1 Changes between 0.9.1 and 1.0.0:
2 ---------------------------------
5 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
7 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.1:
8 ---------------------------------
12 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
13 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
14 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
15 edit the ".hosts" file.
16 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
17 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
18 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
19 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
20 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
21 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
22 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
23 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
24 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
25 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
27 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
28 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
29 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
30 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
31 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
32 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
33 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
34 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
35 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
36 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
37 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
38 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
39 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
40 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
41 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
42 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
43 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
44 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
45 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
46 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
47 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
49 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
50 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
51 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
52 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
54 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
56 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
57 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
59 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
60 * Glide video output module has been removed.
61 * Due to lack of maintainer, the Skins interface might not work properly.
62 It does not work on windows for this version. Help is needed!
68 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
69 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
70 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-??)
73 * Vastly improved playlist support:
74 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
76 * Shoutcast TV listings
77 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
79 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
80 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
81 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
82 share/lua/meta/README.txt
85 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
86 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
87 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
88 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
89 * JACK audio input support
90 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
91 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
92 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
93 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
94 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
95 * Experimental EyeTV access module
96 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
97 (available as a separate download).
98 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
100 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
101 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
102 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
104 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
105 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
108 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
109 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
110 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
111 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
113 * APEv1/2 tags support
114 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
115 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
117 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
118 * TiVo Series 2 support
119 * CD+G karaoke Files support
124 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
125 * Flash Screen Video support
126 * CamStudio Screen Video support
127 * DosBox Capture support
128 * Karl Morton's Video support
129 * limited atrac3 support
131 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
132 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
133 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
135 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
136 * NellyMoser ASAO support
137 * APE (Monkey audio) support
138 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
139 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
142 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
143 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
144 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
145 * AQTitle subtitles support
146 * MKV USF subtitles support
147 * HTML-based subtitles support
148 * MPSub subtitles support
149 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
150 * MPL2 subtitles support
151 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
152 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
153 * Realtext subtitle support
154 * DKS subtitle support
155 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
156 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
159 * Flash Screen Video support
160 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
162 Video outputs and filters:
163 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
164 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
165 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
166 * New puzzle video output filter
167 * Re-written motion detection video filter
168 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
170 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
171 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
172 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
173 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
174 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
175 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
176 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
177 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
178 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
179 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
180 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
181 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
182 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
183 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
185 Audio outputs and filters:
186 * Replay gain support
187 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
188 new scaletempo audio filter)
189 * New spatializer audio filter
190 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
193 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
194 * New RTP payload formats:
195 * Speex voice audio codec
196 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
197 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
198 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
199 * DCCP transport for RTP
200 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
205 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
206 end-user suitable way.
207 * Improved user interaction
208 * Improved mouse gestures
209 * Vastly improved Update checker
210 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
212 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
213 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
215 * Improved video output features
216 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
217 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
218 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
219 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
220 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
222 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
223 if libncursesw is available.
224 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
225 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
227 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
228 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
229 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
230 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
231 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
232 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
233 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
234 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
237 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
238 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
239 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
242 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
243 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
244 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
245 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
246 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
247 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
250 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
251 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
261 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
262 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
263 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
266 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
267 ----------------------------------
270 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
273 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
274 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
275 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
276 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
277 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
278 * Updated Polish translation
281 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
282 ----------------------------------
285 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
286 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
287 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
290 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
291 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
292 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
293 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
294 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
295 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
296 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
297 to an unexpected application termination
298 * New Serbian translation
299 * Updated Romanian translation
302 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
303 ----------------------------------
306 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
307 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
308 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
309 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
310 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
311 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
312 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
313 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
316 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
317 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
318 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
319 * Fixed AAC resampling
320 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
321 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
324 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
325 ----------------------------------
328 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
329 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
330 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
331 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
332 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
335 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
336 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
337 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
338 * Close MMS access on network timeout
339 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
342 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
343 ----------------------------------
346 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
347 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
350 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
351 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
352 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
353 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
355 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
359 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
362 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
365 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
368 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
371 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
372 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
373 encoding on multi-cpu systems
374 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
375 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
377 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
378 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
379 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
380 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
383 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
386 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
387 ----------------------------------
390 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
391 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
392 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
394 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
395 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
397 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
398 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
401 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
403 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
404 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
405 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
406 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
407 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
408 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
410 * Support for current Ogg file formats
411 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
412 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
415 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
418 * The automatic updating facility was removed
419 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
420 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
421 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
424 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
425 ----------------------------------
427 Various bugfixes, notably:
428 * Windows Vista compatibility
429 * Cropping in Direct3D
430 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
431 * RSS filter string overflow
433 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
435 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
436 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
439 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
440 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
443 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
446 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
449 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
452 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
453 ----------------------------------
455 Various bugfixes, notably:
456 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
457 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
458 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
459 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
460 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
461 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
464 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
465 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
468 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
470 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
471 * Diverse usability improvements
472 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
473 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
474 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
477 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
478 ---------------------------------
481 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
484 * Fullscreen controller improvements
487 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
488 --------------------------------
491 * Shoutcast TV listings support
494 * Support for RTSP authentication
495 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
496 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
497 * ATSC support for DVB input
498 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
499 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
500 * Improved support for Flash Video files
503 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
504 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
505 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
506 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
507 * Matroska WavPack support
508 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
509 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
510 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
513 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
514 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
515 * Improved libcaca support
519 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
520 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
522 * Systray support in skins
524 * Support for Apple Remote control
525 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
526 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
527 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
528 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
530 * Notifications using notification-daemon
533 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
535 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
536 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
537 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
538 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
539 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
541 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
542 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
551 * Updates to the libvlc API
552 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
555 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
556 --------------------------------
559 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
560 * Support for downloading updates
564 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
565 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
566 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
567 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
569 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
570 * Improved subtitles encoding support
571 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
574 * Cook (Real audio) support
576 Playlist / Services discovery:
577 * XSPF playlist support
579 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
582 * New JACK audio output
586 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
587 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
588 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
589 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
590 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
591 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
594 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
597 * System to inform the user and request information
598 - HTTP authentication
602 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
603 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
604 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
607 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
608 - Improved playlist handling
609 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
611 - Embedded Video output
612 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
613 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
614 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
615 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
616 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
618 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
619 - A bunch of new RPN functions
622 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
625 * Mac-Intel compatibility
626 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
627 * Growl "Now playing" support
630 * Ability to log to syslog
631 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
634 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
636 * A bit more automatic testing
639 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
640 ---------------------------------
643 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
644 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
647 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
648 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
651 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
654 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
655 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
661 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
664 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
665 --------------------------------
668 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
672 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
673 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
674 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
677 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
678 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
679 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
680 * GnomeVFS input module
681 * Support for RTP packet reordering
682 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
685 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
686 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
687 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
690 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
691 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
697 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
698 Mixer and Dolby Surround
701 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
702 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
703 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
706 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
708 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
709 - New extended controls panel
710 - New bookmarks window
711 - Fixed playlist sorting
712 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
714 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
715 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
716 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
717 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
721 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
722 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
724 - Include macro to include other files
728 * Should now work outside IE as well
731 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
734 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
735 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
738 The following languages were added:
743 The following languages were re-added:
747 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
748 --------------------------------
751 * Rewrite of the playlist
753 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
754 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
755 * Preferences improvements:
756 - New organization, designed to improve usability
757 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
759 * Core image manipulation support
760 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
761 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
762 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
763 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
764 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
765 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
766 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
767 now separated by ':' instead of ','
768 * Access filter architecture
769 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
770 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
774 * Support for SOCKS proxy
775 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
776 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
777 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
778 * Better support for Kasenna streams
779 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
780 * Massive Matroska improvements
781 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
783 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
784 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
785 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
786 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
787 * Support for FTP over IPv6
790 * Dirac decoder and encoder
791 * PNG decoder/encoder
792 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
793 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
796 * New Record and Timeshift filters
799 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
800 * Brand new SAP module
801 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
802 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
803 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
804 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
805 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
806 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
810 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
813 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
814 * Image file video output (png)
815 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
816 * Improvements to wall video filter
817 * Support for font color and opacity
823 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
824 - Seeking support in VoD streams
825 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
829 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
830 - Improved preferences
831 - Improvements to the wizard
832 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
834 - Redesigned playlist
835 - Improved preferences
837 - Support for multiple actions
840 - Support for the new playlist system
842 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
845 * Screensaver disabling fix
846 * DirectShow tuner configuration
847 * Support for no-decoration windows
850 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
851 * The OpenGL video output is back
852 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
853 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
854 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
855 is not yet available in the new module
856 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
859 * Support for single-buffered overlay
868 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
871 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
874 The following languages were added:
880 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
881 --------------------------------
884 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
885 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
888 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
889 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
890 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
893 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
896 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
899 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
902 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
903 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
904 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
908 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
910 * Support of playlist group announcement
913 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
918 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
919 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
920 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
921 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
922 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
925 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
926 (Stream your desktop)
927 * Improved DVD support:
928 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
929 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
930 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
931 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
932 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
933 (selection of titles/chapters).
936 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
937 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
938 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
939 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
940 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
941 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
942 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
943 * Improved Ogg demuxer
944 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
945 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
948 * G.726 audio support
949 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
950 * MPEG-4 text support
951 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
952 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
953 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
957 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
958 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
959 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
960 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
961 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
962 * DVB subtitles encoder
963 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
964 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
966 * Text track muxing for mp4
967 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
968 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
969 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
970 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
971 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
974 * H.263 RTP streaming support
975 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
976 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
979 * New audio equalizer filter
980 * Very trivial volume normalizer
981 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
982 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
983 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
986 * Roku HD1000 Video output
987 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
988 with support for effects.
989 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
990 - New filters can be streamed.
991 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
992 - Centralized scaling and blending
994 - "time", to display current time
995 - "marq", to display a marquee
998 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
999 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1000 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1001 * A few skins2 improvements
1002 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1003 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1004 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1005 * Improved CORBA control module
1008 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1009 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1010 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1013 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1014 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1015 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1018 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1019 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1020 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1021 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1022 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1025 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1028 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1029 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1032 * Server/client network synchronization module
1033 * VBrick streams fully supported
1034 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1038 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1039 --------------------------------
1042 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1043 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1044 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1045 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1048 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1049 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1050 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1051 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1052 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1053 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1054 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1057 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1058 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1059 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1060 * Improved directory access module.
1061 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1062 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1063 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1064 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1065 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1068 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1069 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1070 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1073 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1074 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1075 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1078 * Improved session announcement system.
1079 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1080 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1081 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1082 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1083 * Improved transrater.
1084 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1085 * New configuration system.
1086 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1089 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1090 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1091 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1092 * Supports scheduling.
1093 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1094 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1097 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1098 - Ability to embed video output.
1099 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1100 - Lots of improvements.
1101 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1102 - New design and set of icons.
1103 - Ability to embed video output.
1104 - Support for hotkeys.
1105 - Support for bookmarks.
1107 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1108 - Better hotkeys handling.
1111 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1112 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1113 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1114 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1117 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1118 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1119 * Improved Windows installer.
1125 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1126 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1129 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1130 ---------------------------------
1133 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1134 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1137 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1138 --------------------------------
1141 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1142 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1145 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1146 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1147 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1148 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1151 * Internal improvments
1152 * Improved import/export
1155 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1157 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1158 small and strange formats.
1160 * New MOD audio demux.
1161 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1162 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1163 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1164 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1167 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1168 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1169 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1175 * New opengl video output plugin.
1178 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1179 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1182 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1187 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1188 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1189 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1190 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1191 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1192 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1193 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1196 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1201 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1202 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1203 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1204 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1205 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1206 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1207 * Better Icecast support.
1208 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1209 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1212 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1213 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1214 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1215 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1216 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1217 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1218 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1221 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1222 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1223 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1224 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1225 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1226 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1227 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1228 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1229 * Preliminary RTP support.
1230 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1235 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1236 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1238 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1239 - Improvements and help in preferences
1240 - New streaming wizard
1241 - Revised Disc Open menu
1243 - Improvements of the standard pages
1244 - Support for new commands
1245 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1248 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1249 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1252 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1253 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1254 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1255 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1256 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1257 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1258 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1259 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1260 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1263 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1265 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1266 * Support for Panther.
1267 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1268 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1271 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1272 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1273 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1274 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1275 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1276 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1277 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1278 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1281 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1282 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1283 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1286 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1289 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1290 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1291 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1292 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1295 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1296 --------------------------------
1299 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1302 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1303 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1306 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1307 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1310 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1313 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1314 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1317 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1320 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1323 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1324 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1328 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1329 --------------------------------
1332 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1333 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1337 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1338 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1339 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1341 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1342 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1345 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1348 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1351 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1352 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1356 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1361 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1365 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1366 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1367 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1368 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1369 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1372 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1373 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1374 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1377 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1378 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1379 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1382 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1383 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1384 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1385 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1386 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1389 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1390 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1391 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1394 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1397 * Improved build system.
1398 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1399 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1400 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1401 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1404 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1405 --------------------------------
1408 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1411 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1412 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1413 * Video 4 Linux support
1414 * CD Digital Audio support
1415 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1418 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1419 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1420 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1421 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1424 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1425 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1426 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1427 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1428 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1429 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1430 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1433 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1434 * New HTTP remote control interface
1437 * 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.
1438 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1439 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1440 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1443 * New reset option for the preferences
1444 * You can set your language in the prefences
1445 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1446 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1447 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1448 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1451 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1452 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1453 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1456 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1457 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1458 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1459 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1460 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1461 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1462 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1463 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1464 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1465 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1468 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1469 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1470 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1471 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1472 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1473 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1474 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1477 * Interface localization
1478 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1479 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1480 * New full-featured Preferences window
1483 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1484 --------------------------------
1487 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1488 * support for skins at the interface level
1489 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1490 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1491 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1492 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1493 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1496 * fixed HTTP redirects
1497 * support for opening an entire directory
1498 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1499 * new video4linux access plug-in
1500 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1503 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1504 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1505 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1508 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1509 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1510 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1511 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1512 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1513 * new codec for raw I420 video
1514 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1517 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1518 (although it still misses some important features)
1519 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1522 * new HTTP output support
1523 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1524 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1527 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1530 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1533 * reorderable playlist
1534 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1535 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1536 * support for mono audio output devices
1537 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1538 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1539 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1540 * the messages window remembers more lines
1541 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1542 * http and ogg stream output options
1543 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1546 * new skinnable interface
1547 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1549 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1550 * support for FLAC audio format
1551 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1553 * network tab in the interface
1554 * "apply" handling in preferences
1557 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1558 ---------------------------------
1561 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1562 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1563 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1564 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1566 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1567 * DTS S/PDIF support
1570 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1571 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1572 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1573 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1576 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1577 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1580 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1583 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1586 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1588 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1589 * rc interface is now fully useable
1590 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1593 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1594 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1595 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1596 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1597 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1599 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1600 * support for mouse gestures
1601 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1604 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1605 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1608 * improved ID3 tag detection
1609 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1610 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1611 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1613 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1616 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1617 ---------------------------------
1620 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1621 English was set as the preferred language
1624 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1625 --------------------------------
1628 * new mouse gesture interface
1629 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1633 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1634 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1635 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1638 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1639 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1643 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1646 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1647 without the user consent
1650 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1652 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1653 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1654 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1657 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1658 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1659 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1660 * playlist enhancements
1661 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1662 * new step forward/step backward commands
1663 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1664 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1665 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1668 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1669 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1670 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1673 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1674 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1677 * native video output is working again
1678 * only commandline interface support
1679 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1682 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1683 --------------------------------
1686 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1687 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1688 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1689 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1690 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1691 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1692 and A/52 streams are supported)
1693 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1698 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1699 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1700 * VCD entry points support
1701 * VCD image file support
1704 * support for *.asf format
1705 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1706 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1707 * support for ogg encapsulation
1708 * support for raw DV format
1709 * support for *.wav format
1710 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1713 Stream discovery & playlists:
1714 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1715 * support for .m3u file format
1716 * support for .asx file format
1717 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1720 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1721 (only available with the .avi demux)
1722 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1723 * support for raw PCM data
1724 * support for Cinepak video codec
1725 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1726 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1727 * support for Xvid codec
1728 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1729 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1730 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1732 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1734 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1737 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1740 * new WxWindows interface
1741 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1742 device and the channels configuration
1743 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1744 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1745 format that VLC can play
1746 * new swedish translation
1747 * enhancements of the playlist window
1748 * new messages window to see debug info
1749 * fixed a few crashes
1752 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1753 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1754 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1755 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working