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-Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.7.3:
-This version is in development and not yet released.
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
+-------------------------------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
+ to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
+ * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
+ If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
+ edit the ".hosts" file.
+ - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
+ If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
+ /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
+ - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
+ C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
+ - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
+ and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
+ * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
+ interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
+ - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
+ by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
+ features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
+ * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
+ * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
+ now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
+ vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
+ You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
+ These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
+ * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
+ Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
+ Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
+ New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
+ of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
+ * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
+ E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
+ udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
+
+Changes:
+--------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Vastly improved playlist support:
+ * Media library support
+ * "Live search"
+ * Shoutcast TV listings
+ * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
+ * Album art support
+ * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
+ * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
+ share/luameta/README.txt
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * JACK audio input support
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * v4l2 access module support
+ * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
+
+Decoders:
+ * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
+ * MKV USF subtitles support
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+ * CamStudio Screen Video support
+ * DosBox Capture support
+ * Karl Morton's Video support
+ * limited atrac3 support
+ * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
+ * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
+ Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
+ * H.264 PAFF support
+ * DNxHD / VC-3 support
+ * NellyMoser ASAO support
+ * APE (Monkey audio) support
+ * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
+
+Encoders:
+ * Flash Screen Video support
+
+Video output and filters:
+ * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
+ Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
+ * New puzzle video output filter
+ * Re-written motion detection video filter
+ * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
+ video)
+ * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
+ * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
+ * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
+ (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
+ * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
+ This was previously part of the mosaic module.
+ * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
+ * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
+ * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
+
+Audio output and filters
+ * Replay gain support
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * New spatializer audio filter
+ * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
+
+Stream output:
+ * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
+ * New RTP payload formats:
+ * Speex voice audio codec
+ * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
+ * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP
+ * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Windows/Linux
+ * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
+ * All
+ * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
+ end-user suitable way.
+ * Improved user interaction
+ * Improved mouse gestures
+ * Fastly improved Update checker
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
+ * Ncurses:
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
+ if libncursesw is available.
+ * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
+ * Mac OS X
+ * Improved video output features
+ * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
+ * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
+ * Unix
+ * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
+ (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+ interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
+ finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
+ * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
+ * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
+
+Linux Port:
+ * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
+ http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
+ (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
+ applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
+ * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+
+LibVLC:
+ * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
+ (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Finnish
+ * Persian
+ * Polish
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f (not-yet-released):
+-----------------------------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Fix subtitle buffer overflow
+ * Fix Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
+ * Fix cinepak integer overflow
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * mozilla plugin registers a usable range of mimetypes on OSX
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
+ * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
+
+Security updates:
+ * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
+ * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
+ * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
+ VideoLAN-SA-0801)
+ * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
+ VideoLAN-SA-0802)
+
+Audio filter:
+ * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
+
+Access:
+ * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
+ * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
+ encoding on multi-cpu systems
+ - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
+ - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
+ * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
+ * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
+
+Localization:
+ * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
+ * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
+ * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
+ in input
+ * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
+ * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
+
+Windows and Mac OS Binaries
+ * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
+
+Active X plugin:
+ * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
+ * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+ * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
+ Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
+ * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
+ two different movies
+ * Support for current Ogg file formats
+ NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
+ Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
+
+Encoders:
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
+
+Other changes:
+ * The automatic updating facility was removed
+ * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
+ EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
+ * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Windows Vista compatibility
+ * Cropping in Direct3D
+ * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
+ * RSS filter string overflow
+ * Few memory leaks
+ * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
+
+CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
+ * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
+
+Decoders:
+ * Updated FLAC API compatibility
+
+Input:
+ * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
+
+Localisation:
+ * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
+ * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
+ * Mac OS X Interface crashes
+ * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
+ * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
+ * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
+
+Decoders:
+ * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
+ * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
+
+Webbrowser plugins:
+ * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
+
+Mac OS X Interface & Port:
+ * Diverse usability improvements
+ * New wizard option to embed subtitles
+ * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
+ * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
+---------------------------------
+
+CDDA / VCDX plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fullscreen controller improvements
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Playlist:
+ * Shoutcast TV listings support
+
+Input:
+ * Support for RTSP authentication
+ * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
+ * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
+ * ATSC support for DVB input
+ * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
+ * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
+ * Improved support for Flash Video files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
+ * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
+ * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
+ * The True Audio Lossless codec support
+ * Matroska WavPack support
+ * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
+ * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
+ * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
+
+Video output:
+ * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
+ * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
+ * Improved libcaca support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * All
+ * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
+ * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
+ * Windows
+ * Systray support in skins
+ * OS X
+ * Support for Apple Remote control
+ * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
+ * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
+ * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
+ * Linux
+ * Notifications using notification-daemon
+
+Windows port:
+ * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
+ Windows 9x/ME users:
+ - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
+ - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
+ Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
+ http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
+ Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
+ C:\Windows\System
+ * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
+ * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
+
+Localization:
+ * Add Czech
+ * Add Slovak
+ * Add Malay
+ * Add Slovenian
+
+Developers:
+ * Updates to the libvlc API
+ * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
--------------------------------
Core support:
- * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added funtionality
- * Complete switch to the new access2 and demux2 systems
+ * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
+ * Support for downloading updates
+ * Updated strings
+
+Input:
+ * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
+ * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
+ * Improvements to the Audio CD input
+ - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
+ - Support for CDDB
+ * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
+ * Improved subtitles encoding support
+ * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
+
+Decoders:
+ * Cook (Real audio) support
+
+Playlist / Services discovery:
+ * XSPF playlist support
+ * Podcast support
+ * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
+
+Audio output:
+ * New JACK audio output
+
+Video output:
+ * New video filters:
+ - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
+ - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
+ - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
+ * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
+ * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
+ * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
+
+Stream output:
+ * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
+
+Interfaces:
+ * System to inform the user and request information
+ - HTTP authentication
+ - Fatal errors
+ - ...
+ * wxWidgets
+ - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
+ * Skins2
+ - New default skin
+ - Support for Winamp 2 skins
+ - Improved playlist handling
+ - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
+ * OS X
+ - Embedded Video output
+ - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
+ - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
+ - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
+ - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
+ - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
+ * HTTP
+ - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
+ - A bunch of new RPN functions
+
+Windows Port:
+ * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
+
+OS X Port:
+ * Mac-Intel compatibility
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
+ * Growl "Now playing" support
+
+*Nix port:
+ * Ability to log to syslog
+ * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
+
+Developers:
+ * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
+ * Java bindings
+ * A bit more automatic testing
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
+ * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
+
+Decoder:
+ * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
+ * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
+ * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
+ * UPnP fixes
+ * Avahi 0.6 support
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Mac OS X
+ - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
+ * New OSD system
+
+Video output:
+ * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
+ * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
+ * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
+
+Input:
+ * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
+ * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
+ * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
+ * GnomeVFS input module
+ * Support for RTP packet reordering
+ * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
+ * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
+ * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
+
+Services discovery:
+ * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
+ * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
+
+Video filters:
+ * RSS feed overlay
+
+Audio filters:
+* Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
+ Mixer and Dolby Surround
+
+Stream output:
+ * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
+ * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
+ * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
+
+Interfaces:
+- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
+ * Mac OS X
+ - New streaming and transcoding wizard
+ - New extended controls panel
+ - New bookmarks window
+ - Fixed playlist sorting
+ - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
+ - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
+ - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
+ - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
+ * Skins2
+ - Tree playlist
+ * HTTP
+ - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
+ - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
+ the names of files
+ - Include macro to include other files
+ - CGI 1.0 support
+
+ActiveX plugin:
+* Should now work outside IE as well
+
+Mac OS X port:
+* New script to delete the preferences automatically
+
+Windows port:
+* Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
+* Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Galician
+ * Korean
+ * Romanian
+ * Simplified Chinese
+ The following languages were re-added:
+ * Swedish
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Rewrite of the playlist
+ - Tree structure
+ - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
+ - New organization, designed to improve usability
+ - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
+ * XML parsers
+ * Core image manipulation support
+ * Client-side SSL/TLS support
+ * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
+ * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
+ * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
+ * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
+ * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
+ * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
+ now separated by ':' instead of ','
+ * Access filter architecture
+ * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
+ * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
+ * Many bugfixes...
+
+Input/Demuxers:
+ * Support for SOCKS proxy
+ * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
+ * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
+ * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
+ * Better support for Kasenna streams
+ * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
+ * Massive Matroska improvements
+ * Support for XA and VOC audio files
+ * TiVo demuxer
+ * Samba (Windows shares) access module
+ * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
+ * Fixes to Linux DVB support
+ * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
+ * Support for FTP over IPv6
+
+Decoders / Encoders:
+ * Dirac decoder and encoder
+ * PNG decoder/encoder
+ * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
+ * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
+
+Access filters:
+ * New Record and Timeshift filters
+
+Services discovery:
+ * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
+ * Brand new SAP module
+ * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
+ the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
+ ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
+ * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
+ * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
+ * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
+ * Shoutcast
+
+Audio output:
+ * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
+
+Video output:
+ * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
+ * Image file video output (png)
+ * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
+ * Improvements to wall video filter
+ * Support for font color and opacity
+
+Stream output:
+ * Muxers
+ - ASF improvements
+ * VLM / VoD
+ - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
+ - Seeking support in VoD streams
+ * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * wxWidgets
+ - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
+ - Improved preferences
+ - Improvements to the wizard
+ - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
+ * MacOS X
+ - Redesigned playlist
+ - Improved preferences
+ * Skins
+ - Support for multiple actions
+ - Fixes
+ * HTTP
+ - Support for the new playlist system
+ * Lirc
+ - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
+
+Windows port:
+ * Screensaver disabling fix
+ * DirectShow tuner configuration
+ * Support for no-decoration windows
+
+MacOS X port:
+ * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
+ * The OpenGL video output is back
+ * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
+ - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
+ - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
+ is not yet available in the new module
+ - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
+
+BeOS port:
+ * Support for single-buffered overlay
+
+Pocket PC port:
+ * Many fixes
+ * New interface
+ * New video output
+
+Mozilla Plugin:
+ * Javascript fixes
+ * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
+
+IE Plugin:
+ * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
+
+Translations:
+ The following languages were added:
+ * Catalan
+ * Danish
+ * Turkish
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
+ * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
+ * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
+ * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
+
+WinCE port:
+ * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
+
+Video Output:
+ * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
+ * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
+ * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Encoders:
+ * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
+ * Stream output:
+ * Support of playlist group announcement
+
+
+Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core support:
+ * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
+ * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
* New plugins cache to speed up launch time
- * Fix crash with deinterlace switching
* New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
- * Daemon mode
+ * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
+ * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
-Demux:
- * Support iTunes Music Store previews
+Input:
+ * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
+ (Stream your desktop)
+ * Improved DVD support:
+ - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
+ - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
+ * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
+ * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
+ (selection of titles/chapters).
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
* Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
* Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
* Windows Media Server RTSP support
+ * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
+ * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+ * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
+ * Improved Ogg demuxer
+ * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
+ * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
Codecs:
* G.726 audio support
* 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
* MPEG-4 text support
- * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3 on Windows)
+ * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
+ * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
+ * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
Stream Output:
- * Text track muxing for mp4
- * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
- * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
- * H.263 RTP streaming support
+ Encoders:
+ * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
+ everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
+ * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
+ * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
+ * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
+ * DVB subtitles encoder
+ * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
+ * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
+ Muxers:
+ * Text track muxing for mp4
+ * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
+ * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
+ * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
+ * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
+ * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
+ * Improved ASF muxer
+ Misc:
+ * H.263 RTP streaming support
+ * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
+ * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio equalizer filter
+ * Very trivial volume normalizer
+ * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
+ * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
+ * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
+
+Video Output:
+ * Roku HD1000 Video output
+ * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
+ with support for effects.
+ * Improved filter and subpictures support :
+ - New filters can be streamed.
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - Centralized scaling and blending
+ * New filters :
+ - "time", to display current time
+ - "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
- * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
- * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
* OSD sliders for volume and postition information
* OSD icons for Play and Pause
- * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces
+ * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
+ * A few skins2 improvements
+ * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
+ * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
+ * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
+ * Improved CORBA control module
Mac OS X port:
* Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
- * The MacOSX interface is no longer required to display video
+ * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
+ * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
+
+Linux port:
+ * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
+ * Experimental SVG rendering module
+ * Support for DVB CAM modules.
+
+Windows port:
+ * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
+ * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
+ * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
+ * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
+ * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
-Windows CE PocketPC port:
- * Brand new port of VLC. Still very experimental
- * Works with MPEG and Divx
+WinCE port:
+ * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
Mozilla plugin:
* Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
* Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
Misc:
- * Roku HD1000 Video output
- * Server-network synchronization module
- * Experimental SVG rendering module
+ * Server/client network synchronization module
* VBrick streams fully supported
- * Kasenna MediaBase streams largely supported
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
+ * VLM enhancements
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
---------------------------------
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
* Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
+
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
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