1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
18 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
21 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
24 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
25 * Major improvements in DASH support
26 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
27 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
28 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
31 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
32 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
33 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
34 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
35 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
36 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
37 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
38 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
39 * Support for more MJPEG streams
42 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
43 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
44 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
47 * new remapping channel filter
48 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
49 * new VSXu visualization plugin
52 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
56 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
57 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
58 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
59 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
60 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
61 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
64 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
67 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
68 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
69 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
70 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
71 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
74 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
75 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
78 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
80 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
81 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
82 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
83 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
84 VLC's internal volume level
85 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
86 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
87 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
88 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
90 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
91 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
92 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
93 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
97 * Partial support for Qt5.0
98 * Menus modifications and improvements
99 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
100 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
104 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
105 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
106 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
107 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
110 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
111 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
112 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
113 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
114 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
116 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
117 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
120 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
121 --------------------------------
124 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
127 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
128 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
131 * Add GateKeeper support
132 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
133 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
134 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
137 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
140 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
141 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
142 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
143 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
144 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
147 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
148 --------------------------------
151 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
152 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
153 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
154 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
155 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
156 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
157 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
158 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
159 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
160 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
161 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
165 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
166 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
167 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
168 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
169 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
170 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
171 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
172 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
173 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
174 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
175 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
176 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
179 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
180 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
182 * Fix MP3 free format support
185 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
186 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
187 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
188 * Fix for DVB channels file support
189 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
192 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
193 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
195 Audio filters and output:
196 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
197 * Fix DirectSound device selection
198 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
199 * Do not apply volume in file output
200 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
201 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
204 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
205 the persistant media library
206 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
207 to the media library or the temporary playlist
208 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
209 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
210 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
211 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
212 press on the Play/Pause button
213 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
214 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
215 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
216 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
217 * Many Fullscreen fixes
218 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
219 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
220 Synchronization panel
221 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
222 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
223 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
224 * Fix crashes on exit
225 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
227 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
228 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
229 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
230 automatically reset on the first launch.
231 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
232 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
233 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
236 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
237 * Fixes for icecast SD
240 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
241 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
242 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
243 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
244 * Fix tags and file names display
245 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
248 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
249 * Fix for key events and focus loss
252 * Fix display of some buttons
253 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
254 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
257 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
258 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
259 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
262 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
263 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
264 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
265 Thai translations update
266 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
269 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
270 --------------------------------
273 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
274 * fix the samba module compilation
275 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
276 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
277 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
278 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
281 * Support for MXPEG files
282 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
283 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
286 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
287 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
288 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
291 * Fix ogm header creation
294 * limit spatializer filter distortions
295 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
298 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
299 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
300 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
301 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
304 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
307 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
308 * allow to hide the sidebar
309 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
310 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
311 * noticebly faster launch time
312 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
313 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
314 * improve track synchronization panel
315 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
316 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
319 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
320 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
321 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
322 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
325 * fix for menus display
326 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
327 * documentation update
330 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
331 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
334 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
335 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
336 * Update Jamendo selections
340 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
341 * fix a crash on VLM close
344 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
345 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
346 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
347 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
350 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
353 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
354 ---------------------------------
357 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
358 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
359 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
360 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
361 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
362 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
363 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
364 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
365 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
366 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
367 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
368 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
369 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
370 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
371 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
372 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
373 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
374 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
375 --http-crl (optional CRL).
376 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
377 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
378 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
379 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
380 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
381 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
382 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
384 Important changes for packagers:
385 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
386 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
387 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
388 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
389 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
390 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
391 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
392 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
393 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
394 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
397 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
398 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
399 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
400 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
401 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
402 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
403 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
406 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
407 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
408 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
409 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
410 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
411 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
412 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
413 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
414 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
415 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
416 * PulseAudio audio input support
417 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
418 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
419 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
420 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
421 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
422 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
423 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
424 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
427 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
428 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
429 are notably concerned.
430 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
431 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
432 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
433 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
434 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
435 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
436 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
437 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
438 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
439 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
440 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
441 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
442 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
443 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
444 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
447 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
448 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
449 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
450 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
451 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
452 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
453 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
454 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
455 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
456 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
457 * Improved support of tracker files
458 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
461 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
462 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
463 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
464 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
465 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
466 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
467 and important cleanups and optimisations
468 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
469 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
470 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
471 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
472 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
473 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
474 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
475 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
476 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
477 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
478 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
479 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
480 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
481 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
482 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
483 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
484 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
485 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
486 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
487 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
488 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
491 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
492 * New video output for iOS platform
493 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
494 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
495 * Various vmem improvements
496 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
497 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
498 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
499 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
500 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
501 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
503 Audio Output and Filters:
504 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
505 * New audio output in memory (amem)
506 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
507 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
508 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
509 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
510 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
511 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
512 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
513 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
516 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
517 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
518 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
519 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
520 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
521 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
522 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
523 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
524 * New anti-flickering filter
525 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
526 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
527 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
528 blackbox and customizable shadow.
529 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
530 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
531 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
534 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
535 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
536 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
537 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
538 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
539 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
540 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
541 * Major rework of VoD support
542 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
543 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
544 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
545 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
546 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
547 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
548 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
549 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
550 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
551 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
554 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
555 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
558 * New capabilities for libVLC:
559 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
560 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
561 list of available audio and video filters
562 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
563 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
564 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
567 * asademux, subsass: use libass
568 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
569 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
571 * upnp: use upnp_intel
572 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
573 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
574 * removal of the noise filter
575 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
576 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
577 removed in Growl's next release, too.
578 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
581 * Update of translations for most languages.
582 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
585 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
586 ----------------------------------
589 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
590 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
593 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
594 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
597 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
598 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
599 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
602 * Camtasia decoding fix.
605 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
606 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
609 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
612 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
613 ----------------------------------
616 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
617 including support for OS X Lion
618 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
619 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
622 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
625 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
626 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
627 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
630 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
633 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
634 ----------------------------------
637 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
638 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
641 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
642 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
643 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
644 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
645 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
647 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
648 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
649 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
651 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
652 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
655 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
658 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
661 * Fix quitting on Linux
662 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
666 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
669 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
672 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
673 ---------------------------------
675 Windows and Mac OS X:
676 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
679 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
680 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
683 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
686 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
689 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
691 Miscellaneous fixes in:
692 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
694 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
695 * RTP output and XML export
696 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
700 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
701 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
702 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
703 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
706 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
707 --------------------------------
709 Windows and Mac OS X:
710 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
713 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
716 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
717 * Improve Apple Remote handling
718 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
719 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
720 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
721 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
724 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
725 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
729 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
730 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
731 * New Luganda Translation
734 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
735 --------------------------------
738 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
741 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
742 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
743 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
744 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
747 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
749 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
750 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
751 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
752 * mp4 demuxer improvements
753 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
754 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
755 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
756 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
758 Miscellaneous fixes in:
759 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
760 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
761 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
762 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
763 * Configure and build system improvements
764 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
767 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
768 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
769 * New icelandic translation
772 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
773 --------------------------------
776 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
780 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
781 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
782 and stability reasons
785 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
789 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
792 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
793 ----------------------------------
796 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
799 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
800 ---------------------------------
803 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
804 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
805 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
806 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
809 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
812 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
813 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
814 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
815 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
818 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
819 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
820 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
822 Subtitles and renderer:
823 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
824 * Mark more freetype options as safe
825 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
826 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
827 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
830 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
831 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
832 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
833 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
836 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
837 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
840 * KDE device solid actions
842 * Transcode integer overflow
843 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
844 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
847 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
848 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
849 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
852 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
853 ----------------------------------
856 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
860 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
863 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
866 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
867 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
868 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
869 * Taglib thread-safety fix
872 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
876 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
879 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
882 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
883 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
885 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
889 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
890 * Miscellaneous fixes
893 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
894 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
896 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
897 * New Asturian translation
900 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
901 ----------------------------------
904 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
906 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
909 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
912 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
913 * Various fixes for Windows
916 * New Armenian translation
917 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
918 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
921 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
922 --------------------------------
925 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
927 * Fix folders opening from the interface
930 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
931 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
934 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
935 --------------------------------
938 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
939 * fix for podcasts parsing
940 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
943 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
944 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
947 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
948 * fix m3u playlists exports
951 * fix video autoresize behaviour
954 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
957 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
960 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
963 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
966 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
967 --------------------------------
970 * Avformat fps displaying fix
971 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
974 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
975 of mono streams, especially on Windows
978 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
979 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
980 * fix console output encoding
982 Interface and extensions:
983 * Youtube and other scripts updates
984 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
987 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
988 --------------------------------
991 * New capabilities for libVLC:
992 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
993 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
994 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
995 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
996 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
997 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
998 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
999 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1000 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1001 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1002 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1003 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1004 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1005 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1006 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1010 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1011 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1012 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1013 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1014 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1017 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1020 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1021 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1022 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1026 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1029 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1030 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1031 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1034 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1035 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1036 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1037 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1040 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1041 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1044 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1045 --------------------------------
1047 Important changes for users:
1048 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1049 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1051 Important changes for packagers:
1052 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1053 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1054 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1055 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1056 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1058 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1060 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1061 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1062 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1063 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1064 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1067 * Support for the sftp protocol
1068 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1069 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1070 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1071 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1072 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1075 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1076 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1077 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1079 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1080 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1081 * Invmem module improvements
1082 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1083 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1084 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1085 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1086 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1087 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1088 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1089 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1090 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1091 * Support for VP8 codec
1092 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1095 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1096 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1097 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1098 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1099 * Various EGP improvements
1100 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1101 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1104 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1105 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1106 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1107 * Podcast images are now displayed
1110 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1111 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1112 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1113 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1114 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1115 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1116 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1117 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1118 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1119 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1120 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1123 * New content extensions lua framework
1126 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1127 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1128 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1129 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1130 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1131 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1132 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1135 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1136 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1137 * Service discovery based on libudev
1138 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1141 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1142 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1143 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1144 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1145 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1146 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1147 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1150 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1151 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1152 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1155 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1157 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1158 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1161 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1164 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1165 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1166 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1167 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1168 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1169 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1170 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1173 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1174 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1177 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1178 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1179 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1183 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1184 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1185 * Improved Solaris port
1188 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1189 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1192 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1193 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1194 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1195 * transrate: broken since too long
1196 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1197 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1198 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1199 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1200 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1201 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1202 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1203 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1204 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1205 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1206 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1207 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1208 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1209 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1212 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1213 --------------------------------
1216 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1218 Decoders/Packetizers:
1219 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1222 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1223 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1224 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1225 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1226 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1229 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1230 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1233 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1234 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1237 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1238 and Walloon translations updated
1239 * Sinhala translation started
1242 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1243 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1246 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1247 --------------------------------
1250 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1251 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1254 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1257 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1258 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1261 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1262 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1263 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1264 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1267 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1268 --------------------------------
1271 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1272 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1275 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1276 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1279 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1280 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1283 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1286 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1287 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1290 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1291 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1294 * New Walloon translation
1295 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1298 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1299 --------------------------------
1302 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1303 regressions in most popular drivers
1304 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1307 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1308 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1309 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1312 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1313 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1316 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1317 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1318 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1319 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1320 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1323 * New udev module for linux
1326 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1329 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1332 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1333 --------------------------------
1336 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1337 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1338 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1341 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1342 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1345 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1346 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1349 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1352 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1353 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1354 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1355 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1358 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1359 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1360 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1361 - no support for Goom and SDL
1362 - limited text rendering support
1363 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1366 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1367 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1368 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1369 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1370 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1371 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1372 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1373 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1374 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1378 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1381 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1384 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1385 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1386 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1387 Arabic and French translation updates
1390 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1395 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1396 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1397 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1398 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1399 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1402 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1403 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1404 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1407 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1408 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1409 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1412 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1415 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1416 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1419 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1420 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1421 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1422 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1423 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1424 * Fix various crashes
1427 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1429 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1433 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1434 ---------------------------------
1438 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1439 See 'Access:' for more info.
1440 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1443 * Instantaneous pausing
1444 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1445 * Finer speed control
1446 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1447 * Timeshift for most medias
1448 * RTSP trickplay support
1449 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1452 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1453 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1454 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1455 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1456 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1457 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1458 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1459 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1460 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1461 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1464 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1465 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1466 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1467 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1468 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1469 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1470 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1473 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1474 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1477 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1478 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1479 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1480 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1481 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1482 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1483 * DVB scanning on linux
1484 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1485 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1486 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1487 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1488 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1489 * MTP device access on Unix
1490 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1491 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1494 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1495 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1496 Windows and Mac OS X.
1499 * Export the playlist in HTML
1500 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1501 * Better metadata handling and reading
1503 Linux/Windows interface:
1504 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1505 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1506 * Recently played items list
1507 * Interface toolbar customizations
1508 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1509 - More menus actions
1510 - Finer speed slider
1511 - Improvements on many dialogs
1512 - New dialog for plugins listing
1513 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1514 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1515 * Better integration in GTK environments
1518 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1519 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1520 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1521 * Additional usability improvements
1524 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1525 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1526 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1527 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1528 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1531 * New Maemo port with:
1532 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1533 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1536 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1539 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1540 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1541 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1542 * Support for latest iSight models
1545 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1546 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1549 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1550 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1551 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1552 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1553 The old image video output has been removed.
1554 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1555 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1558 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1566 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1567 --------------------------------------
1573 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1574 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1575 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1576 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1577 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1578 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1579 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1581 Various fixes to the following modules:
1584 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1585 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1586 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1588 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1593 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1594 ---------------------------------
1597 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1598 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1601 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1602 ---------------------------------
1605 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1608 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1611 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1612 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1613 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1614 main controller window.
1615 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1618 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1623 * Updates of other localizations
1626 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1627 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1628 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1629 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1630 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1633 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1634 ---------------------------------
1637 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1639 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1642 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1643 --------------------------------
1648 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1649 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1652 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1653 --------------------------------
1655 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1656 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1659 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1662 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1663 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1666 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1667 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1670 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1671 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1672 * Various fixed in playlist
1675 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1678 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1681 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1682 ------------------------------------
1684 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1685 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1688 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1689 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1690 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1693 * Stability fix for the video output.
1696 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1697 --------------------------------
1700 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1701 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1702 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1703 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1704 * Fixed update system bugs
1705 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1708 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1709 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1710 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1711 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1712 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1713 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1714 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1715 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1716 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1717 modern Mac OS X versions
1720 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1721 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1723 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1724 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1727 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1728 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1729 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1730 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1731 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1732 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1735 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1736 --------------------------------
1738 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1739 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1740 * Multiple bugfixes.
1743 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1744 --------------------------------
1746 * Multiple bug fixes.
1749 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1750 ---------------------------------
1754 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1755 recent to work correctly
1756 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1757 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1758 edit the ".hosts" file.
1759 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1760 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1761 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1762 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1763 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1764 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1765 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1766 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1767 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1768 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1769 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1770 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1771 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1772 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1773 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1774 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1775 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1776 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1777 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1778 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1779 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1780 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1781 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1782 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1783 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1784 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1785 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1786 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1787 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1788 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1789 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1790 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1791 and postproc modules.
1792 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1793 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1794 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1795 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1797 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1798 filter. For example:
1799 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1800 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1802 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1803 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1809 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1811 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1812 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1815 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1816 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1818 * Shoutcast TV listings
1819 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1821 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1822 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1824 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1827 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1828 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1829 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1830 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1831 * JACK audio input support
1832 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1833 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1834 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1835 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1836 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1837 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1838 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1839 (available as a separate download).
1840 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1841 * RTMP input support
1842 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1843 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1844 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1846 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1847 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1850 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1851 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1852 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1853 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1855 * APEv1/2 tags support
1856 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1857 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1859 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1860 * TiVo Series 2 support
1861 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1866 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1867 * Flash Screen Video support
1868 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1869 * DosBox Capture support
1870 * Karl Morton's Video support
1871 * limited atrac3 support
1873 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1874 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1875 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1876 * H.264 PAFF support
1877 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1878 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1879 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1880 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1881 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1884 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1885 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1886 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1887 * AQTitle subtitles support
1888 * MKV USF subtitles support
1889 * HTML-based subtitles support
1890 * MPSub subtitles support
1891 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1892 * MPL2 subtitles support
1893 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1894 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1895 * Realtext subtitle support
1896 * DKS subtitle support
1897 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1898 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1901 * Flash Screen Video support
1902 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1904 Video outputs and filters:
1905 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1906 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1907 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1908 * New puzzle video output filter
1909 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1910 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1912 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1913 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1914 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1915 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1916 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1917 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1918 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1919 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1920 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1921 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1922 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1923 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1924 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1925 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1927 Audio outputs and filters:
1928 * Replay gain support
1929 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1930 new scaletempo audio filter)
1931 * New spatializer audio filter
1932 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1935 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1936 * New RTP payload formats:
1937 * Speex voice audio codec
1938 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1939 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1940 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1941 * DCCP transport for RTP
1942 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1947 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1948 end-user suitable way.
1949 * Improved user interaction
1950 * Improved mouse gestures
1951 * Vastly improved Update checker
1952 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1954 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1955 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1957 * Improved video output features
1958 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1959 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1960 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1961 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1962 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1964 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1965 if libncursesw is available.
1966 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1967 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1968 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1970 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1971 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1972 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1973 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1974 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1975 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1976 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1977 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1980 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1981 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1982 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1985 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1986 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1987 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1988 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1989 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1990 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1993 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1994 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2004 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2005 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2006 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2009 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2010 ----------------------------------
2013 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2016 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2017 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2018 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2019 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2020 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2021 * Updated Polish translation
2024 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2025 ----------------------------------
2028 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2029 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2030 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2033 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2034 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2035 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2036 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2037 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2038 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2039 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2040 to an unexpected application termination
2041 * New Serbian translation
2042 * Updated Romanian translation
2045 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2046 ----------------------------------
2049 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2050 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2051 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2052 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2053 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2054 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2055 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2056 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2059 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2060 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2061 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2062 * Fixed AAC resampling
2063 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2064 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2067 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2068 ----------------------------------
2071 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2072 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2073 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2074 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2075 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2078 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2079 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2080 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2081 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2082 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2085 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2086 ----------------------------------
2089 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2090 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2093 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2094 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2095 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2096 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2098 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2102 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2105 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2108 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2111 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2114 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2115 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2116 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2117 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2118 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2120 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2121 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2122 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2123 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2126 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2129 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2130 ----------------------------------
2133 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2134 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2135 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2137 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2138 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2140 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2141 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2144 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2146 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2147 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2148 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2149 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2150 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2151 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2152 two different movies
2153 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2154 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2155 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2158 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2161 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2162 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2163 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2164 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2167 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2168 ----------------------------------
2170 Various bugfixes, notably:
2171 * Windows Vista compatibility
2172 * Cropping in Direct3D
2173 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2174 * RSS filter string overflow
2176 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2178 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2179 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2182 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2183 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2186 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2189 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2192 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2195 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2196 ----------------------------------
2198 Various bugfixes, notably:
2199 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2200 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2201 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2202 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2203 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2204 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2207 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2208 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2211 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2213 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2214 * Diverse usability improvements
2215 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2216 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2217 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2220 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2221 ---------------------------------
2223 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2224 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2227 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2230 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2231 --------------------------------
2234 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2237 * Support for RTSP authentication
2238 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2239 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2240 * ATSC support for DVB input
2241 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2242 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2243 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2246 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2247 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2248 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2249 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2250 * Matroska WavPack support
2251 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2252 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2253 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2256 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2257 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2258 * Improved libcaca support
2262 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2263 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2265 * Systray support in skins
2267 * Support for Apple Remote control
2268 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2269 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2270 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2271 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2273 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2276 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2277 Windows 9x/ME users:
2278 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2279 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2280 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2281 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2282 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2284 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2285 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2294 * Updates to the libvlc API
2295 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2298 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2299 --------------------------------
2302 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2303 * Support for downloading updates
2307 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2308 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2309 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2310 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2312 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2313 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2314 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2317 * Cook (Real audio) support
2319 Playlist / Services discovery:
2320 * XSPF playlist support
2322 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2325 * New JACK audio output
2328 * New video filters:
2329 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2330 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2331 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2332 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2333 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2334 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2337 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2340 * System to inform the user and request information
2341 - HTTP authentication
2345 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2346 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2347 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2350 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2351 - Improved playlist handling
2352 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2354 - Embedded Video output
2355 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2356 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2357 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2358 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2359 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2361 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2362 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2365 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2368 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2369 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2370 * Growl "Now playing" support
2373 * Ability to log to syslog
2374 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2377 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2379 * A bit more automatic testing
2382 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2383 ---------------------------------
2386 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2387 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2390 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2391 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2394 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2397 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2398 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2404 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2407 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2408 --------------------------------
2411 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2415 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2416 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2417 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2420 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2421 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2422 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2423 * GnomeVFS input module
2424 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2425 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2428 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2429 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2430 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2433 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2434 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2440 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2441 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2444 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2445 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2446 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2449 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2451 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2452 - New extended controls panel
2453 - New bookmarks window
2454 - Fixed playlist sorting
2455 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2457 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2458 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2459 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2460 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2464 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2465 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2467 - Include macro to include other files
2471 * Should now work outside IE as well
2474 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2477 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2478 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2481 The following languages were added:
2485 * Simplified Chinese
2486 The following languages were re-added:
2490 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2491 --------------------------------
2494 * Rewrite of the playlist
2496 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2497 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2498 * Preferences improvements:
2499 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2500 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2502 * Core image manipulation support
2503 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2504 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2505 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2506 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2507 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2508 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2509 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2510 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2511 * Access filter architecture
2512 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2513 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2517 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2518 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2519 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2520 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2521 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2522 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2523 * Massive Matroska improvements
2524 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2526 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2527 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2528 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2529 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2530 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2532 Decoders / Encoders:
2533 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2534 * PNG decoder/encoder
2535 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2536 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2539 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2542 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2543 * Brand new SAP module
2544 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2545 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2546 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2547 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2548 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2549 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2553 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2556 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2557 * Image file video output (png)
2558 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2559 * Improvements to wall video filter
2560 * Support for font color and opacity
2566 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2567 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2568 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2572 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2573 - Improved preferences
2574 - Improvements to the wizard
2575 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2577 - Redesigned playlist
2578 - Improved preferences
2580 - Support for multiple actions
2583 - Support for the new playlist system
2585 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2588 * Screensaver disabling fix
2589 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2590 * Support for no-decoration windows
2593 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2594 * The OpenGL video output is back
2595 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2596 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2597 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2598 is not yet available in the new module
2599 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2602 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2611 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2614 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2617 The following languages were added:
2623 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2624 --------------------------------
2627 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2628 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2631 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2632 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2633 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2636 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2639 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2642 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2645 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2646 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2647 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2651 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2653 * Support of playlist group announcement
2656 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2657 --------------------------------
2660 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2661 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2662 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2663 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2664 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2665 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2668 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2669 (Stream your desktop)
2670 * Improved DVD support:
2671 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2672 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2673 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2674 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2675 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2676 (selection of titles/chapters).
2679 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2680 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2681 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2682 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2683 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2684 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2685 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2686 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2687 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2688 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2691 * G.726 audio support
2692 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2693 * MPEG-4 text support
2694 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2695 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2696 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2700 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2701 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2702 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2703 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2704 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2705 * DVB subtitles encoder
2706 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2707 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2709 * Text track muxing for mp4
2710 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2711 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2712 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2713 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2714 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2715 * Improved ASF muxer
2717 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2718 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2719 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2722 * New audio equalizer filter
2723 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2724 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2725 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2726 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2729 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2730 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2731 with support for effects.
2732 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2733 - New filters can be streamed.
2734 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2735 - Centralized scaling and blending
2737 - "time", to display current time
2738 - "marq", to display a marquee
2741 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2742 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2743 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2744 * A few skins2 improvements
2745 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2746 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2747 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2748 * Improved CORBA control module
2751 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2752 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2753 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2756 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2757 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2758 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2761 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2762 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2763 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2764 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2765 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2768 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2771 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2772 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2775 * Server/client network synchronization module
2776 * VBrick streams fully supported
2777 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2781 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2782 --------------------------------
2785 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2786 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2787 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2788 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2791 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2792 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2793 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2794 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2795 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2796 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2797 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2800 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2801 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2802 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2803 * Improved directory access module.
2804 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2805 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2806 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2807 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2808 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2811 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2812 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2813 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2816 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2817 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2818 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2821 * Improved session announcement system.
2822 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2823 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2824 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2825 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2826 * Improved transrater.
2827 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2828 * New configuration system.
2829 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2832 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2833 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2834 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2835 * Supports scheduling.
2836 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2837 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2840 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2841 - Ability to embed video output.
2842 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2843 - Lots of improvements.
2844 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2845 - New design and set of icons.
2846 - Ability to embed video output.
2847 - Support for hotkeys.
2848 - Support for bookmarks.
2850 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2851 - Better hotkeys handling.
2854 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2855 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2856 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2857 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2860 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2861 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2862 * Improved Windows installer.
2868 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2869 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2872 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2873 ---------------------------------
2876 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2877 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2880 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2881 --------------------------------
2884 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2885 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2888 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2889 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2890 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2891 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2894 * Internal improvments
2895 * Improved import/export
2898 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2900 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2901 small and strange formats.
2903 * New MOD audio demux.
2904 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2905 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2906 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2907 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2910 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2911 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2912 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2918 * New opengl video output plugin.
2921 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2922 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2925 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2926 --------------------------------
2929 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2930 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2931 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2932 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2933 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2934 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2935 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2936 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2939 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2944 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2945 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2946 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2947 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2948 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2949 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2950 * Better Icecast support.
2951 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2952 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2955 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2956 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2957 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2958 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2959 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2960 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2961 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2964 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2965 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2966 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2967 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2968 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2969 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2970 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2971 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2972 * Preliminary RTP support.
2973 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2978 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2979 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2981 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2982 - Improvements and help in preferences
2983 - New streaming wizard
2984 - Revised Disc Open menu
2986 - Improvements of the standard pages
2987 - Support for new commands
2988 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2991 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2992 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2995 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2996 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2997 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2998 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2999 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3000 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3001 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3002 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3003 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3006 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3008 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3009 * Support for Panther.
3010 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3011 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3014 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3015 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3016 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3017 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3018 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3019 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3020 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3021 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3024 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3025 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3026 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3029 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3032 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3033 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3034 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3035 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3038 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3039 --------------------------------
3042 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3045 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3046 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3049 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3050 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3053 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3056 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3057 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3060 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3063 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3066 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3067 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3071 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3072 --------------------------------
3075 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3076 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3080 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3081 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3082 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3084 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3085 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3088 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3091 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3094 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3095 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3099 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3100 --------------------------------
3103 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3104 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3108 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3109 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3110 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3111 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3112 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3115 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3116 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3117 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3120 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3121 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3122 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3125 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3126 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3127 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3128 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3129 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3132 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3133 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3134 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3137 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3140 * Improved build system.
3141 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3142 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3143 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3144 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3147 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3148 --------------------------------
3151 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3154 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3155 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3156 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3157 * Video 4 Linux support
3158 * CD Digital Audio support
3159 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3162 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3163 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3164 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3165 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3168 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3169 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3170 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3171 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3172 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3173 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3174 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3177 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3178 * New HTTP remote control interface
3181 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3182 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3183 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3184 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3185 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3188 * New reset option for the preferences
3189 * You can set your language in the prefences
3190 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3191 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3192 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3193 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3196 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3197 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3198 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3201 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3202 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3203 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3204 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3205 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3206 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3207 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3208 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3209 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3210 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3213 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3214 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3215 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3216 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3217 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3218 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3219 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3222 * Interface localization
3223 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3224 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3225 * New full-featured Preferences window
3228 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3229 --------------------------------
3232 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3233 * support for skins at the interface level
3234 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3235 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3236 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3237 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3238 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3241 * fixed HTTP redirects
3242 * support for opening an entire directory
3243 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3244 * new video4linux access plug-in
3245 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3248 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3249 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3250 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3253 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3254 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3255 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3256 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3257 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3258 * new codec for raw I420 video
3259 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3262 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3263 (although it still misses some important features)
3264 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3267 * new HTTP output support
3268 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3269 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3272 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3275 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3278 * reorderable playlist
3279 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3280 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3281 * support for mono audio output devices
3282 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3283 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3284 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3285 * the messages window remembers more lines
3286 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3287 * http and ogg stream output options
3288 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3291 * new skinnable interface
3292 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3294 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3295 * support for FLAC audio format
3296 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3298 * network tab in the interface
3299 * "apply" handling in preferences
3302 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3303 ---------------------------------
3306 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3307 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3308 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3309 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3311 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3312 * DTS S/PDIF support
3315 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3316 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3317 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3318 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3321 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3322 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3325 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3328 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3331 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3333 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3334 * rc interface is now fully useable
3335 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3338 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3339 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3340 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3341 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3342 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3344 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3345 * support for mouse gestures
3346 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3349 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3350 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3353 * improved ID3 tag detection
3354 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3355 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3356 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3358 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3361 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3362 ---------------------------------
3365 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3366 English was set as the preferred language
3369 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3370 --------------------------------
3373 * new mouse gesture interface
3374 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3378 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3379 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3380 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3383 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3384 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3388 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3391 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3392 without the user consent
3395 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3397 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3398 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3399 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3402 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3403 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3404 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3405 * playlist enhancements
3406 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3407 * new step forward/step backward commands
3408 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3409 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3410 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3413 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3414 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3415 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3418 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3419 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3422 * native video output is working again
3423 * only commandline interface support
3424 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3427 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3428 --------------------------------
3431 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3432 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3433 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3434 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3435 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3436 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3437 and A/52 streams are supported)
3438 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3443 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3444 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3445 * VCD entry points support
3446 * VCD image file support
3449 * support for *.asf format
3450 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3451 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3452 * support for ogg encapsulation
3453 * support for raw DV format
3454 * support for *.wav format
3455 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3458 Stream discovery & playlists:
3459 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3460 * support for .m3u file format
3461 * support for .asx file format
3462 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3465 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3466 (only available with the .avi demux)
3467 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3468 * support for raw PCM data
3469 * support for Cinepak video codec
3470 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3471 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3472 * support for Xvid codec
3473 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3474 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3475 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3477 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3479 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3482 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3485 * new WxWindows interface
3486 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3487 device and the channels configuration
3488 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3489 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3490 format that VLC can play
3491 * new swedish translation
3492 * enhancements of the playlist window
3493 * new messages window to see debug info
3494 * fixed a few crashes
3497 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3498 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3499 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3500 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working