1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 3rd party libraries (contrib):
5 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
8 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
9 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
12 * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
15 * new remapping channel filter
16 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
17 * new VSXu visualization plugin
20 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
23 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
26 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
27 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
30 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
31 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
32 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
35 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
36 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
37 VLC's internal volume level
38 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
39 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
42 * portaudio audio output
43 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
44 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
47 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
48 --------------------------------
51 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
52 * fix the samba module compilation
53 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
54 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
55 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
56 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
59 * Support for MXPEG files
60 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
61 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
64 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
65 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
66 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
69 * Fix ogm header creation
72 * limit spatializer filter distortions
73 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
76 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
77 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
78 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
79 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
82 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
85 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
86 * allow to hide the sidebar
87 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
88 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
89 * noticebly faster launch time
90 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
91 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
92 * improve track synchronization panel
93 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
94 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
97 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
98 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
99 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
100 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
103 * fix for menus display
104 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
105 * documentation update
108 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
109 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
112 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
113 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
114 * Update Jamendo selections
118 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
119 * fix a crash on VLM close
122 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
123 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
124 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201)
125 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
128 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
131 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
132 ---------------------------------
135 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
136 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
137 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
138 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
139 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
140 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
141 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
142 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
143 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
144 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
145 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
146 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
147 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
148 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
149 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
150 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
151 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
152 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
153 --http-crl (optional CRL).
154 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
155 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
156 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
157 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
158 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
159 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
160 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
162 Important changes for packagers:
163 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
164 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
165 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
166 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
167 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
168 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
169 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
170 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
171 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
172 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
175 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
176 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
177 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
178 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
179 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
180 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
181 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
184 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
185 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
186 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
187 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
188 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
189 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
190 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
191 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
192 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
193 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
194 * PulseAudio audio input support
195 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
196 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
197 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
198 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
199 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
200 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
201 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
202 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
205 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
206 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
207 are notably concerned.
208 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
209 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
210 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
211 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
212 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
213 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
214 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
215 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
216 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
217 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
218 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
219 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
220 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
221 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
222 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
225 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
226 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
227 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
228 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
229 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
230 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
231 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
232 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
233 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
234 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
235 * Improved support of tracker files
236 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
239 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
240 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
241 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
242 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
243 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
244 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
245 and important cleanups and optimisations
246 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
247 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
248 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
249 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
250 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
251 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
252 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
253 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
254 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
255 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
256 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
257 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
258 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
259 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
260 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
261 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
262 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
263 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
264 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
265 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
266 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
269 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
270 * New video output for iOS platform
271 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
272 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
273 * Various vmem improvements
274 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
275 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
276 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
277 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
278 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
279 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
281 Audio Output and Filters:
282 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
283 * New audio output in memory (amem)
284 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
285 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
286 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
287 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
288 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
289 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
290 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
291 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
294 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
295 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
296 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
297 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
298 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
299 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
300 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
301 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
302 * New anti-flickering filter
303 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
304 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
305 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
306 blackbox and customizable shadow.
307 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
308 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
309 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
312 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
313 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
314 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
315 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
316 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
317 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
318 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
319 * Major rework of VoD support
320 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
321 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
322 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
323 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
324 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
325 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
326 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
327 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
328 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
329 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
332 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
333 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
336 * New capabilities for libVLC:
337 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
338 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
339 list of available audio and video filters
340 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
341 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
342 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
345 * asademux, subsass: use libass
346 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
347 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
349 * upnp: use upnp_intel
350 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
351 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
352 * removal of the noise filter
353 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
354 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
355 removed in Growl's next release, too.
356 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
359 * Update of translations for most languages.
360 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
363 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
364 ----------------------------------
367 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
368 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
371 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
372 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
375 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
376 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
377 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
380 * Camtasia decoding fix.
383 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
384 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
387 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
390 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
391 ----------------------------------
394 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
395 including support for OS X Lion
396 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
397 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
400 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
403 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
404 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
405 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
408 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
411 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
412 ----------------------------------
415 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
416 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
419 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
420 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
421 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
422 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
423 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
425 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
426 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
427 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
429 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
430 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
433 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
436 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
439 * Fix quitting on Linux
440 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
444 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
447 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
450 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
451 ---------------------------------
453 Windows and Mac OS X:
454 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
457 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
458 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
461 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
464 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
467 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
469 Miscellaneous fixes in:
470 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
472 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
473 * RTP output and XML export
474 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
478 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
479 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
480 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
481 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
484 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
485 --------------------------------
487 Windows and Mac OS X:
488 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
491 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
494 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
495 * Improve Apple Remote handling
496 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
497 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
498 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
499 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
502 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
503 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
507 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
508 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
509 * New Luganda Translation
512 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
513 --------------------------------
516 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
519 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
520 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
521 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
522 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
525 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
527 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
528 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
529 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
530 * mp4 demuxer improvements
531 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
532 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
533 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
534 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
536 Miscellaneous fixes in:
537 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
538 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
539 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
540 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
541 * Configure and build system improvements
542 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
545 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
546 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
547 * New icelandic translation
550 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
558 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
559 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
560 and stability reasons
563 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
567 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
570 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
571 ----------------------------------
574 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
577 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
578 ---------------------------------
581 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
582 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
583 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
584 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
587 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
590 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
591 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
592 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
593 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
596 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
597 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
598 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
600 Subtitles and renderer:
601 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
602 * Mark more freetype options as safe
603 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
604 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
605 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
608 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
609 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
610 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
611 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
614 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
615 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
618 * KDE device solid actions
620 * Transcode integer overflow
621 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
622 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
625 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
626 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
627 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
630 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
631 ----------------------------------
634 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
638 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
641 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
644 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
645 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
646 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
647 * Taglib thread-safety fix
650 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
654 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
657 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
660 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
661 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
663 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
667 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
668 * Miscellaneous fixes
671 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
672 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
674 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
675 * New Asturian translation
678 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
679 ----------------------------------
682 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
684 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
687 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
690 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
691 * Various fixes for Windows
694 * New Armenian translation
695 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
696 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
699 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
700 --------------------------------
703 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
705 * Fix folders opening from the interface
708 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
709 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
712 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
713 --------------------------------
716 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
717 * fix for podcasts parsing
718 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
721 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
722 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
725 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
726 * fix m3u playlists exports
729 * fix video autoresize behaviour
732 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
735 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
738 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
741 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
744 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
745 --------------------------------
748 * Avformat fps displaying fix
749 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
752 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
753 of mono streams, especially on Windows
756 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
757 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
758 * fix console output encoding
760 Interface and extensions:
761 * Youtube and other scripts updates
762 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
765 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
766 --------------------------------
769 * New capabilities for libVLC:
770 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
771 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
772 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
773 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
774 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
775 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
776 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
777 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
778 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
779 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
780 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
781 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
782 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
783 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
784 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
788 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
789 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
790 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
791 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
792 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
795 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
798 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
799 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
800 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
804 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
807 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
808 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
809 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
812 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
813 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
814 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
815 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
818 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
819 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
822 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
823 --------------------------------
825 Important changes for users:
826 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
827 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
829 Important changes for packagers:
830 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
831 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
832 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
833 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
834 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
836 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
838 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
839 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
840 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
841 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
842 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
845 * Support for the sftp protocol
846 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
847 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
848 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
849 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
850 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
853 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
854 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
855 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
857 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
858 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
859 * Invmem module improvements
860 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
861 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
862 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
863 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
864 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
865 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
866 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
867 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
868 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
869 * Support for VP8 codec
870 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
873 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
874 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
875 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
876 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
877 * Various EGP improvements
878 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
879 * Metadata and cover art improvements
882 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
883 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
884 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
885 * Podcast images are now displayed
888 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
889 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
890 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
891 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
892 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
893 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
894 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
895 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
896 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
897 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
898 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
901 * New content extensions lua framework
904 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
905 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
906 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
907 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
908 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
909 * NEON assembly audio converter module
910 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
913 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
914 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
915 * Service discovery based on libudev
916 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
919 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
920 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
921 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
922 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
923 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
924 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
925 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
928 * New smem module, streaming to memory
929 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
930 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
933 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
935 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
936 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
939 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
942 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
943 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
944 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
945 by Andy Matuschak et al.
946 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
947 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
948 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
951 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
952 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
955 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
956 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
957 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
961 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
962 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
963 * Improved Solaris port
966 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
967 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
970 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
971 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
972 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
973 * transrate: broken since too long
974 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
975 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
976 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
977 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
978 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
979 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
980 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
981 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
982 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
983 * cddax: use cdda instead.
984 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
985 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
986 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
987 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
990 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
991 --------------------------------
994 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
996 Decoders/Packetizers:
997 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1000 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1001 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1002 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1003 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1004 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1007 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1008 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1011 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1012 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1015 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1016 and Walloon translations updated
1017 * Sinhala translation started
1020 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1021 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1024 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1025 --------------------------------
1028 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1029 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1032 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1035 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1036 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1039 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1040 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1041 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1042 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1045 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1046 --------------------------------
1049 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1050 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1053 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1054 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1057 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1058 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1061 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1064 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1065 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1068 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1069 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1072 * New Walloon translation
1073 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1076 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1077 --------------------------------
1080 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1081 regressions in most popular drivers
1082 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1085 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1086 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1087 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1090 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1091 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1094 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1095 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1096 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1097 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1098 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1101 * New udev module for linux
1104 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1107 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1110 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1111 --------------------------------
1114 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1115 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1116 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1119 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1120 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1123 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1124 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1127 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1130 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1131 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1132 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1133 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1136 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1137 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1138 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1139 - no support for Goom and SDL
1140 - limited text rendering support
1141 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1144 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1145 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1146 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1147 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1148 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1149 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1150 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1151 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1152 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1156 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1159 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1162 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1163 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1164 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1165 Arabic and French translation updates
1168 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1169 --------------------------------
1172 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1173 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1174 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1175 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1176 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1177 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1180 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1181 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1182 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1185 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1186 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1187 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1190 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1193 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1194 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1197 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1198 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1199 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1200 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1201 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1202 * Fix various crashes
1205 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1207 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1211 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1212 ---------------------------------
1216 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1217 See 'Access:' for more info.
1218 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1221 * Instantaneous pausing
1222 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1223 * Finer speed control
1224 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1225 * Timeshift for most medias
1226 * RTSP trickplay support
1227 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1230 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1231 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1232 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1233 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1234 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1235 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1236 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1237 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1238 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1239 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1242 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1243 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1244 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1245 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1246 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1247 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1248 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1251 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1252 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1255 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1256 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1257 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1258 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1259 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1260 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1261 * DVB scanning on linux
1262 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1263 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1264 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1265 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1266 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1267 * MTP device access on Unix
1268 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1269 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1272 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1273 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1274 Windows and Mac OS X.
1277 * Export the playlist in HTML
1278 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1279 * Better metadata handling and reading
1281 Linux/Windows interface:
1282 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1283 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1284 * Recently played items list
1285 * Interface toolbar customizations
1286 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1287 - More menus actions
1288 - Finer speed slider
1289 - Improvements on many dialogs
1290 - New dialog for plugins listing
1291 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1292 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1293 * Better integration in GTK environments
1296 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1297 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1298 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1299 * Additional usability improvements
1302 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1303 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1304 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1305 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1306 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1309 * New Maemo port with:
1310 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1311 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1314 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1317 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1318 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1319 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1320 * Support for latest iSight models
1323 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1324 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1327 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1328 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1329 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1330 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1331 The old image video output has been removed.
1332 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1333 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1336 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1344 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1345 --------------------------------------
1351 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1352 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1353 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1354 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1355 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1356 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1357 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1359 Various fixes to the following modules:
1362 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1363 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1364 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1366 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1371 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1372 ---------------------------------
1375 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1376 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1379 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1380 ---------------------------------
1383 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1386 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1389 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1390 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1391 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1392 main controller window.
1393 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1396 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1401 * Updates of other localizations
1404 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1405 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1406 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1407 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1408 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1411 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1412 ---------------------------------
1415 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1417 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1420 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1421 --------------------------------
1426 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1427 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1430 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1431 --------------------------------
1433 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1434 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1437 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1440 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1441 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1444 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1445 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1448 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1449 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1450 * Various fixed in playlist
1453 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1456 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1459 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1460 ------------------------------------
1462 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1463 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1466 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1467 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1468 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1471 * Stability fix for the video output.
1474 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1475 --------------------------------
1478 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1479 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1480 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1481 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1482 * Fixed update system bugs
1483 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1486 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1487 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1488 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1489 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1490 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1491 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1492 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1493 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1494 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1495 modern Mac OS X versions
1498 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1499 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1501 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1502 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1505 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1506 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1507 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1508 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1509 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1510 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1513 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1514 --------------------------------
1516 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1517 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1518 * Multiple bugfixes.
1521 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1522 --------------------------------
1524 * Multiple bug fixes.
1527 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1528 ---------------------------------
1532 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1533 recent to work correctly
1534 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1535 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1536 edit the ".hosts" file.
1537 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1538 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1539 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1540 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1541 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1542 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1543 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1544 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1545 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1546 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1547 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1548 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1549 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1550 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1551 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1552 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1553 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1554 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1555 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1556 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1557 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1558 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1559 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1560 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1561 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1562 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1563 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1564 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1565 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1566 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1567 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1568 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1569 and postproc modules.
1570 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1571 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1572 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1573 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1575 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1576 filter. For example:
1577 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1578 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1580 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1581 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1587 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1589 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1590 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1593 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1594 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1596 * Shoutcast TV listings
1597 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1599 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1600 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1602 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1605 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1606 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1607 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1608 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1609 * JACK audio input support
1610 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1611 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1612 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1613 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1614 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1615 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1616 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1617 (available as a separate download).
1618 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1619 * RTMP input support
1620 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1621 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1622 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1624 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1625 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1628 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1629 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1630 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1631 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1633 * APEv1/2 tags support
1634 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1635 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1637 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1638 * TiVo Series 2 support
1639 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1644 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1645 * Flash Screen Video support
1646 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1647 * DosBox Capture support
1648 * Karl Morton's Video support
1649 * limited atrac3 support
1651 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1652 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1653 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1654 * H.264 PAFF support
1655 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1656 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1657 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1658 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1659 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1662 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1663 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1664 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1665 * AQTitle subtitles support
1666 * MKV USF subtitles support
1667 * HTML-based subtitles support
1668 * MPSub subtitles support
1669 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1670 * MPL2 subtitles support
1671 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1672 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1673 * Realtext subtitle support
1674 * DKS subtitle support
1675 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1676 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1679 * Flash Screen Video support
1680 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1682 Video outputs and filters:
1683 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1684 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1685 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1686 * New puzzle video output filter
1687 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1688 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1690 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1691 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1692 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1693 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1694 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1695 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1696 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1697 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1698 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1699 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1700 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1701 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1702 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1703 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1705 Audio outputs and filters:
1706 * Replay gain support
1707 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1708 new scaletempo audio filter)
1709 * New spatializer audio filter
1710 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1713 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1714 * New RTP payload formats:
1715 * Speex voice audio codec
1716 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1717 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1718 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1719 * DCCP transport for RTP
1720 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1725 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1726 end-user suitable way.
1727 * Improved user interaction
1728 * Improved mouse gestures
1729 * Vastly improved Update checker
1730 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1732 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1733 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1735 * Improved video output features
1736 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1737 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1738 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1739 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1740 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1742 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1743 if libncursesw is available.
1744 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1745 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1746 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1748 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1749 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1750 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1751 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1752 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1753 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1754 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1755 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1758 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1759 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1760 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1763 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1764 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1765 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1766 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1767 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1768 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1771 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1772 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1782 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1783 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1784 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1787 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1788 ----------------------------------
1791 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1794 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1795 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1796 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1797 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1798 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1799 * Updated Polish translation
1802 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1803 ----------------------------------
1806 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1807 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1808 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1811 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1812 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1813 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1814 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1815 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1816 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1817 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1818 to an unexpected application termination
1819 * New Serbian translation
1820 * Updated Romanian translation
1823 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1824 ----------------------------------
1827 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1828 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1829 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1830 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1831 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1832 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1833 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1834 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1837 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1838 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1839 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1840 * Fixed AAC resampling
1841 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1842 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1845 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1846 ----------------------------------
1849 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1850 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1851 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1852 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1853 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1856 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1857 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1858 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1859 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1860 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1863 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1864 ----------------------------------
1867 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1868 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1871 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1872 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1873 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1874 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1876 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1880 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1883 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1886 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1889 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1892 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1893 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1894 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1895 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1896 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1898 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1899 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1900 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1901 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1904 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1907 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1908 ----------------------------------
1911 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1912 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1913 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1915 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1916 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1918 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1919 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1922 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1924 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1925 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1926 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1927 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1928 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1929 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1930 two different movies
1931 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1932 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1933 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1936 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1939 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1940 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1941 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1942 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1945 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1946 ----------------------------------
1948 Various bugfixes, notably:
1949 * Windows Vista compatibility
1950 * Cropping in Direct3D
1951 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1952 * RSS filter string overflow
1954 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1956 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1957 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1960 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1961 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1964 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1967 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1970 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1973 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1974 ----------------------------------
1976 Various bugfixes, notably:
1977 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1978 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1979 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1980 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1981 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1982 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1985 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1986 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1989 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1991 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1992 * Diverse usability improvements
1993 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1994 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1995 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1998 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1999 ---------------------------------
2001 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2002 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2005 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2008 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2009 --------------------------------
2012 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2015 * Support for RTSP authentication
2016 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2017 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2018 * ATSC support for DVB input
2019 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2020 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2021 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2024 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2025 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2026 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2027 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2028 * Matroska WavPack support
2029 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2030 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2031 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2034 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2035 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2036 * Improved libcaca support
2040 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2041 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2043 * Systray support in skins
2045 * Support for Apple Remote control
2046 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2047 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2048 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2049 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2051 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2054 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2055 Windows 9x/ME users:
2056 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2057 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2058 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2059 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2060 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2062 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2063 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2072 * Updates to the libvlc API
2073 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2076 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2077 --------------------------------
2080 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2081 * Support for downloading updates
2085 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2086 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2087 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2088 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2090 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2091 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2092 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2095 * Cook (Real audio) support
2097 Playlist / Services discovery:
2098 * XSPF playlist support
2100 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2103 * New JACK audio output
2106 * New video filters:
2107 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2108 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2109 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2110 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2111 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2112 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2115 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2118 * System to inform the user and request information
2119 - HTTP authentication
2123 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2124 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2125 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2128 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2129 - Improved playlist handling
2130 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2132 - Embedded Video output
2133 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2134 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2135 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2136 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2137 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2139 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2140 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2143 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2146 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2147 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2148 * Growl "Now playing" support
2151 * Ability to log to syslog
2152 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2155 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2157 * A bit more automatic testing
2160 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2161 ---------------------------------
2164 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2165 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2168 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2169 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2172 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2175 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2176 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2182 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2185 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2186 --------------------------------
2189 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2193 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2194 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2195 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2198 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2199 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2200 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2201 * GnomeVFS input module
2202 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2203 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2206 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2207 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2208 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2211 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2212 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2218 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2219 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2222 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2223 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2224 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2227 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2229 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2230 - New extended controls panel
2231 - New bookmarks window
2232 - Fixed playlist sorting
2233 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2235 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2236 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2237 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2238 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2242 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2243 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2245 - Include macro to include other files
2249 * Should now work outside IE as well
2252 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2255 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2256 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2259 The following languages were added:
2263 * Simplified Chinese
2264 The following languages were re-added:
2268 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2269 --------------------------------
2272 * Rewrite of the playlist
2274 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2275 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2276 * Preferences improvements:
2277 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2278 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2280 * Core image manipulation support
2281 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2282 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2283 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2284 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2285 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2286 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2287 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2288 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2289 * Access filter architecture
2290 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2291 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2295 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2296 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2297 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2298 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2299 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2300 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2301 * Massive Matroska improvements
2302 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2304 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2305 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2306 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2307 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2308 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2310 Decoders / Encoders:
2311 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2312 * PNG decoder/encoder
2313 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2314 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2317 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2320 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2321 * Brand new SAP module
2322 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2323 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2324 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2325 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2326 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2327 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2331 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2334 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2335 * Image file video output (png)
2336 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2337 * Improvements to wall video filter
2338 * Support for font color and opacity
2344 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2345 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2346 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2350 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2351 - Improved preferences
2352 - Improvements to the wizard
2353 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2355 - Redesigned playlist
2356 - Improved preferences
2358 - Support for multiple actions
2361 - Support for the new playlist system
2363 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2366 * Screensaver disabling fix
2367 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2368 * Support for no-decoration windows
2371 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2372 * The OpenGL video output is back
2373 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2374 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2375 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2376 is not yet available in the new module
2377 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2380 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2389 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2392 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2395 The following languages were added:
2401 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2402 --------------------------------
2405 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2406 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2409 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2410 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2411 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2414 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2417 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2420 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2423 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2424 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2425 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2429 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2431 * Support of playlist group announcement
2434 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2435 --------------------------------
2438 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2439 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2440 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2441 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2442 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2443 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2446 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2447 (Stream your desktop)
2448 * Improved DVD support:
2449 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2450 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2451 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2452 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2453 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2454 (selection of titles/chapters).
2457 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2458 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2459 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2460 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2461 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2462 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2463 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2464 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2465 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2466 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2469 * G.726 audio support
2470 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2471 * MPEG-4 text support
2472 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2473 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2474 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2478 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2479 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2480 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2481 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2482 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2483 * DVB subtitles encoder
2484 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2485 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2487 * Text track muxing for mp4
2488 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2489 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2490 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2491 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2492 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2493 * Improved ASF muxer
2495 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2496 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2497 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2500 * New audio equalizer filter
2501 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2502 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2503 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2504 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2507 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2508 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2509 with support for effects.
2510 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2511 - New filters can be streamed.
2512 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2513 - Centralized scaling and blending
2515 - "time", to display current time
2516 - "marq", to display a marquee
2519 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2520 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2521 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2522 * A few skins2 improvements
2523 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2524 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2525 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2526 * Improved CORBA control module
2529 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2530 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2531 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2534 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2535 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2536 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2539 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2540 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2541 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2542 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2543 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2546 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2549 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2550 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2553 * Server/client network synchronization module
2554 * VBrick streams fully supported
2555 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2559 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2560 --------------------------------
2563 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2564 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2565 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2566 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2569 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2570 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2571 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2572 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2573 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2574 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2575 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2578 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2579 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2580 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2581 * Improved directory access module.
2582 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2583 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2584 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2585 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2586 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2589 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2590 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2591 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2594 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2595 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2596 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2599 * Improved session announcement system.
2600 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2601 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2602 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2603 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2604 * Improved transrater.
2605 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2606 * New configuration system.
2607 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2610 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2611 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2612 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2613 * Supports scheduling.
2614 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2615 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2618 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2619 - Ability to embed video output.
2620 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2621 - Lots of improvements.
2622 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2623 - New design and set of icons.
2624 - Ability to embed video output.
2625 - Support for hotkeys.
2626 - Support for bookmarks.
2628 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2629 - Better hotkeys handling.
2632 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2633 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2634 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2635 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2638 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2639 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2640 * Improved Windows installer.
2646 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2647 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2650 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2651 ---------------------------------
2654 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2655 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2658 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2659 --------------------------------
2662 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2663 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2666 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2667 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2668 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2669 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2672 * Internal improvments
2673 * Improved import/export
2676 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2678 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2679 small and strange formats.
2681 * New MOD audio demux.
2682 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2683 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2684 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2685 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2688 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2689 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2690 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2696 * New opengl video output plugin.
2699 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2700 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2703 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2704 --------------------------------
2707 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2708 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2709 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2710 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2711 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2712 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2713 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2714 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2717 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2722 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2723 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2724 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2725 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2726 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2727 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2728 * Better Icecast support.
2729 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2730 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2733 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2734 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2735 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2736 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2737 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2738 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2739 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2742 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2743 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2744 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2745 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2746 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2747 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2748 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2749 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2750 * Preliminary RTP support.
2751 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2756 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2757 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2759 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2760 - Improvements and help in preferences
2761 - New streaming wizard
2762 - Revised Disc Open menu
2764 - Improvements of the standard pages
2765 - Support for new commands
2766 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2769 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2770 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2773 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2774 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2775 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2776 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2777 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2778 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2779 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2780 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2781 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2784 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2786 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2787 * Support for Panther.
2788 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2789 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2792 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2793 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2794 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2795 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2796 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2797 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2798 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2799 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2802 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2803 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2804 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2807 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2810 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2811 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2812 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2813 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2816 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2817 --------------------------------
2820 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2823 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2824 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2827 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2828 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2831 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2834 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2835 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2838 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2841 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2844 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2845 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2849 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2850 --------------------------------
2853 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2854 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2858 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2859 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2860 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2862 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2863 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2866 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2869 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2872 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2873 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2877 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2878 --------------------------------
2881 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2882 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2886 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2887 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2888 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2889 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2890 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2893 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2894 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2895 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2898 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2899 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2900 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2903 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2904 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2905 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2906 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2907 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2910 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2911 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2912 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2915 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2918 * Improved build system.
2919 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2920 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2921 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2922 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2925 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2926 --------------------------------
2929 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2932 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
2933 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2934 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2935 * Video 4 Linux support
2936 * CD Digital Audio support
2937 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2940 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2941 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2942 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2943 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2946 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2947 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2948 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2949 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2950 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2951 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2952 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2955 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2956 * New HTTP remote control interface
2959 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
2960 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2961 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2962 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2963 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2966 * New reset option for the preferences
2967 * You can set your language in the prefences
2968 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2969 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2970 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2971 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2974 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2975 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2976 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2979 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2980 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2981 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2982 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2983 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2984 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2985 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2986 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2987 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2988 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2991 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2992 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2993 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2994 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2995 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2996 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2997 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3000 * Interface localization
3001 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3002 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3003 * New full-featured Preferences window
3006 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3007 --------------------------------
3010 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3011 * support for skins at the interface level
3012 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3013 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3014 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3015 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3016 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3019 * fixed HTTP redirects
3020 * support for opening an entire directory
3021 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3022 * new video4linux access plug-in
3023 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3026 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3027 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3028 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3031 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3032 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3033 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3034 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3035 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3036 * new codec for raw I420 video
3037 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3040 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3041 (although it still misses some important features)
3042 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3045 * new HTTP output support
3046 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3047 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3050 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3053 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3056 * reorderable playlist
3057 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3058 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3059 * support for mono audio output devices
3060 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3061 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3062 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3063 * the messages window remembers more lines
3064 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3065 * http and ogg stream output options
3066 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3069 * new skinnable interface
3070 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3072 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3073 * support for FLAC audio format
3074 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3076 * network tab in the interface
3077 * "apply" handling in preferences
3080 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3081 ---------------------------------
3084 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3085 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3086 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3087 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3089 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3090 * DTS S/PDIF support
3093 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3094 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3095 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3096 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3099 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3100 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3103 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3106 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3109 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3111 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3112 * rc interface is now fully useable
3113 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3116 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3117 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3118 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3119 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3120 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3122 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3123 * support for mouse gestures
3124 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3127 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3128 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3131 * improved ID3 tag detection
3132 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3133 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3134 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3136 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3139 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3140 ---------------------------------
3143 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3144 English was set as the preferred language
3147 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3148 --------------------------------
3151 * new mouse gesture interface
3152 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3156 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3157 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3158 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3161 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3162 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3166 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3169 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3170 without the user consent
3173 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3175 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3176 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3177 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3180 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3181 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3182 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3183 * playlist enhancements
3184 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3185 * new step forward/step backward commands
3186 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3187 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3188 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3191 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3192 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3193 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3196 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3197 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3200 * native video output is working again
3201 * only commandline interface support
3202 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3205 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3206 --------------------------------
3209 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3210 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3211 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3212 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3213 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3214 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3215 and A/52 streams are supported)
3216 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3221 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3222 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3223 * VCD entry points support
3224 * VCD image file support
3227 * support for *.asf format
3228 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3229 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3230 * support for ogg encapsulation
3231 * support for raw DV format
3232 * support for *.wav format
3233 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3236 Stream discovery & playlists:
3237 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3238 * support for .m3u file format
3239 * support for .asx file format
3240 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3243 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3244 (only available with the .avi demux)
3245 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3246 * support for raw PCM data
3247 * support for Cinepak video codec
3248 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3249 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3250 * support for Xvid codec
3251 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3252 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3253 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3255 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3257 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3260 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3263 * new WxWindows interface
3264 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3265 device and the channels configuration
3266 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3267 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3268 format that VLC can play
3269 * new swedish translation
3270 * enhancements of the playlist window
3271 * new messages window to see debug info
3272 * fixed a few crashes
3275 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3276 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3277 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3278 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working