1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
8 3rd party libraries (contrib):
9 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
12 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
13 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
14 * Support for Ulead DV audio
15 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
16 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
17 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
20 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
23 * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
24 * Major improvements in DASH support
25 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
26 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
29 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
30 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
31 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
32 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
33 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
34 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
35 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
36 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
37 * Support for more MJPEG streams
40 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
41 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
42 * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
45 * new remapping channel filter
46 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
47 * new VSXu visualization plugin
50 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
53 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
54 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
55 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
56 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
57 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
60 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
63 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
64 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
65 * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
66 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
67 * Partial support for Qt5.0
70 * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
71 * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
72 VLC's internal volume level
73 * added an option to show next / previous buttons
74 * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
75 * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
77 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
80 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
81 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
82 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
83 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
84 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
86 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
89 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
90 --------------------------------
93 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
96 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
97 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
100 * Add GateKeeper support
101 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
102 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
103 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
106 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
109 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
110 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
111 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
112 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
113 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
116 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
117 --------------------------------
120 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
121 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
122 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
123 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
124 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
125 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
126 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
127 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
128 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
129 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
130 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
134 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
135 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
136 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
137 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
138 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
139 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
140 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
141 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
142 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
143 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
144 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
145 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
148 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
149 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
151 * Fix MP3 free format support
154 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
155 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
156 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
157 * Fix for DVB channels file support
158 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
161 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
162 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
164 Audio filters and output:
165 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
166 * Fix DirectSound device selection
167 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
168 * Do not apply volume in file output
169 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
170 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
173 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
174 the persistant media library
175 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
176 to the media library or the temporary playlist
177 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
178 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
179 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
180 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
181 press on the Play/Pause button
182 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
183 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
184 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
185 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
186 * Many Fullscreen fixes
187 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
188 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
189 Synchronization panel
190 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
191 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
192 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
193 * Fix crashes on exit
194 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
196 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
197 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
198 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
199 automatically reset on the first launch.
200 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
201 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
202 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
205 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
206 * Fixes for icecast SD
209 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
210 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
211 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
212 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
213 * Fix tags and file names display
214 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
217 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
218 * Fix for key events and focus loss
221 * Fix display of some buttons
222 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
223 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
226 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
227 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
228 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
231 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
232 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
233 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
234 Thai translations update
235 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
238 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
239 --------------------------------
242 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
243 * fix the samba module compilation
244 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
245 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
246 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
247 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
250 * Support for MXPEG files
251 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
252 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
255 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
256 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
257 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
260 * Fix ogm header creation
263 * limit spatializer filter distortions
264 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
267 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
268 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
269 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
270 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
273 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
276 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
277 * allow to hide the sidebar
278 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
279 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
280 * noticebly faster launch time
281 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
282 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
283 * improve track synchronization panel
284 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
285 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
288 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
289 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
290 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
291 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
294 * fix for menus display
295 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
296 * documentation update
299 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
300 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
303 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
304 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
305 * Update Jamendo selections
309 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
310 * fix a crash on VLM close
313 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
314 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
315 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
316 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
319 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
322 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
323 ---------------------------------
326 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
327 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
328 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
329 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
330 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
331 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
332 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
333 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
334 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
335 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
336 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
337 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
338 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
339 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
340 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
341 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
342 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
343 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
344 --http-crl (optional CRL).
345 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
346 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
347 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
348 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
349 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
350 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
351 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
353 Important changes for packagers:
354 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
355 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
356 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
357 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
358 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
359 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
360 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
361 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
362 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
363 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
366 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
367 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
368 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
369 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
370 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
371 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
372 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
375 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
376 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
377 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
378 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
379 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
380 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
381 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
382 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
383 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
384 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
385 * PulseAudio audio input support
386 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
387 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
388 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
389 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
390 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
391 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
392 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
393 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
396 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
397 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
398 are notably concerned.
399 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
400 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
401 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
402 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
403 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
404 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
405 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
406 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
407 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
408 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
409 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
410 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
411 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
412 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
413 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
416 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
417 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
418 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
419 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
420 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
421 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
422 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
423 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
424 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
425 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
426 * Improved support of tracker files
427 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
430 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
431 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
432 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
433 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
434 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
435 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
436 and important cleanups and optimisations
437 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
438 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
439 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
440 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
441 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
442 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
443 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
444 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
445 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
446 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
447 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
448 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
449 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
450 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
451 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
452 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
453 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
454 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
455 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
456 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
457 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
460 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
461 * New video output for iOS platform
462 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
463 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
464 * Various vmem improvements
465 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
466 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
467 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
468 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
469 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
470 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
472 Audio Output and Filters:
473 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
474 * New audio output in memory (amem)
475 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
476 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
477 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
478 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
479 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
480 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
481 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
482 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
485 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
486 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
487 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
488 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
489 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
490 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
491 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
492 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
493 * New anti-flickering filter
494 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
495 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
496 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
497 blackbox and customizable shadow.
498 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
499 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
500 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
503 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
504 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
505 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
506 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
507 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
508 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
509 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
510 * Major rework of VoD support
511 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
512 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
513 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
514 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
515 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
516 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
517 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
518 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
519 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
520 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
523 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
524 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
527 * New capabilities for libVLC:
528 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
529 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
530 list of available audio and video filters
531 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
532 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
533 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
536 * asademux, subsass: use libass
537 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
538 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
540 * upnp: use upnp_intel
541 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
542 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
543 * removal of the noise filter
544 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
545 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
546 removed in Growl's next release, too.
547 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
550 * Update of translations for most languages.
551 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
554 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
555 ----------------------------------
558 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
559 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
562 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
563 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
566 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
567 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
568 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
571 * Camtasia decoding fix.
574 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
575 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
578 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
581 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
582 ----------------------------------
585 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
586 including support for OS X Lion
587 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
588 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
591 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
594 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
595 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
596 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
599 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
602 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
603 ----------------------------------
606 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
607 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
610 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
611 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
612 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
613 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
614 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
616 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
617 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
618 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
620 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
621 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
624 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
627 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
630 * Fix quitting on Linux
631 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
635 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
638 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
641 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
642 ---------------------------------
644 Windows and Mac OS X:
645 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
648 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
649 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
652 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
655 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
658 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
660 Miscellaneous fixes in:
661 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
663 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
664 * RTP output and XML export
665 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
669 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
670 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
671 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
672 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
675 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
676 --------------------------------
678 Windows and Mac OS X:
679 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
682 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
685 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
686 * Improve Apple Remote handling
687 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
688 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
689 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
690 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
693 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
694 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
698 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
699 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
700 * New Luganda Translation
703 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
704 --------------------------------
707 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
710 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
711 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
712 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
713 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
716 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
718 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
719 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
720 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
721 * mp4 demuxer improvements
722 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
723 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
724 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
725 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
727 Miscellaneous fixes in:
728 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
729 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
730 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
731 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
732 * Configure and build system improvements
733 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
736 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
737 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
738 * New icelandic translation
741 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
749 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
750 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
751 and stability reasons
754 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
758 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
761 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
762 ----------------------------------
765 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
768 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
769 ---------------------------------
772 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
773 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
774 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
775 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
778 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
781 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
782 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
783 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
784 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
787 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
788 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
789 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
791 Subtitles and renderer:
792 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
793 * Mark more freetype options as safe
794 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
795 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
796 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
799 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
800 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
801 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
802 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
805 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
806 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
809 * KDE device solid actions
811 * Transcode integer overflow
812 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
813 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
816 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
817 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
818 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
821 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
822 ----------------------------------
825 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
829 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
832 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
835 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
836 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
837 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
838 * Taglib thread-safety fix
841 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
845 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
848 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
851 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
852 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
854 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
858 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
859 * Miscellaneous fixes
862 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
863 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
865 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
866 * New Asturian translation
869 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
870 ----------------------------------
873 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
875 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
878 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
881 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
882 * Various fixes for Windows
885 * New Armenian translation
886 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
887 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
890 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
891 --------------------------------
894 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
896 * Fix folders opening from the interface
899 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
900 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
903 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
904 --------------------------------
907 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
908 * fix for podcasts parsing
909 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
912 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
913 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
916 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
917 * fix m3u playlists exports
920 * fix video autoresize behaviour
923 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
926 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
929 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
932 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
935 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Avformat fps displaying fix
940 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
943 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
944 of mono streams, especially on Windows
947 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
948 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
949 * fix console output encoding
951 Interface and extensions:
952 * Youtube and other scripts updates
953 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
956 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
957 --------------------------------
960 * New capabilities for libVLC:
961 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
962 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
963 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
964 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
965 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
966 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
967 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
968 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
969 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
970 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
971 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
972 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
973 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
974 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
975 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
979 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
980 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
981 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
982 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
983 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
986 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
989 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
990 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
991 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
995 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
998 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
999 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1000 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1003 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1004 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1005 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1006 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1009 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1010 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1013 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1014 --------------------------------
1016 Important changes for users:
1017 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1018 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1020 Important changes for packagers:
1021 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1022 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1023 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1024 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1025 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1027 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1029 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1030 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1031 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1032 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1033 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1036 * Support for the sftp protocol
1037 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1038 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1039 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1040 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1041 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1044 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1045 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1046 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1048 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1049 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1050 * Invmem module improvements
1051 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1052 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1053 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1054 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1055 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1056 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1057 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1058 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1059 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1060 * Support for VP8 codec
1061 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1064 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1065 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1066 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1067 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1068 * Various EGP improvements
1069 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1070 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1073 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1074 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1075 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1076 * Podcast images are now displayed
1079 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1080 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1081 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1082 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1083 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1084 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1085 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1086 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1087 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1088 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1089 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1092 * New content extensions lua framework
1095 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1096 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1097 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1098 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1099 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1100 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1101 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1104 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1105 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1106 * Service discovery based on libudev
1107 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1110 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1111 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1112 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1113 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1114 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1115 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1116 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1119 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1120 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1121 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1124 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1126 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1127 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1130 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1133 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1134 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1135 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1136 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1137 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1138 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1139 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1142 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1143 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1146 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1147 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1148 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1152 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1153 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1154 * Improved Solaris port
1157 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1158 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1161 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1162 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1163 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1164 * transrate: broken since too long
1165 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1166 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1167 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1168 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1169 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1170 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1171 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1172 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1173 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1174 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1175 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1176 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1177 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1178 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1181 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1182 --------------------------------
1185 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1187 Decoders/Packetizers:
1188 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1191 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1192 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1193 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1194 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1195 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1198 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1199 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1202 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1203 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1206 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1207 and Walloon translations updated
1208 * Sinhala translation started
1211 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1212 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1215 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1216 --------------------------------
1219 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1220 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1223 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1226 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1227 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1230 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1231 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1232 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1233 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1236 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1237 --------------------------------
1240 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1241 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1244 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1245 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1248 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1249 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1252 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1255 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1256 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1259 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1260 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1263 * New Walloon translation
1264 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1267 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1268 --------------------------------
1271 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1272 regressions in most popular drivers
1273 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1276 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1277 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1278 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1281 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1282 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1285 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1286 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1287 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1288 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1289 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1292 * New udev module for linux
1295 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1298 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1301 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1306 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1307 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1310 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1311 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1314 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1315 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1318 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1321 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1322 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1323 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1324 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1327 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1328 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1329 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1330 - no support for Goom and SDL
1331 - limited text rendering support
1332 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1335 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1336 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1337 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1338 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1339 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1340 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1341 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1342 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1343 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1347 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1350 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1353 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1354 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1355 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1356 Arabic and French translation updates
1359 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1360 --------------------------------
1363 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1364 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1365 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1366 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1367 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1368 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1371 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1372 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1373 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1376 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1377 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1378 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1381 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1384 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1385 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1388 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1389 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1390 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1391 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1392 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1393 * Fix various crashes
1396 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1398 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1402 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1403 ---------------------------------
1407 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1408 See 'Access:' for more info.
1409 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1412 * Instantaneous pausing
1413 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1414 * Finer speed control
1415 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1416 * Timeshift for most medias
1417 * RTSP trickplay support
1418 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1421 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1422 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1423 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1424 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1425 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1426 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1427 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1428 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1429 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1430 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1433 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1434 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1435 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1436 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1437 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1438 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1439 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1442 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1443 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1446 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1447 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1448 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1449 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1450 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1451 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1452 * DVB scanning on linux
1453 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1454 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1455 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1456 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1457 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1458 * MTP device access on Unix
1459 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1460 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1463 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1464 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1465 Windows and Mac OS X.
1468 * Export the playlist in HTML
1469 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1470 * Better metadata handling and reading
1472 Linux/Windows interface:
1473 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1474 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1475 * Recently played items list
1476 * Interface toolbar customizations
1477 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1478 - More menus actions
1479 - Finer speed slider
1480 - Improvements on many dialogs
1481 - New dialog for plugins listing
1482 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1483 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1484 * Better integration in GTK environments
1487 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1488 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1489 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1490 * Additional usability improvements
1493 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1494 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1495 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1496 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1497 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1500 * New Maemo port with:
1501 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1502 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1505 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1508 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1509 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1510 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1511 * Support for latest iSight models
1514 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1515 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1518 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1519 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1520 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1521 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1522 The old image video output has been removed.
1523 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1524 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1527 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1535 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1536 --------------------------------------
1542 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1543 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1544 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1545 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1546 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1547 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1548 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1550 Various fixes to the following modules:
1553 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1554 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1555 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1557 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1562 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1563 ---------------------------------
1566 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1567 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1570 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1571 ---------------------------------
1574 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1577 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1580 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1581 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1582 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1583 main controller window.
1584 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1587 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1592 * Updates of other localizations
1595 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1596 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1597 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1598 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1599 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1602 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1603 ---------------------------------
1606 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1608 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1611 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1612 --------------------------------
1617 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1618 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1621 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1622 --------------------------------
1624 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1625 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1628 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1631 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1632 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1635 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1636 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1639 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1640 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1641 * Various fixed in playlist
1644 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1647 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1650 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1651 ------------------------------------
1653 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1654 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1657 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1658 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1659 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1662 * Stability fix for the video output.
1665 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1666 --------------------------------
1669 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1670 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1671 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1672 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1673 * Fixed update system bugs
1674 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1677 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1678 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1679 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1680 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1681 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1682 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1683 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1684 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1685 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1686 modern Mac OS X versions
1689 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1690 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1692 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1693 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1696 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1697 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1698 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1699 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1700 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1701 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1704 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1705 --------------------------------
1707 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1708 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1709 * Multiple bugfixes.
1712 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1713 --------------------------------
1715 * Multiple bug fixes.
1718 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1719 ---------------------------------
1723 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1724 recent to work correctly
1725 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1726 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1727 edit the ".hosts" file.
1728 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1729 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1730 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1731 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1732 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1733 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1734 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1735 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1736 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1737 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1738 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1739 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1740 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1741 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1742 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1743 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1744 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1745 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1746 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1747 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1748 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1749 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1750 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1751 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1752 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1753 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1754 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1755 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1756 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1757 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1758 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1759 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1760 and postproc modules.
1761 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1762 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1763 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1764 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1766 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1767 filter. For example:
1768 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1769 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1771 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1772 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1778 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1780 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1781 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1784 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1785 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1787 * Shoutcast TV listings
1788 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1790 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1791 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1793 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1796 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1797 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1798 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1799 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1800 * JACK audio input support
1801 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1802 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1803 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1804 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1805 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1806 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1807 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1808 (available as a separate download).
1809 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1810 * RTMP input support
1811 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1812 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1813 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1815 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1816 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1819 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1820 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1821 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1822 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1824 * APEv1/2 tags support
1825 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1826 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1828 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1829 * TiVo Series 2 support
1830 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1835 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1836 * Flash Screen Video support
1837 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1838 * DosBox Capture support
1839 * Karl Morton's Video support
1840 * limited atrac3 support
1842 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1843 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1844 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1845 * H.264 PAFF support
1846 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1847 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1848 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1849 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1850 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1853 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1854 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1855 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1856 * AQTitle subtitles support
1857 * MKV USF subtitles support
1858 * HTML-based subtitles support
1859 * MPSub subtitles support
1860 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1861 * MPL2 subtitles support
1862 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1863 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1864 * Realtext subtitle support
1865 * DKS subtitle support
1866 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1867 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1870 * Flash Screen Video support
1871 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1873 Video outputs and filters:
1874 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1875 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1876 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1877 * New puzzle video output filter
1878 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1879 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1881 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1882 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1883 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1884 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1885 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1886 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1887 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1888 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1889 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1890 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1891 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1892 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1893 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1894 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1896 Audio outputs and filters:
1897 * Replay gain support
1898 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1899 new scaletempo audio filter)
1900 * New spatializer audio filter
1901 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1904 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1905 * New RTP payload formats:
1906 * Speex voice audio codec
1907 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1908 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1909 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1910 * DCCP transport for RTP
1911 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1916 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1917 end-user suitable way.
1918 * Improved user interaction
1919 * Improved mouse gestures
1920 * Vastly improved Update checker
1921 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1923 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1924 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1926 * Improved video output features
1927 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1928 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1929 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1930 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1931 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1933 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1934 if libncursesw is available.
1935 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1936 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1937 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1939 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1940 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1941 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1942 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1943 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1944 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1945 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1946 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1949 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1950 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1951 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1954 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1955 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1956 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1957 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1958 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1959 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1962 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1963 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1973 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1974 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1975 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1978 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1979 ----------------------------------
1982 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1985 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1986 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1987 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1988 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1989 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1990 * Updated Polish translation
1993 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1994 ----------------------------------
1997 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1998 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1999 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2002 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2003 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2004 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2005 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2006 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2007 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2008 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2009 to an unexpected application termination
2010 * New Serbian translation
2011 * Updated Romanian translation
2014 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2015 ----------------------------------
2018 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2019 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2020 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2021 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2022 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2023 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2024 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2025 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2028 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2029 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2030 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2031 * Fixed AAC resampling
2032 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2033 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2036 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2037 ----------------------------------
2040 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2041 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2042 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2043 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2044 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2047 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2048 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2049 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2050 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2051 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2054 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2055 ----------------------------------
2058 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2059 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2062 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2063 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2064 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2065 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2067 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2071 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2074 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2077 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2080 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2083 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2084 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2085 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2086 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2087 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2089 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2090 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2091 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2092 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2095 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2098 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2099 ----------------------------------
2102 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2103 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2104 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2106 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2107 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2109 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2110 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2113 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2115 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2116 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2117 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2118 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2119 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2120 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2121 two different movies
2122 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2123 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2124 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2127 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2130 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2131 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2132 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2133 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2136 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2137 ----------------------------------
2139 Various bugfixes, notably:
2140 * Windows Vista compatibility
2141 * Cropping in Direct3D
2142 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2143 * RSS filter string overflow
2145 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2147 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2148 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2151 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2152 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2155 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2158 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2161 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2164 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2165 ----------------------------------
2167 Various bugfixes, notably:
2168 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2169 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2170 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2171 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2172 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2173 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2176 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2177 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2180 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2182 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2183 * Diverse usability improvements
2184 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2185 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2186 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2189 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2190 ---------------------------------
2192 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2193 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2196 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2199 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2200 --------------------------------
2203 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2206 * Support for RTSP authentication
2207 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2208 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2209 * ATSC support for DVB input
2210 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2211 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2212 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2215 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2216 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2217 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2218 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2219 * Matroska WavPack support
2220 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2221 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2222 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2225 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2226 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2227 * Improved libcaca support
2231 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2232 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2234 * Systray support in skins
2236 * Support for Apple Remote control
2237 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2238 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2239 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2240 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2242 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2245 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2246 Windows 9x/ME users:
2247 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2248 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2249 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2250 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2251 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2253 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2254 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2263 * Updates to the libvlc API
2264 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2267 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2268 --------------------------------
2271 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2272 * Support for downloading updates
2276 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2277 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2278 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2279 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2281 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2282 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2283 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2286 * Cook (Real audio) support
2288 Playlist / Services discovery:
2289 * XSPF playlist support
2291 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2294 * New JACK audio output
2297 * New video filters:
2298 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2299 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2300 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2301 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2302 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2303 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2306 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2309 * System to inform the user and request information
2310 - HTTP authentication
2314 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2315 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2316 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2319 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2320 - Improved playlist handling
2321 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2323 - Embedded Video output
2324 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2325 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2326 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2327 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2328 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2330 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2331 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2334 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2337 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2338 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2339 * Growl "Now playing" support
2342 * Ability to log to syslog
2343 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2346 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2348 * A bit more automatic testing
2351 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2352 ---------------------------------
2355 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2356 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2359 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2360 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2363 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2366 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2367 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2373 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2376 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2384 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2385 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2386 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2389 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2390 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2391 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2392 * GnomeVFS input module
2393 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2394 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2397 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2398 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2399 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2402 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2403 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2409 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2410 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2413 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2414 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2415 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2418 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2420 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2421 - New extended controls panel
2422 - New bookmarks window
2423 - Fixed playlist sorting
2424 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2426 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2427 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2428 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2429 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2433 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2434 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2436 - Include macro to include other files
2440 * Should now work outside IE as well
2443 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2446 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2447 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2450 The following languages were added:
2454 * Simplified Chinese
2455 The following languages were re-added:
2459 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2460 --------------------------------
2463 * Rewrite of the playlist
2465 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2466 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2467 * Preferences improvements:
2468 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2469 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2471 * Core image manipulation support
2472 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2473 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2474 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2475 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2476 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2477 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2478 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2479 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2480 * Access filter architecture
2481 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2482 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2486 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2487 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2488 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2489 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2490 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2491 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2492 * Massive Matroska improvements
2493 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2495 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2496 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2497 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2498 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2499 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2501 Decoders / Encoders:
2502 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2503 * PNG decoder/encoder
2504 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2505 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2508 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2511 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2512 * Brand new SAP module
2513 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2514 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2515 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2516 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2517 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2518 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2522 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2525 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2526 * Image file video output (png)
2527 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2528 * Improvements to wall video filter
2529 * Support for font color and opacity
2535 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2536 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2537 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2541 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2542 - Improved preferences
2543 - Improvements to the wizard
2544 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2546 - Redesigned playlist
2547 - Improved preferences
2549 - Support for multiple actions
2552 - Support for the new playlist system
2554 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2557 * Screensaver disabling fix
2558 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2559 * Support for no-decoration windows
2562 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2563 * The OpenGL video output is back
2564 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2565 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2566 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2567 is not yet available in the new module
2568 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2571 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2580 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2583 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2586 The following languages were added:
2592 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2593 --------------------------------
2596 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2597 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2600 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2601 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2602 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2605 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2608 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2611 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2614 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2615 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2616 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2620 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2622 * Support of playlist group announcement
2625 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2626 --------------------------------
2629 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2630 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2631 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2632 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2633 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2634 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2637 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2638 (Stream your desktop)
2639 * Improved DVD support:
2640 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2641 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2642 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2643 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2644 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2645 (selection of titles/chapters).
2648 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2649 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2650 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2651 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2652 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2653 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2654 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2655 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2656 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2657 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2660 * G.726 audio support
2661 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2662 * MPEG-4 text support
2663 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2664 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2665 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2669 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2670 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2671 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2672 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2673 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2674 * DVB subtitles encoder
2675 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2676 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2678 * Text track muxing for mp4
2679 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2680 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2681 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2682 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2683 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2684 * Improved ASF muxer
2686 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2687 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2688 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2691 * New audio equalizer filter
2692 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2693 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2694 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2695 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2698 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2699 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2700 with support for effects.
2701 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2702 - New filters can be streamed.
2703 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2704 - Centralized scaling and blending
2706 - "time", to display current time
2707 - "marq", to display a marquee
2710 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2711 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2712 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2713 * A few skins2 improvements
2714 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2715 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2716 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2717 * Improved CORBA control module
2720 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2721 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2722 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2725 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2726 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2727 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2730 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2731 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2732 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2733 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2734 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2737 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2740 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2741 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2744 * Server/client network synchronization module
2745 * VBrick streams fully supported
2746 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2750 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2751 --------------------------------
2754 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2755 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2756 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2757 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2760 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2761 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2762 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2763 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2764 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2765 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2766 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2769 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2770 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2771 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2772 * Improved directory access module.
2773 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2774 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2775 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2776 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2777 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2780 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2781 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2782 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2785 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2786 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2787 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2790 * Improved session announcement system.
2791 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2792 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2793 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2794 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2795 * Improved transrater.
2796 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2797 * New configuration system.
2798 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2801 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2802 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2803 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2804 * Supports scheduling.
2805 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2806 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2809 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2810 - Ability to embed video output.
2811 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2812 - Lots of improvements.
2813 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2814 - New design and set of icons.
2815 - Ability to embed video output.
2816 - Support for hotkeys.
2817 - Support for bookmarks.
2819 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2820 - Better hotkeys handling.
2823 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2824 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2825 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2826 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2829 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2830 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2831 * Improved Windows installer.
2837 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2838 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2841 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2842 ---------------------------------
2845 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2846 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2849 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2850 --------------------------------
2853 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2854 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2857 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2858 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2859 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2860 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2863 * Internal improvments
2864 * Improved import/export
2867 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2869 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2870 small and strange formats.
2872 * New MOD audio demux.
2873 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2874 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2875 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2876 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2879 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2880 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2881 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2887 * New opengl video output plugin.
2890 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2891 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2894 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2895 --------------------------------
2898 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2899 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2900 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2901 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2902 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2903 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2904 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2905 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2908 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2913 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2914 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2915 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2916 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2917 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2918 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2919 * Better Icecast support.
2920 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2921 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2924 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2925 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2926 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2927 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2928 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2929 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2930 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2933 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2934 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2935 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2936 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2937 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2938 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2939 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2940 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2941 * Preliminary RTP support.
2942 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2947 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2948 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2950 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2951 - Improvements and help in preferences
2952 - New streaming wizard
2953 - Revised Disc Open menu
2955 - Improvements of the standard pages
2956 - Support for new commands
2957 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2960 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2961 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2964 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2965 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2966 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2967 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2968 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2969 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2970 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2971 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2972 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2975 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2977 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2978 * Support for Panther.
2979 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2980 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2983 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2984 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2985 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2986 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2987 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2988 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2989 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2990 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2993 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2994 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2995 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2998 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3001 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3002 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3003 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3004 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3007 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3008 --------------------------------
3011 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3014 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3015 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3018 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3019 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3022 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3025 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3026 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3029 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3032 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3035 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3036 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3040 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3041 --------------------------------
3044 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3045 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3049 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3050 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3051 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3053 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3054 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3057 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3060 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3063 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3064 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3068 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3069 --------------------------------
3072 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3073 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3077 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3078 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3079 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3080 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3081 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3084 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3085 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3086 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3089 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3090 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3091 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3094 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3095 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3096 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3097 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3098 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3101 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3102 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3103 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3106 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3109 * Improved build system.
3110 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3111 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3112 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3113 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3116 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3117 --------------------------------
3120 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3123 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3124 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3125 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3126 * Video 4 Linux support
3127 * CD Digital Audio support
3128 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3131 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3132 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3133 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3134 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3137 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3138 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3139 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3140 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3141 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3142 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3143 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3146 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3147 * New HTTP remote control interface
3150 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3151 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3152 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3153 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3154 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3157 * New reset option for the preferences
3158 * You can set your language in the prefences
3159 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3160 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3161 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3162 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3165 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3166 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3167 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3170 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3171 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3172 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3173 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3174 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3175 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3176 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3177 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3178 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3179 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3182 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3183 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3184 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3185 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3186 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3187 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3188 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3191 * Interface localization
3192 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3193 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3194 * New full-featured Preferences window
3197 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3198 --------------------------------
3201 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3202 * support for skins at the interface level
3203 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3204 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3205 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3206 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3207 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3210 * fixed HTTP redirects
3211 * support for opening an entire directory
3212 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3213 * new video4linux access plug-in
3214 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3217 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3218 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3219 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3222 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3223 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3224 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3225 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3226 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3227 * new codec for raw I420 video
3228 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3231 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3232 (although it still misses some important features)
3233 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3236 * new HTTP output support
3237 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3238 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3241 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3244 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3247 * reorderable playlist
3248 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3249 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3250 * support for mono audio output devices
3251 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3252 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3253 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3254 * the messages window remembers more lines
3255 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3256 * http and ogg stream output options
3257 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3260 * new skinnable interface
3261 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3263 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3264 * support for FLAC audio format
3265 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3267 * network tab in the interface
3268 * "apply" handling in preferences
3271 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3272 ---------------------------------
3275 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3276 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3277 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3278 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3280 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3281 * DTS S/PDIF support
3284 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3285 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3286 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3287 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3290 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3291 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3294 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3297 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3300 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3302 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3303 * rc interface is now fully useable
3304 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3307 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3308 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3309 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3310 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3311 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3313 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3314 * support for mouse gestures
3315 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3318 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3319 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3322 * improved ID3 tag detection
3323 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3324 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3325 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3327 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3330 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3331 ---------------------------------
3334 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3335 English was set as the preferred language
3338 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3339 --------------------------------
3342 * new mouse gesture interface
3343 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3347 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3348 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3349 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3352 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3353 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3357 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3360 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3361 without the user consent
3364 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3366 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3367 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3368 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3371 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3372 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3373 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3374 * playlist enhancements
3375 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3376 * new step forward/step backward commands
3377 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3378 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3379 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3382 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3383 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3384 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3387 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3388 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3391 * native video output is working again
3392 * only commandline interface support
3393 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3396 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3397 --------------------------------
3400 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3401 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3402 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3403 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3404 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3405 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3406 and A/52 streams are supported)
3407 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3412 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3413 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3414 * VCD entry points support
3415 * VCD image file support
3418 * support for *.asf format
3419 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3420 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3421 * support for ogg encapsulation
3422 * support for raw DV format
3423 * support for *.wav format
3424 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3427 Stream discovery & playlists:
3428 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3429 * support for .m3u file format
3430 * support for .asx file format
3431 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3434 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3435 (only available with the .avi demux)
3436 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3437 * support for raw PCM data
3438 * support for Cinepak video codec
3439 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3440 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3441 * support for Xvid codec
3442 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3443 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3444 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3446 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3448 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3451 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3454 * new WxWindows interface
3455 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3456 device and the channels configuration
3457 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3458 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3459 format that VLC can play
3460 * new swedish translation
3461 * enhancements of the playlist window
3462 * new messages window to see debug info
3463 * fixed a few crashes
3466 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3467 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3468 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3469 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working