1 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
10 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
11 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
14 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
15 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
16 * DVB-S scanning support
17 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
18 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
19 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
20 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
21 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI card input support (Linux only currently)
22 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
23 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
26 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
27 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
28 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
29 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
30 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
33 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
34 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
35 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
38 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
39 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
40 * Ogg seeking improvements
41 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
44 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
45 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
46 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
47 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
48 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
49 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
50 and important cleanups and optimisations
51 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
54 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
55 * New video output for iOS platform
56 * New video output using EGL
57 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
58 * Various vmem improvements
61 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
62 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
63 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
64 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
65 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
68 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
71 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
74 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
75 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
76 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
77 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
78 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
79 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
80 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
81 * Major rework of VoD support
84 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
87 * New capabilities for libVLC:
88 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
89 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
90 list of available audio and video filters
93 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
94 ----------------------------------
97 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
101 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
104 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
107 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
108 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
109 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
110 * Taglib thread-safety fix
113 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
117 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
120 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
123 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
124 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
126 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
130 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
131 * Miscellaneous fixes
134 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
135 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
137 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
138 * New Asturian translation
141 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
142 ----------------------------------
145 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
147 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
150 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
153 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
154 * Various fixes for Windows
157 * New Armenian translation
158 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
159 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
162 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
163 --------------------------------
166 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
168 * Fix folders opening from the interface
171 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
172 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
175 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
176 --------------------------------
179 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
180 * fix for podcasts parsing
181 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
184 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
185 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
188 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
189 * fix m3u playlists exports
192 * fix video autoresize behaviour
195 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
198 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
201 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
204 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
207 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
208 --------------------------------
211 * Avformat fps displaying fix
212 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
215 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
216 of mono streams, especially on Windows
219 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
220 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
221 * fix console output encoding
223 Interface and extensions:
224 * Youtube and other scripts updates
225 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
228 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
229 --------------------------------
232 * New capabilities for libVLC:
233 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
234 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
235 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
236 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
237 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
238 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
239 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
240 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
241 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
242 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
243 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
244 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
245 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
246 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
247 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
251 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
252 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
253 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
254 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
255 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
258 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
261 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
262 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
263 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
267 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
270 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
271 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
272 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
275 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
276 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
277 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
278 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
281 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
282 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
285 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
286 --------------------------------
288 Important changes for users:
289 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
290 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
292 Important changes for packagers:
293 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
294 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
295 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
296 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
297 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
299 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
301 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
302 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
303 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
304 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
305 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
308 * Support for the sftp protocol
309 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
310 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
311 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
312 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
313 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
316 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
317 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
318 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
320 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
321 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
322 * Invmem module improvements
323 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
324 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
325 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
326 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
327 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
328 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
329 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
330 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
331 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
332 * Support for VP8 codec
333 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
336 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
337 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
338 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
339 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
340 * Various EGP improvements
341 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
342 * Metadata and cover art improvements
345 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
346 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
347 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
348 * Podcast images are now displayed
351 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
352 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
353 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
354 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
355 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
356 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
357 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
358 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
359 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
360 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
361 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
364 * New content extensions lua framework
367 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
368 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
369 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
370 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
371 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
372 * NEON assembly audio converter module
373 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
376 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
377 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
378 * Service discovery based on libudev
379 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
382 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
383 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
384 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
385 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
386 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
387 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
388 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
391 * New smem module, streaming to memory
392 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
393 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
396 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
398 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
399 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
402 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
405 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
406 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
407 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
408 by Andy Matuschak et al.
409 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
410 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
411 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
414 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
415 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
418 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
419 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
420 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
424 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
425 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
426 * Improved Solaris port
429 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
430 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
433 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
434 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
435 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
436 * transrate: broken since too long
437 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
438 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
439 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
440 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
441 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
442 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
443 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
444 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
445 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
446 * cddax: use cdda instead.
447 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
448 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
449 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
450 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
453 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
454 --------------------------------
457 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
459 Decoders/Packetizers:
460 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
463 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
464 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
465 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
466 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
467 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
470 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
471 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
474 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
475 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
478 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
479 and Walloon translations updated
480 * Sinhala translation started
483 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
484 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
487 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
488 --------------------------------
491 * SubRip extra styles improvements
492 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
495 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
498 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
499 increase performance and fix x264 issues
502 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
503 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
504 Russian, Slovak translation updates
505 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
508 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
509 --------------------------------
512 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
513 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
516 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
517 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
520 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
521 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
524 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
527 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
528 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
531 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
532 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
535 * New Walloon translation
536 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
539 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
540 --------------------------------
543 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
544 regressions in most popular drivers
545 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
548 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
549 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
550 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
553 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
554 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
557 * Update for appletrailers lua script
558 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
559 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
560 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
561 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
564 * New udev module for linux
567 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
570 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
573 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
574 --------------------------------
577 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
578 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
579 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
582 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
583 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
586 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
587 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
590 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
593 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
594 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
595 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
596 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
599 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
600 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
601 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
602 - no support for Goom and SDL
603 - limited text rendering support
604 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
607 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
608 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
609 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
610 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
611 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
612 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
613 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
614 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
615 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
619 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
622 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
625 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
626 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
627 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
628 Arabic and French translation updates
631 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
632 --------------------------------
635 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
636 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
637 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
638 * Fix Dailymotion access script
639 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
640 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
643 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
644 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
647 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
648 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
649 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
652 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
655 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
656 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
659 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
660 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
661 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
662 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
663 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
664 * Fix various crashes
667 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
669 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
672 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
673 ---------------------------------
677 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
678 See 'Access:' for more info.
679 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
682 * Instantaneous pausing
683 * Frame-by-Frame playback
684 * Finer speed control
685 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
686 * Timeshift for most medias
687 * RTSP trickplay support
688 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
691 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
692 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
693 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
694 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
695 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
696 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
697 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
698 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
699 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
700 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
703 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
704 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
705 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
706 * Metadata for mod files are supported
707 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
708 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
709 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
712 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
713 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
716 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
717 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
718 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
719 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
720 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
721 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
722 * DVB scanning on linux
723 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
724 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
725 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
726 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
727 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
728 * MTP device access on Unix
729 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
730 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
733 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
734 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
735 Windows and Mac OS X.
738 * Export the playlist in HTML
739 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
740 * Better metadata handling and reading
742 Linux/Windows interface:
743 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
744 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
745 * Recently played items list
746 * Interface toolbar customizations
747 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
750 - Improvements on many dialogs
751 - New dialog for plugins listing
752 - Fixed-size mode for videos
753 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
754 * Better integration in GTK environments
757 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
758 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
759 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
760 * Additional usability improvements
763 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
764 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
765 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
766 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
767 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
770 * New Maemo port with:
771 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
772 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
775 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
778 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
779 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
780 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
781 * Support for latest iSight models
784 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
785 * Surround support for PulseAudio
788 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
789 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
790 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
791 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
792 The old image video output has been removed.
793 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
794 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
797 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
805 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
806 --------------------------------------
812 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
813 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
814 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
815 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
816 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
817 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
818 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
820 Various fixes to the following modules:
823 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
824 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
827 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
832 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
833 ---------------------------------
836 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
837 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
840 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
841 ---------------------------------
844 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
847 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
850 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
851 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
852 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
853 main controller window.
854 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
857 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
862 * Updates of other localizations
865 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
866 * Lots of small bugfixes.
867 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
868 * Telnet fixes on Windows
869 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
872 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
873 ---------------------------------
876 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
878 Bunch of small bugfixes.
881 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
882 --------------------------------
887 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
888 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
891 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
892 --------------------------------
894 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
895 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
898 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
901 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
902 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
905 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
906 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
909 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
910 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
911 * Various fixed in playlist
914 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
917 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
920 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
921 ------------------------------------
923 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
924 * Fixes several memory leaks.
927 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
928 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
929 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
932 * Stability fix for the video output.
935 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
936 --------------------------------
939 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
940 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
941 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
942 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
943 * Fixed update system bugs
944 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
947 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
948 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
949 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
950 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
951 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
952 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
953 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
954 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
955 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
956 modern Mac OS X versions
959 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
960 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
962 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
963 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
966 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
967 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
968 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
969 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
970 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
971 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
974 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
975 --------------------------------
977 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
978 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
982 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
983 --------------------------------
985 * Multiple bug fixes.
988 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
989 ---------------------------------
993 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
994 recent to work correctly
995 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
996 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
997 edit the ".hosts" file.
998 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
999 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1000 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1001 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1002 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1003 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1004 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1005 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1006 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1007 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1008 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1009 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1010 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1011 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1012 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1013 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1014 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1015 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1016 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1017 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1018 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1019 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1020 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1021 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1022 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1023 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1024 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1025 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1026 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1027 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1028 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1029 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1030 and postproc modules.
1031 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1032 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1033 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1034 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1036 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1037 filter. For example:
1038 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1039 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1041 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1042 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1048 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1050 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1051 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1054 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1055 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1057 * Shoutcast TV listings
1058 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1060 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1061 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1063 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1066 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1067 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1068 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1069 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1070 * JACK audio input support
1071 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1072 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1073 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1074 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1075 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1076 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1077 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1078 (available as a separate download).
1079 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1080 * RTMP input support
1081 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1082 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1083 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1085 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1086 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1089 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1090 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1091 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1092 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1094 * APEv1/2 tags support
1095 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1096 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1098 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1099 * TiVo Series 2 support
1100 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1105 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1106 * Flash Screen Video support
1107 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1108 * DosBox Capture support
1109 * Karl Morton's Video support
1110 * limited atrac3 support
1112 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1113 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1114 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1115 * H.264 PAFF support
1116 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1117 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1118 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1119 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1120 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1123 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1124 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1125 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1126 * AQTitle subtitles support
1127 * MKV USF subtitles support
1128 * HTML-based subtitles support
1129 * MPSub subtitles support
1130 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1131 * MPL2 subtitles support
1132 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1133 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1134 * Realtext subtitle support
1135 * DKS subtitle support
1136 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1137 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1140 * Flash Screen Video support
1141 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1143 Video outputs and filters:
1144 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1145 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1146 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1147 * New puzzle video output filter
1148 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1149 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1151 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1152 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1153 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1154 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1155 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1156 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1157 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1158 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1159 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1160 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1161 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1162 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1163 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1164 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1166 Audio outputs and filters:
1167 * Replay gain support
1168 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1169 new scaletempo audio filter)
1170 * New spatializer audio filter
1171 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1174 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1175 * New RTP payload formats:
1176 * Speex voice audio codec
1177 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1178 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1179 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1180 * DCCP transport for RTP
1181 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1186 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1187 end-user suitable way.
1188 * Improved user interaction
1189 * Improved mouse gestures
1190 * Vastly improved Update checker
1191 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1193 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1194 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1196 * Improved video output features
1197 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1198 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1199 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1200 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1201 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1203 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1204 if libncursesw is available.
1205 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1206 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1207 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1209 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1210 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1211 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1212 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1213 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1214 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1215 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1216 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1219 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1220 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1221 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1224 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1225 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1226 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1227 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1228 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1229 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1232 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1233 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1243 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1244 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1245 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1248 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1249 ----------------------------------
1252 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1255 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1256 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1257 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1258 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1259 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1260 * Updated Polish translation
1263 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1264 ----------------------------------
1267 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1268 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1269 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1272 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1273 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1274 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1275 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1276 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1277 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1278 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1279 to an unexpected application termination
1280 * New Serbian translation
1281 * Updated Romanian translation
1284 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1285 ----------------------------------
1288 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1289 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1290 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1291 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1292 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1293 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1294 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1295 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1298 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1299 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1300 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1301 * Fixed AAC resampling
1302 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1303 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1306 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1307 ----------------------------------
1310 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1311 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1312 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1313 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1314 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1317 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1318 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1319 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1320 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1321 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1324 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1325 ----------------------------------
1328 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1329 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1332 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1333 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1334 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1335 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1337 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1341 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1344 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1347 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1350 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1353 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1354 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1355 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1356 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1357 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1359 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1360 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1361 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1362 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1365 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1368 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1369 ----------------------------------
1372 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1373 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1374 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1376 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1377 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1379 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1380 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1383 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1385 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1386 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1387 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1388 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1389 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1390 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1391 two different movies
1392 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1393 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1394 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1397 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1400 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1401 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1402 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1403 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1406 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1407 ----------------------------------
1409 Various bugfixes, notably:
1410 * Windows Vista compatibility
1411 * Cropping in Direct3D
1412 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1413 * RSS filter string overflow
1415 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1417 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1418 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1421 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1422 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1425 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1428 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1431 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1434 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1435 ----------------------------------
1437 Various bugfixes, notably:
1438 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1439 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1440 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1441 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1442 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1443 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1446 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1447 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1450 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1452 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1453 * Diverse usability improvements
1454 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1455 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1456 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1459 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1460 ---------------------------------
1462 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1463 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1466 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1469 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1470 --------------------------------
1473 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1476 * Support for RTSP authentication
1477 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1478 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1479 * ATSC support for DVB input
1480 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1481 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1482 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1485 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1486 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1487 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1488 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1489 * Matroska WavPack support
1490 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1491 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1492 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1495 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1496 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1497 * Improved libcaca support
1501 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1502 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1504 * Systray support in skins
1506 * Support for Apple Remote control
1507 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1508 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1509 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1510 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1512 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1515 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1516 Windows 9x/ME users:
1517 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1518 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1519 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1520 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1521 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1523 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1524 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1533 * Updates to the libvlc API
1534 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1537 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1538 --------------------------------
1541 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1542 * Support for downloading updates
1546 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1547 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1548 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1549 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1551 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1552 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1553 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1556 * Cook (Real audio) support
1558 Playlist / Services discovery:
1559 * XSPF playlist support
1561 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1564 * New JACK audio output
1567 * New video filters:
1568 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1569 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1570 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1571 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1572 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1573 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1576 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1579 * System to inform the user and request information
1580 - HTTP authentication
1584 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1585 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1586 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1589 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1590 - Improved playlist handling
1591 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1593 - Embedded Video output
1594 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1595 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1596 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1597 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1598 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1600 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1601 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1604 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1607 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1608 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1609 * Growl "Now playing" support
1612 * Ability to log to syslog
1613 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1616 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1618 * A bit more automatic testing
1621 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1622 ---------------------------------
1625 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1626 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1629 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1630 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1633 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1636 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1637 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1643 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1646 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1647 --------------------------------
1650 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1654 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1655 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1656 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1659 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1660 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1661 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1662 * GnomeVFS input module
1663 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1664 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1667 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1668 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1669 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1672 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1673 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1679 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1680 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1683 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1684 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1685 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1688 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1690 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1691 - New extended controls panel
1692 - New bookmarks window
1693 - Fixed playlist sorting
1694 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1696 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1697 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1698 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1699 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1703 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1704 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1706 - Include macro to include other files
1710 * Should now work outside IE as well
1713 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1716 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1717 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1720 The following languages were added:
1724 * Simplified Chinese
1725 The following languages were re-added:
1729 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1730 --------------------------------
1733 * Rewrite of the playlist
1735 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1736 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1737 * Preferences improvements:
1738 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1739 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1741 * Core image manipulation support
1742 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1743 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1744 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1745 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1746 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1747 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1748 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1749 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1750 * Access filter architecture
1751 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1752 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1756 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1757 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1758 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1759 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1760 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1761 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1762 * Massive Matroska improvements
1763 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1765 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1766 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1767 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1768 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1769 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1771 Decoders / Encoders:
1772 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1773 * PNG decoder/encoder
1774 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1775 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1778 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1781 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1782 * Brand new SAP module
1783 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1784 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1785 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1786 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1787 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1788 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1792 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1795 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1796 * Image file video output (png)
1797 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1798 * Improvements to wall video filter
1799 * Support for font color and opacity
1805 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1806 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1807 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1811 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1812 - Improved preferences
1813 - Improvements to the wizard
1814 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1816 - Redesigned playlist
1817 - Improved preferences
1819 - Support for multiple actions
1822 - Support for the new playlist system
1824 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1827 * Screensaver disabling fix
1828 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1829 * Support for no-decoration windows
1832 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1833 * The OpenGL video output is back
1834 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1835 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1836 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1837 is not yet available in the new module
1838 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1841 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1850 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1853 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1856 The following languages were added:
1862 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1863 --------------------------------
1866 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1867 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1870 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1871 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1872 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1875 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1878 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1881 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1884 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1885 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1886 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1890 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1892 * Support of playlist group announcement
1895 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1896 --------------------------------
1899 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1900 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1901 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1902 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1903 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1904 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1907 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1908 (Stream your desktop)
1909 * Improved DVD support:
1910 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1911 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1912 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1913 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1914 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1915 (selection of titles/chapters).
1918 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1919 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1920 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1921 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1922 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1923 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1924 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1925 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1926 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1927 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1930 * G.726 audio support
1931 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1932 * MPEG-4 text support
1933 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1934 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1935 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1939 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1940 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1941 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1942 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1943 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1944 * DVB subtitles encoder
1945 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1946 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1948 * Text track muxing for mp4
1949 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1950 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1951 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1952 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1953 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1954 * Improved ASF muxer
1956 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1957 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1958 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1961 * New audio equalizer filter
1962 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1963 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1964 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1965 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1968 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1969 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1970 with support for effects.
1971 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1972 - New filters can be streamed.
1973 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1974 - Centralized scaling and blending
1976 - "time", to display current time
1977 - "marq", to display a marquee
1980 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1981 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1982 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1983 * A few skins2 improvements
1984 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1985 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1986 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1987 * Improved CORBA control module
1990 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1991 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1992 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1995 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1996 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1997 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2000 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2001 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2002 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2003 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2004 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2007 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2010 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2011 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2014 * Server/client network synchronization module
2015 * VBrick streams fully supported
2016 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2020 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2021 --------------------------------
2024 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2025 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2026 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2027 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2030 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2031 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2032 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2033 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2034 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2035 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2036 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2039 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2040 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2041 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2042 * Improved directory access module.
2043 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2044 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2045 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2046 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2047 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2050 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2051 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2052 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2055 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2056 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2057 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2060 * Improved session announcement system.
2061 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2062 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2063 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2064 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2065 * Improved transrater.
2066 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2067 * New configuration system.
2068 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2071 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2072 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2073 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2074 * Supports scheduling.
2075 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2076 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2079 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2080 - Ability to embed video output.
2081 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2082 - Lots of improvements.
2083 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2084 - New design and set of icons.
2085 - Ability to embed video output.
2086 - Support for hotkeys.
2087 - Support for bookmarks.
2089 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2090 - Better hotkeys handling.
2093 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2094 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2095 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2096 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2099 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2100 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2101 * Improved Windows installer.
2107 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2108 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2111 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2112 ---------------------------------
2115 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2116 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2119 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2120 --------------------------------
2123 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2124 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2127 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2128 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2129 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2130 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2133 * Internal improvments
2134 * Improved import/export
2137 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2139 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2140 small and strange formats.
2142 * New MOD audio demux.
2143 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2144 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2145 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2146 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2149 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2150 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2151 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2157 * New opengl video output plugin.
2160 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2161 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2164 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2165 --------------------------------
2168 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2169 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2170 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2171 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2172 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2173 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2174 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2175 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2178 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2183 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2184 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2185 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2186 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2187 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2188 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2189 * Better Icecast support.
2190 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2191 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2194 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2195 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2196 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2197 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2198 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2199 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2200 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2203 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2204 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2205 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2206 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2207 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2208 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2209 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2210 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2211 * Preliminary RTP support.
2212 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2217 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2218 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2220 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2221 - Improvements and help in preferences
2222 - New streaming wizard
2223 - Revised Disc Open menu
2225 - Improvements of the standard pages
2226 - Support for new commands
2227 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2230 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2231 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2234 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2235 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2236 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2237 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2238 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2239 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2240 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2241 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2242 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2245 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2247 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2248 * Support for Panther.
2249 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2250 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2253 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2254 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2255 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2256 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2257 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2258 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2259 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2260 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2263 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2264 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2265 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2268 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2271 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2272 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2273 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2274 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2277 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2278 --------------------------------
2281 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2284 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2285 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2288 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2289 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2292 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2295 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2296 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2299 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2302 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2305 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2306 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2310 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2311 --------------------------------
2314 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2315 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2319 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2320 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2321 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2323 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2324 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2327 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2330 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2333 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2334 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2338 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2339 --------------------------------
2342 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2343 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2347 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2348 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2349 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2350 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2351 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2354 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2355 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2356 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2359 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2360 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2361 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2364 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2365 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2366 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2367 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2368 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2371 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2372 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2373 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2376 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2379 * Improved build system.
2380 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2381 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2382 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2383 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2386 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2387 --------------------------------
2390 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2393 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2394 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2395 * Video 4 Linux support
2396 * CD Digital Audio support
2397 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2400 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2401 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2402 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2403 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2406 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2407 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2408 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2409 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2410 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2411 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2412 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2415 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2416 * New HTTP remote control interface
2419 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2420 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2421 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2422 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2425 * New reset option for the preferences
2426 * You can set your language in the prefences
2427 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2428 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2429 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2430 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2433 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2434 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2435 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2438 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2439 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2440 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2441 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2442 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2443 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2444 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2445 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2446 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2447 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2450 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2451 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2452 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2453 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2454 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2455 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2456 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2459 * Interface localization
2460 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2461 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2462 * New full-featured Preferences window
2465 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2466 --------------------------------
2469 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2470 * support for skins at the interface level
2471 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2472 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2473 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2474 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2475 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2478 * fixed HTTP redirects
2479 * support for opening an entire directory
2480 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2481 * new video4linux access plug-in
2482 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2485 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2486 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2487 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2490 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2491 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2492 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2493 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2494 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2495 * new codec for raw I420 video
2496 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2499 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2500 (although it still misses some important features)
2501 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2504 * new HTTP output support
2505 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2506 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2509 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2512 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2515 * reorderable playlist
2516 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2517 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2518 * support for mono audio output devices
2519 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2520 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2521 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2522 * the messages window remembers more lines
2523 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2524 * http and ogg stream output options
2525 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2528 * new skinnable interface
2529 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2531 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2532 * support for FLAC audio format
2533 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2535 * network tab in the interface
2536 * "apply" handling in preferences
2539 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2540 ---------------------------------
2543 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2544 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2545 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2546 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2548 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2549 * DTS S/PDIF support
2552 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2553 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2554 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2555 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2558 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2559 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2562 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2565 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2568 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2570 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2571 * rc interface is now fully useable
2572 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2575 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2576 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2577 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2578 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2579 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2581 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2582 * support for mouse gestures
2583 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2586 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2587 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2590 * improved ID3 tag detection
2591 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2592 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2593 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2595 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2598 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2599 ---------------------------------
2602 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2603 English was set as the preferred language
2606 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2607 --------------------------------
2610 * new mouse gesture interface
2611 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2615 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2616 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2617 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2620 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2621 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2625 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2628 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2629 without the user consent
2632 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2634 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2635 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2636 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2639 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2640 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2641 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2642 * playlist enhancements
2643 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2644 * new step forward/step backward commands
2645 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2646 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2647 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2650 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2651 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2652 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2655 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2656 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2659 * native video output is working again
2660 * only commandline interface support
2661 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2664 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2665 --------------------------------
2668 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2669 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2670 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2671 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2672 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2673 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2674 and A/52 streams are supported)
2675 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2680 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2681 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2682 * VCD entry points support
2683 * VCD image file support
2686 * support for *.asf format
2687 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2688 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2689 * support for ogg encapsulation
2690 * support for raw DV format
2691 * support for *.wav format
2692 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2695 Stream discovery & playlists:
2696 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2697 * support for .m3u file format
2698 * support for .asx file format
2699 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2702 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2703 (only available with the .avi demux)
2704 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2705 * support for raw PCM data
2706 * support for Cinepak video codec
2707 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2708 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2709 * support for Xvid codec
2710 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2711 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2712 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2714 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2716 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2719 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2722 * new WxWindows interface
2723 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2724 device and the channels configuration
2725 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2726 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2727 format that VLC can play
2728 * new swedish translation
2729 * enhancements of the playlist window
2730 * new messages window to see debug info
2731 * fixed a few crashes
2734 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2735 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2736 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2737 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working