1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
6 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
7 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
8 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
9 * The VLC plugins path can be overriden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
10 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
11 * The default tarballs are now .tar.xz
13 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
14 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
17 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
18 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
19 * DVB-S scanning support
20 * DVB-C scanning scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
21 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
22 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
23 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
24 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
25 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
26 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
27 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
28 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
31 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
32 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
33 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
34 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
35 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
38 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
39 * Major Video Output and Video Core reworks and rewrites
40 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
43 * id3tag plugin is now removed (superseded by taglib)
44 * new images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
45 * Ogg seeking improvements
46 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
49 * The telnet interface has been removed in the favour of the lua one
50 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
51 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
52 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
53 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
54 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
55 and important cleanups and optimisations
56 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
59 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
60 * New video output for iOS platform
61 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
62 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
63 * Various vmem improvements
66 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
67 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
68 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
69 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
70 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
73 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
76 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
79 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
80 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
81 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
82 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
83 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
84 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
85 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
86 * Major rework of VoD support
87 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
88 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
89 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
90 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
91 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
92 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
93 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
94 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
95 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
98 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
101 * New capabilities for libVLC:
102 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
103 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
104 list of available audio and video filters
107 * asademux: use libass only
108 * fake: use the new image demuxers
109 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
111 * upnp: use upnp_intel
114 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
115 --------------------------------
118 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
121 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
122 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
123 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
124 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
127 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
129 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
130 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
131 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
132 * mp4 demuxer improvements
133 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
134 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
135 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
136 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
138 Miscellaneous fixes in:
139 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
140 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
141 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
142 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
143 * Configure and build system improvements
144 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
147 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
148 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
149 * New icelandic translation
152 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
153 --------------------------------
156 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
160 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
161 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
162 and stability reasons
165 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
169 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
172 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
173 ----------------------------------
176 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
179 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
180 ---------------------------------
183 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
184 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
185 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
186 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
189 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
192 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
193 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
194 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
195 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
198 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
199 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
200 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
202 Subtitles and renderer:
203 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
204 * Mark more freetype options as safe
205 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
206 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
207 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
210 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
211 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
212 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
213 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
216 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
217 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
220 * KDE device solid actions
222 * Transcode integer overflow
223 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
224 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
227 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
228 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
229 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
232 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
233 ----------------------------------
236 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
240 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
243 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
246 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
247 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
248 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
249 * Taglib thread-safety fix
252 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
256 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
259 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
262 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
263 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
265 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
269 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
270 * Miscellaneous fixes
273 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
274 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
276 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
277 * New Asturian translation
280 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
281 ----------------------------------
284 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
286 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
289 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
292 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
293 * Various fixes for Windows
296 * New Armenian translation
297 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
298 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
301 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
302 --------------------------------
305 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
307 * Fix folders opening from the interface
310 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
311 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
314 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
315 --------------------------------
318 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
319 * fix for podcasts parsing
320 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
323 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
324 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
327 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
328 * fix m3u playlists exports
331 * fix video autoresize behaviour
334 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
337 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
340 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
343 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
346 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
347 --------------------------------
350 * Avformat fps displaying fix
351 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
354 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
355 of mono streams, especially on Windows
358 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
359 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
360 * fix console output encoding
362 Interface and extensions:
363 * Youtube and other scripts updates
364 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
367 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
368 --------------------------------
371 * New capabilities for libVLC:
372 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
373 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
374 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
375 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
376 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
377 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
378 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
379 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
380 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
381 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
382 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
383 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
384 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
385 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
386 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
390 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
391 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
392 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
393 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
394 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
397 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
400 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
401 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
402 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
406 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
409 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
410 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
411 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
414 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
415 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
416 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
417 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
420 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
421 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
424 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
425 --------------------------------
427 Important changes for users:
428 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
429 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
431 Important changes for packagers:
432 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
433 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
434 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
435 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
436 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
438 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
440 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
441 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
442 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
443 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
444 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
447 * Support for the sftp protocol
448 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
449 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
450 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
451 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
452 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
455 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
456 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
457 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
459 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
460 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
461 * Invmem module improvements
462 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
463 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
464 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
465 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
466 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
467 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
468 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
469 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
470 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
471 * Support for VP8 codec
472 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
475 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
476 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
477 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
478 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
479 * Various EGP improvements
480 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
481 * Metadata and cover art improvements
484 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
485 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
486 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
487 * Podcast images are now displayed
490 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
491 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
492 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
493 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
494 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
495 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
496 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
497 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
498 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
499 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
500 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
503 * New content extensions lua framework
506 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
507 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
508 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
509 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
510 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
511 * NEON assembly audio converter module
512 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
515 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
516 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
517 * Service discovery based on libudev
518 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
521 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
522 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
523 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
524 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
525 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
526 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
527 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
530 * New smem module, streaming to memory
531 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
532 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
535 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
537 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
538 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
541 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
544 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
545 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
546 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
547 by Andy Matuschak et al.
548 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
549 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
550 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
553 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
554 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
557 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
558 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
559 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
563 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
564 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
565 * Improved Solaris port
568 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
569 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
572 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
573 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
574 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
575 * transrate: broken since too long
576 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
577 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
578 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
579 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
580 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
581 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
582 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
583 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
584 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
585 * cddax: use cdda instead.
586 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
587 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
588 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
589 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
592 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
593 --------------------------------
596 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
598 Decoders/Packetizers:
599 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
602 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
603 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
604 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
605 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
606 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
609 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
610 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
613 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
614 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
617 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
618 and Walloon translations updated
619 * Sinhala translation started
622 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
623 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
626 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
627 --------------------------------
630 * SubRip extra styles improvements
631 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
634 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
637 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
638 increase performance and fix x264 issues
641 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
642 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
643 Russian, Slovak translation updates
644 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
647 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
648 --------------------------------
651 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
652 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
655 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
656 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
659 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
660 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
663 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
666 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
667 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
670 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
671 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
674 * New Walloon translation
675 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
678 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
679 --------------------------------
682 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
683 regressions in most popular drivers
684 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
687 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
688 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
689 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
692 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
693 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
696 * Update for appletrailers lua script
697 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
698 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
699 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
700 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
703 * New udev module for linux
706 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
709 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
712 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
713 --------------------------------
716 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
717 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
718 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
721 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
722 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
725 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
726 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
729 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
732 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
733 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
734 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
735 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
738 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
739 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
740 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
741 - no support for Goom and SDL
742 - limited text rendering support
743 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
746 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
747 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
748 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
749 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
750 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
751 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
752 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
753 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
754 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
758 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
761 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
764 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
765 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
766 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
767 Arabic and French translation updates
770 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
771 --------------------------------
774 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
775 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
776 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
777 * Fix Dailymotion access script
778 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
779 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
782 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
783 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
786 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
787 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
788 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
791 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
794 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
795 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
798 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
799 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
800 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
801 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
802 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
803 * Fix various crashes
806 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
808 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
811 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
812 ---------------------------------
816 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
817 See 'Access:' for more info.
818 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
821 * Instantaneous pausing
822 * Frame-by-Frame playback
823 * Finer speed control
824 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
825 * Timeshift for most medias
826 * RTSP trickplay support
827 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
830 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
831 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
832 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
833 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
834 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
835 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
836 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
837 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
838 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
839 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
842 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
843 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
844 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
845 * Metadata for mod files are supported
846 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
847 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
848 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
851 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
852 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
855 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
856 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
857 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
858 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
859 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
860 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
861 * DVB scanning on linux
862 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
863 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
864 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
865 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
866 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
867 * MTP device access on Unix
868 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
869 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
872 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
873 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
874 Windows and Mac OS X.
877 * Export the playlist in HTML
878 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
879 * Better metadata handling and reading
881 Linux/Windows interface:
882 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
883 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
884 * Recently played items list
885 * Interface toolbar customizations
886 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
889 - Improvements on many dialogs
890 - New dialog for plugins listing
891 - Fixed-size mode for videos
892 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
893 * Better integration in GTK environments
896 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
897 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
898 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
899 * Additional usability improvements
902 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
903 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
904 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
905 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
906 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
909 * New Maemo port with:
910 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
911 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
914 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
917 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
918 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
919 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
920 * Support for latest iSight models
923 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
924 * Surround support for PulseAudio
927 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
928 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
929 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
930 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
931 The old image video output has been removed.
932 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
933 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
936 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
944 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
945 --------------------------------------
951 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
952 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
953 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
954 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
955 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
956 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
957 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
959 Various fixes to the following modules:
962 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
963 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
966 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
971 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
972 ---------------------------------
975 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
976 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
979 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
980 ---------------------------------
983 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
986 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
989 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
990 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
991 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
992 main controller window.
993 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
996 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1001 * Updates of other localizations
1004 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1005 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1006 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1007 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1008 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1011 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1012 ---------------------------------
1015 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1017 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1020 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1021 --------------------------------
1026 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1027 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1030 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1031 --------------------------------
1033 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1034 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1037 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1040 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1041 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1044 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1045 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1048 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1049 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1050 * Various fixed in playlist
1053 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1056 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1059 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1060 ------------------------------------
1062 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1063 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1066 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1067 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1068 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1071 * Stability fix for the video output.
1074 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1075 --------------------------------
1078 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1079 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1080 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1081 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1082 * Fixed update system bugs
1083 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1086 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1087 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1088 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1089 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1090 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1091 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1092 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1093 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1094 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1095 modern Mac OS X versions
1098 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1099 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1101 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1102 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1105 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1106 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1107 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1108 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1109 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1110 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1113 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1114 --------------------------------
1116 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1117 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1118 * Multiple bugfixes.
1121 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1122 --------------------------------
1124 * Multiple bug fixes.
1127 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1128 ---------------------------------
1132 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1133 recent to work correctly
1134 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1135 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1136 edit the ".hosts" file.
1137 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1138 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1139 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1140 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1141 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1142 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1143 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1144 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1145 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1146 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1147 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1148 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1149 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1150 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1151 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1152 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1153 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1154 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1155 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1156 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1157 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1158 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1159 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1160 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1161 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1162 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1163 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1164 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1165 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1166 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1167 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1168 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1169 and postproc modules.
1170 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1171 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1172 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1173 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1175 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1176 filter. For example:
1177 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1178 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1180 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1181 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1187 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1189 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1190 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1193 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1194 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1196 * Shoutcast TV listings
1197 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1199 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1200 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1202 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1205 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1206 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1207 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1208 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1209 * JACK audio input support
1210 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1211 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1212 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1213 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1214 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1215 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1216 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1217 (available as a separate download).
1218 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1219 * RTMP input support
1220 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1221 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1222 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1224 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1225 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1228 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1229 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1230 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1231 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1233 * APEv1/2 tags support
1234 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1235 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1237 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1238 * TiVo Series 2 support
1239 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1244 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1245 * Flash Screen Video support
1246 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1247 * DosBox Capture support
1248 * Karl Morton's Video support
1249 * limited atrac3 support
1251 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1252 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1253 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1254 * H.264 PAFF support
1255 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1256 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1257 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1258 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1259 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1262 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1263 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1264 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1265 * AQTitle subtitles support
1266 * MKV USF subtitles support
1267 * HTML-based subtitles support
1268 * MPSub subtitles support
1269 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1270 * MPL2 subtitles support
1271 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1272 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1273 * Realtext subtitle support
1274 * DKS subtitle support
1275 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1276 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1279 * Flash Screen Video support
1280 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1282 Video outputs and filters:
1283 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1284 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1285 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1286 * New puzzle video output filter
1287 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1288 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1290 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1291 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1292 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1293 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1294 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1295 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1296 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1297 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1298 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1299 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1300 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1301 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1302 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1303 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1305 Audio outputs and filters:
1306 * Replay gain support
1307 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1308 new scaletempo audio filter)
1309 * New spatializer audio filter
1310 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1313 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1314 * New RTP payload formats:
1315 * Speex voice audio codec
1316 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1317 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1318 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1319 * DCCP transport for RTP
1320 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1325 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1326 end-user suitable way.
1327 * Improved user interaction
1328 * Improved mouse gestures
1329 * Vastly improved Update checker
1330 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1332 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1333 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1335 * Improved video output features
1336 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1337 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1338 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1339 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1340 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1342 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1343 if libncursesw is available.
1344 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1345 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1346 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1348 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1349 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1350 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1351 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1352 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1353 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1354 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1355 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1358 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1359 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1360 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1363 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1364 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1365 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1366 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1367 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1368 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1371 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1372 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1382 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1383 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1384 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1387 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1388 ----------------------------------
1391 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1394 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1395 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1396 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1397 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1398 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1399 * Updated Polish translation
1402 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1403 ----------------------------------
1406 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1407 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1408 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1411 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1412 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1413 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1414 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1415 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1416 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1417 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1418 to an unexpected application termination
1419 * New Serbian translation
1420 * Updated Romanian translation
1423 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1424 ----------------------------------
1427 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1428 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1429 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1430 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1431 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1432 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1433 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1434 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1437 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1438 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1439 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1440 * Fixed AAC resampling
1441 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1442 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1445 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1446 ----------------------------------
1449 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1450 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1451 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1452 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1453 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1456 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1457 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1458 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1459 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1460 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1463 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1464 ----------------------------------
1467 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1468 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1471 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1472 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1473 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1474 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1476 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1480 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1483 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1486 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1489 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1492 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1493 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1494 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1495 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1496 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1498 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1499 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1500 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1501 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1504 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1507 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1508 ----------------------------------
1511 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1512 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1513 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1515 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1516 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1518 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1519 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1522 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1524 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1525 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1526 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1527 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1528 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1529 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1530 two different movies
1531 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1532 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1533 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1536 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1539 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1540 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1541 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1542 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1545 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1546 ----------------------------------
1548 Various bugfixes, notably:
1549 * Windows Vista compatibility
1550 * Cropping in Direct3D
1551 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1552 * RSS filter string overflow
1554 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1556 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1557 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1560 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1561 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1564 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1567 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1570 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1573 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1574 ----------------------------------
1576 Various bugfixes, notably:
1577 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1578 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1579 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1580 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1581 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1582 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1585 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1586 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1589 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1591 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1592 * Diverse usability improvements
1593 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1594 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1595 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1598 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1599 ---------------------------------
1601 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1602 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1605 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1608 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1609 --------------------------------
1612 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1615 * Support for RTSP authentication
1616 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1617 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1618 * ATSC support for DVB input
1619 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1620 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1621 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1624 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1625 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1626 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1627 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1628 * Matroska WavPack support
1629 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1630 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1631 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1634 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1635 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1636 * Improved libcaca support
1640 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1641 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1643 * Systray support in skins
1645 * Support for Apple Remote control
1646 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1647 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1648 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1649 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1651 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1654 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1655 Windows 9x/ME users:
1656 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1657 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1658 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1659 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1660 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1662 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1663 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1672 * Updates to the libvlc API
1673 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1676 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1677 --------------------------------
1680 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1681 * Support for downloading updates
1685 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1686 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1687 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1688 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1690 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1691 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1692 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1695 * Cook (Real audio) support
1697 Playlist / Services discovery:
1698 * XSPF playlist support
1700 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1703 * New JACK audio output
1706 * New video filters:
1707 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1708 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1709 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1710 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1711 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1712 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1715 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1718 * System to inform the user and request information
1719 - HTTP authentication
1723 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1724 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1725 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1728 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1729 - Improved playlist handling
1730 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1732 - Embedded Video output
1733 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1734 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1735 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1736 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1737 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1739 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1740 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1743 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1746 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1747 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1748 * Growl "Now playing" support
1751 * Ability to log to syslog
1752 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1755 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1757 * A bit more automatic testing
1760 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1761 ---------------------------------
1764 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1765 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1768 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1769 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1772 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1775 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1776 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1782 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1785 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1786 --------------------------------
1789 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1793 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1794 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1795 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1798 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1799 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1800 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1801 * GnomeVFS input module
1802 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1803 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1806 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1807 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1808 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1811 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1812 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1818 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1819 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1822 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1823 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1824 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1827 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1829 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1830 - New extended controls panel
1831 - New bookmarks window
1832 - Fixed playlist sorting
1833 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1835 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1836 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1837 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1838 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1842 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1843 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1845 - Include macro to include other files
1849 * Should now work outside IE as well
1852 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1855 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1856 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1859 The following languages were added:
1863 * Simplified Chinese
1864 The following languages were re-added:
1868 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1869 --------------------------------
1872 * Rewrite of the playlist
1874 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1875 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1876 * Preferences improvements:
1877 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1878 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1880 * Core image manipulation support
1881 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1882 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1883 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1884 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1885 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1886 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1887 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1888 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1889 * Access filter architecture
1890 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1891 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1895 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1896 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1897 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1898 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1899 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1900 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1901 * Massive Matroska improvements
1902 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1904 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1905 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1906 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1907 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1908 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1910 Decoders / Encoders:
1911 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1912 * PNG decoder/encoder
1913 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1914 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1917 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1920 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1921 * Brand new SAP module
1922 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1923 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1924 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1925 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1926 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1927 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1931 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1934 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1935 * Image file video output (png)
1936 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1937 * Improvements to wall video filter
1938 * Support for font color and opacity
1944 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1945 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1946 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1950 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1951 - Improved preferences
1952 - Improvements to the wizard
1953 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1955 - Redesigned playlist
1956 - Improved preferences
1958 - Support for multiple actions
1961 - Support for the new playlist system
1963 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1966 * Screensaver disabling fix
1967 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1968 * Support for no-decoration windows
1971 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1972 * The OpenGL video output is back
1973 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1974 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1975 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1976 is not yet available in the new module
1977 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1980 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1989 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1992 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1995 The following languages were added:
2001 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2002 --------------------------------
2005 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2006 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2009 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2010 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2011 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2014 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2017 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2020 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2023 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2024 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2025 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2029 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2031 * Support of playlist group announcement
2034 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2035 --------------------------------
2038 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2039 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2040 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2041 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2042 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2043 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2046 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2047 (Stream your desktop)
2048 * Improved DVD support:
2049 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2050 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2051 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2052 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2053 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2054 (selection of titles/chapters).
2057 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2058 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2059 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2060 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2061 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2062 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2063 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2064 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2065 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2066 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2069 * G.726 audio support
2070 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2071 * MPEG-4 text support
2072 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2073 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2074 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2078 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2079 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2080 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2081 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2082 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2083 * DVB subtitles encoder
2084 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2085 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2087 * Text track muxing for mp4
2088 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2089 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2090 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2091 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2092 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2093 * Improved ASF muxer
2095 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2096 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2097 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2100 * New audio equalizer filter
2101 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2102 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2103 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2104 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2107 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2108 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2109 with support for effects.
2110 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2111 - New filters can be streamed.
2112 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2113 - Centralized scaling and blending
2115 - "time", to display current time
2116 - "marq", to display a marquee
2119 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2120 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2121 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2122 * A few skins2 improvements
2123 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2124 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2125 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2126 * Improved CORBA control module
2129 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2130 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2131 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2134 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2135 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2136 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2139 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2140 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2141 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2142 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2143 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2146 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2149 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2150 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2153 * Server/client network synchronization module
2154 * VBrick streams fully supported
2155 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2159 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2160 --------------------------------
2163 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2164 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2165 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2166 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2169 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2170 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2171 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2172 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2173 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2174 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2175 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2178 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2179 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2180 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2181 * Improved directory access module.
2182 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2183 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2184 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2185 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2186 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2189 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2190 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2191 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2194 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2195 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2196 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2199 * Improved session announcement system.
2200 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2201 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2202 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2203 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2204 * Improved transrater.
2205 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2206 * New configuration system.
2207 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2210 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2211 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2212 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2213 * Supports scheduling.
2214 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2215 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2218 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2219 - Ability to embed video output.
2220 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2221 - Lots of improvements.
2222 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2223 - New design and set of icons.
2224 - Ability to embed video output.
2225 - Support for hotkeys.
2226 - Support for bookmarks.
2228 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2229 - Better hotkeys handling.
2232 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2233 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2234 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2235 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2238 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2239 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2240 * Improved Windows installer.
2246 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2247 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2250 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2251 ---------------------------------
2254 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2255 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2258 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2259 --------------------------------
2262 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2263 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2266 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2267 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2268 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2269 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2272 * Internal improvments
2273 * Improved import/export
2276 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2278 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2279 small and strange formats.
2281 * New MOD audio demux.
2282 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2283 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2284 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2285 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2288 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2289 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2290 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2296 * New opengl video output plugin.
2299 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2300 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2303 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2304 --------------------------------
2307 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2308 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2309 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2310 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2311 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2312 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2313 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2314 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2317 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2322 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2323 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2324 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2325 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2326 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2327 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2328 * Better Icecast support.
2329 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2330 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2333 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2334 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2335 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2336 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2337 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2338 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2339 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2342 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2343 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2344 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2345 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2346 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2347 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2348 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2349 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2350 * Preliminary RTP support.
2351 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2356 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2357 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2359 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2360 - Improvements and help in preferences
2361 - New streaming wizard
2362 - Revised Disc Open menu
2364 - Improvements of the standard pages
2365 - Support for new commands
2366 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2369 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2370 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2373 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2374 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2375 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2376 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2377 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2378 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2379 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2380 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2381 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2384 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2386 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2387 * Support for Panther.
2388 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2389 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2392 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2393 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2394 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2395 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2396 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2397 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2398 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2399 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2402 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2403 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2404 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2407 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2410 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2411 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2412 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2413 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2416 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2417 --------------------------------
2420 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2423 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2424 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2427 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2428 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2431 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2434 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2435 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2438 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2441 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2444 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2445 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2449 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2450 --------------------------------
2453 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2454 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2458 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2459 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2460 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2462 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2463 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2466 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2469 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2472 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2473 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2477 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2478 --------------------------------
2481 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2482 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2486 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2487 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2488 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2489 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2490 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2493 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2494 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2495 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2498 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2499 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2500 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2503 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2504 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2505 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2506 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2507 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2510 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2511 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2512 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2515 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2518 * Improved build system.
2519 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2520 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2521 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2522 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2525 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2526 --------------------------------
2529 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2532 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2533 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2534 * Video 4 Linux support
2535 * CD Digital Audio support
2536 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2539 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2540 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2541 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2542 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2545 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2546 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2547 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2548 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2549 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2550 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2551 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2554 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2555 * New HTTP remote control interface
2558 * 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.
2559 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2560 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2561 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2564 * New reset option for the preferences
2565 * You can set your language in the prefences
2566 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2567 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2568 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2569 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2572 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2573 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2574 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2577 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2578 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2579 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2580 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2581 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2582 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2583 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2584 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2585 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2586 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2589 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2590 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2591 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2592 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2593 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2594 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2595 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2598 * Interface localization
2599 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2600 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2601 * New full-featured Preferences window
2604 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2605 --------------------------------
2608 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2609 * support for skins at the interface level
2610 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2611 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2612 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2613 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2614 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2617 * fixed HTTP redirects
2618 * support for opening an entire directory
2619 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2620 * new video4linux access plug-in
2621 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2624 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2625 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2626 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2629 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2630 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2631 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2632 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2633 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2634 * new codec for raw I420 video
2635 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2638 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2639 (although it still misses some important features)
2640 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2643 * new HTTP output support
2644 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2645 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2648 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2651 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2654 * reorderable playlist
2655 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2656 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2657 * support for mono audio output devices
2658 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2659 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2660 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2661 * the messages window remembers more lines
2662 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2663 * http and ogg stream output options
2664 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2667 * new skinnable interface
2668 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2670 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2671 * support for FLAC audio format
2672 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2674 * network tab in the interface
2675 * "apply" handling in preferences
2678 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2679 ---------------------------------
2682 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2683 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2684 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2685 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2687 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2688 * DTS S/PDIF support
2691 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2692 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2693 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2694 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2697 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2698 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2701 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2704 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2707 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2709 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2710 * rc interface is now fully useable
2711 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2714 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2715 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2716 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2717 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2718 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2720 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2721 * support for mouse gestures
2722 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2725 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2726 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2729 * improved ID3 tag detection
2730 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2731 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2732 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2734 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2737 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2738 ---------------------------------
2741 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2742 English was set as the preferred language
2745 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2746 --------------------------------
2749 * new mouse gesture interface
2750 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2754 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2755 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2756 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2759 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2760 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2764 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2767 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2768 without the user consent
2771 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2773 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2774 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2775 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2778 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2779 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2780 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2781 * playlist enhancements
2782 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2783 * new step forward/step backward commands
2784 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2785 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2786 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2789 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2790 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2791 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2794 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2795 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2798 * native video output is working again
2799 * only commandline interface support
2800 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2803 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2804 --------------------------------
2807 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2808 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2809 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2810 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2811 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2812 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2813 and A/52 streams are supported)
2814 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2819 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2820 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2821 * VCD entry points support
2822 * VCD image file support
2825 * support for *.asf format
2826 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2827 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2828 * support for ogg encapsulation
2829 * support for raw DV format
2830 * support for *.wav format
2831 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2834 Stream discovery & playlists:
2835 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2836 * support for .m3u file format
2837 * support for .asx file format
2838 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2841 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2842 (only available with the .avi demux)
2843 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2844 * support for raw PCM data
2845 * support for Cinepak video codec
2846 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2847 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2848 * support for Xvid codec
2849 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2850 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2851 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2853 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2855 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2858 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2861 * new WxWindows interface
2862 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2863 device and the channels configuration
2864 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2865 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2866 format that VLC can play
2867 * new swedish translation
2868 * enhancements of the playlist window
2869 * new messages window to see debug info
2870 * fixed a few crashes
2873 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2874 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2875 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2876 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working