-Changes between 0.9.1 and 1.0.0-git:
+Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
------------------------------------
+Important changes for packagers:
+ * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
+ its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
+ not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
+ Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
+ * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
+ variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
+ * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
+ * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
+ configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
+ * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
+ Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
+
+ * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
+ * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
+
+
+Core:
+ * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
+ Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
+ x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
+ * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
+ * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
+ * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
+
+Access:
+ * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
+ * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
+ * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
+ * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
+ * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
+ * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
+ * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
+ * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
+ * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
+ * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
+ * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
+ in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
+ * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
+ * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
+ * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
+
+Codecs:
+ * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+ * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
+ * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
+ * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
+ * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
+ * Ogg seeking improvements
+ * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
+ * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
+ * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
+ * Qt: effects dialogs rework
+ * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
+ * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
+ * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
+ and important cleanups and optimisations
+ * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
+ * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
+ * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
+ * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
+ * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
+ * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
+
+Video Output:
+ * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
+ * New video output for iOS platform
+ * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
+ * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
+ * Various vmem improvements
+ * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
+ chroma conversion
+
+Audio Output:
+ * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
+ * New audio output in memory (amem)
+ * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
+ * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
+
+Video Filter:
+ * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
+ * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
+ * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
+ * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
+ * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
+ * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
+ * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
+ * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
+ * New anti-flickering filter
+
+Audio Filter:
+ * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
+
+Stream output:
+ * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
+ example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
+ venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
+ access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
+ index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
+ dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
+ * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
+ * Major rework of VoD support
+ * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
+ #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
+ * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
+ #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
+ * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
+ a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
+ * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
+ #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
+ #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
+ * Upnp module was ported to Win32
+
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+ ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
+ ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
+ list of available audio and video filters
+ ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
+ allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
+
+Removed modules:
+ * asademux: use libass only
+ * subsass: use libass
+ * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
+ * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
+ * id3tag: use taglib
+ * upnp: use upnp_intel
+ * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
+ * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
+---------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
+ * Fix for various crashes and small issues
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
+
+Audio output:
+ * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
+
+Win32 port:
+ * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
+ * Qt interface
+ * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
+ * RTP output and XML export
+ * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
+ * v4l2 access
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
+ Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
+ * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
+--------------------------------
+
+Windows and Mac OS X:
+ * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
+
+Demuxers:
+ * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
+ * Improve Apple Remote handling
+ * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
+ * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
+ * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
+ * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Fix Growl local notification plugin
+ * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
+ * Fixes for eyeTV
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
+ German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
+ * New Luganda Translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
+--------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
+ * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
+ * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
+ * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
+
+Encoder:
+ * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
+
+Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
+ * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
+ * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
+ * mp4 demuxer improvements
+ * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
+ * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
+ * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
+ * fix a crash in malformed ape files
+
+Miscellaneous fixes in:
+ * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
+ * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
+ * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
+ See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
+ * Configure and build system improvements
+ * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
+
+Translations:
+ * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
+ Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
+ * New icelandic translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
+--------------------------------
+
+Linux port:
+ * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
+ #234484 and #260719.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
+ * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
+ and stability reasons
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
+ VideoLAN-SA-1102
+
+Translations:
+ * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+Source:
+ * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
+---------------------------------
+
+Audio output:
+ * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
+ PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
+ Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
+ and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
+
+Access:
+ * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
+ * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
+ * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
+ * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
+ * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
+ * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
+
+Subtitles and renderer:
+ * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
+ * Mark more freetype options as safe
+ * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
+ * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
+ discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
+
+Visualization:
+ * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
+ * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
+ * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
+ * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
+ * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
+
+Miscellaneous fixes:
+ * KDE device solid actions
+ * XDG screensaver
+ * Transcode integer overflow
+ * HTTP Icy metadata reading
+ * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
+ Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
+ Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
+ VideoLAN-SA-1006
+
+Access:
+ * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
+
+Services Discovery:
+ * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
+ * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
+ * Playback of live http .Webm streams
+ * Taglib thread-safety fix
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
+ "Puget Systems"
+
+Skins:
+ * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
+
+Video Output:
+ * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
+
+Interfaces:
+ * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
+ * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
+
+Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
+ TS-mux, Qt)
+
+libLVC:
+ * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
+ * Miscellaneous fixes
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
+ Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
+ French and Ukrainian
+ * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
+ * New Asturian translation
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
+----------------------------------
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
+ by 16
+ * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
+
+Demuxer:
+ * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
+ * Various fixes for Windows
+
+Translations:
+ * New Armenian translation
+ * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
+ Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Win32:
+ * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
+ See VideoLAN-SA-1005
+ * Fix folders opening from the interface
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
+ Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access and demuxers:
+ * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
+ * fix for podcasts parsing
+ * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
+
+Taglib:
+ * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
+ CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
+
+Playlist:
+ * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
+ * fix m3u playlists exports
+
+Skins2:
+ * fix video autoresize behaviour
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
+
+Windows and Mac:
+ * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
+
+Mac:
+ * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
+
+BSD:
+ * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Avformat fps displaying fix
+ * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
+
+Audio filters:
+ * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
+ of mono streams, especially on Windows
+
+Windows:
+ * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
+ playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
+ * fix console output encoding
+
+Interface and extensions:
+ * Youtube and other scripts updates
+ * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+libVLC:
+ * New capabilities for libVLC:
+ * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
+ libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
+ libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
+ * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
+ libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
+ * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
+ protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
+ the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
+ * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
+ video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
+ ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
+ See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
+ * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
+ between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
+ * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
+ called early
+
+Decoders/Demuxers:
+ * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
+ You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
+ * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
+ * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
+ * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
+
+Stream output:
+ * Fix h264 streaming in ts
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
+ * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
+ * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
+
+Linux:
+ * Fix pulse closing
+ * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
+
+MacOS:
+ * Multiple interface and crash fixes
+ * Deinterlace selection is repaired
+ * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
+
+Windows:
+ * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
+ * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
+ * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
+ * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
+
+Translations:
+ * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
+ Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
+--------------------------------
+
+Important changes for users:
+ * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
+ Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
+
+Important changes for packagers:
+ * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
+ generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
+ later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
+ by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
+ can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
+ launch each time.
+ * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
+ - xproto,
+ - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
+ - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
+ - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
+ * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
+ required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
+
+Access:
+ * Support for the sftp protocol
+ * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
+ * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
+ * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
+ * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
+ * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
+
+Decoders:
+ * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
+ * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
+ * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
+
+ * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
+ * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
+ * Invmem module improvements
+ * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
+ * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
+ * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
+ * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
+ * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
+ * Support for Indeo5 video codec
+ * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
+ * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
+ * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
+ * Support for VP8 codec
+ * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
+ * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
+ * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
+ * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
+ * Various EGP improvements
+ * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
+ * Metadata and cover art improvements
+
+Playlist:
+ * WPL and ZPL playlist support
+ * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
+ * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
+ * Podcast images are now displayed
+
+Video Output:
+ * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
+ * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
+ desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
+ * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
+ * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
+ * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
+ * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
+ Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
+ Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
+ MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
+ Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
+
+Extensions:
+ * New content extensions lua framework
+
+Audio filters:
+ * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
+ * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
+ * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
+ resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
+ and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
+ * NEON assembly audio converter module
+ * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
+
+Service discovery:
+ * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
+ * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
+ * Service discovery based on libudev
+ * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
+
+Encoders:
+ * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
+ * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
+ #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
+ * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
+ uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
+ * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
+ * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
+
+Stream output:
+ * New smem module, streaming to memory
+ * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
+ --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
+ and oldhttp.
+ * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
+ * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
+
+Visualization:
+ * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
+ * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
+ * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
+ by Andy Matuschak et al.
+ * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
+ * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
+ * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
+
+Windows port:
+ * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
+ * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
+
+Maemo port:
+ * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
+ * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
+ * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
+
+Misc:
+ * new sqlite module
+ * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
+ * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
+ * Improved Solaris port
+
+Bindings:
+ * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
+ * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
+
+Removed modules:
+ * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
+ * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
+ * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
+ * transrate: broken since too long
+ * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
+ * HAL: Use libudev instead.
+ * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
+ * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
+ * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
+ * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
+ * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
+ * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
+ * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
+ * cddax: use cdda instead.
+ * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
+ * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
+ * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
+ * RTMP input and output: use avio module
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
+
+Decoders/Packetizers:
+ * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
+ * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
+ * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
+ * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
+ * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
+
+X11 port:
+ * Partial Xlib threading fixes
+ More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
+ * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
+
+Translations:
+ * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
+ and Walloon translations updated
+ * Sinhala translation started
+
+Removed modules:
+ * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
+ to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
+--------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * SubRip extra styles improvements
+ * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
+
+Windows port:
+ * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
+ increase performance and fix x264 issues
+
+Translations:
+ * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
+ Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
+ Russian, Slovak translation updates
+ * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
+--------------------------------
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
+ * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
+
+Video outputs:
+ * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
+ * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
+
+Input:
+ * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
+ * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
+
+Playlist:
+ * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
+
+Unix:
+ * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
+ * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
+
+Qt4 interface:
+ * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
+ * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
+
+Translations:
+ * New Walloon translation
+ * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Video outputs:
+ * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
+ regressions in most popular drivers
+ * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
+
+Decoders:
+ * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
+ didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
+ * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
+
+Encoders:
+ * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
+ #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
+
+Input:
+ * Update for appletrailers lua script
+ * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
+ * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
+ * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
+ * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
+
+Service discovery:
+ * New udev module for linux
+
+Qt4 interface:
+ * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
+
+Translations:
+ * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
+ * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
+ * Various fixes on theora and ogg
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
+ * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
+
+Access:
+ * Fixes for v4l2 devices
+ * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Fix some playlist sorting issues
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
+ * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
+ * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
+ * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
+ with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
+ * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
+ - no support for Goom and SDL
+ - limited text rendering support
+ - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
+
+Encoders:
+ * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
+ * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
+ * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
+ - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
+ - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
+ - otherwise ABR-mode is used
+ * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
+ - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
+ - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
+
+
+Playlist:
+ * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
+
+Unix builds:
+ * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
+
+Translations:
+ * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
+ * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
+ * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
+ Arabic and French translation updates
+
+
+Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
+ * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
+ * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
+ * Fix Dailymotion access script
+ * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
+ * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
+
+Access:
+ * Add extra caching for files on network shares
+ * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
+ * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
+ * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
+ * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
+ * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
+ * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
+ * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
+ * More reliable Information and Messages panels
+ * Fix various crashes
+
+Windows port:
+ * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
+
+Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
+---------------------------------
+
+Important notes:
+----------------
+ * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
+ See 'Access:' for more info.
+ * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
+
+Playback:
+ * Instantaneous pausing
+ * Frame-by-Frame playback
+ * Finer speed control
+ * On-the-fly recording for all medias
+ * Timeshift for most medias
+ * RTSP trickplay support
+ * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
+
+Decoders:
+ * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
+ * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
+ * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
+ * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
+ * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
+ * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
+ * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
+ * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
+ * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
+ * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
+ * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
+ * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
+ * Metadata for mod files are supported
+ * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
+ * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
+ * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
+
+Encoders:
+ * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
+ * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
+
+Access:
+ * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
+ * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
+ * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
+ * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
+ * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
+ OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
+ * DVB scanning on linux
+ * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
+ * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
+ zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
+ zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
+ * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
+ * MTP device access on Unix
+ * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
+ * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
+
Inputs:
* Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
- * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on
- windows.
+ * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
+ Windows and Mac OS X.
-Decoders:
- * AES3 (SMPTE 302M) support
- * E-AC3 (A/52b) support
+Playlist:
+ * Export the playlist in HTML
+ * Lua script for BBC radio playback
+ * Better metadata handling and reading
+
+Linux/Windows interface:
+ * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
+ * Various fixes for skins2 interface
+ * Recently played items list
+ * Interface toolbar customizations
+ * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
+ - More menus actions
+ - Finer speed slider
+ - Improvements on many dialogs
+ - New dialog for plugins listing
+ - Fixed-size mode for videos
+ - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
+ * Better integration in GTK environments
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
+ * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
+ * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
+ * Additional usability improvements
Stream output:
* Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
* Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
* bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
+ * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
+ * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
-Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2
--------------------------------
+Maemo Port:
+ * New Maemo port with:
+ - an interface based on Hildon framework.
+ - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
- * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
- * Multiple bugfixes
+Windows CE Port:
+ EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
+ * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
+ * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
+ * Support for latest iSight models
+
+Audio output:
+ * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
+ * Surround support for PulseAudio
+
+Video output:
+ * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
+ * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
+ (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
+ * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
+ The old image video output has been removed.
+ * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
+ withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
+
+New Localization:
+ * Khmer
+ * Mongolian
+ * Sorani
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
+--------------------------------------
-Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.1:
+HTTP Interface:
+ * Fixed default ACL
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
+ * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
+ * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
+ * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
+ * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
+ * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
+ * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
+
+Various fixes to the following modules:
+ * access:
+ - HTTP, SMB
+ - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
+ - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
+ DZCORE Labs, Algeria
+ * stream out:
+ - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
+ * decoder:
+ - TSCC
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
---------------------------------
-Note: version 0.9.0 was skipped due to bugs being discovered at the last
-minute.
+Mac OS X:
+ * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
+ * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
+---------------------------------
+
+Decoders:
+ * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Various fixes related to real demuxer
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
+ - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
+ instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
+ main controller window.
+ * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Indonesian
+ * Bengali
+ * Updates of other localizations
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
+ * Lots of small bugfixes.
+ * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
+ * Telnet fixes on Windows
+ * Resampling fixes when transcoding
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
+---------------------------------
+
+Security update:
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
+
+Bunch of small bugfixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
+--------------------------------
+New Localizations:
+ * Ukranian
+
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
+ * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
+--------------------------------
+Security updates:
+ * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
+ * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
+
+Features:
+ * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
+ * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
+ * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
+
+Qt Interface:
+ * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
+ * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
+ * Various fixed in playlist
+
+Access:
+ * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
+------------------------------------
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
+ * Fixes several memory leaks.
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
+ * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
+ * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
+
+Windows port:
+ * Stability fix for the video output.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
+ * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
+ * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
+ * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
+ * Fixed update system bugs
+ * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
+
+Mac OS X port:
+ * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
+ * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
+ * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
+ * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
+ * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
+ * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
+ * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
+ * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
+ * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
+ modern Mac OS X versions
+
+Windows port:
+ * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
+ * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
+ before installation
+ * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
+ * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
+
+Qt4 interface:
+ * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
+ * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
+ * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
+ * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
+ * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
+ * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+ * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
+ * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
+ * Multiple bugfixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
+--------------------------------
+
+ * Multiple bug fixes.
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
+---------------------------------
Important notes:
----------------
- * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to work
- correctly
+ * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
+ recent to work correctly
* 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.
* JACK audio input support
* Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
* BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
- * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
+ * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
* Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
* Experimental EyeTV access module
* Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
The latter 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).
+ * 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
* Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
* Simplified Extended Controls panel
* Ncurses:
- * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
+ * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
if libncursesw is available.
* Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
* Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
- share/lua/playlist/README.txt for more info.
+ share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
* 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
+ * 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 using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
* Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
Various bugfixes:
* Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
- * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
+ * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
* Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
+ (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
SAP services discovery, http control interface)
* Updated Polish translation
----------------------------------
Security updates:
- * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
+ * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
* Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
Goodies:
* Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
* Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
- (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
+ (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
* Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
* More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
----------------------------------
Security updates:
- * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
+ * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
(CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
- * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
+ * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
(CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
* Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
* Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
* Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
* Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
* Fixed AAC resampling
- * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
+ * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
* 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,
+ * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
VideoLAN-SA-0802)
Audio filter:
Encoders:
* Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
- * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
+ * 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)
* Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
Windows and Mac OS Binaries
- * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * 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.
+ 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 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 :)
Windows port:
* Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
- Windows 9x/ME users:
+ 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:
* 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
+ - 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
* New JACK audio output
Video output:
- * New video filters:
+ * 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
* Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
Interfaces:
- * System to inform the user and request information
+ * System to inform the user and request information
- HTTP authentication
- Fatal errors
- ...
- VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
- Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
- Drag & Drop support in the playlist
- * Skins2
+ * Skins2
- New default skin
- Support for Winamp 2 skins
- Improved playlist handling
OS X Port:
* Mac-Intel compatibility
- * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
+ * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
* Growl "Now playing" support
*Nix port:
* SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
* UPnP fixes
* Avahi 0.6 support
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+
Interfaces:
* Mac OS X
- - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+ - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
* New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
* Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
* Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
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+
Interfaces:
- new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
* Mac OS X
* Rewrite of the playlist
- Tree structure
- Input preparsing (for meta-data)
- - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
- * Preferences improvements:
+ - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
+ * Preferences improvements:
- New organization, designed to improve usability
- New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
* XML parsers
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
+ * 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
* Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
Input:
- * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
+ * 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
+ * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
(selection of titles/chapters).
Demuxers:
* DVB subtitles encoder
* MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
* Improved vorbis/theora encoding
- Muxers:
+ 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
with support for effects.
* Improved filter and subpictures support :
- New filters can be streamed.
- - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
+ - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
- Centralized scaling and blending
- * New filters :
- - "time", to display current time
+ * New filters :
+ - "time", to display current time
- "marq", to display a marquee
Interfaces:
* Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
Input:
- * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
+ * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
* Improved directory access module.
Playlist:
* Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
- * Playlist sorting
+ * Playlist sorting
Input:
* RTP/RTSP support.
* Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
* Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
-iPaq port:
+iPaq port:
* Brand new Gtk 2 interface
Miscellaneous:
projects / vlc / blobdiff