1 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.1.0:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for users:
5 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
6 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
7 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
9 Important changes for packagers:
10 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
11 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
12 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
13 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
14 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
16 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
18 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
19 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
20 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
21 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
22 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
26 * Support for the sftp protocol
27 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
28 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
29 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
30 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
31 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
34 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
35 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
36 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
38 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
39 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
40 * Invmem module improvements
41 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
42 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
43 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
44 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
45 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
46 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
47 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
48 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
49 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
50 * Support for VP8 codec
51 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
54 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
55 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
56 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
57 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
58 * Various EGP improvements
59 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
60 * Metadata and cover art improvements
63 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
64 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
65 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
66 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
67 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
68 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
69 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
70 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
71 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
72 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
73 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
76 * New content extensions framework for lua
79 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
80 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
81 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
82 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
83 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
84 * NEON assembly audio converter module
85 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
88 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
89 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
90 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
91 * Podcast images are now displayed
94 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
95 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
96 * Service discovery based on libudev
97 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
100 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
101 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
102 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
103 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
104 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
105 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
106 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
109 * New smem module, streaming to memory
110 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
111 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
114 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
116 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
117 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
120 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
123 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
124 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
125 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
126 by Andy Matuschak et al.
127 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
128 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
129 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
132 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
133 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
136 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
137 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
138 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
142 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
143 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
144 * Improved Solaris port
147 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
148 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
151 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
152 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
153 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
154 * transrate: broken since too long
155 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
156 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
157 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
158 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
159 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
160 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
161 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
162 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
163 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
164 * cddax: use cdda instead.
165 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
166 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
167 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
168 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
171 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
172 --------------------------------
175 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
177 Decoders/Packetizers:
178 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
181 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
182 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
183 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
184 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
185 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
188 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
189 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
192 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
193 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
196 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
197 and Walloon translations updated
198 * Sinhala translation started
201 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
202 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
205 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
206 --------------------------------
209 * SubRip extra styles improvements
210 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
213 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
216 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
217 increase performance and fix x264 issues
220 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
221 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
222 Russian, Slovak translation updates
223 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
226 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
227 --------------------------------
230 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
231 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
234 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
235 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
238 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
239 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
242 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
245 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
246 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
249 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
250 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
253 * New Walloon translation
254 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
257 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
258 --------------------------------
261 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
262 regressions in most popular drivers
263 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
266 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
267 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
268 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
271 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
272 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
275 * Update for appletrailers lua script
276 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
277 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
278 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
279 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
282 * New udev module for linux
285 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
288 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
291 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
292 --------------------------------
295 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
296 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
297 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
300 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
301 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
304 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
305 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
308 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
311 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
312 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
313 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
314 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
317 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
318 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
319 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
320 - no support for Goom and SDL
321 - limited text rendering support
322 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
325 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
326 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
327 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
328 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
329 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
330 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
331 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
332 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
333 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
337 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
340 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
343 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
344 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
345 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
346 Arabic and French translation updates
349 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
350 --------------------------------
353 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
354 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
355 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
356 * Fix Dailymotion access script
357 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
358 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
361 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
362 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
365 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
366 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
367 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
370 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
373 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
374 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
377 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
378 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
379 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
380 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
381 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
382 * Fix various crashes
385 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
387 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
390 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
391 ---------------------------------
395 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
396 See 'Access:' for more info.
397 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
400 * Instantaneous pausing
401 * Frame-by-Frame playback
402 * Finer speed control
403 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
404 * Timeshift for most medias
405 * RTSP trickplay support
406 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
409 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
410 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
411 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
412 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
413 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
414 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
415 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
416 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
417 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
418 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
421 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
422 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
423 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
424 * Metadata for mod files are supported
425 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
426 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
427 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
430 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
431 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
434 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
435 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
436 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
437 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
438 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
439 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
440 * DVB scanning on linux
441 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
442 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
443 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
444 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
445 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
446 * MTP device access on Unix
447 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
448 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
451 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
452 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
453 Windows and Mac OS X.
456 * Export the playlist in HTML
457 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
458 * Better metadata handling and reading
460 Linux/Windows interface:
461 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
462 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
463 * Recently played items list
464 * Interface toolbar customizations
465 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
468 - Improvements on many dialogs
469 - New dialog for plugins listing
470 - Fixed-size mode for videos
471 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
472 * Better integration in GTK environments
475 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
476 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
477 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
478 * Additional usability improvements
481 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
482 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
483 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
484 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
485 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
488 * New Maemo port with:
489 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
490 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
493 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
496 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
497 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
498 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
499 * Support for latest iSight models
502 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
503 * Surround support for PulseAudio
506 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
507 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
508 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
509 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
510 The old image video output has been removed.
511 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
512 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
515 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
523 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
524 --------------------------------------
530 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
531 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
532 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
533 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
534 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
535 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
536 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
538 Various fixes to the following modules:
541 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
542 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
545 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
550 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
551 ---------------------------------
554 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
555 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
558 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
559 ---------------------------------
562 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
565 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
568 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
569 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
570 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
571 main controller window.
572 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
575 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
580 * Updates of other localizations
583 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
584 * Lots of small bugfixes.
585 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
586 * Telnet fixes on Windows
587 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
590 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
591 ---------------------------------
594 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
596 Bunch of small bugfixes.
599 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
600 --------------------------------
605 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
606 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
609 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
610 --------------------------------
612 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
613 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
616 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
619 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
620 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
623 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
624 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
627 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
628 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
629 * Various fixed in playlist
632 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
635 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
638 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
639 ------------------------------------
641 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
642 * Fixes several memory leaks.
645 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
646 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
647 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
650 * Stability fix for the video output.
653 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
654 --------------------------------
657 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
658 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
659 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
660 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
661 * Fixed update system bugs
662 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
665 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
666 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
667 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
668 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
669 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
670 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
671 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
672 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
673 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
674 modern Mac OS X versions
677 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
678 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
680 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
681 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
684 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
685 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
686 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
687 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
688 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
689 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
692 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
693 --------------------------------
695 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
696 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
700 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
701 --------------------------------
703 * Multiple bug fixes.
706 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
707 ---------------------------------
711 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
712 recent to work correctly
713 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
714 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
715 edit the ".hosts" file.
716 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
717 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
718 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
719 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
720 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
721 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
722 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
723 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
724 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
725 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
726 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
727 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
728 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
729 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
730 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
731 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
732 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
733 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
734 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
735 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
736 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
737 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
738 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
739 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
740 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
741 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
742 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
743 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
744 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
745 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
746 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
747 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
748 and postproc modules.
749 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
750 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
751 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
752 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
754 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
756 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
757 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
759 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
760 * Glide video output module has been removed.
766 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
768 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
769 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
772 * Vastly improved playlist support:
773 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
775 * Shoutcast TV listings
776 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
778 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
779 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
781 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
784 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
785 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
786 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
787 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
788 * JACK audio input support
789 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
790 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
791 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
792 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
793 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
794 * Experimental EyeTV access module
795 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
796 (available as a separate download).
797 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
799 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
800 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
801 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
803 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
804 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
807 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
808 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
809 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
810 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
812 * APEv1/2 tags support
813 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
814 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
816 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
817 * TiVo Series 2 support
818 * CD+G karaoke Files support
823 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
824 * Flash Screen Video support
825 * CamStudio Screen Video support
826 * DosBox Capture support
827 * Karl Morton's Video support
828 * limited atrac3 support
830 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
831 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
832 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
834 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
835 * NellyMoser ASAO support
836 * APE (Monkey audio) support
837 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
838 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
841 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
842 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
843 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
844 * AQTitle subtitles support
845 * MKV USF subtitles support
846 * HTML-based subtitles support
847 * MPSub subtitles support
848 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
849 * MPL2 subtitles support
850 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
851 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
852 * Realtext subtitle support
853 * DKS subtitle support
854 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
855 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
858 * Flash Screen Video support
859 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
861 Video outputs and filters:
862 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
863 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
864 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
865 * New puzzle video output filter
866 * Re-written motion detection video filter
867 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
869 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
870 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
871 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
872 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
873 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
874 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
875 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
876 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
877 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
878 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
879 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
880 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
881 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
882 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
884 Audio outputs and filters:
885 * Replay gain support
886 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
887 new scaletempo audio filter)
888 * New spatializer audio filter
889 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
892 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
893 * New RTP payload formats:
894 * Speex voice audio codec
895 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
896 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
897 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
898 * DCCP transport for RTP
899 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
904 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
905 end-user suitable way.
906 * Improved user interaction
907 * Improved mouse gestures
908 * Vastly improved Update checker
909 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
911 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
912 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
914 * Improved video output features
915 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
916 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
917 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
918 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
919 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
921 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
922 if libncursesw is available.
923 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
924 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
925 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
927 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
928 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
929 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
930 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
931 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
932 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
933 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
934 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
937 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
938 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
939 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
942 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
943 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
944 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
945 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
946 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
947 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
950 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
951 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
961 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
962 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
963 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
966 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
967 ----------------------------------
970 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
973 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
974 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
975 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
976 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
977 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
978 * Updated Polish translation
981 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
982 ----------------------------------
985 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
986 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
987 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
990 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
991 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
992 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
993 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
994 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
995 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
996 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
997 to an unexpected application termination
998 * New Serbian translation
999 * Updated Romanian translation
1002 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1003 ----------------------------------
1006 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1007 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1008 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1009 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1010 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1011 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1012 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1013 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1016 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1017 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1018 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1019 * Fixed AAC resampling
1020 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1021 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1024 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1025 ----------------------------------
1028 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1029 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1030 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1031 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1032 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1035 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1036 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1037 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1038 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1039 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1042 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1043 ----------------------------------
1046 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1047 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1050 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1051 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1052 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1053 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1055 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1059 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1062 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1065 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1068 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1071 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1072 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1073 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1074 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1075 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1077 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1078 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1079 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1080 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1083 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1086 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1087 ----------------------------------
1090 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1091 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1092 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1094 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1095 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1097 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1098 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1101 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1103 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1104 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1105 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1106 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1107 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1108 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1109 two different movies
1110 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1111 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1112 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1115 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1118 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1119 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1120 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1121 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1124 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1125 ----------------------------------
1127 Various bugfixes, notably:
1128 * Windows Vista compatibility
1129 * Cropping in Direct3D
1130 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1131 * RSS filter string overflow
1133 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1135 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1136 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1139 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1140 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1143 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1146 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1149 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1152 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1153 ----------------------------------
1155 Various bugfixes, notably:
1156 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1157 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1158 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1159 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1160 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1161 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1164 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1165 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1168 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1170 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1171 * Diverse usability improvements
1172 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1173 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1174 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1177 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1178 ---------------------------------
1180 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1181 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1184 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1187 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1188 --------------------------------
1191 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1194 * Support for RTSP authentication
1195 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1196 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1197 * ATSC support for DVB input
1198 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1199 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1200 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1203 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1204 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1205 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1206 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1207 * Matroska WavPack support
1208 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1209 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1210 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1213 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1214 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1215 * Improved libcaca support
1219 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1220 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1222 * Systray support in skins
1224 * Support for Apple Remote control
1225 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1226 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1227 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1228 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1230 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1233 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1234 Windows 9x/ME users:
1235 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1236 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1237 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1238 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1239 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1241 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1242 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1251 * Updates to the libvlc API
1252 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1255 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1256 --------------------------------
1259 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1260 * Support for downloading updates
1264 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1265 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1266 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1267 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1269 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1270 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1271 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1274 * Cook (Real audio) support
1276 Playlist / Services discovery:
1277 * XSPF playlist support
1279 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1282 * New JACK audio output
1285 * New video filters:
1286 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1287 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1288 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1289 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1290 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1291 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1294 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1297 * System to inform the user and request information
1298 - HTTP authentication
1302 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1303 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1304 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1307 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1308 - Improved playlist handling
1309 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1311 - Embedded Video output
1312 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1313 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1314 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1315 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1316 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1318 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1319 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1322 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1325 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1326 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1327 * Growl "Now playing" support
1330 * Ability to log to syslog
1331 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1334 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1336 * A bit more automatic testing
1339 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1340 ---------------------------------
1343 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1344 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1347 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1348 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1351 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1354 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1355 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1361 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1364 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1365 --------------------------------
1368 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1372 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1373 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1374 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1377 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1378 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1379 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1380 * GnomeVFS input module
1381 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1382 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1385 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1386 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1387 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1390 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1391 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1397 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1398 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1401 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1402 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1403 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1406 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1408 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1409 - New extended controls panel
1410 - New bookmarks window
1411 - Fixed playlist sorting
1412 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1414 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1415 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1416 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1417 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1421 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1422 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1424 - Include macro to include other files
1428 * Should now work outside IE as well
1431 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1434 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1435 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1438 The following languages were added:
1442 * Simplified Chinese
1443 The following languages were re-added:
1447 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1448 --------------------------------
1451 * Rewrite of the playlist
1453 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1454 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1455 * Preferences improvements:
1456 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1457 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1459 * Core image manipulation support
1460 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1461 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1462 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1463 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1464 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1465 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1466 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1467 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1468 * Access filter architecture
1469 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1470 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1474 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1475 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1476 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1477 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1478 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1479 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1480 * Massive Matroska improvements
1481 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1483 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1484 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1485 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1486 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1487 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1489 Decoders / Encoders:
1490 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1491 * PNG decoder/encoder
1492 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1493 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1496 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1499 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1500 * Brand new SAP module
1501 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1502 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1503 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1504 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1505 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1506 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1510 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1513 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1514 * Image file video output (png)
1515 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1516 * Improvements to wall video filter
1517 * Support for font color and opacity
1523 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1524 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1525 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1529 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1530 - Improved preferences
1531 - Improvements to the wizard
1532 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1534 - Redesigned playlist
1535 - Improved preferences
1537 - Support for multiple actions
1540 - Support for the new playlist system
1542 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1545 * Screensaver disabling fix
1546 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1547 * Support for no-decoration windows
1550 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1551 * The OpenGL video output is back
1552 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1553 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1554 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1555 is not yet available in the new module
1556 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1559 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1568 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1571 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1574 The following languages were added:
1580 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1581 --------------------------------
1584 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1585 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1588 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1589 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1590 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1593 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1596 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1599 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1602 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1603 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1604 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1608 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1610 * Support of playlist group announcement
1613 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1614 --------------------------------
1617 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1618 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1619 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1620 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1621 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1622 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1625 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1626 (Stream your desktop)
1627 * Improved DVD support:
1628 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1629 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1630 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1631 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1632 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1633 (selection of titles/chapters).
1636 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1637 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1638 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1639 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1640 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1641 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1642 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1643 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1644 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1645 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1648 * G.726 audio support
1649 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1650 * MPEG-4 text support
1651 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1652 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1653 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1657 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1658 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1659 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1660 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1661 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1662 * DVB subtitles encoder
1663 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1664 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1666 * Text track muxing for mp4
1667 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1668 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1669 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1670 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1671 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1672 * Improved ASF muxer
1674 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1675 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1676 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1679 * New audio equalizer filter
1680 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1681 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1682 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1683 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1686 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1687 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1688 with support for effects.
1689 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1690 - New filters can be streamed.
1691 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1692 - Centralized scaling and blending
1694 - "time", to display current time
1695 - "marq", to display a marquee
1698 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1699 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1700 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1701 * A few skins2 improvements
1702 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1703 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1704 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1705 * Improved CORBA control module
1708 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1709 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1710 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1713 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1714 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1715 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1718 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1719 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1720 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1721 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1722 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1725 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1728 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1729 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1732 * Server/client network synchronization module
1733 * VBrick streams fully supported
1734 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1738 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1739 --------------------------------
1742 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1743 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1744 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1745 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1748 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1749 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1750 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1751 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1752 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1753 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1754 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1757 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1758 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1759 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1760 * Improved directory access module.
1761 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1762 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1763 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1764 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1765 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1768 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1769 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1770 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1773 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1774 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1775 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1778 * Improved session announcement system.
1779 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1780 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1781 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1782 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1783 * Improved transrater.
1784 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1785 * New configuration system.
1786 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1789 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1790 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1791 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1792 * Supports scheduling.
1793 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1794 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1797 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1798 - Ability to embed video output.
1799 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1800 - Lots of improvements.
1801 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1802 - New design and set of icons.
1803 - Ability to embed video output.
1804 - Support for hotkeys.
1805 - Support for bookmarks.
1807 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1808 - Better hotkeys handling.
1811 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1812 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1813 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1814 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1817 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1818 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1819 * Improved Windows installer.
1825 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1826 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1829 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1830 ---------------------------------
1833 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1834 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1837 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1838 --------------------------------
1841 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1842 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1845 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1846 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1847 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1848 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1851 * Internal improvments
1852 * Improved import/export
1855 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1857 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1858 small and strange formats.
1860 * New MOD audio demux.
1861 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1862 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1863 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1864 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1867 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1868 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1869 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1875 * New opengl video output plugin.
1878 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1879 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1882 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1883 --------------------------------
1886 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1887 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1888 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1889 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1890 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1891 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1892 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1893 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1896 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1901 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1902 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1903 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1904 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1905 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1906 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1907 * Better Icecast support.
1908 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1909 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1912 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1913 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1914 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1915 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1916 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1917 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1918 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1921 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1922 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1923 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1924 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1925 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1926 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1927 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1928 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1929 * Preliminary RTP support.
1930 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1935 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1936 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1938 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1939 - Improvements and help in preferences
1940 - New streaming wizard
1941 - Revised Disc Open menu
1943 - Improvements of the standard pages
1944 - Support for new commands
1945 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1948 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1949 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1952 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1953 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1954 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1955 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1956 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1957 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1958 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1959 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1960 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1963 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1965 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1966 * Support for Panther.
1967 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1968 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1971 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1972 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1973 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1974 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1975 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1976 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1977 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1978 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1981 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1982 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1983 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1986 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1989 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1990 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1991 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1992 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1995 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1996 --------------------------------
1999 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2002 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2003 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2006 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2007 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2010 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2013 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2014 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2017 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2020 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2023 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2024 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2028 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2029 --------------------------------
2032 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2033 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2037 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2038 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2039 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2041 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2042 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2045 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2048 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2051 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2052 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2056 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2057 --------------------------------
2060 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2061 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2065 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2066 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2067 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2068 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2069 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2072 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2073 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2074 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2077 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2078 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2079 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2082 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2083 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2084 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2085 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2086 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2089 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2090 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2091 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2094 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2097 * Improved build system.
2098 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2099 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2100 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2101 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2104 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2105 --------------------------------
2108 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2111 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2112 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2113 * Video 4 Linux support
2114 * CD Digital Audio support
2115 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2118 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2119 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2120 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2121 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2124 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2125 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2126 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2127 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2128 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2129 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2130 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2133 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2134 * New HTTP remote control interface
2137 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2138 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2139 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2140 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2143 * New reset option for the preferences
2144 * You can set your language in the prefences
2145 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2146 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2147 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2148 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2151 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2152 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2153 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2156 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2157 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2158 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2159 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2160 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2161 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2162 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2163 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2164 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2165 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2168 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2169 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2170 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2171 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2172 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2173 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2174 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2177 * Interface localization
2178 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2179 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2180 * New full-featured Preferences window
2183 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2184 --------------------------------
2187 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2188 * support for skins at the interface level
2189 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2190 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2191 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2192 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2193 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2196 * fixed HTTP redirects
2197 * support for opening an entire directory
2198 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2199 * new video4linux access plug-in
2200 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2203 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2204 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2205 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2208 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2209 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2210 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2211 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2212 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2213 * new codec for raw I420 video
2214 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2217 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2218 (although it still misses some important features)
2219 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2222 * new HTTP output support
2223 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2224 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2227 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2230 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2233 * reorderable playlist
2234 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2235 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2236 * support for mono audio output devices
2237 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2238 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2239 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2240 * the messages window remembers more lines
2241 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2242 * http and ogg stream output options
2243 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2246 * new skinnable interface
2247 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2249 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2250 * support for FLAC audio format
2251 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2253 * network tab in the interface
2254 * "apply" handling in preferences
2257 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2258 ---------------------------------
2261 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2262 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2263 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2264 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2266 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2267 * DTS S/PDIF support
2270 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2271 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2272 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2273 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2276 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2277 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2280 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2283 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2286 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2288 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2289 * rc interface is now fully useable
2290 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2293 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2294 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2295 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2296 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2297 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2299 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2300 * support for mouse gestures
2301 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2304 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2305 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2308 * improved ID3 tag detection
2309 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2310 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2311 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2313 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2316 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2317 ---------------------------------
2320 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2321 English was set as the preferred language
2324 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * new mouse gesture interface
2329 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2333 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2334 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2335 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2338 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2339 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2343 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2346 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2347 without the user consent
2350 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2352 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2353 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2354 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2357 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2358 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2359 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2360 * playlist enhancements
2361 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2362 * new step forward/step backward commands
2363 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2364 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2365 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2368 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2369 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2370 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2373 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2374 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2377 * native video output is working again
2378 * only commandline interface support
2379 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2382 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2383 --------------------------------
2386 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2387 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2388 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2389 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2390 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2391 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2392 and A/52 streams are supported)
2393 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2398 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2399 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2400 * VCD entry points support
2401 * VCD image file support
2404 * support for *.asf format
2405 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2406 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2407 * support for ogg encapsulation
2408 * support for raw DV format
2409 * support for *.wav format
2410 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2413 Stream discovery & playlists:
2414 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2415 * support for .m3u file format
2416 * support for .asx file format
2417 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2420 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2421 (only available with the .avi demux)
2422 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2423 * support for raw PCM data
2424 * support for Cinepak video codec
2425 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2426 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2427 * support for Xvid codec
2428 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2429 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2430 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2432 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2434 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2437 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2440 * new WxWindows interface
2441 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2442 device and the channels configuration
2443 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2444 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2445 format that VLC can play
2446 * new swedish translation
2447 * enhancements of the playlist window
2448 * new messages window to see debug info
2449 * fixed a few crashes
2452 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2453 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2454 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2455 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working