-Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.1.0-git:
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
--------------------------------
-Audio output:
- * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
+Important changes for packagers:
+ * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
+ compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+
+3rd party libraries (contrib):
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
+ * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
+ * Support for Ulead DV audio
+ * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
+ Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
+ * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
+ * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
Encoders:
- * high10,high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
+ * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
+
+Access:
+ * Screen: Added support for OS X Lion
+ * Major improvements in DASH support
+ * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
+ * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
+ * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
+
+Demuxers:
+ * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
+ * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
+ * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
+ * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
+ * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
+ * Support for total number of tracks in major container
+ * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
+ * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
+ * Support for more MJPEG streams
+
+Audio output:
+ * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
+ * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
+ * Important improvements on the OpenSL ES module
Audio Filters:
* new remapping channel filter
+ * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
+ * new VSXu visualization plugin
+
+Video Outputs:
+ * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
+ * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
+
+Video Filters:
+ * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
+ anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
+ * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
+ and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
+ * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
+ * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
+
+Stream Output:
+ * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
+
+Interfaces:
+ * configurable password for the HTTP server.
+ * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
+ * fixed Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
+ * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
+ * Hotkey support for TS program selection
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
+ * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
+ controller
+ * add a GUI to manage podcasts
+ * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
+ - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
+ * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
+ * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
+ VLC's internal volume level
+ * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
+ * add an option to show next / previous buttons
+ * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
+ date and language.
+ * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
+ * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
+ * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
+ * allow the OS to turn off the screen(s) when playing audio-only media while the user
+ is idle.
+ * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
+ deprecated now
+
+Qt:
+ * Partial support for Qt5.0
+ * Menus modifications and improvements
+ * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
+ * Streaming output wizard rewrite
+ * Numerous fixes
+
+libVLC:
+ * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
+ to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
+ and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
+ * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
Removed modules:
- * portaudio audio output
+ * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
+ * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
+ * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
+ * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
+ * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
+ * Hildon GUI
+ * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+ * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
+ * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Add GateKeeper support
+ * Fix handling for some hotkeys
+ * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
+ * Minor bugfixes and improvements
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix Windows 8 interface style
+
+Translations:
+ * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
+ Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
+ Thai, Turkish and Walloon
+ * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
+ * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
+--------------------------------
+
+Video Output:
+ * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
+ There were too many errors with broken drivers.
+ * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
+ * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
+ * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
+ * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
+ * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
+ an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
+ * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
+ with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
+ * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
+ Retina Displays.
+
+Access:
+ * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
+ * Fixes for RAR compressed files
+ * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
+ * Improve PulseAudio input latency
+ * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
+ * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
+ * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
+ * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
+ * Accept more extensions for DVD images
+ * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
+ * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
+ * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
+
+Codec:
+ * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
+ * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
+ * Fix G726 support
+ * Fix MP3 free format support
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
+ * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
+ * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
+ * Fix for DVB channels file support
+ * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
+
+Encoders:
+ * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
+ * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
+
+Audio filters and output:
+ * Limitation of spatializer volume output
+ * Fix DirectSound device selection
+ * Correct PulseAudio volume control
+ * Do not apply volume in file output
+ * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
+ * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
+ the persistant media library
+ * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
+ to the media library or the temporary playlist
+ * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
+ This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
+ manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
+ * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
+ press on the Play/Pause button
+ * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
+ This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
+ * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
+ * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
+ * Many Fullscreen fixes
+ * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
+ * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
+ Synchronization panel
+ * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
+ * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
+ * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
+ * Fix crashes on exit
+ * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
+ VLC is running
+ * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
+ * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
+ Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
+ automatically reset on the first launch.
+ - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
+ * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
+ * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
+
+Lua Scripts:
+ * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
+ * Fixes for icecast SD
+
+Qt:
+ * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
+ * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
+ * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
+ * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
+ * Fix tags and file names display
+ * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
+
+Skins2:
+ * Fix mousewheel on Windows
+ * Fix for key events and focus loss
-Changes between 1.1.12 and 2.0.0:
+Web interface:
+ * Fix display of some buttons
+ * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
+ * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
+
+Security:
+ * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
+ * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
+ * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
+
+Translation:
+ * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
+ Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
+ Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
+ Thai translations update
+ * New Scottish Gaelic translation
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
+ * fix the samba module compilation
+ * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
+ * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
+ * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
+ * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
+
+Codecs:
+ * Support for MXPEG files
+ * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
+ * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
+ * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
+ * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
+
+Muxers:
+ * Fix ogm header creation
+
+Audio filters:
+ * limit spatializer filter distortions
+ * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
+ * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
+ The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
+ * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
+
+Video filters:
+ * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
+ * allow to hide the sidebar
+ * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
+ - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
+ * noticebly faster launch time
+ * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
+ * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
+ * improve track synchronization panel
+ * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
+ * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
+
+Qt interface:
+ * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
+ * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
+ the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
+ * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
+
+Skins interface:
+ * fix for menus display
+ * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
+ * documentation update
+
+Web interface:
+ * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
+ * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
+
+Service discovery:
+ * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
+ * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
+ * Update Jamendo selections
+
+Miscellaneous:
+ * fix DBus crash
+ * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
+ * fix a crash on VLM close
+
+Security:
+ * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
+ * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
+ * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
+ * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
---------------------------------
Important notes:
* 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 webplugins has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
+ * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
Core:
* Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
- Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
+ Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside 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
- * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64
+ * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
Access:
* Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
- * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA module
+ * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
* DVB-S scanning support on Unix
* DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
* Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
* Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
Codecs:
- * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
+ * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
are notably concerned.
* Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
* Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
* Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
* Improved support of tracker files
+ * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
Interfaces:
* Qt: effects dialogs rework
* Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
* Qt: port to MacOS X platform
- * Qt: minor look improvements, notably on the seek bar
+ * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
* Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
* Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
and important cleanups and optimisations
* lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
-I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
* ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete 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
+ * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
* webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
* webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
* webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
* 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
+ * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support 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
allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
Removed modules:
- * asademux: use libass only
- * subsass: use libass
+ * asademux, subsass: use libass
* fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
* hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
* id3tag: use taglib
removed in Growl's next release, too.
* removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
+Translations:
+ * Update of translations for most languages.
+ * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security:
+ * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
+ * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
+
+Audio outputs:
+ * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
+ * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
+
+Video outputs:
+ * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
+ * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
+ * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
+
+Decoders:
+ * Camtasia decoding fix.
+
+Qt interface:
+ * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
+ * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
+
Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
----------------------------------
* Fix folders opening from the interface
Translations:
- * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
+ * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
--------------------------------
New Localizations:
- * Ukranian
+ * Ukrainian
Security updates:
* Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)