Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0-git:
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+Important changes:
+ * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
+
+Core:
+ * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
+
Access:
* Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
+ * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
+ * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection and navigation
+ * Digital Cinema Package support
-Decoders:
+Decoder:
* Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
+ * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
+ * Support MSN Audio, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1
+ * Teletext subtitles display improvements
+ * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
+ * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
+ * OpenMax IL imrpovements, notably for RaspberryPi
+ * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
+ * New jpeg image decoder
Encoder:
* Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
* Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
* Support for Opus encoding using libopus
-Streaming:
- * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
- vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
- :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
+Demuxer:
+ * New CAF format module
+ * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably for seeking
+ * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking
+ * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
+ * FLAC packets validation using CRC
+ * Support Opus in MKV
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
+ * Basic support for WebVTT
+ * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 Audio stream type in TS
+ * Support HDPR TS files
+ * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
+ * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
+ * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
+
+Muxers:
+ * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
+ * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
+ * Support VP8 in OGG
Video Output:
* Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
* New CoreGraphics video output module for NPAPI plugins
+ * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
+ * New Android native window provider module
+ * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
Video Filter:
* New Oldmovie effect filter
* New VHS effect filter
* New Freeze effect filter
+ * Support I422 and J422 in transform
+ * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
+
+Audio Output:
+ * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
+
+Streaming:
+ * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
+ * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
+ vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
+ :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
+ * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
+ * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
libVLC:
* add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
Visualizations:
* Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
+Interaces:
+ * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
+
+Misc:
+ * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
+
Removed modules:
* ios video output: use ios2
* OpenMash H.261 video decoder
+ * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
-Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0:
+Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
+--------------------------------
+
+Core:
+ * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
+ * Fix recording
+ * Fix some subtitles track selection
+
+Decoders:
+ * VP9 support in WebM
+ * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
+ * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
+
+Demuxers:
+ * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
+ * Support Speex in ogg files
+ * Fix some .mov playlists support
+ * Support Alac in mkv
+ * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
+ * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
+
+Access:
+ * Fix DVB options parsing
+ * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
+ * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
+
+Audio output:
+ * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
+ * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
+
+Interfaces:
+ * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
+ * Fix D-Bus volume setting
+
+Qt:
+ * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
+ * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
+ * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
+ * Fix play after drag'n drop
+ * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
+
+Stream out:
+ * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
+ * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
+
+Win32 installer:
+ * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
+ * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
+
+Mac OS X interface:
+ * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
+ * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
+ * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
+ * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
+ * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
+ * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
+ * Improves interface resizings
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
+ Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
+ Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
+ Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
+ Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
+ translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
--------------------------------
Important changes:
* The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
- * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
- VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
- * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
- compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
+ * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
+ Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
+ * 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 cleaner system in /contrib
+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
Core:
- * Audio core rewrite
+ * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
+ better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
* Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
* Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
- * Partial support for Windows Store App
- * Removed SQL support
- * Add an audio fingerprinter
- * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
+ * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
+ * Port to Android
+ * Port to iOS
+ * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
+ * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
+ * Remove SQL support
Decoders:
- * Support for OPUS via libopus.
- * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
- * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
+ * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
+ * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
* Support for Ulead DV audio
* Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
* Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
* Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
+ * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
* Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
- * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
* Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
+ * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
+ * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
Encoders:
* high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
* QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
+ * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
Access:
* Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
* Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
* Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
- * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
+ * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
+ * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
Demuxers:
* MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
* Support for more MJPEG streams
* Add support for liveleak streams
* Add support for Wave/RF64 files
- * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV causing the
- program to terminate.
- * Add protection against several heap buffer overflow in libebml
+ * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
+ * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
Audio output:
* Windows Audio Session API audio output support
* OpenBSD sndio audio output support
- * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
+ * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
* Android AudioTrack audio output support
* OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
* Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
* OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
- * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
- * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
+ * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
+ * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
Audio Filters:
* New remapping channel filter
* New VSXu visualization plugin
* ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
* Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
+ * New gain audio filter
Video Outputs:
- * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
- * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
+ * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
+ * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
* OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
* OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
- * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
- Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
+ * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
+ * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
* Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
* New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
+ * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
Video Filters:
* New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
- anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
+ 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
* Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
Interfaces:
- * configurable password for the HTTP server.
- * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
- * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
+ * configurable password for the HTTP server
+ * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
+ * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
* Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
* Hotkey support for TS program selection
* Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
+ * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
+ rotate mode into the rotate video filter
Services discovery:
* UPnP A/V subtitles
controller
* Add a GUI to manage podcasts
* Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
- * 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 for the QTSound access input 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 support for the Video Title option
* Add support for the Boss Key
* The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
- deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
+ deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
Qt:
* Partial support for Qt5.0
* Preferences hotkeys management fixes
* Display playlist total duration
* Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
- * Numerous fixes
* Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
- * Remove language preference
- * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
- Added new profiles.
+ * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
+ * Numerous fixes
Skins2:
* Port to OS/2
* SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
* htcpcp :)
+Translations:
+ * Update of all translations
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
+--------------------------------
+
+Demux:
+ * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
+ * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
+
+Contribs:
+ * Fix modplug security issues
+
+
+Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
+--------------------------------
+
+Access:
+ * Fix ISDB-S tuning
+ * Fix crash in QTsound
+ * Fix screen mouse file location
+ * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
+
+Demux:
+ * Fix use after free in sgimb
+ * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
+
+Decoders:
+ * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
+
+Mac OS X:
+ * Fix interface crashes
+ * Fix autostart playback option
+ * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
+
+Translations:
+ * update Welsh translation
+ * New Kannada translation
+
Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
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