1 Changes between 1.1.5 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39 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)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
86 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
89 * New capabilities for libVLC:
90 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
91 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
92 list of available audio and video filters
95 * asademux: use libass only
96 * fake: use the new image demuxers
97 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
99 * upnp: use upnp_intel
102 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
103 ----------------------------------
106 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
110 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
113 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
116 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
117 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
118 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
119 * Taglib thread-safety fix
122 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
126 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
129 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
132 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
133 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
135 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
139 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
140 * Miscellaneous fixes
143 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
144 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
146 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
147 * New Asturian translation
150 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
151 ----------------------------------
154 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
156 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
159 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
162 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
163 * Various fixes for Windows
166 * New Armenian translation
167 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
168 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
171 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
172 --------------------------------
175 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
177 * Fix folders opening from the interface
180 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
181 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
184 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
185 --------------------------------
188 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
189 * fix for podcasts parsing
190 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
193 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
194 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
197 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
198 * fix m3u playlists exports
201 * fix video autoresize behaviour
204 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
207 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
210 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
213 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
216 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
217 --------------------------------
220 * Avformat fps displaying fix
221 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
224 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
225 of mono streams, especially on Windows
228 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
229 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
230 * fix console output encoding
232 Interface and extensions:
233 * Youtube and other scripts updates
234 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
237 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
238 --------------------------------
241 * New capabilities for libVLC:
242 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
243 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
244 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
245 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
246 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
247 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
248 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
249 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
250 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
251 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
252 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
253 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
254 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
255 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
256 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
260 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
261 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
262 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
263 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
264 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
267 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
270 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
271 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
272 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
276 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
279 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
280 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
281 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
284 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
285 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
286 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
287 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
290 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
291 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
294 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
295 --------------------------------
297 Important changes for users:
298 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
299 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
301 Important changes for packagers:
302 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
303 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
304 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
305 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
306 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
308 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
310 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
311 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
312 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
313 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
314 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
317 * Support for the sftp protocol
318 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
319 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
320 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
321 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
322 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
325 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
326 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
327 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
329 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
330 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
331 * Invmem module improvements
332 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
333 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
334 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
335 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
336 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
337 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
338 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
339 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
340 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
341 * Support for VP8 codec
342 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
345 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
346 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
347 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
348 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
349 * Various EGP improvements
350 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
351 * Metadata and cover art improvements
354 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
355 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
356 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
357 * Podcast images are now displayed
360 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
361 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
362 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
363 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
364 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
365 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
366 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
367 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
368 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
369 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
370 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
373 * New content extensions lua framework
376 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
377 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
378 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
379 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
380 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
381 * NEON assembly audio converter module
382 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
385 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
386 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
387 * Service discovery based on libudev
388 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
391 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
392 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
393 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
394 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
395 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
396 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
397 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
400 * New smem module, streaming to memory
401 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
402 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
405 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
407 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
408 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
411 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
414 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
415 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
416 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
417 by Andy Matuschak et al.
418 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
419 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
420 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
423 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
424 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
427 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
428 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
429 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
433 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
434 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
435 * Improved Solaris port
438 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
439 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
442 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
443 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
444 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
445 * transrate: broken since too long
446 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
447 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
448 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
449 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
450 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
451 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
452 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
453 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
454 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
455 * cddax: use cdda instead.
456 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
457 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
458 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
459 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
462 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
463 --------------------------------
466 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
468 Decoders/Packetizers:
469 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
472 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
473 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
474 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
475 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
476 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
479 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
480 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
483 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
484 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
487 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
488 and Walloon translations updated
489 * Sinhala translation started
492 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
493 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
496 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
497 --------------------------------
500 * SubRip extra styles improvements
501 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
504 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
507 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
508 increase performance and fix x264 issues
511 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
512 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
513 Russian, Slovak translation updates
514 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
517 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
518 --------------------------------
521 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
522 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
525 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
526 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
529 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
530 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
533 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
536 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
537 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
540 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
541 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
544 * New Walloon translation
545 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
548 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
549 --------------------------------
552 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
553 regressions in most popular drivers
554 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
557 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
558 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
559 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
562 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
563 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
566 * Update for appletrailers lua script
567 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
568 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
569 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
570 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
573 * New udev module for linux
576 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
579 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
582 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
583 --------------------------------
586 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
587 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
588 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
591 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
592 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
595 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
596 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
599 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
602 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
603 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
604 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
605 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
608 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
609 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
610 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
611 - no support for Goom and SDL
612 - limited text rendering support
613 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
616 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
617 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
618 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
619 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
620 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
621 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
622 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
623 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
624 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
628 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
631 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
634 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
635 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
636 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
637 Arabic and French translation updates
640 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
641 --------------------------------
644 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
645 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
646 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
647 * Fix Dailymotion access script
648 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
649 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
652 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
653 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
656 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
657 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
658 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
661 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
664 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
665 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
668 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
669 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
670 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
671 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
672 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
673 * Fix various crashes
676 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
678 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
681 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
682 ---------------------------------
686 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
687 See 'Access:' for more info.
688 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
691 * Instantaneous pausing
692 * Frame-by-Frame playback
693 * Finer speed control
694 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
695 * Timeshift for most medias
696 * RTSP trickplay support
697 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
700 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
701 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
702 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
703 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
704 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
705 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
706 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
707 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
708 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
709 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
712 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
713 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
714 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
715 * Metadata for mod files are supported
716 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
717 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
718 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
721 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
722 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
725 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
726 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
727 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
728 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
729 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
730 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
731 * DVB scanning on linux
732 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
733 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
734 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
735 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
736 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
737 * MTP device access on Unix
738 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
739 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
742 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
743 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
744 Windows and Mac OS X.
747 * Export the playlist in HTML
748 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
749 * Better metadata handling and reading
751 Linux/Windows interface:
752 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
753 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
754 * Recently played items list
755 * Interface toolbar customizations
756 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
759 - Improvements on many dialogs
760 - New dialog for plugins listing
761 - Fixed-size mode for videos
762 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
763 * Better integration in GTK environments
766 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
767 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
768 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
769 * Additional usability improvements
772 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
773 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
774 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
775 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
776 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
779 * New Maemo port with:
780 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
781 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
784 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
787 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
788 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
789 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
790 * Support for latest iSight models
793 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
794 * Surround support for PulseAudio
797 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
798 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
799 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
800 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
801 The old image video output has been removed.
802 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
803 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
806 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
814 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
815 --------------------------------------
821 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
822 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
823 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
824 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
825 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
826 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
827 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
829 Various fixes to the following modules:
832 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
833 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
836 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
841 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
842 ---------------------------------
845 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
846 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
849 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
850 ---------------------------------
853 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
856 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
859 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
860 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
861 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
862 main controller window.
863 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
866 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
871 * Updates of other localizations
874 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
875 * Lots of small bugfixes.
876 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
877 * Telnet fixes on Windows
878 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
881 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
882 ---------------------------------
885 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
887 Bunch of small bugfixes.
890 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
891 --------------------------------
896 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
897 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
900 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
901 --------------------------------
903 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
904 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
907 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
910 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
911 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
914 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
915 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
918 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
919 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
920 * Various fixed in playlist
923 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
926 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
929 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
930 ------------------------------------
932 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
933 * Fixes several memory leaks.
936 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
937 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
938 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
941 * Stability fix for the video output.
944 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
945 --------------------------------
948 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
949 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
950 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
951 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
952 * Fixed update system bugs
953 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
956 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
957 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
958 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
959 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
960 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
961 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
962 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
963 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
964 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
965 modern Mac OS X versions
968 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
969 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
971 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
972 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
975 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
976 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
977 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
978 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
979 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
980 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
983 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
984 --------------------------------
986 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
987 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
991 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
992 --------------------------------
994 * Multiple bug fixes.
997 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
998 ---------------------------------
1002 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1003 recent to work correctly
1004 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1005 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1006 edit the ".hosts" file.
1007 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1008 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1009 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1010 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1011 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1012 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1013 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1014 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1015 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1016 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1017 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1018 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1019 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1020 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1021 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1022 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1023 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1024 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1025 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1026 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1027 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1028 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1029 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1030 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1031 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1032 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1033 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1034 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1035 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1036 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1037 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1038 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1039 and postproc modules.
1040 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1041 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1042 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1043 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1045 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1046 filter. For example:
1047 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1048 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1050 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1051 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1057 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1059 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1060 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1063 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1064 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1066 * Shoutcast TV listings
1067 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1069 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1070 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1072 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1075 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1076 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1077 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1078 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1079 * JACK audio input support
1080 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1081 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1082 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1083 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1084 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1085 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1086 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1087 (available as a separate download).
1088 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1089 * RTMP input support
1090 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1091 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1092 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1094 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1095 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1098 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1099 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1100 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1101 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1103 * APEv1/2 tags support
1104 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1105 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1107 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1108 * TiVo Series 2 support
1109 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1114 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1115 * Flash Screen Video support
1116 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1117 * DosBox Capture support
1118 * Karl Morton's Video support
1119 * limited atrac3 support
1121 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1122 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1123 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1124 * H.264 PAFF support
1125 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1126 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1127 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1128 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1129 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1132 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1133 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1134 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1135 * AQTitle subtitles support
1136 * MKV USF subtitles support
1137 * HTML-based subtitles support
1138 * MPSub subtitles support
1139 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1140 * MPL2 subtitles support
1141 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1142 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1143 * Realtext subtitle support
1144 * DKS subtitle support
1145 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1146 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1149 * Flash Screen Video support
1150 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1152 Video outputs and filters:
1153 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1154 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1155 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1156 * New puzzle video output filter
1157 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1158 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1160 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1161 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1162 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1163 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1164 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1165 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1166 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1167 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1168 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1169 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1170 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1171 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1172 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1173 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1175 Audio outputs and filters:
1176 * Replay gain support
1177 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1178 new scaletempo audio filter)
1179 * New spatializer audio filter
1180 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1183 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1184 * New RTP payload formats:
1185 * Speex voice audio codec
1186 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1187 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1188 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1189 * DCCP transport for RTP
1190 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1195 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1196 end-user suitable way.
1197 * Improved user interaction
1198 * Improved mouse gestures
1199 * Vastly improved Update checker
1200 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1202 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1203 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1205 * Improved video output features
1206 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1207 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1208 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1209 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1210 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1212 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1213 if libncursesw is available.
1214 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1215 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1216 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1218 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1219 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1220 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1221 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1222 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1223 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1224 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1225 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1228 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1229 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1230 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1233 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1234 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1235 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1236 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1237 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1238 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1241 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1242 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1252 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1253 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1254 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1257 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1258 ----------------------------------
1261 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1264 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1265 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1266 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1267 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1268 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1269 * Updated Polish translation
1272 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1273 ----------------------------------
1276 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1277 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1278 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1281 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1282 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1283 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1284 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1285 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1286 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1287 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1288 to an unexpected application termination
1289 * New Serbian translation
1290 * Updated Romanian translation
1293 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1294 ----------------------------------
1297 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1298 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1299 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1300 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1301 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1302 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1303 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1304 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1307 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1308 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1309 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1310 * Fixed AAC resampling
1311 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1312 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1315 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1316 ----------------------------------
1319 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1320 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1321 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1322 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1323 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1326 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1327 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1328 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1329 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1330 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1333 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1334 ----------------------------------
1337 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1338 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1341 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1342 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1343 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1344 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1346 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1350 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1353 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1356 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1359 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1362 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1363 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1364 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1365 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1366 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1368 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1369 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1370 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1371 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1374 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1377 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1378 ----------------------------------
1381 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1382 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1383 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1385 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1386 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1388 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1389 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1392 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1394 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1395 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1396 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1397 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1398 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1399 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1400 two different movies
1401 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1402 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1403 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1406 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1409 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1410 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1411 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1412 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1415 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1416 ----------------------------------
1418 Various bugfixes, notably:
1419 * Windows Vista compatibility
1420 * Cropping in Direct3D
1421 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1422 * RSS filter string overflow
1424 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1426 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1427 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1430 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1431 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1434 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1437 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1440 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1443 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1444 ----------------------------------
1446 Various bugfixes, notably:
1447 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1448 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1449 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1450 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1451 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1452 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1455 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1456 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1459 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1461 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1462 * Diverse usability improvements
1463 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1464 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1465 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1468 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1469 ---------------------------------
1471 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1472 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1475 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1478 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1479 --------------------------------
1482 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1485 * Support for RTSP authentication
1486 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1487 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1488 * ATSC support for DVB input
1489 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1490 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1491 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1494 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1495 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1496 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1497 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1498 * Matroska WavPack support
1499 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1500 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1501 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1504 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1505 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1506 * Improved libcaca support
1510 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1511 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1513 * Systray support in skins
1515 * Support for Apple Remote control
1516 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1517 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1518 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1519 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1521 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1524 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1525 Windows 9x/ME users:
1526 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1527 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1528 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1529 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1530 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1532 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1533 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1542 * Updates to the libvlc API
1543 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1546 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1547 --------------------------------
1550 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1551 * Support for downloading updates
1555 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1556 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1557 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1558 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1560 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1561 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1562 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1565 * Cook (Real audio) support
1567 Playlist / Services discovery:
1568 * XSPF playlist support
1570 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1573 * New JACK audio output
1576 * New video filters:
1577 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1578 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1579 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1580 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1581 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1582 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1585 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1588 * System to inform the user and request information
1589 - HTTP authentication
1593 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1594 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1595 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1598 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1599 - Improved playlist handling
1600 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1602 - Embedded Video output
1603 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1604 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1605 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1606 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1607 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1609 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1610 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1613 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1616 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1617 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1618 * Growl "Now playing" support
1621 * Ability to log to syslog
1622 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1625 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1627 * A bit more automatic testing
1630 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1631 ---------------------------------
1634 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1635 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1638 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1639 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1642 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1645 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1646 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1652 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1655 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1656 --------------------------------
1659 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1663 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1664 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1665 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1668 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1669 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1670 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1671 * GnomeVFS input module
1672 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1673 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1676 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1677 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1678 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1681 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1682 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1688 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1689 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1692 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1693 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1694 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1697 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1699 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1700 - New extended controls panel
1701 - New bookmarks window
1702 - Fixed playlist sorting
1703 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1705 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1706 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1707 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1708 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1712 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1713 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1715 - Include macro to include other files
1719 * Should now work outside IE as well
1722 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1725 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1726 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1729 The following languages were added:
1733 * Simplified Chinese
1734 The following languages were re-added:
1738 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1739 --------------------------------
1742 * Rewrite of the playlist
1744 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1745 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1746 * Preferences improvements:
1747 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1748 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1750 * Core image manipulation support
1751 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1752 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1753 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1754 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1755 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1756 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1757 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1758 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1759 * Access filter architecture
1760 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1761 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1765 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1766 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1767 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1768 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1769 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1770 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1771 * Massive Matroska improvements
1772 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1774 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1775 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1776 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1777 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1778 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1780 Decoders / Encoders:
1781 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1782 * PNG decoder/encoder
1783 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1784 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1787 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1790 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1791 * Brand new SAP module
1792 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1793 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1794 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1795 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1796 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1797 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1801 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1804 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1805 * Image file video output (png)
1806 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1807 * Improvements to wall video filter
1808 * Support for font color and opacity
1814 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1815 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1816 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1820 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1821 - Improved preferences
1822 - Improvements to the wizard
1823 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1825 - Redesigned playlist
1826 - Improved preferences
1828 - Support for multiple actions
1831 - Support for the new playlist system
1833 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1836 * Screensaver disabling fix
1837 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1838 * Support for no-decoration windows
1841 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1842 * The OpenGL video output is back
1843 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1844 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1845 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1846 is not yet available in the new module
1847 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1850 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1859 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1862 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1865 The following languages were added:
1871 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1872 --------------------------------
1875 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1876 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1879 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1880 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1881 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1884 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1887 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1890 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1893 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1894 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1895 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1899 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1901 * Support of playlist group announcement
1904 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1905 --------------------------------
1908 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1909 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1910 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1911 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1912 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1913 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1916 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1917 (Stream your desktop)
1918 * Improved DVD support:
1919 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1920 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1921 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1922 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1923 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1924 (selection of titles/chapters).
1927 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1928 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1929 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1930 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1931 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1932 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1933 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1934 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1935 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1936 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1939 * G.726 audio support
1940 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1941 * MPEG-4 text support
1942 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1943 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1944 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1948 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1949 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1950 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1951 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1952 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1953 * DVB subtitles encoder
1954 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1955 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1957 * Text track muxing for mp4
1958 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1959 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1960 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1961 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1962 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1963 * Improved ASF muxer
1965 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1966 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1967 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1970 * New audio equalizer filter
1971 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1972 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1973 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1974 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1977 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1978 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1979 with support for effects.
1980 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1981 - New filters can be streamed.
1982 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1983 - Centralized scaling and blending
1985 - "time", to display current time
1986 - "marq", to display a marquee
1989 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1990 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1991 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1992 * A few skins2 improvements
1993 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1994 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1995 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1996 * Improved CORBA control module
1999 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2000 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2001 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2004 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2005 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2006 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2009 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2010 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2011 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2012 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2013 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2016 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2019 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2020 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2023 * Server/client network synchronization module
2024 * VBrick streams fully supported
2025 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2029 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2030 --------------------------------
2033 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2034 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2035 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2036 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2039 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2040 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2041 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2042 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2043 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2044 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2045 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2048 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2049 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2050 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2051 * Improved directory access module.
2052 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2053 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2054 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2055 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2056 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2059 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2060 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2061 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2064 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2065 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2066 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2069 * Improved session announcement system.
2070 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2071 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2072 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2073 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2074 * Improved transrater.
2075 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2076 * New configuration system.
2077 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2080 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2081 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2082 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2083 * Supports scheduling.
2084 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2085 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2088 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2089 - Ability to embed video output.
2090 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2091 - Lots of improvements.
2092 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2093 - New design and set of icons.
2094 - Ability to embed video output.
2095 - Support for hotkeys.
2096 - Support for bookmarks.
2098 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2099 - Better hotkeys handling.
2102 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2103 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2104 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2105 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2108 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2109 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2110 * Improved Windows installer.
2116 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2117 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2120 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2121 ---------------------------------
2124 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2125 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2128 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2129 --------------------------------
2132 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2133 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2136 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2137 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2138 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2139 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2142 * Internal improvments
2143 * Improved import/export
2146 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2148 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2149 small and strange formats.
2151 * New MOD audio demux.
2152 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2153 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2154 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2155 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2158 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2159 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2160 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2166 * New opengl video output plugin.
2169 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2170 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2173 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2174 --------------------------------
2177 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2178 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2179 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2180 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2181 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2182 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2183 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2184 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2187 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2192 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2193 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2194 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2195 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2196 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2197 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2198 * Better Icecast support.
2199 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2200 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2203 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2204 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2205 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2206 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2207 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2208 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2209 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2212 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2213 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2214 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2215 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2216 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2217 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2218 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2219 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2220 * Preliminary RTP support.
2221 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2226 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2227 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2229 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2230 - Improvements and help in preferences
2231 - New streaming wizard
2232 - Revised Disc Open menu
2234 - Improvements of the standard pages
2235 - Support for new commands
2236 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2239 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2240 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2243 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2244 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2245 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2246 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2247 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2248 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2249 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2250 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2251 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2254 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2256 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2257 * Support for Panther.
2258 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2259 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2262 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2263 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2264 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2265 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2266 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2267 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2268 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2269 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2272 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2273 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2274 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2277 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2280 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2281 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2282 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2283 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2286 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2287 --------------------------------
2290 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2293 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2294 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2297 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2298 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2301 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2304 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2305 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2308 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2311 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2314 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2315 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2319 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2320 --------------------------------
2323 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2324 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2328 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2329 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2330 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2332 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2333 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2336 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2339 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2342 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2343 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2347 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2348 --------------------------------
2351 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2352 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2356 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2357 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2358 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2359 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2360 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2363 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2364 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2365 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2368 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2369 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2370 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2373 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2374 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2375 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2376 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2377 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2380 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2381 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2382 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2385 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2388 * Improved build system.
2389 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2390 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2391 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2392 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2395 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2396 --------------------------------
2399 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2402 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2403 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2404 * Video 4 Linux support
2405 * CD Digital Audio support
2406 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2409 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2410 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2411 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2412 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2415 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2416 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2417 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2418 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2419 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2420 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2421 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2424 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2425 * New HTTP remote control interface
2428 * 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.
2429 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2430 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2431 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2434 * New reset option for the preferences
2435 * You can set your language in the prefences
2436 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2437 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2438 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2439 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2442 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2443 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2444 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2447 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2448 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2449 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2450 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2451 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2452 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2453 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2454 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2455 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2456 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2459 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2460 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2461 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2462 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2463 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2464 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2465 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2468 * Interface localization
2469 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2470 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2471 * New full-featured Preferences window
2474 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2475 --------------------------------
2478 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2479 * support for skins at the interface level
2480 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2481 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2482 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2483 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2484 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2487 * fixed HTTP redirects
2488 * support for opening an entire directory
2489 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2490 * new video4linux access plug-in
2491 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2494 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2495 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2496 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2499 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2500 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2501 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2502 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2503 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2504 * new codec for raw I420 video
2505 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2508 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2509 (although it still misses some important features)
2510 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2513 * new HTTP output support
2514 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2515 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2518 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2521 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2524 * reorderable playlist
2525 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2526 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2527 * support for mono audio output devices
2528 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2529 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2530 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2531 * the messages window remembers more lines
2532 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2533 * http and ogg stream output options
2534 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2537 * new skinnable interface
2538 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2540 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2541 * support for FLAC audio format
2542 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2544 * network tab in the interface
2545 * "apply" handling in preferences
2548 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2549 ---------------------------------
2552 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2553 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2554 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2555 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2557 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2558 * DTS S/PDIF support
2561 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2562 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2563 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2564 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2567 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2568 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2571 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2574 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2577 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2579 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2580 * rc interface is now fully useable
2581 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2584 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2585 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2586 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2587 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2588 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2590 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2591 * support for mouse gestures
2592 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2595 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2596 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2599 * improved ID3 tag detection
2600 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2601 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2602 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2604 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2607 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2608 ---------------------------------
2611 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2612 English was set as the preferred language
2615 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2616 --------------------------------
2619 * new mouse gesture interface
2620 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2624 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2625 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2626 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2629 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2630 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2634 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2637 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2638 without the user consent
2641 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2643 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2644 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2645 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2648 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2649 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2650 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2651 * playlist enhancements
2652 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2653 * new step forward/step backward commands
2654 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2655 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2656 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2659 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2660 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2661 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2664 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2665 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2668 * native video output is working again
2669 * only commandline interface support
2670 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2673 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2674 --------------------------------
2677 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2678 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2679 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2680 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2681 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2682 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2683 and A/52 streams are supported)
2684 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2689 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2690 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2691 * VCD entry points support
2692 * VCD image file support
2695 * support for *.asf format
2696 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2697 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2698 * support for ogg encapsulation
2699 * support for raw DV format
2700 * support for *.wav format
2701 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2704 Stream discovery & playlists:
2705 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2706 * support for .m3u file format
2707 * support for .asx file format
2708 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2711 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2712 (only available with the .avi demux)
2713 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2714 * support for raw PCM data
2715 * support for Cinepak video codec
2716 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2717 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2718 * support for Xvid codec
2719 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2720 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2721 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2723 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2725 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2728 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2731 * new WxWindows interface
2732 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2733 device and the channels configuration
2734 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2735 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2736 format that VLC can play
2737 * new swedish translation
2738 * enhancements of the playlist window
2739 * new messages window to see debug info
2740 * fixed a few crashes
2743 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2744 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2745 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2746 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working