3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
40 * Vastly improved playlist support:
41 * Media library support
43 * Shoutcast TV listings
44 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
45 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
46 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
49 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
50 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
51 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
52 * JACK audio input support
53 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
54 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
55 * Fixed aiff stereo file
56 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
57 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
59 * APEv1/2 tags support
60 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
61 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
63 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
64 * Tivo Series 2 support
65 * v4l2 access module support
66 * CD+G karaoke Files support
69 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
70 * MKV USF subtitles support
71 * HTML based subtitles support
72 * Flash Screen Video support
73 * CamStudio Screen Video support
74 * DosBox Capture support
75 * Karl Morton's Video support
76 * limited atrac3 support
77 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
78 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
79 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
80 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, Tivo, DVB/ATSC)
82 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
83 * NellyMoser ASAO support
84 * APE ( Monkey audio ) support
87 * Flash Screen Video support
89 Video output and filters:
90 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
91 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
92 * New puzzle video output filter
93 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
94 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
96 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
97 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
98 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
100 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
101 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
102 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
103 was previously part of the mosaic module.
104 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
105 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
106 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
107 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
109 Audio output and filters
110 * Replay gain support.
111 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
112 * New spatializer audio filter.
115 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
116 * New RTP payload formats:
117 * Speex voice audio codec
118 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
119 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
120 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
121 * DCCP transport for RTP
122 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
126 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
128 * Improved user interaction
129 * Improved mouse gestures
131 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
132 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
133 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
134 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
135 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
136 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
137 * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
138 when using an UTF-8 locale.
139 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
142 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
143 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
144 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
147 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
151 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
160 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
161 ----------------------------------
163 Various bugfixes, notably:
164 * Windows Vista compatibility
165 * Cropping in Direct3D
166 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
167 * RSS filter string overflow
169 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
171 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
172 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
175 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
178 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
181 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
184 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
187 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
188 ----------------------------------
190 Various bugfixes, notably:
191 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
192 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
193 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
194 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
195 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
196 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
199 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
200 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
203 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
205 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
206 * Diverse usability improvements
207 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
208 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
209 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
212 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
213 ---------------------------------
216 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
219 * Fullscreen controller improvements
222 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
223 --------------------------------
226 * Shoutcast TV listings support
229 * Support for RTSP authentication
230 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
231 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
232 * ATSC support for DVB input
233 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
234 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
235 * Improved support for Flash Video files
238 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
239 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
240 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
241 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
242 * Matroska WavPack support
243 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
244 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
245 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
248 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
249 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
250 * Improved libcaca support
254 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
255 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
257 * Systray support in skins
259 * Support for Apple Remote control
260 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
261 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
262 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
263 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
265 * Notifications using notification-daemon
268 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
270 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
271 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
272 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
273 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
274 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
276 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
277 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
286 * Updates to the libvlc API
287 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
290 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
291 --------------------------------
294 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
295 * Support for downloading updates
299 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
300 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
301 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
302 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
304 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
305 * Improved subtitles encoding support
306 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
309 * Cook (Real audio) support
311 Playlist / Services discovery:
312 * XSPF playlist support
314 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
317 * New JACK audio output
321 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
322 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
323 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
324 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
325 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
326 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
329 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
332 * System to inform the user and request information
333 - HTTP authentication
337 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
338 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
339 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
342 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
343 - Improved playlist handling
344 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
346 - Embedded Video output
347 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
348 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
349 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
350 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
351 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
353 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
354 - A bunch of new RPN functions
357 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
360 * Mac-Intel compatibility
361 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
362 * Growl "Now playing" support
365 * Ability to log to syslog
366 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
369 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
371 * A bit more automatic testing
374 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
375 ---------------------------------
378 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
379 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
382 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
383 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
386 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
389 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
390 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
396 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
399 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
400 --------------------------------
403 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
407 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
408 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
409 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
412 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
413 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
414 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
415 * GnomeVFS input module
416 * Support for RTP packet reordering
417 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
420 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
421 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
422 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
425 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
426 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
432 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
433 Mixer and Dolby Surround
436 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
437 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
438 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
441 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
443 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
444 - New extended controls panel
445 - New bookmarks window
446 - Fixed playlist sorting
447 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
449 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
450 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
451 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
452 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
456 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
457 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
459 - Include macro to include other files
463 * Should now work outside IE as well
466 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
469 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
470 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
473 The following languages were added:
478 The following languages were re-added:
482 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
483 --------------------------------
486 * Rewrite of the playlist
488 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
489 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
490 * Preferences improvements:
491 - New organization, designed to improve usability
492 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
494 * Core image manipulation support
495 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
496 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
497 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
498 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
499 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
500 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
501 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
502 now separated by ':' instead of ','
503 * Access filter architecture
504 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
505 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
509 * Support for SOCKS proxy
510 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
511 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
512 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
513 * Better support for Kasenna streams
514 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
515 * Massive Matroska improvements
516 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
518 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
519 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
520 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
521 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
522 * Support for FTP over IPv6
525 * Dirac decoder and encoder
526 * PNG decoder/encoder
527 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
528 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
531 * New Record and Timeshift filters
534 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
535 * Brand new SAP module
536 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
537 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
538 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
539 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
540 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
541 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
545 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
548 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
549 * Image file video output (png)
550 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
551 * Improvements to wall video filter
552 * Support for font color and opacity
558 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
559 - Seeking support in VoD streams
560 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
564 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
565 - Improved preferences
566 - Improvements to the wizard
567 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
569 - Redesigned playlist
570 - Improved preferences
572 - Support for multiple actions
575 - Support for the new playlist system
577 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
580 * Screensaver disabling fix
581 * DirectShow tuner configuration
582 * Support for no-decoration windows
585 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
586 * The OpenGL video output is back
587 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
588 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
589 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
590 is not yet available in the new module
591 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
594 * Support for single-buffered overlay
603 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
606 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
609 The following languages were added:
615 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
616 --------------------------------
619 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
620 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
623 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
624 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
625 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
628 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
631 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
634 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
637 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
638 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
639 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
643 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
645 * Support of playlist group announcement
648 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
649 --------------------------------
652 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
653 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
654 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
655 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
656 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
657 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
660 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
661 (Stream your desktop)
662 * Improved DVD support:
663 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
664 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
665 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
666 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
667 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
668 (selection of titles/chapters).
671 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
672 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
673 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
674 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
675 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
676 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
677 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
678 * Improved Ogg demuxer
679 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
680 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
683 * G.726 audio support
684 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
685 * MPEG-4 text support
686 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
687 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
688 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
692 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
693 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
694 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
695 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
696 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
697 * DVB subtitles encoder
698 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
699 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
701 * Text track muxing for mp4
702 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
703 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
704 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
705 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
706 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
709 * H.263 RTP streaming support
710 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
711 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
714 * New audio equalizer filter
715 * Very trivial volume normalizer
716 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
717 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
718 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
721 * Roku HD1000 Video output
722 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
723 with support for effects.
724 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
725 - New filters can be streamed.
726 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
727 - Centralized scaling and blending
729 - "time", to display current time
730 - "marq", to display a marquee
733 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
734 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
735 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
736 * A few skins2 improvements
737 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
738 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
739 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
740 * Improved CORBA control module
743 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
744 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
745 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
748 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
749 * Experimental SVG rendering module
750 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
753 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
754 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
755 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
756 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
757 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
760 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
763 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
764 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
767 * Server/client network synchronization module
768 * VBrick streams fully supported
769 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
773 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
774 --------------------------------
777 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
778 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
779 * Improved HTTP daemon.
780 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
783 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
784 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
785 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
786 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
787 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
788 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
789 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
792 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
793 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
794 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
795 * Improved directory access module.
796 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
797 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
798 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
799 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
800 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
803 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
804 * mmsh streaming fixes.
805 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
808 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
809 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
810 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
813 * Improved session announcement system.
814 * Minimize threads usage by default.
815 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
816 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
817 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
818 * Improved transrater.
819 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
820 * New configuration system.
821 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
824 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
825 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
826 * Supports live streams and VoD.
827 * Supports scheduling.
828 * Telnet interface for vlm.
829 * HTTP interface for vlm.
832 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
833 - Ability to embed video output.
834 - Support for bitmap fonts.
835 - Lots of improvements.
836 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
837 - New design and set of icons.
838 - Ability to embed video output.
839 - Support for hotkeys.
840 - Support for bookmarks.
842 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
843 - Better hotkeys handling.
846 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
847 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
848 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
849 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
852 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
853 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
854 * Improved Windows installer.
860 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
861 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
864 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
865 ---------------------------------
868 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
869 * Playing MOD files is working now.
872 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
873 --------------------------------
876 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
877 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
880 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
881 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
882 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
883 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
886 * Internal improvments
887 * Improved import/export
890 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
892 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
893 small and strange formats.
895 * New MOD audio demux.
896 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
897 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
898 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
899 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
902 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
903 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
904 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
910 * New opengl video output plugin.
913 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
914 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
917 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
922 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
923 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
924 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
925 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
926 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
927 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
928 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
931 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
936 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
937 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
938 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
939 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
940 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
941 * Reworked DVB tuning.
942 * Better Icecast support.
943 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
944 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
947 * Support for Theora video encoding.
948 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
949 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
950 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
951 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
952 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
953 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
956 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
957 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
958 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
959 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
960 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
961 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
962 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
963 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
964 * Preliminary RTP support.
965 * Fixes to SAP announces.
970 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
971 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
973 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
974 - Improvements and help in preferences
975 - New streaming wizard
976 - Revised Disc Open menu
978 - Improvements of the standard pages
979 - Support for new commands
980 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
983 * Many fixes to the SAP module
984 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
987 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
988 * Text subtitles autodetection.
989 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
990 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
991 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
992 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
993 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
994 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
995 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
998 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1000 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1001 * Support for Panther.
1002 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1003 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1006 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1007 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1008 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1009 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1010 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1011 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1012 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1013 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1016 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1017 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1018 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1021 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1024 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1025 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1026 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1027 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1030 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1037 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1038 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1041 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1042 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1045 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1048 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1049 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1052 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1055 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1058 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1059 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1063 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1064 --------------------------------
1067 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1068 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1072 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1073 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1074 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1076 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1077 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1080 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1083 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1086 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1087 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1091 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1092 --------------------------------
1095 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1096 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1100 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1101 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1102 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1103 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1104 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1107 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1108 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1109 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1112 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1113 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1114 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1117 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1118 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1119 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1120 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1121 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1124 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1125 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1126 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1129 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1132 * Improved build system.
1133 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1134 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1135 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1136 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1139 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1146 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1147 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1148 * Video 4 Linux support
1149 * CD Digital Audio support
1150 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1153 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1154 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1155 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1156 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1159 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1160 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1161 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1162 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1163 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1164 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1165 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1168 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1169 * New HTTP remote control interface
1172 * 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.
1173 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1174 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1175 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1178 * New reset option for the preferences
1179 * You can set your language in the prefences
1180 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1181 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1182 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1183 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1186 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1187 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1188 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1191 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1192 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1193 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1194 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1195 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1196 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1197 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1198 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1199 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1200 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1203 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1204 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1205 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1206 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1207 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1208 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1209 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1212 * Interface localization
1213 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1214 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1215 * New full-featured Preferences window
1218 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1219 --------------------------------
1222 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1223 * support for skins at the interface level
1224 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1225 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1226 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1227 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1228 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1231 * fixed HTTP redirects
1232 * support for opening an entire directory
1233 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1234 * new video4linux access plug-in
1235 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1238 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1239 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1240 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1243 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1244 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1245 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1246 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1247 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1248 * new codec for raw I420 video
1249 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1252 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1253 (although it still misses some important features)
1254 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1257 * new HTTP output support
1258 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1259 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1262 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1265 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1268 * reorderable playlist
1269 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1270 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1271 * support for mono audio output devices
1272 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1273 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1274 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1275 * the messages window remembers more lines
1276 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1277 * http and ogg stream output options
1278 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1281 * new skinnable interface
1282 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1284 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1285 * support for FLAC audio format
1286 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1288 * network tab in the interface
1289 * "apply" handling in preferences
1292 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1293 ---------------------------------
1296 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1297 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1298 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1299 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1301 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1302 * DTS S/PDIF support
1305 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1306 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1307 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1308 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1311 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1312 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1315 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1318 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1321 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1323 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1324 * rc interface is now fully useable
1325 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1328 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1329 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1330 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1331 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1332 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1334 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1335 * support for mouse gestures
1336 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1339 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1340 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1343 * improved ID3 tag detection
1344 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1345 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1346 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1348 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1351 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1352 ---------------------------------
1355 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1356 English was set as the preferred language
1359 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1360 --------------------------------
1363 * new mouse gesture interface
1364 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1368 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1369 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1370 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1373 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1374 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1378 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1381 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1382 without the user consent
1385 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1387 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1388 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1389 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1392 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1393 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1394 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1395 * playlist enhancements
1396 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1397 * new step forward/step backward commands
1398 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1399 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1400 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1403 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1404 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1405 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1408 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1409 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1412 * native video output is working again
1413 * only commandline interface support
1414 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1417 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1418 --------------------------------
1421 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1422 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1423 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1424 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1425 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1426 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1427 and A/52 streams are supported)
1428 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1433 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1434 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1435 * VCD entry points support
1436 * VCD image file support
1439 * support for *.asf format
1440 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1441 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1442 * support for ogg encapsulation
1443 * support for raw DV format
1444 * support for *.wav format
1445 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1448 Stream discovery & playlists:
1449 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1450 * support for .m3u file format
1451 * support for .asx file format
1452 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1455 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1456 (only available with the .avi demux)
1457 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1458 * support for raw PCM data
1459 * support for Cinepak video codec
1460 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1461 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1462 * support for Xvid codec
1463 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1464 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1465 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1467 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1469 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1472 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1475 * new WxWindows interface
1476 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1477 device and the channels configuration
1478 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1479 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1480 format that VLC can play
1481 * new swedish translation
1482 * enhancements of the playlist window
1483 * new messages window to see debug info
1484 * fixed a few crashes
1487 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1488 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1489 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1490 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working