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-Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
+Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
-------------------------------------------------------
Important notes:
- 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" and "VLM control". 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
- - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
- later point
- * The default for --sout-keep has 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 the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
- Old: '#std{access=rtp,dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
- New: '#rtp{dst=239.255.1.2,sap}'
+ interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
+ It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
+ If you absolutely need it, 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
+ * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
+ (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
+ * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the following
+ states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4, STOPPING=5,
+ FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and BACKWARD being
+ reserved for future implementations and are thus not functional atm.
Changes:
--------
+Security updates:
+ * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
+
Playlist:
* Vastly improved playlist support:
* Media library support
* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
- * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
- * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
+ * Album art support
+ * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
(Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
+ * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
+ share/lua/meta/README.txt
+
+Inputs:
+ * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * 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
+ using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
+ * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
+ * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
+ This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
+ (available as a separate download).
+ * RTMP input support
+ * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
+ taken from all QuickTime-compatible video devices (no audio yet)
+ * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
+ Authentication.
+ * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
+ frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
-Input/Demuxers:
- * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) 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 aiff stereo file
- * 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
+Demuxers:
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
+
+Subtitles:
+ * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
+ * AQTitle subtitles support
+ * MKV USF subtitles support
+ * HTML-based subtitles support
+ * MPSub subtitles support
+ * JacoSub subtitles basic support
+ * MPL2 subtitles support
+ * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
+ * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
+ * Realtext subtitle support
+ * DKS subtitle support
+ * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
+ * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed
-Video output and filters:
+Video outputs 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
- * Rewrite motion detection video 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 (remove a logo from a video)
- * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
- tags
+ * 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.
- * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
+ * 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 intruction set in chroma converters
- * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
+ * 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.
- * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet ).
- * New spatializer audio filter.
+Audio outputs 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:
- * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles)
-(FIXME: * Speex voice audio codec)
- * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) transport for RTP
+ * Speex voice audio codec
+ * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
+ * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP
* Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
+ * RTMP output
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
+ * Vastly improved Update checker
+ * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
+ * Mac OS X
+ * Improved video output features
+ * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
+ * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
+ * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
+ * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
+ * 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)
+ * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua 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
finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
- * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
- * Ncurses interface now uses ncursesw to correctly display wide characters
- when using an UTF-8 locale.
+ * Motion module using 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)
-Capture:
- * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
- Windows
+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, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
+ * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
+ * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
+ * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
+
+LibVLC:
+ * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
+ (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
-Localisations:
+New Localizations:
+ * Finnish
* Persian
+ * Polish
+
+Developers:
+ * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
+ A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
+ * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * 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,
+ 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
+ * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
+ to an unexpected application termination
+ * New Serbian translation
+ * Updated Romanian translation
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
+ (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
+ * 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 libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
+ * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
+ * 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,
+ if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
+
+
+Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
+ * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
+ * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
+ * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
+ - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
+
+Various bugfixes:
+ * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
+ * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
+ * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
+ * Close MMS access on network timeout
+ * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
+
+
+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:
* MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
+ * 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
---------------------------------
CDDA / VCDX plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements
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