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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 Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
+ to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
* The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
edit the ".hosts" file.
- XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
+ - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
+ If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
+ /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
+ - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
+ C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
+ - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
+ and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
* This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
- interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
- - "Streaming wizard" 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.
+ 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
Changes:
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* "Live search"
* Shoutcast TV listings
* Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
- * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
+ * 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
Input/Demuxers:
- * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
- * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
- * Proxy support for MMSH stream
- * JACK audio input support
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
+ * Proxy support for MMSH stream
+ * JACK audio input support
+ * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
+ * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
+ * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
+ * Fixed audio glitch on seek
+ * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
+ * AAC tags support
+ * APEv1/2 tags support
+ * Improved ID3v2 tags support
+ * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
+ * Raw video support
+ * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
+ * TiVo Series 2 support
+ * v4l2 access module support
+ * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
+ * CD+G karaoke Files support
+ * MXF files support
+ * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
+ instead of QuickDraw
+ * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
+ This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
+ (available as a separate download).
+ * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
+ Authentication.
Decoders:
* VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
* MKV USF subtitles support
- * HTML based 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
- * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
+ * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
+ * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
+ Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
+ * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
+ * H.264 PAFF support
+ * DNxHD / VC-3 support
+ * NellyMoser ASAO support
+ * APE (Monkey audio) support
+ * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
Encoders:
* Flash Screen Video support
+ * Improved H.264 encoding speed
Video output and filters:
+ * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
* Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
* New puzzle video output filter
- * 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 instruction set in chroma converters
+ * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
+
+Audio output and filters
+ * Replay gain support
+ * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
+ * New spatializer audio filter
+ * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
Stream output:
- * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
+ * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
+ * New RTP payload formats:
+ * Speex voice audio codec
+ * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
+ * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
+ * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
+ * DCCP transport for RTP
+ * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
Interfaces:
* Windows/Linux
* Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
* All
+ * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
+ end-user suitable way.
* Improved user interaction
* Improved mouse gestures
+ * Fastly improved Update checker
+ * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
+ * Mac OS X
+ * Improved video output features
+ * 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
- * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
+ * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
+ * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
+ (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
+ interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
+ finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
+ * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
+ * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
+ * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
+
+Linux Port:
+ * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
+ http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
+ (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
+
+Mac OS X Port:
+ * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
+ applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
+ * 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)
+
+New Localizations:
+ * Finnish
+ * Persian
+ * Polish
-Capture:
- * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
- Windows
-Localisations:
- * Persian
+Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
+----------------------------------
+
+Security updates:
+ * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
+ * 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:
+----------------------------------
+
+Various bugfixes, notably:
+ * Windows Vista compatibility
+ * Cropping in Direct3D
+ * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
+ * RSS filter string overflow
+ * Few memory leaks
+ * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
+
+CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
+ * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
+
+Decoders:
+ * Updated FLAC API compatibility
+
+Input:
+ * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
+
+Localisation:
+ * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
+
Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
------------------------------------------------------------
+----------------------------------
+
Various bugfixes, notably:
* Out-of-bound read in demuxers
* Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
---------------------------------
CDDA / VCDX plugins:
- * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
+ * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
Mac OS X Interface:
* Fullscreen controller improvements
* Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
-
Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
* Java bindings
* A bit more automatic testing
+
Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
---------------------------------
* Mac OS X
- fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
+
Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
--------------------------------
The following languages were re-added:
* Swedish
+
Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
--------------------------------
Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
* Stream output:
* Support of playlist group announcement
+
Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
------------------------------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
* Cisco IP/TV streams supported
* VLM enhancements
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
--------------------------------
* Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
* Roku HD1000 audio output.
+
Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
---------------------------------
Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
* A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
* Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
+
Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
* Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
* libcaca video output (colored ascii)
+
Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
* Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
mpeg1/2 videos.
+
Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core support:
* There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
* A few new keyboard shortcuts
* New full-featured Preferences window
+
Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
----------------------------------
+--------------------------------
Core Support:
* fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
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