1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
22 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
23 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
26 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
27 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
30 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
31 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
32 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
35 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
36 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
37 * Ogg seeking improvements
38 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten from scratch using the C api
39 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
42 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
43 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
44 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
45 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
46 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
47 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
50 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
51 * New video output for iOS platform
52 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
53 * Various vmem improvements
56 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
57 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
58 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
59 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
60 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
63 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
66 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
69 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
70 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
71 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
72 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
73 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
74 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
75 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
76 * Major rework of VoD support
79 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
82 * New capabilities for libVLC:
83 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
86 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
87 ----------------------------------
90 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
94 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
97 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
100 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
101 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
102 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
103 * Taglib thread-safety fix
106 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
110 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
113 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
116 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
117 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
119 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
123 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
124 * Miscellaneous fixes
127 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
128 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
130 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
131 * New Asturian translation
134 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
135 ----------------------------------
138 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
140 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
143 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
146 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
147 * Various fixes for Windows
150 * New Armenian translation
151 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
152 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
155 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
156 --------------------------------
159 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
161 * Fix folders opening from the interface
164 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
165 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
168 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
169 --------------------------------
172 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
173 * fix for podcasts parsing
174 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
177 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
178 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
181 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
182 * fix m3u playlists exports
185 * fix video autoresize behaviour
188 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
191 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
194 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
197 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
200 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
201 --------------------------------
204 * Avformat fps displaying fix
205 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
208 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
209 of mono streams, especially on Windows
212 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
213 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
214 * fix console output encoding
216 Interface and extensions:
217 * Youtube and other scripts updates
218 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
221 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
222 --------------------------------
225 * New capabilities for libVLC:
226 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
227 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
228 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
229 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
230 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
231 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
232 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
233 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
234 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
235 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
236 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
237 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
238 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
239 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
240 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
244 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
245 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
246 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
247 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
248 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
251 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
254 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
255 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
256 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
260 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
263 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
264 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
265 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
268 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
269 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
270 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
271 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
274 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
275 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
278 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
279 --------------------------------
281 Important changes for users:
282 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
283 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
285 Important changes for packagers:
286 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
287 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
288 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
289 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
290 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
292 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
294 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
295 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
296 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
297 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
298 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
301 * Support for the sftp protocol
302 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
303 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
304 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
305 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
306 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
309 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
310 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
311 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
313 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
314 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
315 * Invmem module improvements
316 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
317 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
318 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
319 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
320 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
321 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
322 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
323 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
324 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
325 * Support for VP8 codec
326 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
329 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
330 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
331 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
332 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
333 * Various EGP improvements
334 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
335 * Metadata and cover art improvements
338 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
339 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
340 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
341 * Podcast images are now displayed
344 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
345 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
346 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
347 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
348 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
349 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
350 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
351 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
352 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
353 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
354 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
357 * New content extensions lua framework
360 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
361 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
362 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
363 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
364 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
365 * NEON assembly audio converter module
366 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
369 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
370 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
371 * Service discovery based on libudev
372 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
375 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
376 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
377 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
378 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
379 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
380 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
381 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
384 * New smem module, streaming to memory
385 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
386 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
389 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
391 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
392 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
395 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
398 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
399 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
400 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
401 by Andy Matuschak et al.
402 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
403 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
404 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
407 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
408 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
411 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
412 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
413 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
417 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
418 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
419 * Improved Solaris port
422 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
423 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
426 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
427 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
428 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
429 * transrate: broken since too long
430 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
431 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
432 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
433 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
434 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
435 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
436 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
437 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
438 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
439 * cddax: use cdda instead.
440 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
441 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
442 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
443 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
446 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
447 --------------------------------
450 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
452 Decoders/Packetizers:
453 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
456 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
457 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
458 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
459 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
460 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
463 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
464 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
467 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
468 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
471 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
472 and Walloon translations updated
473 * Sinhala translation started
476 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
477 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
480 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
481 --------------------------------
484 * SubRip extra styles improvements
485 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
488 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
491 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
492 increase performance and fix x264 issues
495 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
496 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
497 Russian, Slovak translation updates
498 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
501 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
502 --------------------------------
505 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
506 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
509 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
510 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
513 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
514 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
517 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
520 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
521 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
524 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
525 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
528 * New Walloon translation
529 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
532 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
533 --------------------------------
536 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
537 regressions in most popular drivers
538 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
541 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
542 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
543 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
546 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
547 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
550 * Update for appletrailers lua script
551 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
552 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
553 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
554 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
557 * New udev module for linux
560 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
563 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
566 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
567 --------------------------------
570 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
571 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
572 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
575 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
576 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
579 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
580 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
583 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
586 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
587 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
588 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
589 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
592 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
593 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
594 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
595 - no support for Goom and SDL
596 - limited text rendering support
597 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
600 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
601 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
602 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
603 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
604 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
605 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
606 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
607 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
608 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
612 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
615 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
618 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
619 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
620 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
621 Arabic and French translation updates
624 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
625 --------------------------------
628 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
629 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
630 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
631 * Fix Dailymotion access script
632 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
633 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
636 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
637 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
640 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
641 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
642 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
645 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
648 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
649 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
652 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
653 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
654 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
655 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
656 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
657 * Fix various crashes
660 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
662 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
665 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
666 ---------------------------------
670 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
671 See 'Access:' for more info.
672 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
675 * Instantaneous pausing
676 * Frame-by-Frame playback
677 * Finer speed control
678 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
679 * Timeshift for most medias
680 * RTSP trickplay support
681 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
684 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
685 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
686 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
687 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
688 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
689 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
690 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
691 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
692 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
693 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
696 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
697 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
698 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
699 * Metadata for mod files are supported
700 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
701 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
702 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
705 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
706 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
709 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
710 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
711 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
712 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
713 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
714 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
715 * DVB scanning on linux
716 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
717 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
718 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
719 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
720 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
721 * MTP device access on Unix
722 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
723 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
726 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
727 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
728 Windows and Mac OS X.
731 * Export the playlist in HTML
732 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
733 * Better metadata handling and reading
735 Linux/Windows interface:
736 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
737 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
738 * Recently played items list
739 * Interface toolbar customizations
740 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
743 - Improvements on many dialogs
744 - New dialog for plugins listing
745 - Fixed-size mode for videos
746 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
747 * Better integration in GTK environments
750 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
751 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
752 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
753 * Additional usability improvements
756 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
757 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
758 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
759 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
760 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
763 * New Maemo port with:
764 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
765 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
768 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
771 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
772 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
773 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
774 * Support for latest iSight models
777 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
778 * Surround support for PulseAudio
781 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
782 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
783 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
784 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
785 The old image video output has been removed.
786 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
787 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
790 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
798 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
799 --------------------------------------
805 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
806 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
807 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
808 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
809 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
810 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
811 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
813 Various fixes to the following modules:
816 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
817 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
820 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
825 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
826 ---------------------------------
829 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
830 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
833 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
834 ---------------------------------
837 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
840 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
843 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
844 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
845 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
846 main controller window.
847 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
850 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
855 * Updates of other localizations
858 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
859 * Lots of small bugfixes.
860 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
861 * Telnet fixes on Windows
862 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
865 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
866 ---------------------------------
869 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
871 Bunch of small bugfixes.
874 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
875 --------------------------------
880 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
881 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
884 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
885 --------------------------------
887 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
888 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
891 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
894 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
895 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
898 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
899 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
902 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
903 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
904 * Various fixed in playlist
907 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
910 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
913 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
914 ------------------------------------
916 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
917 * Fixes several memory leaks.
920 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
921 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
922 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
925 * Stability fix for the video output.
928 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
929 --------------------------------
932 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
933 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
934 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
935 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
936 * Fixed update system bugs
937 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
940 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
941 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
942 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
943 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
944 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
945 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
946 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
947 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
948 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
949 modern Mac OS X versions
952 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
953 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
955 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
956 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
959 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
960 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
961 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
962 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
963 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
964 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
967 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
968 --------------------------------
970 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
971 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
975 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
976 --------------------------------
978 * Multiple bug fixes.
981 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
982 ---------------------------------
986 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
987 recent to work correctly
988 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
989 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
990 edit the ".hosts" file.
991 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
992 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
993 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
994 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
995 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
996 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
997 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
998 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
999 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1000 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1001 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1002 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1003 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1004 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1005 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1006 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1007 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1008 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1009 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1010 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1011 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1012 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1013 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1014 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1015 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1016 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1017 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1018 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1019 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1020 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1021 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1022 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1023 and postproc modules.
1024 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1025 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1026 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1027 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1029 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1030 filter. For example:
1031 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1032 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1034 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1035 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1041 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1043 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1044 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1047 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1048 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1050 * Shoutcast TV listings
1051 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1053 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1054 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1056 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1059 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1060 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1061 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1062 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1063 * JACK audio input support
1064 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1065 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1066 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1067 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1068 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1069 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1070 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1071 (available as a separate download).
1072 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1073 * RTMP input support
1074 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1075 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1076 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1078 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1079 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1082 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1083 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1084 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1085 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1087 * APEv1/2 tags support
1088 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1089 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1091 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1092 * TiVo Series 2 support
1093 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1098 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1099 * Flash Screen Video support
1100 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1101 * DosBox Capture support
1102 * Karl Morton's Video support
1103 * limited atrac3 support
1105 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1106 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1107 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1108 * H.264 PAFF support
1109 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1110 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1111 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1112 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1113 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1116 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1117 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1118 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1119 * AQTitle subtitles support
1120 * MKV USF subtitles support
1121 * HTML-based subtitles support
1122 * MPSub subtitles support
1123 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1124 * MPL2 subtitles support
1125 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1126 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1127 * Realtext subtitle support
1128 * DKS subtitle support
1129 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1130 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1133 * Flash Screen Video support
1134 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1136 Video outputs and filters:
1137 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1138 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1139 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1140 * New puzzle video output filter
1141 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1142 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1144 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1145 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1146 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1147 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1148 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1149 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1150 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1151 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1152 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1153 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1154 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1155 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1156 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1157 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1159 Audio outputs and filters:
1160 * Replay gain support
1161 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1162 new scaletempo audio filter)
1163 * New spatializer audio filter
1164 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1167 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1168 * New RTP payload formats:
1169 * Speex voice audio codec
1170 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1171 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1172 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1173 * DCCP transport for RTP
1174 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1179 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1180 end-user suitable way.
1181 * Improved user interaction
1182 * Improved mouse gestures
1183 * Vastly improved Update checker
1184 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1186 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1187 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1189 * Improved video output features
1190 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1191 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1192 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1193 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1194 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1196 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1197 if libncursesw is available.
1198 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1199 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1200 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1202 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1203 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1204 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1205 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1206 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1207 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1208 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1209 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1212 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1213 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1214 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1217 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1218 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1219 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1220 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1221 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1222 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1225 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1226 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1236 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1237 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1238 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1241 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1242 ----------------------------------
1245 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1248 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1249 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1250 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1251 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1252 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1253 * Updated Polish translation
1256 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1257 ----------------------------------
1260 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1261 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1262 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1265 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1266 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1267 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1268 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1269 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1270 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1271 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1272 to an unexpected application termination
1273 * New Serbian translation
1274 * Updated Romanian translation
1277 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1278 ----------------------------------
1281 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1282 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1283 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1284 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1285 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1286 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1287 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1288 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1291 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1292 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1293 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1294 * Fixed AAC resampling
1295 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1296 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1299 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1300 ----------------------------------
1303 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1304 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1305 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1306 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1307 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1310 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1311 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1312 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1313 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1314 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1317 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1318 ----------------------------------
1321 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1322 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1325 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1326 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1327 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1328 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1330 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1334 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1337 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1340 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1343 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1346 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1347 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1348 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1349 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1350 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1352 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1353 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1354 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1355 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1358 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1361 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1362 ----------------------------------
1365 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1366 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1367 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1369 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1370 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1372 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1373 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1376 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1378 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1379 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1380 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1381 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1382 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1383 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1384 two different movies
1385 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1386 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1387 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1390 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1393 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1394 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1395 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1396 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1399 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1400 ----------------------------------
1402 Various bugfixes, notably:
1403 * Windows Vista compatibility
1404 * Cropping in Direct3D
1405 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1406 * RSS filter string overflow
1408 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1410 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1411 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1414 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1415 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1418 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1421 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1424 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1427 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1428 ----------------------------------
1430 Various bugfixes, notably:
1431 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1432 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1433 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1434 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1435 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1436 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1439 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1440 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1443 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1445 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1446 * Diverse usability improvements
1447 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1448 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1449 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1452 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1453 ---------------------------------
1455 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1456 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1459 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1462 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1463 --------------------------------
1466 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1469 * Support for RTSP authentication
1470 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1471 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1472 * ATSC support for DVB input
1473 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1474 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1475 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1478 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1479 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1480 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1481 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1482 * Matroska WavPack support
1483 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1484 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1485 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1488 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1489 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1490 * Improved libcaca support
1494 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1495 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1497 * Systray support in skins
1499 * Support for Apple Remote control
1500 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1501 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1502 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1503 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1505 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1508 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1509 Windows 9x/ME users:
1510 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1511 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1512 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1513 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1514 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1516 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1517 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1526 * Updates to the libvlc API
1527 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1530 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1531 --------------------------------
1534 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1535 * Support for downloading updates
1539 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1540 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1541 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1542 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1544 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1545 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1546 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1549 * Cook (Real audio) support
1551 Playlist / Services discovery:
1552 * XSPF playlist support
1554 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1557 * New JACK audio output
1560 * New video filters:
1561 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1562 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1563 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1564 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1565 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1566 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1569 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1572 * System to inform the user and request information
1573 - HTTP authentication
1577 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1578 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1579 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1582 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1583 - Improved playlist handling
1584 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1586 - Embedded Video output
1587 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1588 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1589 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1590 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1591 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1593 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1594 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1597 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1600 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1601 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1602 * Growl "Now playing" support
1605 * Ability to log to syslog
1606 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1609 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1611 * A bit more automatic testing
1614 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1615 ---------------------------------
1618 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1619 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1622 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1623 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1626 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1629 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1630 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1636 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1639 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1640 --------------------------------
1643 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1647 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1648 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1649 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1652 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1653 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1654 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1655 * GnomeVFS input module
1656 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1657 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1660 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1661 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1662 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1665 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1666 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1672 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1673 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1676 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1677 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1678 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1681 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1683 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1684 - New extended controls panel
1685 - New bookmarks window
1686 - Fixed playlist sorting
1687 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1689 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1690 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1691 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1692 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1696 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1697 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1699 - Include macro to include other files
1703 * Should now work outside IE as well
1706 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1709 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1710 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1713 The following languages were added:
1717 * Simplified Chinese
1718 The following languages were re-added:
1722 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1723 --------------------------------
1726 * Rewrite of the playlist
1728 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1729 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1730 * Preferences improvements:
1731 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1732 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1734 * Core image manipulation support
1735 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1736 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1737 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1738 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1739 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1740 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1741 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1742 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1743 * Access filter architecture
1744 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1745 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1749 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1750 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1751 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1752 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1753 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1754 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1755 * Massive Matroska improvements
1756 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1758 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1759 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1760 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1761 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1762 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1764 Decoders / Encoders:
1765 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1766 * PNG decoder/encoder
1767 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1768 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1771 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1774 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1775 * Brand new SAP module
1776 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1777 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1778 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1779 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1780 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1781 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1785 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1788 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1789 * Image file video output (png)
1790 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1791 * Improvements to wall video filter
1792 * Support for font color and opacity
1798 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1799 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1800 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1804 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1805 - Improved preferences
1806 - Improvements to the wizard
1807 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1809 - Redesigned playlist
1810 - Improved preferences
1812 - Support for multiple actions
1815 - Support for the new playlist system
1817 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1820 * Screensaver disabling fix
1821 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1822 * Support for no-decoration windows
1825 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1826 * The OpenGL video output is back
1827 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1828 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1829 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1830 is not yet available in the new module
1831 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1834 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1843 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1846 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1849 The following languages were added:
1855 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1856 --------------------------------
1859 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1860 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1863 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1864 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1865 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1868 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1871 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1874 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1877 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1878 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1879 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1883 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1885 * Support of playlist group announcement
1888 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1889 --------------------------------
1892 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1893 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1894 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1895 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1896 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1897 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1900 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1901 (Stream your desktop)
1902 * Improved DVD support:
1903 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1904 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1905 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1906 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1907 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1908 (selection of titles/chapters).
1911 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1912 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1913 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1914 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1915 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1916 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1917 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1918 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1919 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1920 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1923 * G.726 audio support
1924 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1925 * MPEG-4 text support
1926 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1927 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1928 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1932 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1933 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1934 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1935 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1936 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1937 * DVB subtitles encoder
1938 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1939 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1941 * Text track muxing for mp4
1942 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1943 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1944 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1945 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1946 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1947 * Improved ASF muxer
1949 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1950 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1951 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1954 * New audio equalizer filter
1955 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1956 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1957 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1958 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1961 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1962 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1963 with support for effects.
1964 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1965 - New filters can be streamed.
1966 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1967 - Centralized scaling and blending
1969 - "time", to display current time
1970 - "marq", to display a marquee
1973 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1974 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1975 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1976 * A few skins2 improvements
1977 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1978 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1979 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1980 * Improved CORBA control module
1983 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1984 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1985 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1988 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1989 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1990 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1993 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1994 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1995 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1996 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1997 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2000 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2003 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2004 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2007 * Server/client network synchronization module
2008 * VBrick streams fully supported
2009 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2013 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2018 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2019 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2020 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2023 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2024 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2025 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2026 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2027 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2028 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2029 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2032 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2033 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2034 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2035 * Improved directory access module.
2036 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2037 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2038 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2039 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2040 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2043 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2044 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2045 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2048 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2049 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2050 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2053 * Improved session announcement system.
2054 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2055 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2056 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2057 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2058 * Improved transrater.
2059 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2060 * New configuration system.
2061 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2064 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2065 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2066 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2067 * Supports scheduling.
2068 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2069 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2072 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2073 - Ability to embed video output.
2074 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2075 - Lots of improvements.
2076 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2077 - New design and set of icons.
2078 - Ability to embed video output.
2079 - Support for hotkeys.
2080 - Support for bookmarks.
2082 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2083 - Better hotkeys handling.
2086 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2087 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2088 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2089 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2092 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2093 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2094 * Improved Windows installer.
2100 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2101 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2104 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2105 ---------------------------------
2108 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2109 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2112 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2113 --------------------------------
2116 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2117 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2120 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2121 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2122 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2123 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2126 * Internal improvments
2127 * Improved import/export
2130 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2132 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2133 small and strange formats.
2135 * New MOD audio demux.
2136 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2137 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2138 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2139 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2142 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2143 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2144 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2150 * New opengl video output plugin.
2153 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2154 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2157 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2158 --------------------------------
2161 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2162 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2163 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2164 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2165 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2166 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2167 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2168 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2171 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2176 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2177 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2178 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2179 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2180 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2181 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2182 * Better Icecast support.
2183 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2184 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2187 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2188 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2189 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2190 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2191 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2192 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2193 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2196 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2197 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2198 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2199 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2200 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2201 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2202 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2203 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2204 * Preliminary RTP support.
2205 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2210 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2211 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2213 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2214 - Improvements and help in preferences
2215 - New streaming wizard
2216 - Revised Disc Open menu
2218 - Improvements of the standard pages
2219 - Support for new commands
2220 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2223 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2224 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2227 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2228 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2229 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2230 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2231 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2232 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2233 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2234 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2235 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2238 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2240 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2241 * Support for Panther.
2242 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2243 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2246 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2247 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2248 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2249 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2250 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2251 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2252 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2253 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2256 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2257 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2258 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2261 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2264 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2265 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2266 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2267 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2270 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2271 --------------------------------
2274 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2277 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2278 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2281 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2282 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2285 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2288 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2289 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2292 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2295 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2298 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2299 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2303 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2304 --------------------------------
2307 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2308 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2312 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2313 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2314 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2316 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2317 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2320 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2323 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2326 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2327 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2331 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2332 --------------------------------
2335 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2336 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2340 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2341 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2342 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2343 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2344 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2347 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2348 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2349 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2352 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2353 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2354 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2357 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2358 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2359 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2360 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2361 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2364 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2365 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2366 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2369 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2372 * Improved build system.
2373 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2374 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2375 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2376 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2379 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2380 --------------------------------
2383 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2386 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2387 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2388 * Video 4 Linux support
2389 * CD Digital Audio support
2390 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2393 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2394 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2395 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2396 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2399 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2400 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2401 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2402 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2403 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2404 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2405 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2408 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2409 * New HTTP remote control interface
2412 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2413 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2414 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2415 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2418 * New reset option for the preferences
2419 * You can set your language in the prefences
2420 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2421 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2422 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2423 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2426 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2427 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2428 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2431 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2432 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2433 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2434 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2435 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2436 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2437 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2438 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2439 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2440 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2443 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2444 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2445 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2446 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2447 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2448 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2449 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2452 * Interface localization
2453 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2454 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2455 * New full-featured Preferences window
2458 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2459 --------------------------------
2462 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2463 * support for skins at the interface level
2464 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2465 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2466 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2467 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2468 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2471 * fixed HTTP redirects
2472 * support for opening an entire directory
2473 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2474 * new video4linux access plug-in
2475 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2478 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2479 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2480 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2483 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2484 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2485 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2486 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2487 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2488 * new codec for raw I420 video
2489 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2492 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2493 (although it still misses some important features)
2494 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2497 * new HTTP output support
2498 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2499 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2502 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2505 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2508 * reorderable playlist
2509 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2510 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2511 * support for mono audio output devices
2512 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2513 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2514 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2515 * the messages window remembers more lines
2516 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2517 * http and ogg stream output options
2518 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2521 * new skinnable interface
2522 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2524 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2525 * support for FLAC audio format
2526 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2528 * network tab in the interface
2529 * "apply" handling in preferences
2532 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2533 ---------------------------------
2536 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2537 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2538 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2539 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2541 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2542 * DTS S/PDIF support
2545 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2546 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2547 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2548 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2551 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2552 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2555 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2558 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2561 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2563 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2564 * rc interface is now fully useable
2565 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2568 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2569 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2570 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2571 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2572 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2574 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2575 * support for mouse gestures
2576 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2579 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2580 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2583 * improved ID3 tag detection
2584 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2585 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2586 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2588 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2591 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2592 ---------------------------------
2595 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2596 English was set as the preferred language
2599 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2600 --------------------------------
2603 * new mouse gesture interface
2604 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2608 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2609 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2610 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2613 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2614 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2618 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2621 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2622 without the user consent
2625 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2627 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2628 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2629 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2632 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2633 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2634 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2635 * playlist enhancements
2636 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2637 * new step forward/step backward commands
2638 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2639 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2640 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2643 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2644 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2645 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2648 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2649 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2652 * native video output is working again
2653 * only commandline interface support
2654 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2657 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2658 --------------------------------
2661 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2662 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2663 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2664 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2665 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2666 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2667 and A/52 streams are supported)
2668 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2673 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2674 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2675 * VCD entry points support
2676 * VCD image file support
2679 * support for *.asf format
2680 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2681 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2682 * support for ogg encapsulation
2683 * support for raw DV format
2684 * support for *.wav format
2685 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2688 Stream discovery & playlists:
2689 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2690 * support for .m3u file format
2691 * support for .asx file format
2692 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2695 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2696 (only available with the .avi demux)
2697 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2698 * support for raw PCM data
2699 * support for Cinepak video codec
2700 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2701 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2702 * support for Xvid codec
2703 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2704 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2705 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2707 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2709 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2712 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2715 * new WxWindows interface
2716 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2717 device and the channels configuration
2718 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2719 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2720 format that VLC can play
2721 * new swedish translation
2722 * enhancements of the playlist window
2723 * new messages window to see debug info
2724 * fixed a few crashes
2727 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2728 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2729 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2730 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working