
295 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
296 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
299 * Support for the sftp protocol
300 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
301 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
302 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
303 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
304 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
307 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
308 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
309 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
311 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
312 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
313 * Invmem module improvements
314 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
315 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
316 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
317 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
318 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
319 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
320 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
321 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
322 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
323 * Support for VP8 codec
324 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
327 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
328 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
329 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
330 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
331 * Various EGP improvements
332 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
333 * Metadata and cover art improvements
336 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
337 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
338 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
339 * Podcast images are now displayed
342 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
343 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
344 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
345 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
346 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
347 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
348 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
349 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
350 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
351 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
352 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
355 * New content extensions lua framework
358 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
359 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
360 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
361 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
362 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
363 * NEON assembly audio converter module
364 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
367 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
368 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
369 * Service discovery based on libudev
370 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
373 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
374 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
375 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
376 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
377 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
378 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
379 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
382 * New smem module, streaming to memory
383 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
384 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
387 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
389 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
390 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
393 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
396 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
397 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
398 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
399 by Andy Matuschak et al.
400 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
401 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
402 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
405 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
406 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
409 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
410 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
411 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
415 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
416 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
417 * Improved Solaris port
420 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
421 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
424 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
425 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
426 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
427 * transrate: broken since too long
428 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
429 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
430 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
431 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
432 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
433 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
434 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
435 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
436 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
437 * cddax: use cdda instead.
438 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
439 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
440 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
441 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
444 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
445 --------------------------------
448 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
450 Decoders/Packetizers:
451 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
454 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
455 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
456 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
457 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
458 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
461 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
462 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
465 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
466 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
469 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
470 and Walloon translations updated
471 * Sinhala translation started
474 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
475 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
478 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
479 --------------------------------
482 * SubRip extra styles improvements
483 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
486 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
489 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
490 increase performance and fix x264 issues
493 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
494 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
495 Russian, Slovak translation updates
496 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
499 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
500 --------------------------------
503 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
504 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
507 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
508 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
511 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
512 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
515 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
518 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
519 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
522 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
523 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
526 * New Walloon translation
527 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
530 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
531 --------------------------------
534 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
535 regressions in most popular drivers
536 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
539 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
540 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
541 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
544 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
545 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
548 * Update for appletrailers lua script
549 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
550 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
551 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
552 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
555 * New udev module for linux
558 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
561 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
564 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
565 --------------------------------
568 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
569 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
570 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
573 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
574 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
577 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
578 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
581 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
584 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
585 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
586 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
587 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
590 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
591 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
592 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
593 - no support for Goom and SDL
594 - limited text rendering support
595 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
598 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
599 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
600 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
601 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
602 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
603 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
604 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
605 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
606 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
610 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
613 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
616 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
617 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
618 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
619 Arabic and French translation updates
622 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
623 --------------------------------
626 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
627 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
628 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
629 * Fix Dailymotion access script
630 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
631 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
634 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
635 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
638 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
639 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
640 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
643 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
646 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
647 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
650 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
651 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
652 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
653 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
654 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
655 * Fix various crashes
658 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
660 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
663 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
664 ---------------------------------
668 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
669 See 'Access:' for more info.
670 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
673 * Instantaneous pausing
674 * Frame-by-Frame playback
675 * Finer speed control
676 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
677 * Timeshift for most medias
678 * RTSP trickplay support
679 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
682 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
683 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
684 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
685 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
686 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
687 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
688 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
689 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
690 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
691 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
694 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
695 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
696 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
697 * Metadata for mod files are supported
698 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
699 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
700 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
703 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
704 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
707 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
708 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
709 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
710 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
711 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
712 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
713 * DVB scanning on linux
714 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
715 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
716 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
717 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
718 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
719 * MTP device access on Unix
720 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
721 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
724 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
725 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
726 Windows and Mac OS X.
729 * Export the playlist in HTML
730 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
731 * Better metadata handling and reading
733 Linux/Windows interface:
734 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
735 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
736 * Recently played items list
737 * Interface toolbar customizations
738 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
741 - Improvements on many dialogs
742 - New dialog for plugins listing
743 - Fixed-size mode for videos
744 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
745 * Better integration in GTK environments
748 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
749 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
750 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
751 * Additional usability improvements
754 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
755 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
756 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
757 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
758 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
761 * New Maemo port with:
762 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
763 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
766 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
769 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
770 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
771 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
772 * Support for latest iSight models
775 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
776 * Surround support for PulseAudio
779 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
780 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
781 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
782 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
783 The old image video output has been removed.
784 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
785 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
788 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
796 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
797 --------------------------------------
803 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
804 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
805 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
806 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
807 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
808 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
809 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
811 Various fixes to the following modules:
814 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
815 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
818 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
823 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
824 ---------------------------------
827 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
828 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
831 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
832 ---------------------------------
835 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
838 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
841 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
842 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
843 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
844 main controller window.
845 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
848 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
853 * Updates of other localizations
856 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
857 * Lots of small bugfixes.
858 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
859 * Telnet fixes on Windows
860 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
863 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
864 ---------------------------------
867 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
869 Bunch of small bugfixes.
872 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
873 --------------------------------
878 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
879 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
882 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
883 --------------------------------
885 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
886 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
889 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
892 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
893 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
896 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
897 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
900 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
901 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
902 * Various fixed in playlist
905 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
908 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
911 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
912 ------------------------------------
914 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
915 * Fixes several memory leaks.
918 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
919 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
920 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
923 * Stability fix for the video output.
926 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
927 --------------------------------
930 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
931 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
932 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
933 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
934 * Fixed update system bugs
935 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
938 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
939 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
940 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
941 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
942 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
943 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
944 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
945 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
946 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
947 modern Mac OS X versions
950 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
951 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
953 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
954 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
957 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
958 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
959 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
960 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
961 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
962 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
965 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
966 --------------------------------
968 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
969 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
973 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
974 --------------------------------
976 * Multiple bug fixes.
979 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
980 ---------------------------------
984 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
985 recent to work correctly
986 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
987 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
988 edit the ".hosts" file.
989 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
990 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
991 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
992 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
993 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
994 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
995 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
996 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
997 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
998 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
999 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1000 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1001 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1002 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1003 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1004 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1005 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1006 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1007 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1008 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1009 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1010 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1011 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1012 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1013 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1014 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1015 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1016 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1017 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1018 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1019 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1020 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1021 and postproc modules.
1022 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1023 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1024 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1025 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1027 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1028 filter. For example:
1029 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1030 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1032 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1033 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1039 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1041 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1042 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1045 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1046 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1048 * Shoutcast TV listings
1049 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1051 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1052 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1054 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1057 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1058 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1059 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1060 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1061 * JACK audio input support
1062 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1063 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1064 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1065 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1066 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1067 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1068 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1069 (available as a separate download).
1070 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1071 * RTMP input support
1072 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1073 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1074 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1076 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1077 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1080 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1081 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1082 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1083 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1085 * APEv1/2 tags support
1086 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1087 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1089 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1090 * TiVo Series 2 support
1091 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1096 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1097 * Flash Screen Video support
1098 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1099 * DosBox Capture support
1100 * Karl Morton's Video support
1101 * limited atrac3 support
1103 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1104 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1105 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1106 * H.264 PAFF support
1107 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1108 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1109 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1110 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1111 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1114 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1115 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1116 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1117 * AQTitle subtitles support
1118 * MKV USF subtitles support
1119 * HTML-based subtitles support
1120 * MPSub subtitles support
1121 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1122 * MPL2 subtitles support
1123 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1124 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1125 * Realtext subtitle support
1126 * DKS subtitle support
1127 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1128 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1131 * Flash Screen Video support
1132 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1134 Video outputs and filters:
1135 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1136 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1137 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1138 * New puzzle video output filter
1139 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1140 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1142 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1143 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1144 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1145 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1146 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1147 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1148 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1149 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1150 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1151 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1152 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1153 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1154 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1155 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1157 Audio outputs and filters:
1158 * Replay gain support
1159 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1160 new scaletempo audio filter)
1161 * New spatializer audio filter
1162 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1165 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1166 * New RTP payload formats:
1167 * Speex voice audio codec
1168 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1169 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1170 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1171 * DCCP transport for RTP
1172 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1177 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1178 end-user suitable way.
1179 * Improved user interaction
1180 * Improved mouse gestures
1181 * Vastly improved Update checker
1182 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1184 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1185 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1187 * Improved video output features
1188 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1189 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1190 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1191 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1192 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1194 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1195 if libncursesw is available.
1196 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1197 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1198 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1200 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1201 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1202 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1203 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1204 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1205 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1206 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1207 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1210 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1211 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1212 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1215 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1216 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1217 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1218 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1219 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1220 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1223 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1224 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1234 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1235 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1236 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1239 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1240 ----------------------------------
1243 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1246 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1247 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1248 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1249 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1250 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1251 * Updated Polish translation
1254 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1255 ----------------------------------
1258 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1259 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1260 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1263 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1264 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1265 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1266 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1267 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1268 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1269 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1270 to an unexpected application termination
1271 * New Serbian translation
1272 * Updated Romanian translation
1275 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1276 ----------------------------------
1279 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1280 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1281 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1282 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1283 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1284 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1285 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1286 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1289 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1290 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1291 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1292 * Fixed AAC resampling
1293 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1294 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1297 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1298 ----------------------------------
1301 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1302 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1303 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1304 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1305 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1308 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1309 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1310 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1311 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1312 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1315 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1316 ----------------------------------
1319 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1320 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1323 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1324 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1325 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1326 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1328 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1332 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1335 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1338 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1341 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1344 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1345 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1346 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1347 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1348 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1350 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1351 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1352 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1353 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1356 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1359 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1360 ----------------------------------
1363 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1364 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1365 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1367 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1368 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1370 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1371 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1374 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1376 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1377 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1378 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1379 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1380 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1381 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1382 two different movies
1383 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1384 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1385 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1388 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1391 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1392 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1393 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1394 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1397 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1398 ----------------------------------
1400 Various bugfixes, notably:
1401 * Windows Vista compatibility
1402 * Cropping in Direct3D
1403 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1404 * RSS filter string overflow
1406 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1408 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1409 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1412 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1413 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1416 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1419 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1422 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1425 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1426 ----------------------------------
1428 Various bugfixes, notably:
1429 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1430 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1431 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1432 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1433 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1434 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1437 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1438 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1441 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1443 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1444 * Diverse usability improvements
1445 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1446 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1447 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1450 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1451 ---------------------------------
1453 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1454 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1457 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1460 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1461 --------------------------------
1464 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1467 * Support for RTSP authentication
1468 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1469 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1470 * ATSC support for DVB input
1471 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1472 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1473 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1476 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1477 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1478 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1479 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1480 * Matroska WavPack support
1481 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1482 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1483 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1486 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1487 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1488 * Improved libcaca support
1492 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1493 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1495 * Systray support in skins
1497 * Support for Apple Remote control
1498 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1499 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1500 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1501 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1503 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1506 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1507 Windows 9x/ME users:
1508 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1509 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1510 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1511 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1512 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1514 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1515 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1524 * Updates to the libvlc API
1525 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1528 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1529 --------------------------------
1532 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1533 * Support for downloading updates
1537 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1538 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1539 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1540 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1542 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1543 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1544 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1547 * Cook (Real audio) support
1549 Playlist / Services discovery:
1550 * XSPF playlist support
1552 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1555 * New JACK audio output
1558 * New video filters:
1559 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1560 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1561 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1562 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1563 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1564 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1567 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1570 * System to inform the user and request information
1571 - HTTP authentication
1575 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1576 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1577 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1580 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1581 - Improved playlist handling
1582 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1584 - Embedded Video output
1585 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1586 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1587 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1588 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1589 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1591 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1592 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1595 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1598 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1599 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1600 * Growl "Now playing" support
1603 * Ability to log to syslog
1604 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1607 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1609 * A bit more automatic testing
1612 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1613 ---------------------------------
1616 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1617 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1620 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1621 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1624 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1627 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1628 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1634 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1637 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1638 --------------------------------
1641 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1645 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1646 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1647 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1650 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1651 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1652 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1653 * GnomeVFS input module
1654 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1655 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1658 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1659 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1660 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1663 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1664 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1670 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1671 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1674 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1675 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1676 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1679 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1681 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1682 - New extended controls panel
1683 - New bookmarks window
1684 - Fixed playlist sorting
1685 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1687 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1688 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1689 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1690 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1694 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1695 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1697 - Include macro to include other files
1701 * Should now work outside IE as well
1704 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1707 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1708 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1711 The following languages were added:
1715 * Simplified Chinese
1716 The following languages were re-added:
1720 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1721 --------------------------------
1724 * Rewrite of the playlist
1726 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1727 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1728 * Preferences improvements:
1729 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1730 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1732 * Core image manipulation support
1733 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1734 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1735 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1736 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1737 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1738 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1739 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1740 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1741 * Access filter architecture
1742 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1743 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1747 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1748 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1749 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1750 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1751 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1752 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1753 * Massive Matroska improvements
1754 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1756 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1757 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1758 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1759 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1760 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1762 Decoders / Encoders:
1763 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1764 * PNG decoder/encoder
1765 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1766 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1769 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1772 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1773 * Brand new SAP module
1774 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1775 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1776 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1777 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1778 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1779 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1783 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1786 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1787 * Image file video output (png)
1788 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1789 * Improvements to wall video filter
1790 * Support for font color and opacity
1796 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1797 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1798 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1802 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1803 - Improved preferences
1804 - Improvements to the wizard
1805 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1807 - Redesigned playlist
1808 - Improved preferences
1810 - Support for multiple actions
1813 - Support for the new playlist system
1815 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1818 * Screensaver disabling fix
1819 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1820 * Support for no-decoration windows
1823 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1824 * The OpenGL video output is back
1825 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1826 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1827 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1828 is not yet available in the new module
1829 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1832 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1841 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1844 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1847 The following languages were added:
1853 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1854 --------------------------------
1857 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1858 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1861 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1862 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1863 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1866 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1869 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1872 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1875 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1876 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1877 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1881 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1883 * Support of playlist group announcement
1886 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1887 --------------------------------
1890 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1891 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1892 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1893 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1894 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1895 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1898 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1899 (Stream your desktop)
1900 * Improved DVD support:
1901 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1902 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1903 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1904 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1905 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1906 (selection of titles/chapters).
1909 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1910 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1911 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1912 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1913 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1914 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1915 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1916 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1917 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1918 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1921 * G.726 audio support
1922 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1923 * MPEG-4 text support
1924 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1925 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1926 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1930 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1931 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1932 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1933 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1934 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1935 * DVB subtitles encoder
1936 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1937 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1939 * Text track muxing for mp4
1940 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1941 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1942 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1943 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1944 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1945 * Improved ASF muxer
1947 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1948 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1949 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1952 * New audio equalizer filter
1953 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1954 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1955 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1956 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1959 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1960 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1961 with support for effects.
1962 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1963 - New filters can be streamed.
1964 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1965 - Centralized scaling and blending
1967 - "time", to display current time
1968 - "marq", to display a marquee
1971 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1972 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1973 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1974 * A few skins2 improvements
1975 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1976 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1977 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1978 * Improved CORBA control module
1981 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1982 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1983 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1986 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1987 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1988 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1991 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1992 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1993 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1994 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1995 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1998 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2001 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2002 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2005 * Server/client network synchronization module
2006 * VBrick streams fully supported
2007 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2011 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2012 --------------------------------
2015 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2016 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2017 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2018 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2021 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2022 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2023 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2024 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2025 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2026 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2027 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2030 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2031 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2032 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2033 * Improved directory access module.
2034 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2035 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2036 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2037 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2038 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2041 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2042 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2043 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2046 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2047 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2048 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2051 * Improved session announcement system.
2052 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2053 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2054 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2055 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2056 * Improved transrater.
2057 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2058 * New configuration system.
2059 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2062 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2063 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2064 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2065 * Supports scheduling.
2066 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2067 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2070 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2071 - Ability to embed video output.
2072 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2073 - Lots of improvements.
2074 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2075 - New design and set of icons.
2076 - Ability to embed video output.
2077 - Support for hotkeys.
2078 - Support for bookmarks.
2080 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2081 - Better hotkeys handling.
2084 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2085 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2086 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2087 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2090 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2091 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2092 * Improved Windows installer.
2098 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2099 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2102 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2103 ---------------------------------
2106 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2107 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2110 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2111 --------------------------------
2114 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2115 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2118 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2119 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2120 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2121 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2124 * Internal improvments
2125 * Improved import/export
2128 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2130 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2131 small and strange formats.
2133 * New MOD audio demux.
2134 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2135 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2136 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2137 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2140 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2141 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2142 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2148 * New opengl video output plugin.
2151 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2152 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2155 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2156 --------------------------------
2159 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2160 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2161 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2162 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2163 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2164 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2165 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2166 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2169 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2174 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2175 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2176 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2177 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2178 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2179 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2180 * Better Icecast support.
2181 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2182 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2185 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2186 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2187 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2188 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2189 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2190 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2191 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2194 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2195 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2196 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2197 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2198 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2199 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2200 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2201 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2202 * Preliminary RTP support.
2203 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2208 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2209 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2211 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2212 - Improvements and help in preferences
2213 - New streaming wizard
2214 - Revised Disc Open menu
2216 - Improvements of the standard pages
2217 - Support for new commands
2218 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2221 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2222 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2225 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2226 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2227 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2228 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2229 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2230 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2231 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2232 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2233 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2236 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2238 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2239 * Support for Panther.
2240 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2241 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2244 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2245 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2246 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2247 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2248 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2249 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2250 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2251 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2254 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2255 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2256 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2259 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2262 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2263 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2264 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2265 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2268 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2269 --------------------------------
2272 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2275 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2276 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2279 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2280 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2283 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2286 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2287 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2290 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2293 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2296 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2297 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2301 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2302 --------------------------------
2305 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2306 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2310 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2311 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2312 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2314 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2315 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2318 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2321 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2324 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2325 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2329 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2330 --------------------------------
2333 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2334 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2338 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2339 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2340 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2341 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2342 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2345 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2346 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2347 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2350 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2351 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2352 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2355 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2356 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2357 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2358 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2359 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2362 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2363 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2364 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2367 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2370 * Improved build system.
2371 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2372 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2373 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2374 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2377 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2378 --------------------------------
2381 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2384 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2385 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2386 * Video 4 Linux support
2387 * CD Digital Audio support
2388 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2391 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2392 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2393 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2394 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2397 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2398 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2399 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2400 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2401 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2402 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2403 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2406 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2407 * New HTTP remote control interface
2410 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2411 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2412 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2413 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2416 * New reset option for the preferences
2417 * You can set your language in the prefences
2418 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2419 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2420 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2421 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2424 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2425 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2426 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2429 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2430 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2431 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2432 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2433 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2434 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2435 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2436 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2437 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2438 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2441 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2442 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2443 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2444 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2445 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2446 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2447 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2450 * Interface localization
2451 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2452 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2453 * New full-featured Preferences window
2456 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2457 --------------------------------
2460 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2461 * support for skins at the interface level
2462 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2463 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2464 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2465 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2466 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2469 * fixed HTTP redirects
2470 * support for opening an entire directory
2471 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2472 * new video4linux access plug-in
2473 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2476 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2477 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2478 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2481 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2482 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2483 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2484 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2485 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2486 * new codec for raw I420 video
2487 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2490 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2491 (although it still misses some important features)
2492 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2495 * new HTTP output support
2496 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2497 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2500 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2503 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2506 * reorderable playlist
2507 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2508 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2509 * support for mono audio output devices
2510 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2511 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2512 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2513 * the messages window remembers more lines
2514 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2515 * http and ogg stream output options
2516 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2519 * new skinnable interface
2520 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2522 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2523 * support for FLAC audio format
2524 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2526 * network tab in the interface
2527 * "apply" handling in preferences
2530 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2531 ---------------------------------
2534 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2535 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2536 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2537 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2539 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2540 * DTS S/PDIF support
2543 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2544 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2545 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2546 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2549 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2550 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2553 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2556 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2559 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2561 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2562 * rc interface is now fully useable
2563 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2566 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2567 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2568 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2569 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2570 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2572 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2573 * support for mouse gestures
2574 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2577 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2578 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2581 * improved ID3 tag detection
2582 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2583 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2584 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2586 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2589 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2590 ---------------------------------
2593 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2594 English was set as the preferred language
2597 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2598 --------------------------------
2601 * new mouse gesture interface
2602 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2606 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2607 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2608 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2611 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2612 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2616 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2619 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2620 without the user consent
2623 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2625 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2626 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2627 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2630 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2631 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2632 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2633 * playlist enhancements
2634 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2635 * new step forward/step backward commands
2636 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2637 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2638 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2641 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2642 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2643 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2646 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2647 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2650 * native video output is working again
2651 * only commandline interface support
2652 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2655 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2656 --------------------------------
2659 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2660 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2661 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2662 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2663 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2664 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2665 and A/52 streams are supported)
2666 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2671 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2672 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2673 * VCD entry points support
2674 * VCD image file support
2677 * support for *.asf format
2678 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2679 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2680 * support for ogg encapsulation
2681 * support for raw DV format
2682 * support for *.wav format
2683 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2686 Stream discovery & playlists:
2687 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2688 * support for .m3u file format
2689 * support for .asx file format
2690 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2693 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2694 (only available with the .avi demux)
2695 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2696 * support for raw PCM data
2697 * support for Cinepak video codec
2698 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2699 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2700 * support for Xvid codec
2701 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2702 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2703 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2705 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2707 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2710 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2713 * new WxWindows interface
2714 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2715 device and the channels configuration
2716 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2717 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2718 format that VLC can play
2719 * new swedish translation
2720 * enhancements of the playlist window
2721 * new messages window to see debug info
2722 * fixed a few crashes
2725 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2726 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2727 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2728 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working