1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
27 * EPG reworked: table and single event updates, now using network time
28 * Refactored and fixed subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
29 es category single only or multiple es behavior
30 * Support for 360 video and audio
31 * Support for ambisonic audio and > 8 channels
32 * Support subtitles size live changing
35 * New NFS access module using libnfs
36 * New SMB access module using libdsm
37 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
38 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
39 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
40 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
41 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
42 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
43 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
44 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
45 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
46 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
47 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
48 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
49 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
50 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
51 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
52 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
53 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
54 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
55 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
56 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
57 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
58 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
59 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
60 * Improvements on DVB scanning
61 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
62 * Support for DVD ISO over network
63 * New SRT access module using libsrt
66 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
67 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
68 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
69 * Support for experimental Daala video
70 * Support for experimental AV1 video
71 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
72 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
73 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
74 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
75 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
76 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
77 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
78 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
79 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
80 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
81 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
82 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
83 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
84 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
85 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
86 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
87 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
88 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
89 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
91 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
92 * HEVC packetization is now correct
93 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
94 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
95 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
96 can now decode up to 8 channels
97 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
98 * Support VPX high bit depth support
99 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
100 * BluRay text subtitles are now decoded
101 * Improve Closed Captions detection
104 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
105 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
106 * Support Daala in Ogg
107 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
108 * Support for fragmented MP4
109 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
110 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
111 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
112 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
113 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
114 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
115 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
116 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
117 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
118 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
119 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
120 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
121 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
122 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
123 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
124 * Support WMV extended content metadata
125 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
126 * Support SBV subtitles
127 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
128 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
129 * Support raw h265/hevc files
130 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
131 * Rewrite MKV seeking
132 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMF/MP4 and DASH
133 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
134 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
135 * Support for isofLaC
136 * Improved fLaC seeking
137 * Replaced --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
138 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
141 * Added ADF stream filter
142 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
143 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
144 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
145 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
146 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
149 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
150 * Added a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
153 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
154 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
155 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
156 * Added Tizen audio module
157 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
158 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
159 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
162 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
163 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
164 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
165 * Added the Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules: one Ambisonics audio
166 * renderer and one Binauralizer audio filter
167 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
171 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
172 * Wayland shell surface window provider
173 * Wayland shared memory video output
174 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
175 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
176 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
177 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
178 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
179 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
180 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
181 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
182 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
183 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
184 * Direct rendering with VA-API via EGL/OpenGL
187 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
188 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
191 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
192 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
193 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
194 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
195 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
196 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
199 * Chromecast output module
200 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
203 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
204 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
207 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
208 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
209 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
213 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
214 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
215 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
216 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
219 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
220 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
221 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
222 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
223 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
224 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
225 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
226 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
229 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
232 * Batch convert support
233 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
236 * Support key accelerators
239 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
240 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
241 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
242 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
243 This allows to attach media events between create and start
244 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
245 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
246 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
247 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
248 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
249 identifier (if there is one available)
250 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
251 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
252 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
253 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
254 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
255 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
256 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
257 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
258 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
259 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
260 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
261 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
262 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
263 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
264 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
266 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
267 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
268 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
269 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
270 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
273 * Support for the SystemD Journal
274 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
275 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
276 * New Android module for logging
279 * remove langfromtelx
280 * remove ZPL playlist format
281 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
282 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
283 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
284 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
285 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
286 * Add a memory keystore
287 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
288 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
292 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
293 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
294 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
295 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
296 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
297 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
298 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
299 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
300 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
301 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
302 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
303 * BD access module (use libbluray)
304 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
305 * EyeTV access module
306 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
307 * VDA decoder: use VT
308 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
309 * SDL video output module
310 * DirectFB video output module
313 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
314 --------------------------------
316 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
321 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
322 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
323 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
324 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
325 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
326 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
327 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
330 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
331 --------------------------------
334 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
335 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
336 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
337 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
338 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
339 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
343 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
344 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
345 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
346 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
347 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
348 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
349 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
352 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
353 * Fix screenshots size
356 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
357 * Fix FTP scan string injection
358 * Fix HTTP size handling
364 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
368 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
371 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
372 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
373 * Fix uninstaller path handling
374 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
377 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
378 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
382 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
383 --------------------------------
386 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
387 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
388 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
391 * Fix resizing issues
394 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
397 * Build fixes for Hurd
400 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
401 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
402 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
405 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
406 --------------------------------
409 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
410 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
414 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
415 * Fix crashes with libvpx
416 * Use libass without caching dialog
419 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
422 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
425 * Fix resume where you left off
426 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
427 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
428 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
431 * Fix crashes in media information panel
432 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
435 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
438 * Update of most translations
441 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
442 --------------------------------
445 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
446 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
447 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
448 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
449 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
452 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
453 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
454 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
455 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
456 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
457 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
458 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
461 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
462 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
463 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
464 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
465 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
466 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
469 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
470 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
471 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
472 be set manually by the user)
473 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
474 * Fix alsa default device selection
477 * Fix video control that fails to show up
478 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
479 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
480 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
481 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
484 * Support for OS X El Capitan
485 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
486 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
487 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
490 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
491 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
492 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
493 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
494 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
498 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
499 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
500 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
503 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
504 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
505 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
506 * Improve PNG encoding time
507 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
508 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
509 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
510 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
511 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
512 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
513 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
514 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
515 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
516 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
517 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
518 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
519 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
522 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
523 * Update of most translations
526 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
527 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
528 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
529 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
532 * Update of most translations
535 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
540 * Fix some VP9 decoding
542 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
543 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
544 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
545 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
550 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
551 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
552 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
553 * Revert to older ASX code
554 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
557 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
558 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
559 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
562 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
563 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
564 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
567 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
568 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
569 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
572 * Fix recent items behaviour
573 * Fix rotation filter activation
574 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
577 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
578 * Fix extensions registration during install
579 * Fix extensions dialog crash
580 * Default to no DxVA decoding
583 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
586 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
587 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
588 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
589 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
590 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
591 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
594 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
595 --------------------------------
598 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
599 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
602 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
603 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
604 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
605 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
608 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
609 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
610 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
611 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
613 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
614 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
615 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
618 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
619 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
620 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
621 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
622 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
623 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
624 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
625 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
626 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
627 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
628 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
629 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
630 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
631 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
632 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
633 * New jpeg image decoder
634 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
635 * New SVG image decoder
636 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
637 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
638 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
641 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
642 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
643 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
644 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
645 * New png image encoder using libpng
648 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
649 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
650 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
651 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
652 synchronization and tracks exclusion
653 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
654 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
655 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
656 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
657 * Support Opus in MKV
659 * Basic support for WebVTT
660 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
661 * Support HDPR TS files
662 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
663 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
664 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
665 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
666 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
667 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
668 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
669 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
670 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
671 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
672 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
673 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
676 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
677 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
678 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
679 * New Android native window provider module
680 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
681 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
682 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
685 * New Oldmovie effect filter
686 * New VHS effect filter
687 * New Freeze effect filter
688 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
689 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
690 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
693 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
694 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
695 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
696 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
697 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
698 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
701 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
702 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
704 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
707 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
708 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
709 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
710 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
711 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
712 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
713 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
714 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
715 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
717 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
718 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
719 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
722 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
723 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
726 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
727 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
730 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
731 * Add record button in Qt menus
732 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
733 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
734 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
737 * Support for OS X Yosemite
738 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
739 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
740 * Fixes for advanced preferences
741 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
742 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
743 * Option to increase playlist font size
744 * Improved crash log reporting
747 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
748 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
749 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
750 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
753 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
756 * iOS video output: use ios2
757 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
758 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
761 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
762 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
763 * Update of all translations:
764 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
765 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
766 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
767 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
768 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
769 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
770 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
773 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
774 --------------------------------
780 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
781 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
782 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
783 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
784 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
785 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
786 * Fix potential crash in zip access
787 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
788 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
791 * Update translations and greek encoding
794 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
795 --------------------------------
798 * Fix compilation on OS/2
801 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
803 Mac OS X audio output:
804 * Fix channel ordering
805 * Increase the buffersize
808 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
809 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
810 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
813 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
816 * Correctly support video-on-top
817 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
818 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
821 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
824 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
825 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
828 * Update British English
831 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
832 --------------------------------
835 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
838 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
841 * Fix DVD playback regression
842 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
843 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
846 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
847 --------------------------------
850 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
851 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
854 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
855 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
856 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
859 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
860 by updating codec libraries
861 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
862 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
863 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
866 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
867 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
868 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
869 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
872 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
873 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
876 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
877 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
878 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
879 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
880 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
883 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
884 * Fix record file names
887 * Fix minimal size possible on start
888 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
889 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
890 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
891 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
894 * Fix album art display on Windows
897 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
898 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
899 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
900 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
901 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
902 and Simplified Chinese translations
903 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
906 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
907 --------------------------------
910 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
911 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
912 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
913 audio devices on OS X
914 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
915 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
918 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
919 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
922 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
923 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
926 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
929 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
930 * Improve A-B loop control
931 * Fix album art update when changing media
934 * Add a language option in the interface
935 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
936 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
937 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
938 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
939 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
940 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
941 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
944 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
947 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
948 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
949 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
950 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
953 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
954 --------------------------------
957 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
959 * Fix some subtitles track selection
962 * VP9 support in WebM
963 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
964 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
967 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
968 * Support Speex in ogg files
969 * Fix some .mov playlists support
970 * Support Alac in mkv
971 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
972 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
975 * Fix DVB options parsing
976 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
977 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
980 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
981 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
984 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
985 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
988 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
989 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
990 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
991 * Fix play after drag'n drop
992 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
995 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
996 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
999 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1000 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1003 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1004 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1005 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1006 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1007 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1008 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1009 * Improves interface resizings
1012 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1013 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1014 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1015 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1016 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1020 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1021 --------------------------------
1024 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1025 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1026 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1027 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1028 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1030 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1031 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1034 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1035 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1036 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1037 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1038 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1041 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1042 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1043 * Remove SQL support
1046 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1047 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1048 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1049 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1050 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1051 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1052 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1053 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1054 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1055 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1056 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1057 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1058 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1061 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1062 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1063 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1066 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1067 remove support for previous OS X releases
1068 * Major improvements in DASH support
1069 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1070 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1071 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1072 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1073 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1074 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1075 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1076 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1077 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1078 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1079 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1082 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1083 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1084 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1085 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1086 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1087 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1088 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1089 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1090 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1091 * Add support for liveleak streams
1092 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1093 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1094 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1097 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1098 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1099 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1100 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1101 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1102 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1103 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1104 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1105 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1106 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1107 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1110 * New remapping channel filter
1111 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1112 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1113 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1114 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1115 * New gain audio filter
1118 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1119 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1120 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1121 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1122 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1123 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1124 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1125 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1126 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1129 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1130 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1131 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1132 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1133 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1134 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1135 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1138 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1139 * Options support for AVIO output module
1140 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1141 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1142 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1143 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1144 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1147 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1150 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1151 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1152 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1153 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1154 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1155 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1156 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1157 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1160 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1161 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1164 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1165 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1167 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1168 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1169 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1170 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1171 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1172 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1173 VLC's internal volume level
1174 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1176 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1177 selection and to manage the list of presets
1178 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1179 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1180 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1181 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1182 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1183 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1184 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1185 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1186 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1187 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1189 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1190 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1191 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1192 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1193 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1194 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1195 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1196 3rd party applications
1197 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1198 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1199 (system-wide settings)
1200 * Add support for the Video Title option
1201 * Add support for the Boss Key
1202 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1203 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1206 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1207 * Menus modifications and improvements
1208 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1209 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1210 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1211 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1212 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1213 * Add SD pixmap sources
1214 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1215 * Display playlist total duration
1216 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1217 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1218 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1223 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1224 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1225 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1226 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1229 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1230 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1231 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1232 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1233 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1234 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1235 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1236 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1237 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1238 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1241 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1242 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1243 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1244 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1245 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1246 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1248 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1249 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1250 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1251 * Broken crop video filter
1253 * OSD parser and menu
1254 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1255 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1256 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1257 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1261 * Update of all translations
1264 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1265 --------------------------------
1268 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1269 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1272 * Fix modplug security issues
1275 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1276 --------------------------------
1280 * Fix crash in QTsound
1281 * Fix screen mouse file location
1282 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1285 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1286 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1289 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1292 * Fix interface crashes
1293 * Fix autostart playback option
1294 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1297 * update Welsh translation
1298 * New Kannada translation
1301 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1302 --------------------------------
1305 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1306 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1310 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1313 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1316 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1319 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1322 * Minor improvements
1323 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1326 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1329 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1330 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1331 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1334 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1335 --------------------------------
1338 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1341 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1344 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1345 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1346 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1347 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1348 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1349 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1352 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1353 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1354 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1355 * 3rd party codecs updates
1358 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1359 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1360 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1361 in the advanced preferences panel
1362 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1363 * Fix crash within the video output code
1364 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1365 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1366 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1367 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1368 lua extensions, ...)
1369 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1372 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1375 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1376 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1379 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1382 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1383 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1384 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1385 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1386 Dutch, Danish, translations
1387 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1390 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1391 --------------------------------
1394 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1397 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1398 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1399 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1402 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1403 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1404 * Fix koreus lua parser
1405 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1406 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1407 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1408 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1411 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1412 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1415 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1418 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1419 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1420 * Fix Time counter UI look
1421 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1424 * Fix https streaming
1427 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1428 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1429 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1432 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1433 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1434 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1435 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1436 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1439 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1440 --------------------------------
1443 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1444 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1445 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1446 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1447 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1448 during playback on Mac OS X
1451 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1452 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1453 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1456 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1457 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1458 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1459 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1460 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1463 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1464 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1465 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1466 * Support Youtube live streams
1469 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1472 * Fix media info dialog update
1473 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1474 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1475 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1476 * Fix album art display at start
1479 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1480 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1481 * Fix menus display and behavior
1482 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1483 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1484 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1485 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1486 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1487 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1488 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1491 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1492 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1493 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1494 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1495 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1496 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1497 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1498 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1499 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1502 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1503 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1504 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1505 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1506 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1509 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1516 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1517 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1520 * Add GateKeeper support
1521 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1522 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1523 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1526 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1529 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1530 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1531 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1532 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1533 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1536 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1537 --------------------------------
1540 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1541 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1542 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1543 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1544 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1545 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1546 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1547 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1548 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1549 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1550 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1554 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1555 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1556 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1557 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1558 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1559 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1560 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1561 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1562 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1563 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1564 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1565 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1568 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1569 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1571 * Fix MP3 free format support
1574 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1575 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1576 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1577 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1578 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1581 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1582 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1584 Audio filters and output:
1585 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1586 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1587 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1588 * Do not apply volume in file output
1589 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1590 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1593 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1594 the persistant media library
1595 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1596 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1597 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1598 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1599 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1600 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1601 press on the Play/Pause button
1602 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1603 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1604 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1605 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1606 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1607 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1608 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1609 Synchronization panel
1610 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1611 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1612 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1613 * Fix crashes on exit
1614 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1616 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1617 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1618 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1619 automatically reset on the first launch.
1620 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1621 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1622 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1625 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1626 * Fixes for icecast SD
1629 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1630 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1631 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1632 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1633 * Fix tags and file names display
1634 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1637 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1638 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1641 * Fix display of some buttons
1642 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1643 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1646 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1647 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1648 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1651 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1652 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1653 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1654 Thai translations update
1655 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1658 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1663 * fix the samba module compilation
1664 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1665 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1666 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1667 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1670 * Support for MXPEG files
1671 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1672 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1675 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1676 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1677 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1680 * Fix ogm header creation
1683 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1684 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1687 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1688 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1689 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1690 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1693 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1696 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1697 * allow to hide the sidebar
1698 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1699 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1700 * noticebly faster launch time
1701 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1702 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1703 * improve track synchronization panel
1704 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1705 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1708 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1709 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1710 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1711 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1714 * fix for menus display
1715 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1716 * documentation update
1719 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1720 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1723 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1724 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1725 * Update Jamendo selections
1729 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1730 * fix a crash on VLM close
1733 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1734 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1735 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1736 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1739 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1742 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1743 ---------------------------------
1746 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1747 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1748 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1749 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1750 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1751 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1752 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1753 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1754 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1755 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1756 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1757 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1758 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1759 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1760 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1761 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1762 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1763 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1764 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1765 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1766 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1767 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1768 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1769 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1770 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1771 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1773 Important changes for packagers:
1774 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1775 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1776 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1777 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1778 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1779 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1780 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1781 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1782 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1783 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1786 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1787 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1788 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1789 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1790 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1791 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1792 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1795 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1796 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1797 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1798 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1799 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1800 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1801 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1802 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1803 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1804 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1805 * PulseAudio audio input support
1806 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1807 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1808 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1809 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1810 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1811 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1812 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1813 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1816 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1817 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1818 are notably concerned.
1819 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1820 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1821 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1822 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1823 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1824 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1825 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1826 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1827 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1828 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1829 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1830 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1831 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1832 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1833 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1836 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1837 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1838 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1839 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1840 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1841 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1842 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1843 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1844 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1845 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1846 * Improved support of tracker files
1847 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1850 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1851 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1852 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1853 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1854 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1855 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1856 and important cleanups and optimisations
1857 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1858 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1859 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1860 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1861 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1862 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1863 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1864 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1865 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1866 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1867 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1868 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1869 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1870 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1871 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1872 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1873 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1874 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1875 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1876 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1877 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1880 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1881 * New video output for iOS platform
1882 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1883 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1884 * Various vmem improvements
1885 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1886 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1887 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1888 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1889 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1890 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1892 Audio Output and Filters:
1893 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1894 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1895 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1896 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1897 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1898 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1899 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1900 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1901 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1902 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1905 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1906 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1907 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1908 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1909 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1910 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1911 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1912 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1913 * New anti-flickering filter
1914 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1915 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1916 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1917 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1918 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1919 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1920 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1923 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1924 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1925 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1926 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1927 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1928 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1929 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1930 * Major rework of VoD support
1931 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1932 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1933 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1934 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1935 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1936 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1937 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1938 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1939 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1940 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1943 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1944 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1947 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1948 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1949 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1950 list of available audio and video filters
1951 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1952 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1953 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1956 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1957 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1958 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1959 * id3tag: use taglib
1960 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1961 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1962 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1963 * removal of the noise filter
1964 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1965 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1966 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1967 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1970 * Update of translations for most languages.
1971 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1974 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1975 ----------------------------------
1978 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1979 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1982 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1983 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1986 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1987 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1988 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1991 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1994 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1995 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1998 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2001 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2002 ----------------------------------
2005 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2006 including support for OS X Lion
2007 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2008 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2011 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2014 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2015 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2016 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2019 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2022 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2023 ----------------------------------
2026 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2027 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2030 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2031 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2032 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2033 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2034 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2036 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2037 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2038 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2040 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2041 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2044 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2047 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2050 * Fix quitting on Linux
2051 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2055 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2058 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2061 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2062 ---------------------------------
2064 Windows and Mac OS X:
2065 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2068 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2069 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2072 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2075 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2078 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2080 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2081 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2083 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2084 * RTP output and XML export
2085 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2089 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2090 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2091 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2092 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2095 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2096 --------------------------------
2098 Windows and Mac OS X:
2099 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2102 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2105 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2106 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2107 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2108 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2109 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2110 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2113 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2114 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2118 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2119 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2120 * New Luganda Translation
2123 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2124 --------------------------------
2127 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2130 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2131 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2132 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2133 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2136 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2138 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2139 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2140 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2141 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2142 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2143 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2144 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2145 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2147 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2148 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2149 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2150 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2151 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2152 * Configure and build system improvements
2153 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2156 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2157 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2158 * New icelandic translation
2161 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2162 --------------------------------
2165 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2166 #234484 and #260719.
2169 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2170 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2171 and stability reasons
2174 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2178 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2181 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2182 ----------------------------------
2185 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2188 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2189 ---------------------------------
2192 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2193 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2194 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2195 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2198 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2201 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2202 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2203 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2204 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2207 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2208 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2209 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2211 Subtitles and renderer:
2212 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2213 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2214 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2215 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2216 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2219 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2220 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2221 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2222 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2225 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2226 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2228 Miscellaneous fixes:
2229 * KDE device solid actions
2231 * Transcode integer overflow
2232 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2233 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2236 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2237 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2238 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2241 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2242 ----------------------------------
2245 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2249 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2252 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2255 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2256 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2257 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2258 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2261 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2265 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2268 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2271 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2272 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2274 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2278 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2279 * Miscellaneous fixes
2282 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2283 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2284 French and Ukrainian
2285 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2286 * New Asturian translation
2289 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2290 ----------------------------------
2293 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2295 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2298 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2301 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2302 * Various fixes for Windows
2305 * New Armenian translation
2306 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2307 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2310 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2311 --------------------------------
2314 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2315 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2316 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2319 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2320 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2323 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2324 --------------------------------
2326 Access and demuxers:
2327 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2328 * fix for podcasts parsing
2329 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2332 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2333 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2336 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2337 * fix m3u playlists exports
2340 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2343 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2346 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2349 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2352 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2355 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2356 --------------------------------
2359 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2360 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2363 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2364 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2367 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2368 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2369 * fix console output encoding
2371 Interface and extensions:
2372 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2373 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2376 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2381 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2382 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2383 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2384 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2385 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2386 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2387 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2388 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2389 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2390 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2391 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2392 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2393 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2394 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2395 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2399 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2400 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2401 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2402 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2403 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2406 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2409 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2410 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2411 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2415 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2418 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2419 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2420 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2423 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2424 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2425 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2426 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2429 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2430 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2433 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2434 --------------------------------
2436 Important changes for users:
2437 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2438 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2440 Important changes for packagers:
2441 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2442 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2443 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2444 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2445 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2447 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2449 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2450 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2451 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2452 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2453 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2456 * Support for the sftp protocol
2457 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2458 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2459 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2460 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2461 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2464 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2465 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2466 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2468 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2469 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2470 * Invmem module improvements
2471 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2472 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2473 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2474 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2475 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2476 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2477 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2478 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2479 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2480 * Support for VP8 codec
2481 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2484 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2485 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2486 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2487 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2488 * Various EGP improvements
2489 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2490 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2493 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2494 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2495 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2496 * Podcast images are now displayed
2499 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2500 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2501 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2502 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2503 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2504 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2505 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2506 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2507 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2508 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2509 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2512 * New content extensions lua framework
2515 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2516 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2517 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2518 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2519 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2520 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2521 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2524 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2525 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2526 * Service discovery based on libudev
2527 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2530 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2531 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2532 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2533 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2534 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2535 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2536 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2539 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2540 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2541 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2544 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2546 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2547 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2550 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2553 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2554 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2555 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2556 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2557 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2558 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2559 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2562 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2563 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2566 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2567 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2568 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2572 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2573 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2574 * Improved Solaris port
2577 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2578 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2581 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2582 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2583 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2584 * transrate: broken since too long
2585 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2586 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2587 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2588 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2589 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2590 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2591 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2592 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2593 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2594 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2595 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2596 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2597 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2598 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2601 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2602 --------------------------------
2605 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2607 Decoders/Packetizers:
2608 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2611 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2612 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2613 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2614 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2615 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2618 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2619 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2622 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2623 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2626 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2627 and Walloon translations updated
2628 * Sinhala translation started
2631 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2632 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2635 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2636 --------------------------------
2639 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2640 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2643 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2646 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2647 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2650 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2651 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2652 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2653 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2656 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2657 --------------------------------
2660 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2661 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2664 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2665 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2668 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2669 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2672 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2675 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2676 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2679 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2680 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2683 * New Walloon translation
2684 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2687 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2688 --------------------------------
2691 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2692 regressions in most popular drivers
2693 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2696 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2697 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2698 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2701 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2702 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2705 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2706 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2707 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2708 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2709 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2712 * New udev module for linux
2715 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2718 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2721 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2722 --------------------------------
2725 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2726 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2727 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2730 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2731 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2734 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2735 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2738 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2741 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2742 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2743 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2744 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2747 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2748 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2749 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2750 - no support for Goom and SDL
2751 - limited text rendering support
2752 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2755 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2756 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2757 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2758 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2759 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2760 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2761 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2762 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2763 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2767 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2770 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2773 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2774 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2775 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2776 Arabic and French translation updates
2779 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2780 --------------------------------
2783 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2784 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2785 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2786 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2787 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2788 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2791 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2792 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2793 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2796 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2797 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2798 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2801 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2804 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2805 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2808 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2809 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2810 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2811 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2812 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2813 * Fix various crashes
2816 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2818 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2822 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2823 ---------------------------------
2827 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2828 See 'Access:' for more info.
2829 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2832 * Instantaneous pausing
2833 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2834 * Finer speed control
2835 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2836 * Timeshift for most medias
2837 * RTSP trickplay support
2838 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2841 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2842 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2843 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2844 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2845 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2846 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2847 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2848 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2849 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2850 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2853 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2854 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2855 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2856 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2857 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2858 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2859 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2862 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2863 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2866 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2867 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2868 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2869 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2870 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2871 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2872 * DVB scanning on linux
2873 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2874 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2875 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2876 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2877 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2878 * MTP device access on Unix
2879 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2880 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2883 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2884 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2885 Windows and Mac OS X.
2888 * Export the playlist in HTML
2889 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2890 * Better metadata handling and reading
2892 Linux/Windows interface:
2893 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2894 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2895 * Recently played items list
2896 * Interface toolbar customizations
2897 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2898 - More menus actions
2899 - Finer speed slider
2900 - Improvements on many dialogs
2901 - New dialog for plugins listing
2902 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2903 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2904 * Better integration in GTK environments
2907 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2908 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2909 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2910 * Additional usability improvements
2913 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2914 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2915 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2916 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2917 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2920 * New Maemo port with:
2921 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2922 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2925 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2928 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2929 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2930 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2931 * Support for latest iSight models
2934 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2935 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2938 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2939 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2940 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2941 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2942 The old image video output has been removed.
2943 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2944 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2947 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2955 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2956 --------------------------------------
2962 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2963 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2964 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2965 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2966 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2967 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2968 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2970 Various fixes to the following modules:
2973 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2974 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2975 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2977 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2982 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2983 ---------------------------------
2986 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2987 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2990 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2991 ---------------------------------
2994 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2997 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3000 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3001 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3002 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3003 main controller window.
3004 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3007 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3012 * Updates of other localizations
3015 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3016 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3017 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3018 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3019 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3022 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3023 ---------------------------------
3026 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3028 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3031 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3032 --------------------------------
3037 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3038 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3041 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3042 --------------------------------
3044 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3045 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3048 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3051 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3052 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3055 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3056 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3059 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3060 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3061 * Various fixed in playlist
3064 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3067 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3070 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3071 ------------------------------------
3073 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3074 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3077 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3078 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3079 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3082 * Stability fix for the video output.
3085 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3086 --------------------------------
3089 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3090 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3091 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3092 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3093 * Fixed update system bugs
3094 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3097 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3098 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3099 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3100 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3101 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3102 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3103 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3104 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3105 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3106 modern Mac OS X versions
3109 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3110 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3112 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3113 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3116 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3117 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3118 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3119 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3120 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3121 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3124 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3125 --------------------------------
3127 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3128 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3129 * Multiple bugfixes.
3132 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3133 --------------------------------
3135 * Multiple bug fixes.
3138 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3139 ---------------------------------
3143 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3144 recent to work correctly
3145 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3146 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3147 edit the ".hosts" file.
3148 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3149 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3150 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3151 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3152 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3153 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3154 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3155 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3156 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3157 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3158 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3159 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3160 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3161 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3162 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3163 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3164 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3165 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3166 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3167 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3168 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3169 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3170 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3171 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3172 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3173 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3174 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3175 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3176 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3177 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3178 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3179 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3180 and postproc modules.
3181 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3182 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3183 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3184 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3186 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3187 filter. For example:
3188 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3189 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3191 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3192 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3198 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3200 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3201 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3204 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3205 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3207 * Shoutcast TV listings
3208 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3210 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3211 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3213 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3216 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3217 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3218 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3219 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3220 * JACK audio input support
3221 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3222 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3223 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3224 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3225 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3226 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3227 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3228 (available as a separate download).
3229 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3230 * RTMP input support
3231 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3232 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3233 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3235 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3236 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3239 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3240 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3241 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3242 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3244 * APEv1/2 tags support
3245 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3246 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3248 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3249 * TiVo Series 2 support
3250 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3255 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3256 * Flash Screen Video support
3257 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3258 * DosBox Capture support
3259 * Karl Morton's Video support
3260 * limited atrac3 support
3262 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3263 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3264 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3265 * H.264 PAFF support
3266 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3267 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3268 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3269 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3270 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3273 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3274 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3275 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3276 * AQTitle subtitles support
3277 * MKV USF subtitles support
3278 * HTML-based subtitles support
3279 * MPSub subtitles support
3280 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3281 * MPL2 subtitles support
3282 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3283 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3284 * Realtext subtitle support
3285 * DKS subtitle support
3286 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3287 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3290 * Flash Screen Video support
3291 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3293 Video outputs and filters:
3294 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3295 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3296 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3297 * New puzzle video output filter
3298 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3299 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3301 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3302 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3303 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3304 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3305 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3306 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3307 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3308 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3309 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3310 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3311 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3312 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3313 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3314 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3316 Audio outputs and filters:
3317 * Replay gain support
3318 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3319 new scaletempo audio filter)
3320 * New spatializer audio filter
3321 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3324 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3325 * New RTP payload formats:
3326 * Speex voice audio codec
3327 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3328 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3329 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3330 * DCCP transport for RTP
3331 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3336 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3337 end-user suitable way.
3338 * Improved user interaction
3339 * Improved mouse gestures
3340 * Vastly improved Update checker
3341 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3343 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3344 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3346 * Improved video output features
3347 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3348 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3349 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3350 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3351 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3353 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3354 if libncursesw is available.
3355 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3356 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3357 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3359 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3360 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3361 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3362 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3363 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3364 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3365 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3366 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3369 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3370 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3371 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3374 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3375 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3376 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3377 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3378 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3379 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3382 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3383 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3393 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3394 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3395 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3398 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3399 ----------------------------------
3402 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3405 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3406 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3407 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3408 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3409 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3410 * Updated Polish translation
3413 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3414 ----------------------------------
3417 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3418 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3419 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3422 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3423 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3424 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3425 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3426 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3427 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3428 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3429 to an unexpected application termination
3430 * New Serbian translation
3431 * Updated Romanian translation
3434 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3435 ----------------------------------
3438 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3439 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3440 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3441 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3442 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3443 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3444 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3445 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3448 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3449 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3450 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3451 * Fixed AAC resampling
3452 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3453 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3456 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3457 ----------------------------------
3460 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3461 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3462 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3463 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3464 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3467 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3468 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3469 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3470 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3471 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3474 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3475 ----------------------------------
3478 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3479 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3482 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3483 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3484 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3485 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3487 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3491 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3494 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3497 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3500 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3503 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3504 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3505 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3506 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3507 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3509 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3510 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3511 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3512 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3515 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3518 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3519 ----------------------------------
3522 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3523 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3524 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3526 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3527 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3529 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3530 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3533 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3535 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3536 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3537 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3538 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3539 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3540 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3541 two different movies
3542 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3543 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3544 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3547 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3550 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3551 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3552 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3553 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3556 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3557 ----------------------------------
3559 Various bugfixes, notably:
3560 * Windows Vista compatibility
3561 * Cropping in Direct3D
3562 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3563 * RSS filter string overflow
3565 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3567 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3568 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3571 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3572 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3575 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3578 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3581 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3584 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3585 ----------------------------------
3587 Various bugfixes, notably:
3588 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3589 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3590 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3591 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3592 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3593 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3596 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3597 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3600 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3602 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3603 * Diverse usability improvements
3604 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3605 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3606 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3609 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3610 ---------------------------------
3612 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3613 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3616 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3619 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3620 --------------------------------
3623 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3626 * Support for RTSP authentication
3627 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3628 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3629 * ATSC support for DVB input
3630 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3631 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3632 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3635 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3636 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3637 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3638 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3639 * Matroska WavPack support
3640 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3641 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3642 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3645 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3646 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3647 * Improved libcaca support
3651 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3652 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3654 * Systray support in skins
3656 * Support for Apple Remote control
3657 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3658 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3659 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3660 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3662 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3665 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3666 Windows 9x/ME users:
3667 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3668 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3669 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3670 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3671 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3673 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3674 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3683 * Updates to the libvlc API
3684 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3687 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3688 --------------------------------
3691 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3692 * Support for downloading updates
3696 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3697 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3698 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3699 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3701 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3702 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3703 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3706 * Cook (Real audio) support
3708 Playlist / Services discovery:
3709 * XSPF playlist support
3711 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3714 * New JACK audio output
3717 * New video filters:
3718 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3719 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3720 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3721 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3722 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3723 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3726 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3729 * System to inform the user and request information
3730 - HTTP authentication
3734 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3735 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3736 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3739 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3740 - Improved playlist handling
3741 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3743 - Embedded Video output
3744 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3745 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3746 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3747 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3748 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3750 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3751 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3754 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3757 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3758 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3759 * Growl "Now playing" support
3762 * Ability to log to syslog
3763 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3766 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3768 * A bit more automatic testing
3771 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3772 ---------------------------------
3775 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3776 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3779 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3780 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3783 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3786 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3787 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3793 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3796 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3797 --------------------------------
3800 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3804 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3805 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3806 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3809 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3810 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3811 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3812 * GnomeVFS input module
3813 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3814 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3817 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3818 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3819 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3822 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3823 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3829 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3830 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3833 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3834 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3835 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3838 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3840 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3841 - New extended controls panel
3842 - New bookmarks window
3843 - Fixed playlist sorting
3844 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3846 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3847 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3848 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3849 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3853 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3854 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3856 - Include macro to include other files
3860 * Should now work outside IE as well
3863 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3866 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3867 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3870 The following languages were added:
3874 * Simplified Chinese
3875 The following languages were re-added:
3879 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3880 --------------------------------
3883 * Rewrite of the playlist
3885 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3886 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3887 * Preferences improvements:
3888 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3889 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3891 * Core image manipulation support
3892 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3893 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3894 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3895 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3896 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3897 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3898 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3899 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3900 * Access filter architecture
3901 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3902 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3906 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3907 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3908 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3909 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3910 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3911 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3912 * Massive Matroska improvements
3913 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3915 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3916 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3917 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3918 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3919 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3921 Decoders / Encoders:
3922 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3923 * PNG decoder/encoder
3924 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3925 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3928 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3931 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3932 * Brand new SAP module
3933 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3934 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3935 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3936 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3937 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3938 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3942 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3945 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3946 * Image file video output (png)
3947 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3948 * Improvements to wall video filter
3949 * Support for font color and opacity
3955 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3956 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3957 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3961 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3962 - Improved preferences
3963 - Improvements to the wizard
3964 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3966 - Redesigned playlist
3967 - Improved preferences
3969 - Support for multiple actions
3972 - Support for the new playlist system
3974 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3977 * Screensaver disabling fix
3978 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3979 * Support for no-decoration windows
3982 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3983 * The OpenGL video output is back
3984 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3985 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3986 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3987 is not yet available in the new module
3988 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3991 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4000 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4003 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4006 The following languages were added:
4012 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4013 --------------------------------
4016 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4017 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4020 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4021 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4022 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4025 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4028 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4031 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4034 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4035 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4036 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4040 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4042 * Support of playlist group announcement
4045 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4046 --------------------------------
4049 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4050 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4051 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4052 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4053 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4054 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4057 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4058 (Stream your desktop)
4059 * Improved DVD support:
4060 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4061 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4062 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4063 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4064 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4065 (selection of titles/chapters).
4068 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4069 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4070 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4071 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4072 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4073 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4074 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4075 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4076 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4077 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4080 * G.726 audio support
4081 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4082 * MPEG-4 text support
4083 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4084 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4085 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4089 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4090 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4091 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4092 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4093 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4094 * DVB subtitles encoder
4095 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4096 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4098 * Text track muxing for mp4
4099 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4100 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4101 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4102 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4103 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4104 * Improved ASF muxer
4106 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4107 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4108 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4111 * New audio equalizer filter
4112 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4113 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4114 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4115 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4118 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4119 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4120 with support for effects.
4121 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4122 - New filters can be streamed.
4123 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4124 - Centralized scaling and blending
4126 - "time", to display current time
4127 - "marq", to display a marquee
4130 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4131 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4132 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4133 * A few skins2 improvements
4134 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4135 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4136 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4137 * Improved CORBA control module
4140 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4141 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4142 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4145 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4146 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4147 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4150 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4151 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4152 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4153 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4154 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4157 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4160 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4161 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4164 * Server/client network synchronization module
4165 * VBrick streams fully supported
4166 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4170 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4171 --------------------------------
4174 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4175 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4176 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4177 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4180 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4181 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4182 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4183 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4184 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4185 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4186 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4189 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4190 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4191 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4192 * Improved directory access module.
4193 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4194 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4195 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4196 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4197 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4200 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4201 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4202 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4205 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4206 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4207 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4210 * Improved session announcement system.
4211 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4212 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4213 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4214 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4215 * Improved transrater.
4216 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4217 * New configuration system.
4218 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4221 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4222 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4223 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4224 * Supports scheduling.
4225 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4226 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4229 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4230 - Ability to embed video output.
4231 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4232 - Lots of improvements.
4233 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4234 - New design and set of icons.
4235 - Ability to embed video output.
4236 - Support for hotkeys.
4237 - Support for bookmarks.
4239 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4240 - Better hotkeys handling.
4243 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4244 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4245 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4246 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4249 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4250 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4251 * Improved Windows installer.
4257 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4258 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4261 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4262 ---------------------------------
4265 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4266 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4269 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4270 --------------------------------
4273 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4274 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4277 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4278 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4279 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4280 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4283 * Internal improvments
4284 * Improved import/export
4287 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4289 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4290 small and strange formats.
4292 * New MOD audio demux.
4293 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4294 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4295 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4296 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4299 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4300 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4301 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4307 * New opengl video output plugin.
4310 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4311 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4314 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4315 --------------------------------
4318 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4319 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4320 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4321 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4322 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4323 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4324 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4325 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4328 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4333 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4334 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4335 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4336 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4337 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4338 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4339 * Better Icecast support.
4340 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4341 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4344 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4345 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4346 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4347 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4348 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4349 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4350 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4353 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4354 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4355 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4356 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4357 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4358 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4359 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4360 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4361 * Preliminary RTP support.
4362 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4367 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4368 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4370 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4371 - Improvements and help in preferences
4372 - New streaming wizard
4373 - Revised Disc Open menu
4375 - Improvements of the standard pages
4376 - Support for new commands
4377 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4380 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4381 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4384 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4385 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4386 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4387 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4388 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4389 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4390 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4391 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4392 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4395 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4397 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4398 * Support for Panther.
4399 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4400 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4403 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4404 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4405 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4406 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4407 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4408 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4409 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4410 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4413 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4414 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4415 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4418 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4421 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4422 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4423 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4424 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4427 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4428 --------------------------------
4431 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4434 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4435 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4438 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4439 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4442 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4445 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4446 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4449 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4452 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4455 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4456 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4460 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4461 --------------------------------
4464 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4465 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4469 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4470 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4471 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4473 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4474 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4477 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4480 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4483 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4484 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4488 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4489 --------------------------------
4492 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4493 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4497 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4498 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4499 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4500 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4501 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4504 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4505 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4506 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4509 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4510 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4511 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4514 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4515 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4516 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4517 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4518 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4521 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4522 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4523 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4526 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4529 * Improved build system.
4530 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4531 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4532 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4533 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4536 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4537 --------------------------------
4540 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4543 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4544 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4545 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4546 * Video 4 Linux support
4547 * CD Digital Audio support
4548 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4551 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4552 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4553 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4554 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4557 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4558 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4559 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4560 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4561 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4562 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4563 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4566 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4567 * New HTTP remote control interface
4570 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4571 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4572 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4573 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4574 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4577 * New reset option for the preferences
4578 * You can set your language in the prefences
4579 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4580 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4581 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4582 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4585 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4586 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4587 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4590 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4591 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4592 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4593 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4594 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4595 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4596 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4597 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4598 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4599 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4602 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4603 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4604 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4605 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4606 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4607 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4608 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4611 * Interface localization
4612 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4613 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4614 * New full-featured Preferences window
4617 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4618 --------------------------------
4621 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4622 * support for skins at the interface level
4623 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4624 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4625 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4626 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4627 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4630 * fixed HTTP redirects
4631 * support for opening an entire directory
4632 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4633 * new video4linux access plug-in
4634 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4637 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4638 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4639 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4642 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4643 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4644 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4645 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4646 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4647 * new codec for raw I420 video
4648 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4651 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4652 (although it still misses some important features)
4653 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4656 * new HTTP output support
4657 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4658 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4661 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4664 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4667 * reorderable playlist
4668 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4669 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4670 * support for mono audio output devices
4671 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4672 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4673 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4674 * the messages window remembers more lines
4675 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4676 * http and ogg stream output options
4677 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4680 * new skinnable interface
4681 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4683 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4684 * support for FLAC audio format
4685 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4687 * network tab in the interface
4688 * "apply" handling in preferences
4691 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4692 ---------------------------------
4695 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4696 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4697 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4698 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4700 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4701 * DTS S/PDIF support
4704 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4705 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4706 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4707 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4710 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4711 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4714 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4717 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4720 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4722 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4723 * rc interface is now fully useable
4724 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4727 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4728 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4729 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4730 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4731 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4733 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4734 * support for mouse gestures
4735 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4738 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4739 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4742 * improved ID3 tag detection
4743 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4744 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4745 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4747 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4750 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4751 ---------------------------------
4754 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4755 English was set as the preferred language
4758 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4759 --------------------------------
4762 * new mouse gesture interface
4763 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4767 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4768 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4769 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4772 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4773 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4777 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4780 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4781 without the user consent
4784 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4786 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4787 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4788 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4791 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4792 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4793 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4794 * playlist enhancements
4795 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4796 * new step forward/step backward commands
4797 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4798 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4799 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4802 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4803 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4804 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4807 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4808 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4811 * native video output is working again
4812 * only commandline interface support
4813 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4816 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4817 --------------------------------
4820 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4821 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4822 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4823 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4824 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4825 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4826 and A/52 streams are supported)
4827 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4832 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4833 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4834 * VCD entry points support
4835 * VCD image file support
4838 * support for *.asf format
4839 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4840 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4841 * support for ogg encapsulation
4842 * support for raw DV format
4843 * support for *.wav format
4844 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4847 Stream discovery & playlists:
4848 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4849 * support for .m3u file format
4850 * support for .asx file format
4851 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4854 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4855 (only available with the .avi demux)
4856 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4857 * support for raw PCM data
4858 * support for Cinepak video codec
4859 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4860 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4861 * support for Xvid codec
4862 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4863 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4864 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4866 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4868 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4871 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4874 * new WxWindows interface
4875 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4876 device and the channels configuration
4877 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4878 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4879 format that VLC can play
4880 * new swedish translation
4881 * enhancements of the playlist window
4882 * new messages window to see debug info
4883 * fixed a few crashes
4886 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4887 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4888 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4889 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working