1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
6 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
7 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
8 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
9 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
10 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
11 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
12 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
13 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
14 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
15 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
16 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
17 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
18 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
19 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
20 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
21 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
22 --http-crl (optional CRL).
23 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
24 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
25 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
26 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
28 Important changes for packagers:
29 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
30 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
31 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
32 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
33 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
34 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
35 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
36 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
37 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
38 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
39 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
41 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
42 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
45 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
46 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
47 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
48 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
49 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
50 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
53 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
54 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
55 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
56 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
57 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
58 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
59 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
60 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
61 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
62 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
63 * PulseAudio audio input support
64 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
65 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
66 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
67 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
68 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
71 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
72 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
73 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
74 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
75 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
76 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
77 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
78 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
79 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
80 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
81 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
82 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
83 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
84 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
87 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
88 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
89 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
90 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
91 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
92 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
93 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
94 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling
97 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
98 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
99 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
100 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
101 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
102 and important cleanups and optimisations
103 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
104 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
105 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
106 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
107 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
108 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
109 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
110 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
111 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
112 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
113 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
114 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
115 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
116 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
119 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
120 * New video output for iOS platform
121 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
122 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
123 * Various vmem improvements
124 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
126 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
127 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
128 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which now requires a
129 Quartz Extreme capable machine
132 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
133 * New audio output in memory (amem)
134 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
135 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
136 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
139 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
140 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
141 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
142 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
143 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
144 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
145 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
146 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
147 * New anti-flickering filter
148 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
149 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
150 blackbox and customizable shadow
151 - The freetype module is used by default on the Mac now in favor of
152 quartztext, which can still be enabled manually
155 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
156 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
159 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
160 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
161 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
162 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
163 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
164 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
165 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
166 * Major rework of VoD support
167 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
168 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
169 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
170 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
171 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
172 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
173 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
174 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
175 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
176 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
179 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
180 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
183 * New capabilities for libVLC:
184 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
185 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
186 list of available audio and video filters
187 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
188 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
189 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
192 * asademux: use libass only
193 * subsass: use libass
194 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
195 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
197 * upnp: use upnp_intel
198 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
199 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
200 * removal of the noise filter
201 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
202 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
203 removed in Growl's next release, too.
204 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
207 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
208 ----------------------------------
211 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
212 including support for OS X Lion
213 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
214 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
217 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
220 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
221 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
222 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
225 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
228 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
229 ----------------------------------
232 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
233 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
236 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
237 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
238 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
239 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
240 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
242 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
243 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
244 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
246 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
247 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
250 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
253 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
256 * Fix quitting on Linux
257 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
261 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
264 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
267 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
268 ---------------------------------
270 Windows and Mac OS X:
271 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
274 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
275 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
278 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
281 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
284 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
286 Miscellaneous fixes in:
287 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
289 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
290 * RTP output and XML export
291 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
295 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
296 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
297 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
298 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
301 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
302 --------------------------------
304 Windows and Mac OS X:
305 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
308 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
311 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
312 * Improve Apple Remote handling
313 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
314 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
315 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
316 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
319 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
320 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
324 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
325 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
326 * New Luganda Translation
329 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
330 --------------------------------
333 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
336 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
337 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
338 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
339 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
342 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
344 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
345 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
346 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
347 * mp4 demuxer improvements
348 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
349 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
350 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
351 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
353 Miscellaneous fixes in:
354 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
355 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
356 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
357 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
358 * Configure and build system improvements
359 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
362 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
363 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
364 * New icelandic translation
367 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
368 --------------------------------
371 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
375 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
376 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
377 and stability reasons
380 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
384 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
387 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
388 ----------------------------------
391 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
394 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
395 ---------------------------------
398 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
399 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
400 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
401 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
404 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
407 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
408 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
409 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
410 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
413 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
414 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
415 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
417 Subtitles and renderer:
418 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
419 * Mark more freetype options as safe
420 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
421 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
422 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
425 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
426 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
427 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
428 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
431 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
432 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
435 * KDE device solid actions
437 * Transcode integer overflow
438 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
439 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
442 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
443 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
444 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
447 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
448 ----------------------------------
451 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
455 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
458 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
461 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
462 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
463 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
464 * Taglib thread-safety fix
467 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
471 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
474 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
477 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
478 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
480 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
484 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
485 * Miscellaneous fixes
488 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
489 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
491 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
492 * New Asturian translation
495 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
496 ----------------------------------
499 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
501 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
504 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
507 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
508 * Various fixes for Windows
511 * New Armenian translation
512 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
513 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
516 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
517 --------------------------------
520 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
522 * Fix folders opening from the interface
525 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
526 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
529 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
530 --------------------------------
533 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
534 * fix for podcasts parsing
535 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
538 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
539 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
542 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
543 * fix m3u playlists exports
546 * fix video autoresize behaviour
549 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
552 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
555 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
558 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
561 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
562 --------------------------------
565 * Avformat fps displaying fix
566 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
569 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
570 of mono streams, especially on Windows
573 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
574 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
575 * fix console output encoding
577 Interface and extensions:
578 * Youtube and other scripts updates
579 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
582 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
583 --------------------------------
586 * New capabilities for libVLC:
587 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
588 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
589 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
590 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
591 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
592 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
593 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
594 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
595 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
596 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
597 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
598 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
599 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
600 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
601 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
605 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
606 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
607 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
608 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
609 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
612 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
615 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
616 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
617 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
621 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
624 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
625 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
626 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
629 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
630 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
631 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
632 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
635 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
636 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
639 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
640 --------------------------------
642 Important changes for users:
643 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
644 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
646 Important changes for packagers:
647 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
648 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
649 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
650 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
651 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
653 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
655 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
656 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
657 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
658 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
659 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
662 * Support for the sftp protocol
663 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
664 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
665 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
666 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
667 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
670 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
671 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
672 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
674 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
675 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
676 * Invmem module improvements
677 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
678 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
679 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
680 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
681 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
682 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
683 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
684 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
685 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
686 * Support for VP8 codec
687 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
690 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
691 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
692 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
693 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
694 * Various EGP improvements
695 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
696 * Metadata and cover art improvements
699 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
700 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
701 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
702 * Podcast images are now displayed
705 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
706 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
707 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
708 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
709 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
710 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
711 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
712 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
713 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
714 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
715 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
718 * New content extensions lua framework
721 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
722 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
723 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
724 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
725 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
726 * NEON assembly audio converter module
727 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
730 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
731 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
732 * Service discovery based on libudev
733 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
736 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
737 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
738 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
739 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
740 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
741 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
742 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
745 * New smem module, streaming to memory
746 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
747 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
750 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
752 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
753 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
756 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
759 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
760 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
761 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
762 by Andy Matuschak et al.
763 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
764 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
765 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
768 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
769 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
772 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
773 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
774 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
778 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
779 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
780 * Improved Solaris port
783 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
784 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
787 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
788 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
789 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
790 * transrate: broken since too long
791 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
792 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
793 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
794 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
795 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
796 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
797 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
798 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
799 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
800 * cddax: use cdda instead.
801 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
802 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
803 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
804 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
807 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
808 --------------------------------
811 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
813 Decoders/Packetizers:
814 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
817 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
818 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
819 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
820 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
821 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
824 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
825 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
828 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
829 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
832 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
833 and Walloon translations updated
834 * Sinhala translation started
837 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
838 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
841 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
842 --------------------------------
845 * SubRip extra styles improvements
846 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
849 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
852 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
853 increase performance and fix x264 issues
856 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
857 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
858 Russian, Slovak translation updates
859 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
862 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
863 --------------------------------
866 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
867 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
870 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
871 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
874 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
875 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
878 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
881 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
882 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
885 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
886 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
889 * New Walloon translation
890 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
893 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
894 --------------------------------
897 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
898 regressions in most popular drivers
899 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
902 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
903 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
904 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
907 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
908 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
911 * Update for appletrailers lua script
912 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
913 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
914 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
915 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
918 * New udev module for linux
921 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
924 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
927 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
932 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
933 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
936 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
937 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
940 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
941 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
944 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
947 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
948 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
949 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
950 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
953 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
954 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
955 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
956 - no support for Goom and SDL
957 - limited text rendering support
958 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
961 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
962 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
963 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
964 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
965 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
966 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
967 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
968 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
969 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
973 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
976 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
979 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
980 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
981 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
982 Arabic and French translation updates
985 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
986 --------------------------------
989 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
990 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
991 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
992 * Fix Dailymotion access script
993 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
994 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
997 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
998 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1001 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1002 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1003 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1006 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1009 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1010 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1013 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1014 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1015 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1016 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1017 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1018 * Fix various crashes
1021 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1023 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
1026 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1027 ---------------------------------
1031 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1032 See 'Access:' for more info.
1033 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1036 * Instantaneous pausing
1037 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1038 * Finer speed control
1039 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1040 * Timeshift for most medias
1041 * RTSP trickplay support
1042 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1045 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1046 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1047 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1048 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1049 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1050 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1051 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1052 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1053 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1054 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1057 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1058 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1059 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1060 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1061 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1062 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1063 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1066 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1067 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1070 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1071 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1072 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1073 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1074 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1075 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1076 * DVB scanning on linux
1077 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1078 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1079 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1080 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1081 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1082 * MTP device access on Unix
1083 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1084 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1087 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1088 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1089 Windows and Mac OS X.
1092 * Export the playlist in HTML
1093 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1094 * Better metadata handling and reading
1096 Linux/Windows interface:
1097 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1098 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1099 * Recently played items list
1100 * Interface toolbar customizations
1101 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1102 - More menus actions
1103 - Finer speed slider
1104 - Improvements on many dialogs
1105 - New dialog for plugins listing
1106 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1107 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1108 * Better integration in GTK environments
1111 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1112 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1113 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1114 * Additional usability improvements
1117 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1118 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1119 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1120 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1121 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1124 * New Maemo port with:
1125 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1126 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1129 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1132 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1133 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1134 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1135 * Support for latest iSight models
1138 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1139 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1142 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1143 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1144 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1145 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1146 The old image video output has been removed.
1147 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1148 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1151 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1159 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1160 --------------------------------------
1166 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1167 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1168 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1169 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1170 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1171 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1172 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1174 Various fixes to the following modules:
1177 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1178 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1179 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1181 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1186 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1187 ---------------------------------
1190 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1191 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1194 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1195 ---------------------------------
1198 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1201 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1204 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1205 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1206 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1207 main controller window.
1208 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1211 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1216 * Updates of other localizations
1219 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1220 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1221 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1222 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1223 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1226 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1227 ---------------------------------
1230 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1232 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1235 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1236 --------------------------------
1241 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1242 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1245 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1246 --------------------------------
1248 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1249 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1252 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1255 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1256 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1259 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1260 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1263 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1264 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1265 * Various fixed in playlist
1268 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1271 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1274 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1275 ------------------------------------
1277 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1278 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1281 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1282 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1283 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1286 * Stability fix for the video output.
1289 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1290 --------------------------------
1293 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1294 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1295 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1296 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1297 * Fixed update system bugs
1298 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1301 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1302 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1303 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1304 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1305 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1306 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1307 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1308 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1309 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1310 modern Mac OS X versions
1313 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1314 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1316 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1317 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1320 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1321 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1322 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1323 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1324 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1325 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1328 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1329 --------------------------------
1331 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1332 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1333 * Multiple bugfixes.
1336 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1337 --------------------------------
1339 * Multiple bug fixes.
1342 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1343 ---------------------------------
1347 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1348 recent to work correctly
1349 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1350 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1351 edit the ".hosts" file.
1352 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1353 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1354 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1355 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1356 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1357 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1358 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1359 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1360 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1361 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1362 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1363 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1364 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1365 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1366 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1367 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1368 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1369 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1370 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1371 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1372 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1373 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1374 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1375 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1376 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1377 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1378 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1379 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1380 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1381 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1382 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1383 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1384 and postproc modules.
1385 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1386 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1387 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1388 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1390 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1391 filter. For example:
1392 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1393 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1395 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1396 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1402 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1404 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1405 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1408 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1409 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1411 * Shoutcast TV listings
1412 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1414 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1415 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1417 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1420 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1421 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1422 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1423 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1424 * JACK audio input support
1425 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1426 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1427 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1428 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1429 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1430 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1431 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1432 (available as a separate download).
1433 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1434 * RTMP input support
1435 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1436 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1437 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1439 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1440 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1443 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1444 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1445 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1446 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1448 * APEv1/2 tags support
1449 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1450 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1452 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1453 * TiVo Series 2 support
1454 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1459 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1460 * Flash Screen Video support
1461 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1462 * DosBox Capture support
1463 * Karl Morton's Video support
1464 * limited atrac3 support
1466 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1467 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1468 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1469 * H.264 PAFF support
1470 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1471 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1472 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1473 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1474 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1477 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1478 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1479 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1480 * AQTitle subtitles support
1481 * MKV USF subtitles support
1482 * HTML-based subtitles support
1483 * MPSub subtitles support
1484 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1485 * MPL2 subtitles support
1486 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1487 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1488 * Realtext subtitle support
1489 * DKS subtitle support
1490 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1491 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1494 * Flash Screen Video support
1495 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1497 Video outputs and filters:
1498 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1499 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1500 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1501 * New puzzle video output filter
1502 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1503 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1505 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1506 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1507 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1508 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1509 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1510 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1511 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1512 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1513 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1514 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1515 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1516 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1517 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1518 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1520 Audio outputs and filters:
1521 * Replay gain support
1522 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1523 new scaletempo audio filter)
1524 * New spatializer audio filter
1525 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1528 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1529 * New RTP payload formats:
1530 * Speex voice audio codec
1531 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1532 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1533 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1534 * DCCP transport for RTP
1535 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1540 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1541 end-user suitable way.
1542 * Improved user interaction
1543 * Improved mouse gestures
1544 * Vastly improved Update checker
1545 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1547 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1548 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1550 * Improved video output features
1551 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1552 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1553 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1554 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1555 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1557 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1558 if libncursesw is available.
1559 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1560 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1561 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1563 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1564 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1565 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1566 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1567 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1568 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1569 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1570 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1573 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1574 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1575 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1578 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1579 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1580 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1581 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1582 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1583 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1586 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1587 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1597 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1598 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1599 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1602 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1603 ----------------------------------
1606 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1609 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1610 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1611 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1612 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1613 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1614 * Updated Polish translation
1617 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1618 ----------------------------------
1621 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1622 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1623 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1626 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1627 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1628 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1629 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1630 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1631 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1632 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1633 to an unexpected application termination
1634 * New Serbian translation
1635 * Updated Romanian translation
1638 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1639 ----------------------------------
1642 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1643 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1644 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1645 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1646 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1647 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1648 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1649 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1652 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1653 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1654 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1655 * Fixed AAC resampling
1656 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1657 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1660 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1661 ----------------------------------
1664 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1665 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1666 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1667 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1668 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1671 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1672 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1673 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1674 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1675 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1678 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1679 ----------------------------------
1682 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1683 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1686 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1687 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1688 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1689 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1691 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1695 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1698 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1701 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1704 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1707 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1708 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1709 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1710 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1711 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1713 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1714 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1715 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1716 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1719 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1722 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1723 ----------------------------------
1726 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1727 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1728 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1730 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1731 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1733 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1734 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1737 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1739 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1740 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1741 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1742 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1743 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1744 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1745 two different movies
1746 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1747 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1748 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1751 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1754 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1755 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1756 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1757 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1760 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1761 ----------------------------------
1763 Various bugfixes, notably:
1764 * Windows Vista compatibility
1765 * Cropping in Direct3D
1766 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1767 * RSS filter string overflow
1769 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1771 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1772 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1775 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1776 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1779 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1782 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1785 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1788 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1789 ----------------------------------
1791 Various bugfixes, notably:
1792 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1793 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1794 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1795 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1796 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1797 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1800 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1801 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1804 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1806 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1807 * Diverse usability improvements
1808 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1809 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1810 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1813 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1814 ---------------------------------
1816 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1817 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1820 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1823 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1824 --------------------------------
1827 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1830 * Support for RTSP authentication
1831 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1832 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1833 * ATSC support for DVB input
1834 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1835 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1836 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1839 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1840 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1841 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1842 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1843 * Matroska WavPack support
1844 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1845 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1846 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1849 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1850 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1851 * Improved libcaca support
1855 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1856 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1858 * Systray support in skins
1860 * Support for Apple Remote control
1861 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1862 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1863 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1864 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1866 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1869 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1870 Windows 9x/ME users:
1871 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1872 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1873 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1874 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1875 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1877 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1878 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1887 * Updates to the libvlc API
1888 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1891 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1892 --------------------------------
1895 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1896 * Support for downloading updates
1900 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1901 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1902 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1903 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1905 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1906 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1907 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1910 * Cook (Real audio) support
1912 Playlist / Services discovery:
1913 * XSPF playlist support
1915 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1918 * New JACK audio output
1921 * New video filters:
1922 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1923 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1924 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1925 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1926 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1927 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1930 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1933 * System to inform the user and request information
1934 - HTTP authentication
1938 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1939 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1940 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1943 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1944 - Improved playlist handling
1945 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1947 - Embedded Video output
1948 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1949 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1950 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1951 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1952 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1954 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1955 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1958 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1961 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1962 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1963 * Growl "Now playing" support
1966 * Ability to log to syslog
1967 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1970 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1972 * A bit more automatic testing
1975 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1976 ---------------------------------
1979 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1980 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1983 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1984 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1987 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1990 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1991 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1997 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2000 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2001 --------------------------------
2004 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2008 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2009 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2010 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2013 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2014 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2015 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2016 * GnomeVFS input module
2017 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2018 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2021 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2022 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2023 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2026 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2027 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2033 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2034 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2037 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2038 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2039 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2042 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2044 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2045 - New extended controls panel
2046 - New bookmarks window
2047 - Fixed playlist sorting
2048 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2050 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2051 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2052 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2053 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2057 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2058 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2060 - Include macro to include other files
2064 * Should now work outside IE as well
2067 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2070 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2071 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2074 The following languages were added:
2078 * Simplified Chinese
2079 The following languages were re-added:
2083 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2084 --------------------------------
2087 * Rewrite of the playlist
2089 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2090 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2091 * Preferences improvements:
2092 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2093 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2095 * Core image manipulation support
2096 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2097 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2098 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2099 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2100 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2101 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2102 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2103 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2104 * Access filter architecture
2105 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2106 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2110 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2111 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2112 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2113 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2114 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2115 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2116 * Massive Matroska improvements
2117 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2119 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2120 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2121 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2122 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2123 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2125 Decoders / Encoders:
2126 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2127 * PNG decoder/encoder
2128 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2129 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2132 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2135 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2136 * Brand new SAP module
2137 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2138 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2139 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2140 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2141 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2142 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2146 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2149 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2150 * Image file video output (png)
2151 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2152 * Improvements to wall video filter
2153 * Support for font color and opacity
2159 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2160 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2161 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2165 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2166 - Improved preferences
2167 - Improvements to the wizard
2168 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2170 - Redesigned playlist
2171 - Improved preferences
2173 - Support for multiple actions
2176 - Support for the new playlist system
2178 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2181 * Screensaver disabling fix
2182 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2183 * Support for no-decoration windows
2186 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2187 * The OpenGL video output is back
2188 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2189 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2190 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2191 is not yet available in the new module
2192 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2195 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2204 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2207 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2210 The following languages were added:
2216 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2217 --------------------------------
2220 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2221 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2224 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2225 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2226 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2229 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2232 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2235 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2238 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2239 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2240 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2244 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2246 * Support of playlist group announcement
2249 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2250 --------------------------------
2253 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2254 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2255 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2256 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2257 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2258 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2261 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2262 (Stream your desktop)
2263 * Improved DVD support:
2264 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2265 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2266 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2267 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2268 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2269 (selection of titles/chapters).
2272 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2273 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2274 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2275 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2276 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2277 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2278 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2279 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2280 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2281 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2284 * G.726 audio support
2285 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2286 * MPEG-4 text support
2287 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2288 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2289 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2293 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2294 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2295 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2296 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2297 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2298 * DVB subtitles encoder
2299 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2300 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2302 * Text track muxing for mp4
2303 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2304 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2305 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2306 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2307 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2308 * Improved ASF muxer
2310 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2311 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2312 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2315 * New audio equalizer filter
2316 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2317 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2318 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2319 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2322 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2323 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2324 with support for effects.
2325 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2326 - New filters can be streamed.
2327 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2328 - Centralized scaling and blending
2330 - "time", to display current time
2331 - "marq", to display a marquee
2334 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2335 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2336 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2337 * A few skins2 improvements
2338 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2339 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2340 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2341 * Improved CORBA control module
2344 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2345 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2346 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2349 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2350 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2351 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2354 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2355 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2356 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2357 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2358 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2361 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2364 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2365 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2368 * Server/client network synchronization module
2369 * VBrick streams fully supported
2370 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2374 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2375 --------------------------------
2378 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2379 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2380 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2381 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2384 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2385 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2386 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2387 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2388 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2389 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2390 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2393 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2394 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2395 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2396 * Improved directory access module.
2397 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2398 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2399 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2400 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2401 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2404 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2405 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2406 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2409 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2410 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2411 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2414 * Improved session announcement system.
2415 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2416 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2417 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2418 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2419 * Improved transrater.
2420 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2421 * New configuration system.
2422 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2425 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2426 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2427 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2428 * Supports scheduling.
2429 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2430 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2433 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2434 - Ability to embed video output.
2435 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2436 - Lots of improvements.
2437 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2438 - New design and set of icons.
2439 - Ability to embed video output.
2440 - Support for hotkeys.
2441 - Support for bookmarks.
2443 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2444 - Better hotkeys handling.
2447 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2448 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2449 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2450 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2453 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2454 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2455 * Improved Windows installer.
2461 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2462 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2465 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2466 ---------------------------------
2469 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2470 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2473 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2474 --------------------------------
2477 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2478 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2481 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2482 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2483 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2484 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2487 * Internal improvments
2488 * Improved import/export
2491 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2493 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2494 small and strange formats.
2496 * New MOD audio demux.
2497 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2498 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2499 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2500 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2503 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2504 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2505 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2511 * New opengl video output plugin.
2514 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2515 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2518 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2519 --------------------------------
2522 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2523 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2524 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2525 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2526 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2527 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2528 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2529 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2532 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2537 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2538 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2539 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2540 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2541 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2542 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2543 * Better Icecast support.
2544 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2545 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2548 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2549 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2550 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2551 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2552 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2553 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2554 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2557 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2558 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2559 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2560 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2561 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2562 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2563 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2564 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2565 * Preliminary RTP support.
2566 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2571 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2572 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2574 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2575 - Improvements and help in preferences
2576 - New streaming wizard
2577 - Revised Disc Open menu
2579 - Improvements of the standard pages
2580 - Support for new commands
2581 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2584 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2585 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2588 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2589 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2590 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2591 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2592 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2593 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2594 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2595 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2596 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2599 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2601 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2602 * Support for Panther.
2603 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2604 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2607 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2608 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2609 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2610 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2611 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2612 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2613 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2614 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2617 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2618 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2619 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2622 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2625 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2626 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2627 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2628 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2631 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2632 --------------------------------
2635 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2638 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2639 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2642 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2643 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2646 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2649 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2650 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2653 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2656 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2659 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2660 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2664 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2665 --------------------------------
2668 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2669 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2673 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2674 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2675 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2677 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2678 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2681 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2684 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2687 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2688 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2692 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2693 --------------------------------
2696 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2697 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2701 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2702 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2703 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2704 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2705 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2708 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2709 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2710 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2713 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2714 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2715 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2718 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2719 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2720 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2721 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2722 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2725 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2726 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2727 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2730 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2733 * Improved build system.
2734 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2735 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2736 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2737 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2740 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2741 --------------------------------
2744 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2747 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2748 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2749 * Video 4 Linux support
2750 * CD Digital Audio support
2751 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2754 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2755 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2756 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2757 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2760 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2761 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2762 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2763 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2764 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2765 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2766 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2769 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2770 * New HTTP remote control interface
2773 * 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.
2774 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2775 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2776 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2779 * New reset option for the preferences
2780 * You can set your language in the prefences
2781 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2782 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2783 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2784 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2787 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2788 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2789 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2792 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2793 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2794 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2795 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2796 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2797 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2798 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2799 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2800 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2801 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2804 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2805 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2806 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2807 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2808 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2809 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2810 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2813 * Interface localization
2814 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2815 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2816 * New full-featured Preferences window
2819 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2820 --------------------------------
2823 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2824 * support for skins at the interface level
2825 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2826 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2827 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2828 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2829 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2832 * fixed HTTP redirects
2833 * support for opening an entire directory
2834 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2835 * new video4linux access plug-in
2836 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2839 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2840 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2841 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2844 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2845 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2846 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2847 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2848 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2849 * new codec for raw I420 video
2850 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2853 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2854 (although it still misses some important features)
2855 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2858 * new HTTP output support
2859 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2860 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2863 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2866 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2869 * reorderable playlist
2870 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2871 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2872 * support for mono audio output devices
2873 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2874 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2875 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2876 * the messages window remembers more lines
2877 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2878 * http and ogg stream output options
2879 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2882 * new skinnable interface
2883 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2885 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2886 * support for FLAC audio format
2887 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2889 * network tab in the interface
2890 * "apply" handling in preferences
2893 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2894 ---------------------------------
2897 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2898 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2899 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2900 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2902 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2903 * DTS S/PDIF support
2906 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2907 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2908 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2909 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2912 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2913 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2916 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2919 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2922 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2924 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2925 * rc interface is now fully useable
2926 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2929 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2930 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2931 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2932 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2933 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2935 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2936 * support for mouse gestures
2937 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2940 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2941 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2944 * improved ID3 tag detection
2945 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2946 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2947 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2949 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2952 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2953 ---------------------------------
2956 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2957 English was set as the preferred language
2960 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2961 --------------------------------
2964 * new mouse gesture interface
2965 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2969 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2970 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2971 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2974 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2975 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2979 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2982 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2983 without the user consent
2986 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2988 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2989 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2990 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2993 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2994 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2995 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2996 * playlist enhancements
2997 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2998 * new step forward/step backward commands
2999 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3000 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3001 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3004 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3005 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3006 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3009 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3010 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3013 * native video output is working again
3014 * only commandline interface support
3015 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3018 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3019 --------------------------------
3022 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3023 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3024 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3025 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3026 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3027 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3028 and A/52 streams are supported)
3029 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3034 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3035 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3036 * VCD entry points support
3037 * VCD image file support
3040 * support for *.asf format
3041 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3042 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3043 * support for ogg encapsulation
3044 * support for raw DV format
3045 * support for *.wav format
3046 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3049 Stream discovery & playlists:
3050 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3051 * support for .m3u file format
3052 * support for .asx file format
3053 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3056 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3057 (only available with the .avi demux)
3058 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3059 * support for raw PCM data
3060 * support for Cinepak video codec
3061 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3062 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3063 * support for Xvid codec
3064 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3065 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3066 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3068 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3070 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3073 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3076 * new WxWindows interface
3077 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3078 device and the channels configuration
3079 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3080 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3081 format that VLC can play
3082 * new swedish translation
3083 * enhancements of the playlist window
3084 * new messages window to see debug info
3085 * fixed a few crashes
3088 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3089 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3090 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3091 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working