-Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-pre1:
-------------------------------------
+Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
+--------------------------------
+
+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+ * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib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
+
+Encoders:
+ * 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
+
+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
+
+Audio output:
+ * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
+ * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
+
+Audio Filters:
+ * new remapping channel filter
+ * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
+ * new VSXu visualization plugin
+
+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)
+
+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
+
+Mac OS X Interface:
+ * added a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
+ * added an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
+ VLC's internal volume level
+ * added an option to show next / previous buttons
+ * added an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
+ * added optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
+ date and language.
+
+Removed modules:
+ * portaudio audio output
+ * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
+ * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
+
+
+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)
+ * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202)
+
+Translations:
+ * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
+
+
+Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
+---------------------------------
Important notes:
+ * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
* Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
- --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
* HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
- - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
+ - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
- The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
* 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 Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
Important changes for packagers:
* The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
* 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
- * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
+ * 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
- * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
+ * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
* Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
- * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
+ * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support 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)
* PulseAudio audio input support
- * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
+ * Support for RTP 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
- * QTSound: added support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices
- * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
+ * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
+ * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
+ * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
* MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
+ * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
Codecs:
- * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
+ * 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
* Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
* New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
* Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
* Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
* Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
+ * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
* EIA-608 closed captions improvements
- * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
+ * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
* Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
* One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
* 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: small look improvements
+ * 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
* Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
+ It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
* Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
* Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
* Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
* Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
* Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
* Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
+ * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
* The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
+ * 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
* Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
* Qt: preferences are now searchable
+ * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
Video Output:
* New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
* 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
+ chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
* New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
* Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
* Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
+ * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
Audio Output and Filters:
* New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
* New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
* New simplistic Karaoke filter
* New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
+ * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
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
+ * 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
* New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
* New anti-flickering filter
* New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
+ * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
* Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
blackbox and customizable shadow.
NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
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
+ * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
* Major rework of VoD support
* New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
#delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
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:
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