1 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
11 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
14 * new remapping channel filter
17 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
18 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
21 * portaudio audio output
23 Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
24 ---------------------------------
27 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
28 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
29 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
30 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
31 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
32 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
33 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
34 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
35 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
36 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
37 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
38 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
39 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
40 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
41 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
42 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
43 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
44 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
45 --http-crl (optional CRL).
46 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
47 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
48 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
49 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
50 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
51 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
52 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
54 Important changes for packagers:
55 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
56 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
57 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
58 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
59 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
60 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
61 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
62 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
63 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
64 * The webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
67 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
68 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
69 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
70 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
71 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
72 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
73 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
76 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
77 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
78 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
79 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
80 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
81 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
82 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
83 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
84 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
85 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
86 * PulseAudio audio input support
87 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
88 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
89 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
90 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
91 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
92 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
93 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
94 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
97 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
98 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
99 are notably concerned.
100 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
101 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
102 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
103 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
104 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
105 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
106 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
107 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
108 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
109 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
110 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
111 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
112 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
113 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
114 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
117 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
118 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
119 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
120 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
121 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
122 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
123 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
124 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
125 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
126 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
127 * Improved support of tracker files
130 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
131 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
132 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
133 * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
134 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
135 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
136 and important cleanups and optimisations
137 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
138 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
139 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
140 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
141 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
142 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
143 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
144 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
145 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
146 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
147 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
148 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
149 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
150 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
151 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
152 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
153 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
154 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
155 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
156 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
157 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
160 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
161 * New video output for iOS platform
162 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
163 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
164 * Various vmem improvements
165 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
166 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
167 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
168 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
169 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
170 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
172 Audio Output and Filters:
173 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
174 * New audio output in memory (amem)
175 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
176 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
177 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
178 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
179 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
180 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
181 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
182 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
185 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
186 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
187 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
188 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
189 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
190 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
191 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
192 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
193 * New anti-flickering filter
194 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
195 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
196 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
197 blackbox and customizable shadow.
198 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
199 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
200 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
203 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
204 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
205 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
206 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
207 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
208 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
209 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
210 * Major rework of VoD support
211 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
212 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
213 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
214 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
215 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
216 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
217 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
218 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
219 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
220 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
223 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
224 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
227 * New capabilities for libVLC:
228 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
229 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
230 list of available audio and video filters
231 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
232 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
233 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
236 * asademux: use libass only
237 * subsass: use libass
238 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
239 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
241 * upnp: use upnp_intel
242 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
243 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
244 * removal of the noise filter
245 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
246 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
247 removed in Growl's next release, too.
248 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
251 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
252 ----------------------------------
255 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
256 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
259 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
260 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
263 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
264 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
265 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
268 * Camtasia decoding fix.
271 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
272 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
275 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
278 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
279 ----------------------------------
282 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
283 including support for OS X Lion
284 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
285 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
288 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
291 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
292 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
293 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
296 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
299 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
300 ----------------------------------
303 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
304 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
307 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
308 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
309 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
310 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
311 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
313 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
314 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
315 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
317 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
318 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
321 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
324 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
327 * Fix quitting on Linux
328 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
332 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
335 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
338 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
339 ---------------------------------
341 Windows and Mac OS X:
342 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
345 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
346 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
349 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
352 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
355 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
357 Miscellaneous fixes in:
358 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
360 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
361 * RTP output and XML export
362 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
366 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
367 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
368 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
369 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
372 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
373 --------------------------------
375 Windows and Mac OS X:
376 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
379 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
382 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
383 * Improve Apple Remote handling
384 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
385 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
386 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
387 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
390 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
391 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
395 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
396 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
397 * New Luganda Translation
400 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
401 --------------------------------
404 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
407 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
408 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
409 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
410 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
413 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
415 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
416 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
417 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
418 * mp4 demuxer improvements
419 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
420 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
421 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
422 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
424 Miscellaneous fixes in:
425 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
426 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
427 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
428 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
429 * Configure and build system improvements
430 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
433 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
434 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
435 * New icelandic translation
438 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
439 --------------------------------
442 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
446 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
447 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
448 and stability reasons
451 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
455 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
458 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
459 ----------------------------------
462 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
465 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
466 ---------------------------------
469 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
470 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
471 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
472 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
475 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
478 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
479 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
480 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
481 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
484 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
485 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
486 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
488 Subtitles and renderer:
489 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
490 * Mark more freetype options as safe
491 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
492 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
493 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
496 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
497 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
498 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
499 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
502 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
503 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
506 * KDE device solid actions
508 * Transcode integer overflow
509 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
510 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
513 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
514 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
515 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
518 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
519 ----------------------------------
522 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
526 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
529 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
532 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
533 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
534 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
535 * Taglib thread-safety fix
538 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
542 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
545 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
548 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
549 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
551 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
555 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
556 * Miscellaneous fixes
559 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
560 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
562 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
563 * New Asturian translation
566 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
567 ----------------------------------
570 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
572 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
575 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
578 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
579 * Various fixes for Windows
582 * New Armenian translation
583 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
584 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
587 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
588 --------------------------------
591 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
593 * Fix folders opening from the interface
596 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
597 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
600 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
601 --------------------------------
604 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
605 * fix for podcasts parsing
606 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
609 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
610 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
613 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
614 * fix m3u playlists exports
617 * fix video autoresize behaviour
620 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
623 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
626 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
629 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
632 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
633 --------------------------------
636 * Avformat fps displaying fix
637 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
640 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
641 of mono streams, especially on Windows
644 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
645 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
646 * fix console output encoding
648 Interface and extensions:
649 * Youtube and other scripts updates
650 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
653 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
654 --------------------------------
657 * New capabilities for libVLC:
658 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
659 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
660 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
661 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
662 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
663 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
664 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
665 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
666 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
667 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
668 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
669 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
670 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
671 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
672 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
676 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
677 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
678 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
679 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
680 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
683 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
686 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
687 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
688 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
692 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
695 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
696 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
697 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
700 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
701 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
702 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
703 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
706 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
707 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
710 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
711 --------------------------------
713 Important changes for users:
714 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
715 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
717 Important changes for packagers:
718 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
719 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
720 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
721 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
722 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
724 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
726 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
727 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
728 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
729 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
730 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
733 * Support for the sftp protocol
734 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
735 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
736 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
737 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
738 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
741 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
742 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
743 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
745 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
746 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
747 * Invmem module improvements
748 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
749 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
750 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
751 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
752 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
753 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
754 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
755 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
756 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
757 * Support for VP8 codec
758 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
761 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
762 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
763 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
764 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
765 * Various EGP improvements
766 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
767 * Metadata and cover art improvements
770 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
771 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
772 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
773 * Podcast images are now displayed
776 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
777 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
778 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
779 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
780 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
781 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
782 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
783 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
784 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
785 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
786 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
789 * New content extensions lua framework
792 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
793 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
794 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
795 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
796 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
797 * NEON assembly audio converter module
798 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
801 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
802 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
803 * Service discovery based on libudev
804 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
807 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
808 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
809 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
810 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
811 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
812 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
813 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
816 * New smem module, streaming to memory
817 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
818 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
821 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
823 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
824 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
827 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
830 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
831 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
832 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
833 by Andy Matuschak et al.
834 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
835 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
836 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
839 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
840 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
843 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
844 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
845 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
849 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
850 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
851 * Improved Solaris port
854 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
855 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
858 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
859 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
860 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
861 * transrate: broken since too long
862 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
863 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
864 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
865 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
866 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
867 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
868 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
869 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
870 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
871 * cddax: use cdda instead.
872 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
873 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
874 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
875 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
878 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
879 --------------------------------
882 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
884 Decoders/Packetizers:
885 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
888 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
889 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
890 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
891 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
892 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
895 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
896 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
899 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
900 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
903 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
904 and Walloon translations updated
905 * Sinhala translation started
908 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
909 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
912 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
913 --------------------------------
916 * SubRip extra styles improvements
917 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
920 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
923 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
924 increase performance and fix x264 issues
927 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
928 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
929 Russian, Slovak translation updates
930 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
933 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
934 --------------------------------
937 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
938 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
941 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
942 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
945 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
946 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
949 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
952 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
953 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
956 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
957 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
960 * New Walloon translation
961 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
964 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
965 --------------------------------
968 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
969 regressions in most popular drivers
970 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
973 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
974 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
975 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
978 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
979 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
982 * Update for appletrailers lua script
983 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
984 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
985 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
986 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
989 * New udev module for linux
992 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
995 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
998 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1003 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1004 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1007 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1008 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1011 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1012 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1015 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1018 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1019 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1020 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1021 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1024 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1025 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1026 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1027 - no support for Goom and SDL
1028 - limited text rendering support
1029 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1032 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1033 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1034 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1035 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1036 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1037 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1038 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1039 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1040 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1044 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1047 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1050 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1051 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1052 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1053 Arabic and French translation updates
1056 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1057 --------------------------------
1060 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1061 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1062 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1063 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1064 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1065 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1068 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1069 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1070 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1073 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1074 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1075 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1078 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1081 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1082 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1085 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1086 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1087 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1088 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1089 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1090 * Fix various crashes
1093 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1095 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1099 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1100 ---------------------------------
1104 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1105 See 'Access:' for more info.
1106 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1109 * Instantaneous pausing
1110 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1111 * Finer speed control
1112 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1113 * Timeshift for most medias
1114 * RTSP trickplay support
1115 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1118 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1119 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1120 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1121 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1122 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1123 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1124 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1125 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1126 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1127 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1130 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1131 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1132 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1133 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1134 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1135 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1136 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1139 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1140 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1143 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1144 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1145 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1146 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1147 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1148 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1149 * DVB scanning on linux
1150 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1151 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1152 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1153 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1154 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1155 * MTP device access on Unix
1156 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1157 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1160 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1161 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1162 Windows and Mac OS X.
1165 * Export the playlist in HTML
1166 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1167 * Better metadata handling and reading
1169 Linux/Windows interface:
1170 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1171 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1172 * Recently played items list
1173 * Interface toolbar customizations
1174 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1175 - More menus actions
1176 - Finer speed slider
1177 - Improvements on many dialogs
1178 - New dialog for plugins listing
1179 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1180 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1181 * Better integration in GTK environments
1184 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1185 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1186 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1187 * Additional usability improvements
1190 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1191 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1192 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1193 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1194 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1197 * New Maemo port with:
1198 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1199 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1202 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1205 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1206 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1207 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1208 * Support for latest iSight models
1211 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1212 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1215 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1216 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1217 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1218 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1219 The old image video output has been removed.
1220 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1221 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1224 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1232 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1233 --------------------------------------
1239 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1240 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1241 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1242 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1243 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1244 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1245 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1247 Various fixes to the following modules:
1250 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1251 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1252 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1254 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1259 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1260 ---------------------------------
1263 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1264 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1267 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1268 ---------------------------------
1271 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1274 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1277 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1278 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1279 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1280 main controller window.
1281 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1284 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1289 * Updates of other localizations
1292 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1293 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1294 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1295 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1296 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1299 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1300 ---------------------------------
1303 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1305 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1308 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1309 --------------------------------
1314 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1315 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1318 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1319 --------------------------------
1321 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1322 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1325 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1328 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1329 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1332 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1333 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1336 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1337 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1338 * Various fixed in playlist
1341 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1344 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1347 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1348 ------------------------------------
1350 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1351 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1354 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1355 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1356 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1359 * Stability fix for the video output.
1362 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1363 --------------------------------
1366 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1367 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1368 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1369 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1370 * Fixed update system bugs
1371 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1374 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1375 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1376 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1377 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1378 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1379 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1380 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1381 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1382 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1383 modern Mac OS X versions
1386 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1387 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1389 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1390 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1393 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1394 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1395 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1396 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1397 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1398 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1401 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1402 --------------------------------
1404 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1405 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1406 * Multiple bugfixes.
1409 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1410 --------------------------------
1412 * Multiple bug fixes.
1415 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1416 ---------------------------------
1420 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1421 recent to work correctly
1422 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1423 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1424 edit the ".hosts" file.
1425 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1426 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1427 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1428 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1429 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1430 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1431 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1432 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1433 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1434 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1435 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1436 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1437 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1438 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1439 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1440 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1441 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1442 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1443 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1444 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1445 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1446 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1447 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1448 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1449 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1450 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1451 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1452 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1453 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1454 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1455 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1456 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1457 and postproc modules.
1458 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1459 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1460 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1461 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1463 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1464 filter. For example:
1465 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1466 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1468 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1469 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1475 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1477 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1478 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1481 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1482 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1484 * Shoutcast TV listings
1485 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1487 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1488 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1490 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1493 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1494 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1495 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1496 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1497 * JACK audio input support
1498 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1499 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1500 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1501 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1502 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1503 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1504 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1505 (available as a separate download).
1506 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1507 * RTMP input support
1508 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1509 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1510 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1512 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1513 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1516 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1517 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1518 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1519 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1521 * APEv1/2 tags support
1522 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1523 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1525 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1526 * TiVo Series 2 support
1527 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1532 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1533 * Flash Screen Video support
1534 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1535 * DosBox Capture support
1536 * Karl Morton's Video support
1537 * limited atrac3 support
1539 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1540 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1541 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1542 * H.264 PAFF support
1543 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1544 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1545 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1546 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1547 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1550 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1551 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1552 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1553 * AQTitle subtitles support
1554 * MKV USF subtitles support
1555 * HTML-based subtitles support
1556 * MPSub subtitles support
1557 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1558 * MPL2 subtitles support
1559 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1560 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1561 * Realtext subtitle support
1562 * DKS subtitle support
1563 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1564 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1567 * Flash Screen Video support
1568 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1570 Video outputs and filters:
1571 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1572 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1573 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1574 * New puzzle video output filter
1575 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1576 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1578 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1579 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1580 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1581 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1582 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1583 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1584 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1585 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1586 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1587 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1588 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1589 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1590 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1591 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1593 Audio outputs and filters:
1594 * Replay gain support
1595 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1596 new scaletempo audio filter)
1597 * New spatializer audio filter
1598 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1601 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1602 * New RTP payload formats:
1603 * Speex voice audio codec
1604 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1605 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1606 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1607 * DCCP transport for RTP
1608 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1613 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1614 end-user suitable way.
1615 * Improved user interaction
1616 * Improved mouse gestures
1617 * Vastly improved Update checker
1618 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1620 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1621 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1623 * Improved video output features
1624 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1625 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1626 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1627 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1628 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1630 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1631 if libncursesw is available.
1632 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1633 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1634 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1636 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1637 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1638 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1639 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1640 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1641 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1642 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1643 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1646 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1647 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1648 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1651 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1652 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1653 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1654 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1655 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1656 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1659 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1660 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1670 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1671 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1672 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1675 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1676 ----------------------------------
1679 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1682 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1683 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1684 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1685 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1686 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1687 * Updated Polish translation
1690 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1691 ----------------------------------
1694 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1695 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1696 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1699 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1700 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1701 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1702 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1703 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1704 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1705 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1706 to an unexpected application termination
1707 * New Serbian translation
1708 * Updated Romanian translation
1711 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1712 ----------------------------------
1715 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1716 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1717 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1718 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1719 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1720 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1721 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1722 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1725 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1726 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1727 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1728 * Fixed AAC resampling
1729 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1730 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1733 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1734 ----------------------------------
1737 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1738 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1739 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1740 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1741 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1744 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1745 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1746 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1747 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1748 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1751 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1752 ----------------------------------
1755 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1756 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1759 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1760 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1761 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1762 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1764 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1768 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1771 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1774 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1777 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1780 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1781 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1782 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1783 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1784 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1786 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1787 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1788 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1789 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1792 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1795 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1796 ----------------------------------
1799 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1800 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1801 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1803 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1804 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1806 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1807 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1810 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1812 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1813 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1814 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1815 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1816 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1817 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1818 two different movies
1819 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1820 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1821 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1824 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1827 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1828 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1829 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1830 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1833 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1834 ----------------------------------
1836 Various bugfixes, notably:
1837 * Windows Vista compatibility
1838 * Cropping in Direct3D
1839 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1840 * RSS filter string overflow
1842 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1844 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1845 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1848 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1849 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1852 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1855 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1858 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1861 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1862 ----------------------------------
1864 Various bugfixes, notably:
1865 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1866 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1867 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1868 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1869 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1870 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1873 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1874 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1877 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1879 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1880 * Diverse usability improvements
1881 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1882 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1883 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1886 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1887 ---------------------------------
1889 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1890 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1893 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1896 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1897 --------------------------------
1900 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1903 * Support for RTSP authentication
1904 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1905 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1906 * ATSC support for DVB input
1907 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1908 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1909 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1912 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1913 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1914 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1915 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1916 * Matroska WavPack support
1917 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1918 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1919 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1922 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1923 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1924 * Improved libcaca support
1928 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1929 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1931 * Systray support in skins
1933 * Support for Apple Remote control
1934 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1935 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1936 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1937 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1939 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1942 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1943 Windows 9x/ME users:
1944 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1945 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1946 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1947 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1948 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1950 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1951 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1960 * Updates to the libvlc API
1961 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1964 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1965 --------------------------------
1968 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1969 * Support for downloading updates
1973 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1974 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1975 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1976 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1978 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1979 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1980 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1983 * Cook (Real audio) support
1985 Playlist / Services discovery:
1986 * XSPF playlist support
1988 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1991 * New JACK audio output
1994 * New video filters:
1995 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1996 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1997 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1998 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1999 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2000 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2003 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2006 * System to inform the user and request information
2007 - HTTP authentication
2011 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2012 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2013 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2016 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2017 - Improved playlist handling
2018 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2020 - Embedded Video output
2021 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2022 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2023 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2024 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2025 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2027 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2028 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2031 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2034 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2035 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2036 * Growl "Now playing" support
2039 * Ability to log to syslog
2040 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2043 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2045 * A bit more automatic testing
2048 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2049 ---------------------------------
2052 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2053 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2056 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2057 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2060 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2063 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2064 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2070 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2073 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2074 --------------------------------
2077 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2081 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2082 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2083 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2086 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2087 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2088 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2089 * GnomeVFS input module
2090 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2091 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2094 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2095 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2096 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2099 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2100 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2106 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2107 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2110 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2111 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2112 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2115 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2117 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2118 - New extended controls panel
2119 - New bookmarks window
2120 - Fixed playlist sorting
2121 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2123 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2124 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2125 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2126 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2130 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2131 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2133 - Include macro to include other files
2137 * Should now work outside IE as well
2140 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2143 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2144 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2147 The following languages were added:
2151 * Simplified Chinese
2152 The following languages were re-added:
2156 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2157 --------------------------------
2160 * Rewrite of the playlist
2162 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2163 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2164 * Preferences improvements:
2165 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2166 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2168 * Core image manipulation support
2169 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2170 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2171 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2172 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2173 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2174 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2175 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2176 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2177 * Access filter architecture
2178 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2179 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2183 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2184 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2185 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2186 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2187 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2188 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2189 * Massive Matroska improvements
2190 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2192 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2193 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2194 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2195 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2196 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2198 Decoders / Encoders:
2199 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2200 * PNG decoder/encoder
2201 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2202 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2205 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2208 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2209 * Brand new SAP module
2210 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2211 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2212 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2213 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2214 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2215 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2219 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2222 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2223 * Image file video output (png)
2224 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2225 * Improvements to wall video filter
2226 * Support for font color and opacity
2232 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2233 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2234 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2238 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2239 - Improved preferences
2240 - Improvements to the wizard
2241 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2243 - Redesigned playlist
2244 - Improved preferences
2246 - Support for multiple actions
2249 - Support for the new playlist system
2251 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2254 * Screensaver disabling fix
2255 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2256 * Support for no-decoration windows
2259 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2260 * The OpenGL video output is back
2261 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2262 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2263 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2264 is not yet available in the new module
2265 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2268 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2277 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2280 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2283 The following languages were added:
2289 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2290 --------------------------------
2293 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2294 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2297 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2298 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2299 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2302 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2305 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2308 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2311 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2312 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2313 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2317 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2319 * Support of playlist group announcement
2322 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2327 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2328 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2329 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2330 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2331 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2334 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2335 (Stream your desktop)
2336 * Improved DVD support:
2337 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2338 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2339 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2340 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2341 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2342 (selection of titles/chapters).
2345 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2346 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2347 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2348 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2349 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2350 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2351 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2352 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2353 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2354 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2357 * G.726 audio support
2358 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2359 * MPEG-4 text support
2360 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2361 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2362 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2366 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2367 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2368 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2369 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2370 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2371 * DVB subtitles encoder
2372 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2373 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2375 * Text track muxing for mp4
2376 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2377 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2378 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2379 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2380 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2381 * Improved ASF muxer
2383 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2384 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2385 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2388 * New audio equalizer filter
2389 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2390 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2391 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2392 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2395 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2396 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2397 with support for effects.
2398 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2399 - New filters can be streamed.
2400 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2401 - Centralized scaling and blending
2403 - "time", to display current time
2404 - "marq", to display a marquee
2407 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2408 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2409 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2410 * A few skins2 improvements
2411 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2412 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2413 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2414 * Improved CORBA control module
2417 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2418 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2419 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2422 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2423 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2424 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2427 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2428 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2429 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2430 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2431 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2434 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2437 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2438 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2441 * Server/client network synchronization module
2442 * VBrick streams fully supported
2443 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2447 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2448 --------------------------------
2451 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2452 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2453 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2454 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2457 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2458 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2459 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2460 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2461 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2462 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2463 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2466 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2467 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2468 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2469 * Improved directory access module.
2470 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2471 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2472 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2473 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2474 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2477 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2478 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2479 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2482 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2483 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2484 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2487 * Improved session announcement system.
2488 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2489 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2490 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2491 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2492 * Improved transrater.
2493 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2494 * New configuration system.
2495 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2498 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2499 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2500 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2501 * Supports scheduling.
2502 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2503 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2506 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2507 - Ability to embed video output.
2508 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2509 - Lots of improvements.
2510 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2511 - New design and set of icons.
2512 - Ability to embed video output.
2513 - Support for hotkeys.
2514 - Support for bookmarks.
2516 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2517 - Better hotkeys handling.
2520 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2521 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2522 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2523 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2526 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2527 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2528 * Improved Windows installer.
2534 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2535 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2538 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2539 ---------------------------------
2542 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2543 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2546 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2547 --------------------------------
2550 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2551 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2554 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2555 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2556 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2557 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2560 * Internal improvments
2561 * Improved import/export
2564 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2566 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2567 small and strange formats.
2569 * New MOD audio demux.
2570 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2571 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2572 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2573 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2576 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2577 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2578 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2584 * New opengl video output plugin.
2587 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2588 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2591 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2592 --------------------------------
2595 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2596 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2597 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2598 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2599 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2600 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2601 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2602 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2605 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2610 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2611 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2612 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2613 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2614 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2615 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2616 * Better Icecast support.
2617 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2618 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2621 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2622 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2623 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2624 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2625 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2626 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2627 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2630 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2631 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2632 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2633 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2634 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2635 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2636 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2637 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2638 * Preliminary RTP support.
2639 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2644 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2645 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2647 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2648 - Improvements and help in preferences
2649 - New streaming wizard
2650 - Revised Disc Open menu
2652 - Improvements of the standard pages
2653 - Support for new commands
2654 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2657 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2658 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2661 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2662 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2663 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2664 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2665 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2666 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2667 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2668 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2669 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2672 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2674 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2675 * Support for Panther.
2676 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2677 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2680 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2681 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2682 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2683 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2684 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2685 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2686 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2687 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2690 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2691 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2692 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2695 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2698 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2699 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2700 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2701 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2704 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2705 --------------------------------
2708 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2711 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2712 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2715 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2716 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2719 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2722 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2723 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2726 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2729 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2732 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2733 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2737 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2738 --------------------------------
2741 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2742 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2746 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2747 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2748 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2750 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2751 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2754 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2757 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2760 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2761 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2765 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2766 --------------------------------
2769 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2770 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2774 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2775 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2776 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2777 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2778 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2781 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2782 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2783 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2786 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2787 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2788 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2791 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2792 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2793 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2794 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2795 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2798 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2799 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2800 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2803 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2806 * Improved build system.
2807 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2808 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2809 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2810 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2813 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2814 --------------------------------
2817 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2820 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2821 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2822 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2823 * Video 4 Linux support
2824 * CD Digital Audio support
2825 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2828 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2829 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2830 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2831 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2834 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2835 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2836 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2837 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2838 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2839 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2840 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2843 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2844 * New HTTP remote control interface
2847 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2848 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2849 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2850 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2851 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2854 * New reset option for the preferences
2855 * You can set your language in the prefences
2856 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2857 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2858 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2859 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2862 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2863 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2864 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2867 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2868 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2869 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2870 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2871 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2872 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2873 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2874 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2875 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2876 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2879 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2880 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2881 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2882 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2883 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2884 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2885 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2888 * Interface localization
2889 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2890 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2891 * New full-featured Preferences window
2894 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2895 --------------------------------
2898 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2899 * support for skins at the interface level
2900 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2901 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2902 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2903 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2904 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2907 * fixed HTTP redirects
2908 * support for opening an entire directory
2909 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2910 * new video4linux access plug-in
2911 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2914 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2915 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2916 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2919 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2920 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2921 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2922 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2923 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2924 * new codec for raw I420 video
2925 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2928 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2929 (although it still misses some important features)
2930 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2933 * new HTTP output support
2934 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2935 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2938 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2941 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2944 * reorderable playlist
2945 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2946 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2947 * support for mono audio output devices
2948 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2949 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2950 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2951 * the messages window remembers more lines
2952 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2953 * http and ogg stream output options
2954 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2957 * new skinnable interface
2958 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2960 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2961 * support for FLAC audio format
2962 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2964 * network tab in the interface
2965 * "apply" handling in preferences
2968 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2969 ---------------------------------
2972 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2973 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2974 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2975 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2977 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2978 * DTS S/PDIF support
2981 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2982 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2983 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2984 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2987 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2988 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2991 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2994 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2997 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2999 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3000 * rc interface is now fully useable
3001 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3004 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3005 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3006 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3007 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3008 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3010 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3011 * support for mouse gestures
3012 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3015 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3016 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3019 * improved ID3 tag detection
3020 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3021 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3022 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3024 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3027 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3028 ---------------------------------
3031 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3032 English was set as the preferred language
3035 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3036 --------------------------------
3039 * new mouse gesture interface
3040 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3044 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3045 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3046 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3049 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3050 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3054 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3057 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3058 without the user consent
3061 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3063 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3064 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3065 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3068 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3069 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3070 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3071 * playlist enhancements
3072 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3073 * new step forward/step backward commands
3074 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3075 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3076 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3079 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3080 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3081 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3084 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3085 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3088 * native video output is working again
3089 * only commandline interface support
3090 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3093 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3094 --------------------------------
3097 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3098 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3099 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3100 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3101 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3102 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3103 and A/52 streams are supported)
3104 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3109 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3110 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3111 * VCD entry points support
3112 * VCD image file support
3115 * support for *.asf format
3116 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3117 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3118 * support for ogg encapsulation
3119 * support for raw DV format
3120 * support for *.wav format
3121 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3124 Stream discovery & playlists:
3125 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3126 * support for .m3u file format
3127 * support for .asx file format
3128 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3131 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3132 (only available with the .avi demux)
3133 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3134 * support for raw PCM data
3135 * support for Cinepak video codec
3136 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3137 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3138 * support for Xvid codec
3139 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3140 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3141 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3143 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3145 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3148 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3151 * new WxWindows interface
3152 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3153 device and the channels configuration
3154 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3155 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3156 format that VLC can play
3157 * new swedish translation
3158 * enhancements of the playlist window
3159 * new messages window to see debug info
3160 * fixed a few crashes
3163 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3164 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3165 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3166 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working