3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
37 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
38 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
42 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
43 * MKV USF subtitles support
44 * HTML based subtitles support
45 * Flash Screen Video support
48 * Flash Screen Video support
50 Video output and filters:
51 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
52 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
53 * New puzzle video output filter
54 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
55 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
57 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
58 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
59 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
61 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
62 * Add support for a transparency mask in the mosaic_bridge module.
65 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
69 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
71 * Improved user interaction
73 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
76 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6-bugfix (not yet released):
77 -----------------------------------------------------------
78 Various bugfixes notably:
79 * out-of-bound read in demuxers
80 * demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
81 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
84 * further usability improvements
87 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
88 ---------------------------------
91 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
94 * Fullscreen controller improvements
97 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
98 --------------------------------
101 * Shoutcast TV listings support
104 * Support for RTSP authentication
105 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
106 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
107 * ATSC support for DVB input
108 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
109 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
110 * Improved support for Flash Video files
113 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
114 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
115 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
116 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
117 * Matroska WavPack support
118 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
119 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
120 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
123 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
124 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
125 * Improved libcaca support
129 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
130 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
132 * Systray support in skins
134 * Support for Apple Remote control
135 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
136 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
137 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
138 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
140 * Notifications using notification-daemon
143 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
145 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
146 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
147 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
148 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
149 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
151 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
152 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
161 * Updates to the libvlc API
162 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
166 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
167 ---------------------------------
170 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
171 * Support for downloading updates
175 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
176 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
177 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
178 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
180 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
181 * Improved subtitles encoding support
182 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
185 * Cook (Real audio) support
187 Playlist / Services discovery:
188 * XSPF playlist support
190 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
193 * New JACK audio output
197 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
198 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
199 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
200 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
201 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
202 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
205 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
208 * System to inform the user and request information
209 - HTTP authentication
213 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
214 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
215 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
218 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
219 - Improved playlist handling
220 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
222 - Embedded Video output
223 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
224 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
225 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
226 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
227 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
229 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
230 - A bunch of new RPN functions
233 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
236 * Mac-Intel compatibility
237 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
238 * Growl "Now playing" support
241 * Ability to log to syslog
242 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
245 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
247 * A bit more automatic testing
249 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
250 ---------------------------------
253 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
254 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
257 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
258 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
261 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
264 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
265 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
271 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
273 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
274 --------------------------------
277 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
281 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
282 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
283 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
286 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
287 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
288 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
289 * GnomeVFS input module
290 * Support for RTP packet reordering
291 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
294 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
295 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
296 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
299 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
300 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
306 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
307 Mixer and Dolby Surround
310 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
311 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
312 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
315 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
317 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
318 - New extended controls panel
319 - New bookmarks window
320 - Fixed playlist sorting
321 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
323 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
324 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
325 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
326 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
330 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
331 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
333 - Include macro to include other files
337 * Should now work outside IE as well
340 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
343 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
344 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
347 The following languages were added:
352 The following languages were re-added:
355 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Rewrite of the playlist
361 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
362 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
363 * Preferences improvements:
364 - New organization, designed to improve usability
365 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
367 * Core image manipulation support
368 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
369 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
370 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
371 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
372 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
373 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
374 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
375 now separated by ':' instead of ','
376 * Access filter architecture
377 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
378 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
382 * Support for SOCKS proxy
383 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
384 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
385 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
386 * Better support for Kasenna streams
387 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
388 * Massive Matroska improvements
389 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
391 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
392 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
393 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
394 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
395 * Support for FTP over IPv6
398 * Dirac decoder and encoder
399 * PNG decoder/encoder
400 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
401 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
404 * New Record and Timeshift filters
407 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
408 * Brand new SAP module
409 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
410 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
411 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
412 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
413 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
414 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
418 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
421 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
422 * Image file video output (png)
423 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
424 * Improvements to wall video filter
425 * Support for font color and opacity
431 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
432 - Seeking support in VoD streams
433 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
437 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
438 - Improved preferences
439 - Improvements to the wizard
440 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
442 - Redesigned playlist
443 - Improved preferences
445 - Support for multiple actions
448 - Support for the new playlist system
450 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
453 * Screensaver disabling fix
454 * DirectShow tuner configuration
455 * Support for no-decoration windows
458 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
459 * The OpenGL video output is back
460 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
461 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
462 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
463 is not yet available in the new module
464 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
467 * Support for single-buffered overlay
476 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
479 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
482 The following languages were added:
488 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
489 -----------------------------------------------------
492 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
493 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
496 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
497 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
498 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
501 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
504 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
507 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
510 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
511 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
512 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
516 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
518 * Support of playlist group announcement
520 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
521 -----------------------------------------------------
524 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
525 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
526 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
527 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
528 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
529 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
532 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
533 (Stream your desktop)
534 * Improved DVD support:
535 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
536 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
537 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
538 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
539 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
540 (selection of titles/chapters).
543 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
544 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
545 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
546 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
547 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
548 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
549 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
550 * Improved Ogg demuxer
551 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
552 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
555 * G.726 audio support
556 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
557 * MPEG-4 text support
558 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
559 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
560 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
564 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
565 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
566 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
567 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
568 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
569 * DVB subtitles encoder
570 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
571 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
573 * Text track muxing for mp4
574 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
575 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
576 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
577 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
578 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
581 * H.263 RTP streaming support
582 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
583 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
586 * New audio equalizer filter
587 * Very trivial volume normalizer
588 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
589 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
590 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
593 * Roku HD1000 Video output
594 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
595 with support for effects.
596 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
597 - New filters can be streamed.
598 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
599 - Centralized scaling and blending
601 - "time", to display current time
602 - "marq", to display a marquee
605 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
606 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
607 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
608 * A few skins2 improvements
609 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
610 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
611 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
612 * Improved CORBA control module
615 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
616 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
617 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
620 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
621 * Experimental SVG rendering module
622 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
625 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
626 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
627 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
628 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
629 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
632 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
635 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
636 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
639 * Server/client network synchronization module
640 * VBrick streams fully supported
641 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
644 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
645 --------------------------------
648 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
649 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
650 * Improved HTTP daemon.
651 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
654 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
655 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
656 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
657 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
658 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
659 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
660 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
663 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
664 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
665 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
666 * Improved directory access module.
667 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
668 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
669 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
670 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
671 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
674 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
675 * mmsh streaming fixes.
676 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
679 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
680 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
681 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
684 * Improved session announcement system.
685 * Minimize threads usage by default.
686 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
687 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
688 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
689 * Improved transrater.
690 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
691 * New configuration system.
692 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
695 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
696 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
697 * Supports live streams and VoD.
698 * Supports scheduling.
699 * Telnet interface for vlm.
700 * HTTP interface for vlm.
703 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
704 - Ability to embed video output.
705 - Support for bitmap fonts.
706 - Lots of improvements.
707 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
708 - New design and set of icons.
709 - Ability to embed video output.
710 - Support for hotkeys.
711 - Support for bookmarks.
713 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
714 - Better hotkeys handling.
717 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
718 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
719 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
720 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
723 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
724 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
725 * Improved Windows installer.
731 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
732 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
734 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
735 ---------------------------------
738 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
739 * Playing MOD files is working now.
742 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
743 ---------------------------------
746 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
747 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
750 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
751 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
752 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
753 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
756 * Internal improvments
757 * Improved import/export
760 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
762 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
763 small and strange formats.
765 * New MOD audio demux.
766 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
767 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
768 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
769 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
772 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
773 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
774 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
780 * New opengl video output plugin.
783 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
784 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
786 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
787 ---------------------------------
790 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
791 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
792 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
793 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
794 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
795 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
796 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
797 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
800 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
805 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
806 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
807 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
808 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
809 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
810 * Reworked DVB tuning.
811 * Better Icecast support.
812 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
813 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
816 * Support for Theora video encoding.
817 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
818 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
819 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
820 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
821 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
822 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
825 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
826 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
827 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
828 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
829 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
830 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
831 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
832 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
833 * Preliminary RTP support.
834 * Fixes to SAP announces.
839 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
840 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
842 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
843 - Improvements and help in preferences
844 - New streaming wizard
845 - Revised Disc Open menu
847 - Improvements of the standard pages
848 - Support for new commands
849 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
852 * Many fixes to the SAP module
853 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
856 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
857 * Text subtitles autodetection.
858 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
859 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
860 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
861 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
862 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
863 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
864 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
867 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
869 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
870 * Support for Panther.
871 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
872 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
875 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
876 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
877 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
878 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
879 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
880 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
881 * Multimonitor support (untested).
882 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
885 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
886 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
887 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
890 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
893 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
894 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
895 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
896 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
898 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
899 ---------------------------------
902 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
905 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
906 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
909 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
910 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
913 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
916 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
917 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
920 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
923 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
926 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
927 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
930 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
931 ---------------------------------
934 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
935 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
939 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
940 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
941 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
943 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
944 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
947 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
950 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
953 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
954 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
957 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
958 ---------------------------------
961 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
962 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
966 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
967 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
968 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
969 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
970 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
973 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
974 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
975 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
978 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
979 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
980 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
983 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
984 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
985 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
986 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
987 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
990 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
991 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
992 * A new CORBA control plugin.
995 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
998 * Improved build system.
999 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1000 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1001 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1002 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1005 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1006 ---------------------------------
1009 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1012 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1013 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1014 * Video 4 Linux support
1015 * CD Digital Audio support
1016 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1019 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1020 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1021 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1022 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1025 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1026 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1027 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1028 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1029 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1030 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1031 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1034 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1035 * New HTTP remote control interface
1038 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1039 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1040 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1041 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1044 * New reset option for the preferences
1045 * You can set your language in the prefences
1046 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1047 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1048 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1049 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1052 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1053 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1054 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1057 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1058 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1059 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1060 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1061 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1062 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1063 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1064 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1065 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1066 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1069 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1070 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1071 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1072 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1073 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1074 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1075 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1078 * Interface localization
1079 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1080 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1081 * New full-featured Preferences window
1083 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1084 ---------------------------------
1087 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1088 * support for skins at the interface level
1089 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1090 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1091 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1092 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1093 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1096 * fixed HTTP redirects
1097 * support for opening an entire directory
1098 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1099 * new video4linux access plug-in
1100 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1103 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1104 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1105 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1108 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1109 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1110 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1111 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1112 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1113 * new codec for raw I420 video
1114 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1117 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1118 (although it still misses some important features)
1119 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1122 * new HTTP output support
1123 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1124 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1127 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1130 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1133 * reorderable playlist
1134 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1135 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1136 * support for mono audio output devices
1137 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1138 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1139 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1140 * the messages window remembers more lines
1141 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1142 * http and ogg stream output options
1143 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1146 * new skinnable interface
1147 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1149 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1150 * support for FLAC audio format
1151 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1153 * network tab in the interface
1154 * "apply" handling in preferences
1157 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1158 ---------------------------------
1161 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1162 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1163 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1164 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1166 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1167 * DTS S/PDIF support
1170 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1171 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1172 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1173 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1176 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1177 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1180 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1183 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1186 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1188 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1189 * rc interface is now fully useable
1190 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1193 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1194 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1195 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1196 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1197 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1199 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1200 * support for mouse gestures
1201 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1204 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1205 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1208 * improved ID3 tag detection
1209 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1210 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1211 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1213 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1216 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1217 ---------------------------------
1220 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1221 English was set as the preferred language
1224 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1225 --------------------------------
1228 * new mouse gesture interface
1229 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1233 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1234 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1235 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1238 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1239 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1243 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1246 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1247 without the user consent
1250 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1252 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1253 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1254 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1257 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1258 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1259 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1260 * playlist enhancements
1261 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1262 * new step forward/step backward commands
1263 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1264 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1265 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1268 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1269 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1270 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1273 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1274 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1277 * native video output is working again
1278 * only commandline interface support
1279 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1282 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1283 --------------------------------
1286 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1287 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1288 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1289 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1290 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1291 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1292 and A/52 streams are supported)
1293 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1298 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1299 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1300 * VCD entry points support
1301 * VCD image file support
1304 * support for *.asf format
1305 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1306 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1307 * support for ogg encapsulation
1308 * support for raw DV format
1309 * support for *.wav format
1310 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1313 Stream discovery & playlists:
1314 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1315 * support for .m3u file format
1316 * support for .asx file format
1317 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1320 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1321 (only available with the .avi demux)
1322 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1323 * support for raw PCM data
1324 * support for Cinepak video codec
1325 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1326 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1327 * support for Xvid codec
1328 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1329 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1330 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1332 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1334 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1337 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1340 * new WxWindows interface
1341 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1342 device and the channels configuration
1343 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1344 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1345 format that VLC can play
1346 * new swedish translation
1347 * enhancements of the playlist window
1348 * new messages window to see debug info
1349 * fixed a few crashes
1352 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1353 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1354 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1355 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working