1 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
22 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
23 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
24 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
27 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
28 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
29 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
30 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
31 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
34 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
35 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
39 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
40 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
41 * Ogg seeking improvements
42 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
45 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
46 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
47 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
48 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
49 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
50 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
51 and important cleanups and optimisations
52 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
55 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
56 * New video output for iOS platform
57 * New video output using EGL
58 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
59 * Various vmem improvements
62 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
63 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
64 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
65 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
66 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
69 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
72 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
75 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
76 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
77 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
78 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
79 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
80 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
81 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
82 * Major rework of VoD support
83 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
84 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
85 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
86 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
87 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
88 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
91 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
94 * New capabilities for libVLC:
95 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
96 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
97 list of available audio and video filters
100 * asademux: use libass only
101 * fake: use the new image demuxers
102 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
104 * upnp: use upnp_intel
107 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
108 ---------------------------------
111 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
112 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
113 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
114 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
117 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
120 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
121 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
122 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
125 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
126 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
127 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
129 Subtitles and renderer:
130 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
131 * Mark more freetype options as safe
132 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
133 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
134 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi
137 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
138 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
139 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
140 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
143 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
144 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
145 * KDE: work-around open dialog first slow opening because of KMimeTypeRepository
148 * KDE device solid actions
150 * Transcode integer overflow
151 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
152 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
155 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
156 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
157 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
160 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
161 ----------------------------------
164 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
168 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
171 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
174 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
175 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
176 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
177 * Taglib thread-safety fix
180 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
184 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
187 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
190 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
191 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
193 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
197 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
198 * Miscellaneous fixes
201 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
202 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
204 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
205 * New Asturian translation
208 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
209 ----------------------------------
212 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
214 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
217 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
220 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
221 * Various fixes for Windows
224 * New Armenian translation
225 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
226 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
229 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
230 --------------------------------
233 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
235 * Fix folders opening from the interface
238 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
239 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
242 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
243 --------------------------------
246 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
247 * fix for podcasts parsing
248 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
251 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
252 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
255 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
256 * fix m3u playlists exports
259 * fix video autoresize behaviour
262 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
265 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
268 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
271 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
274 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
275 --------------------------------
278 * Avformat fps displaying fix
279 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
282 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
283 of mono streams, especially on Windows
286 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
287 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
288 * fix console output encoding
290 Interface and extensions:
291 * Youtube and other scripts updates
292 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
295 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
296 --------------------------------
299 * New capabilities for libVLC:
300 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
301 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
302 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
303 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
304 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
305 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
306 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
307 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
308 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
309 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
310 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
311 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
312 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
313 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
314 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
318 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
319 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
320 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
321 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
322 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
325 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
328 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
329 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
330 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
334 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
337 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
338 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
339 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
342 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
343 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
344 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
345 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
348 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
349 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
352 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
353 --------------------------------
355 Important changes for users:
356 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
357 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
359 Important changes for packagers:
360 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
361 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
362 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
363 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
364 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
366 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
368 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
369 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
370 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
371 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
372 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
375 * Support for the sftp protocol
376 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
377 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
378 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
379 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
380 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
383 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
384 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
385 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
387 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
388 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
389 * Invmem module improvements
390 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
391 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
392 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
393 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
394 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
395 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
396 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
397 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
398 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
399 * Support for VP8 codec
400 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
403 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
404 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
405 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
406 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
407 * Various EGP improvements
408 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
409 * Metadata and cover art improvements
412 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
413 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
414 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
415 * Podcast images are now displayed
418 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
419 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
420 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
421 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
422 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
423 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
424 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
425 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
426 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
427 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
428 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
431 * New content extensions lua framework
434 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
435 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
436 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
437 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
438 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
439 * NEON assembly audio converter module
440 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
443 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
444 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
445 * Service discovery based on libudev
446 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
449 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
450 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
451 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
452 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
453 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
454 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
455 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
458 * New smem module, streaming to memory
459 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
460 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
463 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
465 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
466 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
469 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
472 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
473 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
474 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
475 by Andy Matuschak et al.
476 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
477 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
478 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
481 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
482 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
485 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
486 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
487 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
491 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
492 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
493 * Improved Solaris port
496 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
497 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
500 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
501 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
502 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
503 * transrate: broken since too long
504 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
505 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
506 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
507 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
508 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
509 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
510 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
511 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
512 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
513 * cddax: use cdda instead.
514 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
515 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
516 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
517 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
520 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
521 --------------------------------
524 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
526 Decoders/Packetizers:
527 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
530 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
531 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
532 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
533 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
534 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
537 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
538 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
541 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
542 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
545 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
546 and Walloon translations updated
547 * Sinhala translation started
550 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
551 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
554 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
555 --------------------------------
558 * SubRip extra styles improvements
559 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
562 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
565 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
566 increase performance and fix x264 issues
569 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
570 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
571 Russian, Slovak translation updates
572 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
575 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
576 --------------------------------
579 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
580 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
583 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
584 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
587 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
588 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
591 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
594 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
595 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
598 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
599 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
602 * New Walloon translation
603 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
606 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
607 --------------------------------
610 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
611 regressions in most popular drivers
612 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
615 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
616 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
617 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
620 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
621 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
624 * Update for appletrailers lua script
625 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
626 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
627 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
628 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
631 * New udev module for linux
634 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
637 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
640 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
641 --------------------------------
644 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
645 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
646 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
649 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
650 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
653 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
654 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
657 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
660 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
661 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
662 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
663 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
666 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
667 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
668 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
669 - no support for Goom and SDL
670 - limited text rendering support
671 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
674 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
675 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
676 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
677 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
678 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
679 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
680 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
681 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
682 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
686 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
689 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
692 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
693 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
694 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
695 Arabic and French translation updates
698 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
699 --------------------------------
702 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
703 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
704 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
705 * Fix Dailymotion access script
706 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
707 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
710 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
711 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
714 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
715 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
716 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
719 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
722 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
723 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
726 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
727 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
728 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
729 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
730 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
731 * Fix various crashes
734 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
736 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
739 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
740 ---------------------------------
744 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
745 See 'Access:' for more info.
746 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
749 * Instantaneous pausing
750 * Frame-by-Frame playback
751 * Finer speed control
752 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
753 * Timeshift for most medias
754 * RTSP trickplay support
755 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
758 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
759 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
760 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
761 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
762 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
763 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
764 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
765 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
766 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
767 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
770 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
771 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
772 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
773 * Metadata for mod files are supported
774 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
775 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
776 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
779 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
780 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
783 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
784 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
785 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
786 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
787 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
788 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
789 * DVB scanning on linux
790 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
791 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
792 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
793 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
794 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
795 * MTP device access on Unix
796 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
797 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
800 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
801 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
802 Windows and Mac OS X.
805 * Export the playlist in HTML
806 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
807 * Better metadata handling and reading
809 Linux/Windows interface:
810 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
811 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
812 * Recently played items list
813 * Interface toolbar customizations
814 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
817 - Improvements on many dialogs
818 - New dialog for plugins listing
819 - Fixed-size mode for videos
820 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
821 * Better integration in GTK environments
824 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
825 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
826 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
827 * Additional usability improvements
830 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
831 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
832 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
833 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
834 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
837 * New Maemo port with:
838 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
839 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
842 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
845 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
846 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
847 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
848 * Support for latest iSight models
851 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
852 * Surround support for PulseAudio
855 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
856 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
857 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
858 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
859 The old image video output has been removed.
860 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
861 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
864 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
872 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
873 --------------------------------------
879 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
880 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
881 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
882 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
883 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
884 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
885 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
887 Various fixes to the following modules:
890 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
891 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
894 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
899 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
900 ---------------------------------
903 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
904 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
907 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
908 ---------------------------------
911 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
914 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
917 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
918 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
919 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
920 main controller window.
921 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
924 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
929 * Updates of other localizations
932 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
933 * Lots of small bugfixes.
934 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
935 * Telnet fixes on Windows
936 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
939 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
940 ---------------------------------
943 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
945 Bunch of small bugfixes.
948 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
949 --------------------------------
954 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
955 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
958 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
959 --------------------------------
961 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
962 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
965 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
968 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
969 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
972 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
973 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
976 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
977 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
978 * Various fixed in playlist
981 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
984 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
987 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
988 ------------------------------------
990 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
991 * Fixes several memory leaks.
994 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
995 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
996 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
999 * Stability fix for the video output.
1002 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1003 --------------------------------
1006 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1007 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1008 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1009 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1010 * Fixed update system bugs
1011 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1014 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1015 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1016 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1017 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1018 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1019 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1020 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1021 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1022 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1023 modern Mac OS X versions
1026 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1027 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1029 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1030 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1033 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1034 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1035 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1036 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1037 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1038 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1041 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1042 --------------------------------
1044 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1045 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1046 * Multiple bugfixes.
1049 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1050 --------------------------------
1052 * Multiple bug fixes.
1055 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1056 ---------------------------------
1060 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1061 recent to work correctly
1062 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1063 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1064 edit the ".hosts" file.
1065 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1066 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1067 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1068 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1069 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1070 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1071 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1072 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1073 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1074 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1075 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1076 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1077 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1078 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1079 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1080 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1081 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1082 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1083 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1084 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1085 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1086 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1087 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1088 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1089 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1090 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1091 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1092 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1093 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1094 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1095 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1096 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1097 and postproc modules.
1098 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1099 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1100 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1101 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1103 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1104 filter. For example:
1105 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1106 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1108 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1109 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1115 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1117 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1118 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1121 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1122 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1124 * Shoutcast TV listings
1125 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1127 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1128 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1130 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1133 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1134 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1135 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1136 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1137 * JACK audio input support
1138 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1139 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1140 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1141 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1142 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1143 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1144 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1145 (available as a separate download).
1146 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1147 * RTMP input support
1148 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1149 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1150 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1152 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1153 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1156 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1157 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1158 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1159 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1161 * APEv1/2 tags support
1162 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1163 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1165 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1166 * TiVo Series 2 support
1167 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1172 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1173 * Flash Screen Video support
1174 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1175 * DosBox Capture support
1176 * Karl Morton's Video support
1177 * limited atrac3 support
1179 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1180 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1181 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1182 * H.264 PAFF support
1183 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1184 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1185 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1186 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1187 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1190 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1191 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1192 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1193 * AQTitle subtitles support
1194 * MKV USF subtitles support
1195 * HTML-based subtitles support
1196 * MPSub subtitles support
1197 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1198 * MPL2 subtitles support
1199 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1200 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1201 * Realtext subtitle support
1202 * DKS subtitle support
1203 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1204 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1207 * Flash Screen Video support
1208 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1210 Video outputs and filters:
1211 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1212 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1213 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1214 * New puzzle video output filter
1215 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1216 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1218 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1219 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1220 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1221 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1222 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1223 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1224 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1225 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1226 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1227 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1228 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1229 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1230 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1231 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1233 Audio outputs and filters:
1234 * Replay gain support
1235 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1236 new scaletempo audio filter)
1237 * New spatializer audio filter
1238 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1241 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1242 * New RTP payload formats:
1243 * Speex voice audio codec
1244 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1245 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1246 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1247 * DCCP transport for RTP
1248 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1253 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1254 end-user suitable way.
1255 * Improved user interaction
1256 * Improved mouse gestures
1257 * Vastly improved Update checker
1258 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1260 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1261 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1263 * Improved video output features
1264 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1265 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1266 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1267 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1268 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1270 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1271 if libncursesw is available.
1272 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1273 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1274 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1276 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1277 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1278 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1279 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1280 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1281 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1282 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1283 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1286 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1287 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1288 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1291 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1292 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1293 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1294 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1295 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1296 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1299 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1300 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1310 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1311 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1312 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1315 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1316 ----------------------------------
1319 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1322 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1323 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1324 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1325 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1326 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1327 * Updated Polish translation
1330 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1331 ----------------------------------
1334 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1335 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1336 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1339 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1340 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1341 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1342 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1343 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1344 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1345 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1346 to an unexpected application termination
1347 * New Serbian translation
1348 * Updated Romanian translation
1351 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1352 ----------------------------------
1355 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1356 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1357 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1358 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1359 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1360 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1361 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1362 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1365 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1366 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1367 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1368 * Fixed AAC resampling
1369 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1370 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1373 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1374 ----------------------------------
1377 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1378 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1379 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1380 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1381 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1384 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1385 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1386 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1387 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1388 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1391 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1392 ----------------------------------
1395 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1396 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1399 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1400 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1401 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1402 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1404 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1408 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1411 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1414 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1417 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1420 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1421 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1422 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1423 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1424 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1426 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1427 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1428 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1429 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1432 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1435 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1436 ----------------------------------
1439 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1440 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1441 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1443 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1444 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1446 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1447 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1450 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1452 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1453 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1454 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1455 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1456 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1457 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1458 two different movies
1459 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1460 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1461 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1464 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1467 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1468 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1469 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1470 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1473 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1474 ----------------------------------
1476 Various bugfixes, notably:
1477 * Windows Vista compatibility
1478 * Cropping in Direct3D
1479 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1480 * RSS filter string overflow
1482 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1484 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1485 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1488 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1489 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1492 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1495 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1498 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1501 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1502 ----------------------------------
1504 Various bugfixes, notably:
1505 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1506 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1507 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1508 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1509 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1510 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1513 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1514 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1517 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1519 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1520 * Diverse usability improvements
1521 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1522 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1523 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1526 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1527 ---------------------------------
1529 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1530 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1533 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1536 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1537 --------------------------------
1540 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1543 * Support for RTSP authentication
1544 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1545 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1546 * ATSC support for DVB input
1547 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1548 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1549 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1552 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1553 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1554 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1555 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1556 * Matroska WavPack support
1557 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1558 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1559 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1562 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1563 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1564 * Improved libcaca support
1568 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1569 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1571 * Systray support in skins
1573 * Support for Apple Remote control
1574 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1575 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1576 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1577 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1579 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1582 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1583 Windows 9x/ME users:
1584 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1585 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1586 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1587 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1588 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1590 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1591 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1600 * Updates to the libvlc API
1601 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1604 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1605 --------------------------------
1608 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1609 * Support for downloading updates
1613 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1614 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1615 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1616 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1618 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1619 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1620 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1623 * Cook (Real audio) support
1625 Playlist / Services discovery:
1626 * XSPF playlist support
1628 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1631 * New JACK audio output
1634 * New video filters:
1635 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1636 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1637 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1638 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1639 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1640 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1643 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1646 * System to inform the user and request information
1647 - HTTP authentication
1651 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1652 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1653 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1656 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1657 - Improved playlist handling
1658 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1660 - Embedded Video output
1661 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1662 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1663 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1664 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1665 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1667 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1668 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1671 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1674 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1675 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1676 * Growl "Now playing" support
1679 * Ability to log to syslog
1680 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1683 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1685 * A bit more automatic testing
1688 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1689 ---------------------------------
1692 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1693 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1696 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1697 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1700 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1703 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1704 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1710 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1713 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1714 --------------------------------
1717 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1721 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1722 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1723 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1726 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1727 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1728 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1729 * GnomeVFS input module
1730 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1731 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1734 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1735 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1736 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1739 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1740 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1746 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1747 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1750 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1751 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1752 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1755 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1757 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1758 - New extended controls panel
1759 - New bookmarks window
1760 - Fixed playlist sorting
1761 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1763 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1764 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1765 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1766 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1770 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1771 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1773 - Include macro to include other files
1777 * Should now work outside IE as well
1780 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1783 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1784 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1787 The following languages were added:
1791 * Simplified Chinese
1792 The following languages were re-added:
1796 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * Rewrite of the playlist
1802 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1803 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1804 * Preferences improvements:
1805 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1806 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1808 * Core image manipulation support
1809 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1810 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1811 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1812 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1813 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1814 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1815 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1816 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1817 * Access filter architecture
1818 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1819 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1823 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1824 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1825 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1826 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1827 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1828 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1829 * Massive Matroska improvements
1830 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1832 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1833 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1834 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1835 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1836 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1838 Decoders / Encoders:
1839 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1840 * PNG decoder/encoder
1841 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1842 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1845 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1848 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1849 * Brand new SAP module
1850 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1851 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1852 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1853 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1854 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1855 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1859 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1862 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1863 * Image file video output (png)
1864 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1865 * Improvements to wall video filter
1866 * Support for font color and opacity
1872 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1873 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1874 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1878 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1879 - Improved preferences
1880 - Improvements to the wizard
1881 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1883 - Redesigned playlist
1884 - Improved preferences
1886 - Support for multiple actions
1889 - Support for the new playlist system
1891 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1894 * Screensaver disabling fix
1895 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1896 * Support for no-decoration windows
1899 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1900 * The OpenGL video output is back
1901 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1902 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1903 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1904 is not yet available in the new module
1905 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1908 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1917 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1920 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1923 The following languages were added:
1929 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1930 --------------------------------
1933 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1934 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1937 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1938 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1939 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1942 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1945 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1948 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1951 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1952 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1953 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1957 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1959 * Support of playlist group announcement
1962 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1963 --------------------------------
1966 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1967 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1968 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1969 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1970 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1971 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1974 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1975 (Stream your desktop)
1976 * Improved DVD support:
1977 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1978 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1979 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1980 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1981 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1982 (selection of titles/chapters).
1985 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1986 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1987 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1988 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1989 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1990 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1991 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1992 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1993 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1994 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1997 * G.726 audio support
1998 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1999 * MPEG-4 text support
2000 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2001 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2002 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2006 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2007 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2008 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2009 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2010 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2011 * DVB subtitles encoder
2012 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2013 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2015 * Text track muxing for mp4
2016 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2017 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2018 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2019 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2020 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2021 * Improved ASF muxer
2023 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2024 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2025 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2028 * New audio equalizer filter
2029 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2030 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2031 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2032 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2035 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2036 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2037 with support for effects.
2038 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2039 - New filters can be streamed.
2040 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2041 - Centralized scaling and blending
2043 - "time", to display current time
2044 - "marq", to display a marquee
2047 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2048 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2049 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2050 * A few skins2 improvements
2051 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2052 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2053 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2054 * Improved CORBA control module
2057 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2058 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2059 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2062 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2063 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2064 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2067 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2068 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2069 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2070 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2071 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2074 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2077 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2078 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2081 * Server/client network synchronization module
2082 * VBrick streams fully supported
2083 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2087 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2088 --------------------------------
2091 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2092 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2093 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2094 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2097 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2098 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2099 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2100 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2101 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2102 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2103 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2106 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2107 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2108 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2109 * Improved directory access module.
2110 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2111 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2112 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2113 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2114 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2117 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2118 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2119 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2122 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2123 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2124 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2127 * Improved session announcement system.
2128 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2129 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2130 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2131 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2132 * Improved transrater.
2133 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2134 * New configuration system.
2135 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2138 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2139 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2140 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2141 * Supports scheduling.
2142 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2143 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2146 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2147 - Ability to embed video output.
2148 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2149 - Lots of improvements.
2150 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2151 - New design and set of icons.
2152 - Ability to embed video output.
2153 - Support for hotkeys.
2154 - Support for bookmarks.
2156 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2157 - Better hotkeys handling.
2160 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2161 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2162 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2163 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2166 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2167 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2168 * Improved Windows installer.
2174 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2175 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2178 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2179 ---------------------------------
2182 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2183 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2186 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2187 --------------------------------
2190 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2191 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2194 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2195 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2196 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2197 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2200 * Internal improvments
2201 * Improved import/export
2204 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2206 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2207 small and strange formats.
2209 * New MOD audio demux.
2210 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2211 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2212 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2213 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2216 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2217 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2218 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2224 * New opengl video output plugin.
2227 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2228 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2231 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2232 --------------------------------
2235 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2236 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2237 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2238 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2239 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2240 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2241 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2242 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2245 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2250 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2251 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2252 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2253 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2254 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2255 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2256 * Better Icecast support.
2257 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2258 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2261 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2262 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2263 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2264 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2265 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2266 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2267 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2270 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2271 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2272 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2273 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2274 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2275 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2276 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2277 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2278 * Preliminary RTP support.
2279 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2284 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2285 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2287 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2288 - Improvements and help in preferences
2289 - New streaming wizard
2290 - Revised Disc Open menu
2292 - Improvements of the standard pages
2293 - Support for new commands
2294 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2297 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2298 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2301 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2302 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2303 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2304 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2305 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2306 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2307 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2308 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2309 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2312 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2314 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2315 * Support for Panther.
2316 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2317 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2320 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2321 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2322 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2323 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2324 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2325 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2326 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2327 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2330 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2331 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2332 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2335 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2338 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2339 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2340 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2341 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2344 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2345 --------------------------------
2348 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2351 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2352 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2355 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2356 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2359 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2362 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2363 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2366 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2369 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2372 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2373 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2377 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2378 --------------------------------
2381 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2382 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2386 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2387 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2388 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2390 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2391 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2394 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2397 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2400 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2401 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2405 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2406 --------------------------------
2409 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2410 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2414 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2415 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2416 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2417 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2418 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2421 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2422 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2423 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2426 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2427 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2428 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2431 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2432 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2433 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2434 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2435 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2438 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2439 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2440 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2443 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2446 * Improved build system.
2447 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2448 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2449 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2450 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2453 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2454 --------------------------------
2457 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2460 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2461 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2462 * Video 4 Linux support
2463 * CD Digital Audio support
2464 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2467 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2468 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2469 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2470 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2473 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2474 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2475 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2476 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2477 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2478 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2479 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2482 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2483 * New HTTP remote control interface
2486 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2487 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2488 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2489 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2492 * New reset option for the preferences
2493 * You can set your language in the prefences
2494 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2495 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2496 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2497 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2500 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2501 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2502 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2505 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2506 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2507 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2508 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2509 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2510 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2511 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2512 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2513 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2514 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2517 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2518 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2519 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2520 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2521 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2522 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2523 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2526 * Interface localization
2527 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2528 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2529 * New full-featured Preferences window
2532 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2533 --------------------------------
2536 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2537 * support for skins at the interface level
2538 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2539 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2540 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2541 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2542 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2545 * fixed HTTP redirects
2546 * support for opening an entire directory
2547 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2548 * new video4linux access plug-in
2549 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2552 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2553 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2554 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2557 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2558 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2559 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2560 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2561 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2562 * new codec for raw I420 video
2563 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2566 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2567 (although it still misses some important features)
2568 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2571 * new HTTP output support
2572 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2573 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2576 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2579 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2582 * reorderable playlist
2583 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2584 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2585 * support for mono audio output devices
2586 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2587 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2588 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2589 * the messages window remembers more lines
2590 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2591 * http and ogg stream output options
2592 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2595 * new skinnable interface
2596 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2598 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2599 * support for FLAC audio format
2600 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2602 * network tab in the interface
2603 * "apply" handling in preferences
2606 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2607 ---------------------------------
2610 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2611 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2612 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2613 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2615 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2616 * DTS S/PDIF support
2619 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2620 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2621 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2622 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2625 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2626 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2629 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2632 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2635 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2637 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2638 * rc interface is now fully useable
2639 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2642 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2643 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2644 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2645 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2646 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2648 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2649 * support for mouse gestures
2650 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2653 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2654 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2657 * improved ID3 tag detection
2658 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2659 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2660 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2662 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2665 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2666 ---------------------------------
2669 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2670 English was set as the preferred language
2673 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2674 --------------------------------
2677 * new mouse gesture interface
2678 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2682 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2683 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2684 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2687 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2688 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2692 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2695 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2696 without the user consent
2699 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2701 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2702 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2703 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2706 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2707 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2708 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2709 * playlist enhancements
2710 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2711 * new step forward/step backward commands
2712 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2713 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2714 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2717 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2718 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2719 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2722 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2723 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2726 * native video output is working again
2727 * only commandline interface support
2728 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2731 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2732 --------------------------------
2735 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2736 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2737 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2738 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2739 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2740 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2741 and A/52 streams are supported)
2742 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2747 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2748 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2749 * VCD entry points support
2750 * VCD image file support
2753 * support for *.asf format
2754 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2755 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2756 * support for ogg encapsulation
2757 * support for raw DV format
2758 * support for *.wav format
2759 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2762 Stream discovery & playlists:
2763 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2764 * support for .m3u file format
2765 * support for .asx file format
2766 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2769 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2770 (only available with the .avi demux)
2771 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2772 * support for raw PCM data
2773 * support for Cinepak video codec
2774 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2775 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2776 * support for Xvid codec
2777 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2778 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2779 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2781 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2783 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2786 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2789 * new WxWindows interface
2790 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2791 device and the channels configuration
2792 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2793 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2794 format that VLC can play
2795 * new swedish translation
2796 * enhancements of the playlist window
2797 * new messages window to see debug info
2798 * fixed a few crashes
2801 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2802 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2803 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2804 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working