1 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2
2 -------------------------------
5 * Avformat fps displaying fix
6 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
9 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoqued issues when playback
10 of mono streams, especially on Windows
13 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
14 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
15 * fix console output encoding
17 Interface and extensions:
18 * Youtube and other scripts updates
19 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
22 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
23 --------------------------------
26 * New capabilities for libVLC:
27 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
28 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
29 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
30 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
31 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
32 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
33 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
34 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
35 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
36 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
37 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
38 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
39 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
40 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
41 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
45 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
46 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
47 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
48 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
49 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
52 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
55 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
56 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
57 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
61 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
64 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
65 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
66 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
69 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
70 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
71 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
72 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
75 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
76 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
79 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
80 --------------------------------
82 Important changes for users:
83 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
84 Update to alsa-lib v1.0.23-2-g8d80d5f or later, or use the libpulse audio
85 output plugin instead of the ALSA one (if you have PulseAudio).
87 Important changes for packagers:
88 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
89 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
90 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
91 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
92 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
94 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
96 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
97 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
98 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
99 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
100 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
104 * Support for the sftp protocol
105 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
106 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
107 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
108 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
109 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
112 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
113 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
114 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
116 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
117 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
118 * Invmem module improvements
119 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
120 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
121 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
122 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
123 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
124 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
125 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
126 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
127 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
128 * Support for VP8 codec
129 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
132 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
133 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
134 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
135 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
136 * Various EGP improvements
137 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
138 * Metadata and cover art improvements
141 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
142 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
143 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
144 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
145 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
146 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
147 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
148 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
149 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
150 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
151 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
154 * New content extensions framework for lua
157 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
158 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
159 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
160 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
161 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
162 * NEON assembly audio converter module
163 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
166 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
167 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
168 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
169 * Podcast images are now displayed
172 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
173 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
174 * Service discovery based on libudev
175 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
178 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
179 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
180 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
181 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
182 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
183 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
184 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
187 * New smem module, streaming to memory
188 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
189 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
192 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
194 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
195 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
198 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
201 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
202 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
203 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
204 by Andy Matuschak et al.
205 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
206 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
207 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
210 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
211 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
214 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
215 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
216 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
220 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
221 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
222 * Improved Solaris port
225 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
226 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
229 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
230 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
231 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
232 * transrate: broken since too long
233 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
234 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
235 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
236 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
237 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
238 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
239 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
240 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
241 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
242 * cddax: use cdda instead.
243 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
244 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
245 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
246 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
249 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
250 --------------------------------
253 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
255 Decoders/Packetizers:
256 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
259 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
260 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
261 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
262 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
263 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
266 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
267 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
270 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
271 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
274 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
275 and Walloon translations updated
276 * Sinhala translation started
279 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
280 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
283 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
284 --------------------------------
287 * SubRip extra styles improvements
288 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
291 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
294 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
295 increase performance and fix x264 issues
298 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
299 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
300 Russian, Slovak translation updates
301 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
304 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
305 --------------------------------
308 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
309 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
312 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
313 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
316 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
317 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
320 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
323 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
324 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
327 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
328 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
331 * New Walloon translation
332 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
335 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
336 --------------------------------
339 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
340 regressions in most popular drivers
341 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
344 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
345 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
346 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
349 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
350 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
353 * Update for appletrailers lua script
354 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
355 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
356 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
357 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
360 * New udev module for linux
363 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
366 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
369 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
370 --------------------------------
373 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
374 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
375 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
378 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
379 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
382 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
383 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
386 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
389 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
390 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
391 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
392 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
395 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
396 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
397 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
398 - no support for Goom and SDL
399 - limited text rendering support
400 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
403 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
404 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
405 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
406 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
407 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
408 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
409 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
410 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
411 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
415 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
418 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
421 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
422 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
423 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
424 Arabic and French translation updates
427 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
428 --------------------------------
431 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
432 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
433 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
434 * Fix Dailymotion access script
435 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
436 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
439 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
440 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
443 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
444 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
445 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
448 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
451 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
452 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
455 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
456 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
457 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
458 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
459 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
460 * Fix various crashes
463 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
465 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
468 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
469 ---------------------------------
473 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
474 See 'Access:' for more info.
475 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
478 * Instantaneous pausing
479 * Frame-by-Frame playback
480 * Finer speed control
481 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
482 * Timeshift for most medias
483 * RTSP trickplay support
484 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
487 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
488 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
489 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
490 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
491 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
492 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
493 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
494 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
495 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
496 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
499 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
500 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
501 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
502 * Metadata for mod files are supported
503 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
504 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
505 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
508 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
509 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
512 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
513 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
514 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
515 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
516 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
517 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
518 * DVB scanning on linux
519 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
520 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
521 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
522 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
523 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
524 * MTP device access on Unix
525 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
526 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
529 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
530 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
531 Windows and Mac OS X.
534 * Export the playlist in HTML
535 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
536 * Better metadata handling and reading
538 Linux/Windows interface:
539 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
540 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
541 * Recently played items list
542 * Interface toolbar customizations
543 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
546 - Improvements on many dialogs
547 - New dialog for plugins listing
548 - Fixed-size mode for videos
549 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
550 * Better integration in GTK environments
553 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
554 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
555 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
556 * Additional usability improvements
559 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
560 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
561 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
562 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
563 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
566 * New Maemo port with:
567 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
568 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
571 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
574 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
575 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
576 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
577 * Support for latest iSight models
580 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
581 * Surround support for PulseAudio
584 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
585 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
586 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
587 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
588 The old image video output has been removed.
589 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
590 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
593 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
601 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
602 --------------------------------------
608 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
609 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
610 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
611 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
612 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
613 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
614 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
616 Various fixes to the following modules:
619 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
620 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
623 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
628 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
629 ---------------------------------
632 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
633 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
636 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
637 ---------------------------------
640 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
643 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
646 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
647 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
648 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
649 main controller window.
650 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
653 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
658 * Updates of other localizations
661 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
662 * Lots of small bugfixes.
663 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
664 * Telnet fixes on Windows
665 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
668 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
669 ---------------------------------
672 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
674 Bunch of small bugfixes.
677 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
678 --------------------------------
683 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
684 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
687 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
688 --------------------------------
690 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
691 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
694 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
697 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
698 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
701 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
702 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
705 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
706 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
707 * Various fixed in playlist
710 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
713 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
716 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
717 ------------------------------------
719 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
720 * Fixes several memory leaks.
723 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
724 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
725 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
728 * Stability fix for the video output.
731 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
732 --------------------------------
735 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
736 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
737 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
738 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
739 * Fixed update system bugs
740 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
743 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
744 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
745 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
746 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
747 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
748 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
749 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
750 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
751 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
752 modern Mac OS X versions
755 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
756 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
758 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
759 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
762 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
763 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
764 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
765 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
766 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
767 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
770 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
771 --------------------------------
773 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
774 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
778 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
779 --------------------------------
781 * Multiple bug fixes.
784 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
785 ---------------------------------
789 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
790 recent to work correctly
791 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
792 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
793 edit the ".hosts" file.
794 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
795 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
796 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
797 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
798 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
799 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
800 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
801 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
802 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
803 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
804 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
805 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
806 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
807 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
808 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
809 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
810 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
811 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
812 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
813 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
814 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
815 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
816 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
817 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
818 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
819 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
820 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
821 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
822 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
823 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
824 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
825 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
826 and postproc modules.
827 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
828 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
829 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
830 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
832 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
834 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
835 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
837 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
838 * Glide video output module has been removed.
844 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
846 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
847 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
850 * Vastly improved playlist support:
851 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
853 * Shoutcast TV listings
854 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
856 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
857 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
859 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
862 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
863 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
864 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
865 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
866 * JACK audio input support
867 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
868 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
869 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
870 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
871 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
872 * Experimental EyeTV access module
873 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
874 (available as a separate download).
875 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
877 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
878 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
879 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
881 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
882 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
885 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
886 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
887 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
888 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
890 * APEv1/2 tags support
891 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
892 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
894 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
895 * TiVo Series 2 support
896 * CD+G karaoke Files support
901 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
902 * Flash Screen Video support
903 * CamStudio Screen Video support
904 * DosBox Capture support
905 * Karl Morton's Video support
906 * limited atrac3 support
908 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
909 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
910 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
912 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
913 * NellyMoser ASAO support
914 * APE (Monkey audio) support
915 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
916 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
919 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
920 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
921 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
922 * AQTitle subtitles support
923 * MKV USF subtitles support
924 * HTML-based subtitles support
925 * MPSub subtitles support
926 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
927 * MPL2 subtitles support
928 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
929 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
930 * Realtext subtitle support
931 * DKS subtitle support
932 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
933 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
936 * Flash Screen Video support
937 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
939 Video outputs and filters:
940 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
941 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
942 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
943 * New puzzle video output filter
944 * Re-written motion detection video filter
945 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
947 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
948 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
949 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
950 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
951 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
952 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
953 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
954 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
955 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
956 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
957 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
958 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
959 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
960 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
962 Audio outputs and filters:
963 * Replay gain support
964 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
965 new scaletempo audio filter)
966 * New spatializer audio filter
967 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
970 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
971 * New RTP payload formats:
972 * Speex voice audio codec
973 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
974 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
975 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
976 * DCCP transport for RTP
977 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
982 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
983 end-user suitable way.
984 * Improved user interaction
985 * Improved mouse gestures
986 * Vastly improved Update checker
987 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
989 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
990 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
992 * Improved video output features
993 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
994 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
995 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
996 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
997 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
999 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1000 if libncursesw is available.
1001 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1002 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1003 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1005 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1006 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1007 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1008 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1009 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1010 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1011 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1012 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1015 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1016 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1017 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1020 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1021 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1022 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1023 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1024 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1025 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1028 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1029 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1039 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1040 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1041 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1044 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1045 ----------------------------------
1048 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1051 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1052 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1053 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1054 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1055 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1056 * Updated Polish translation
1059 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1060 ----------------------------------
1063 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1064 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1065 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1068 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1069 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1070 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1071 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1072 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1073 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1074 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1075 to an unexpected application termination
1076 * New Serbian translation
1077 * Updated Romanian translation
1080 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1081 ----------------------------------
1084 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1085 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1086 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1087 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1088 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1089 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1090 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1091 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1094 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1095 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1096 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1097 * Fixed AAC resampling
1098 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1099 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1102 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1103 ----------------------------------
1106 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1107 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1108 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1109 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1110 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1113 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1114 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1115 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1116 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1117 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1120 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1121 ----------------------------------
1124 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1125 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1128 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1129 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1130 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1131 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1133 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1137 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1140 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1143 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1146 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1149 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1150 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1151 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1152 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1153 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1155 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1156 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1157 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1158 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1161 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1164 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1165 ----------------------------------
1168 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1169 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1170 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1172 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1173 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1175 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1176 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1179 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1181 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1182 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1183 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1184 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1185 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1186 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1187 two different movies
1188 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1189 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1190 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1193 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1196 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1197 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1198 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1199 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1202 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1203 ----------------------------------
1205 Various bugfixes, notably:
1206 * Windows Vista compatibility
1207 * Cropping in Direct3D
1208 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1209 * RSS filter string overflow
1211 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1213 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1214 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1217 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1218 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1221 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1224 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1227 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1230 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1231 ----------------------------------
1233 Various bugfixes, notably:
1234 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1235 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1236 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1237 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1238 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1239 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1242 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1243 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1246 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1248 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1249 * Diverse usability improvements
1250 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1251 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1252 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1255 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1256 ---------------------------------
1258 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1259 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1262 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1265 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1266 --------------------------------
1269 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1272 * Support for RTSP authentication
1273 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1274 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1275 * ATSC support for DVB input
1276 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1277 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1278 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1281 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1282 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1283 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1284 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1285 * Matroska WavPack support
1286 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1287 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1288 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1291 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1292 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1293 * Improved libcaca support
1297 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1298 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1300 * Systray support in skins
1302 * Support for Apple Remote control
1303 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1304 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1305 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1306 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1308 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1311 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1312 Windows 9x/ME users:
1313 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1314 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1315 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1316 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1317 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1319 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1320 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1329 * Updates to the libvlc API
1330 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1333 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1334 --------------------------------
1337 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1338 * Support for downloading updates
1342 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1343 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1344 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1345 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1347 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1348 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1349 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1352 * Cook (Real audio) support
1354 Playlist / Services discovery:
1355 * XSPF playlist support
1357 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1360 * New JACK audio output
1363 * New video filters:
1364 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1365 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1366 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1367 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1368 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1369 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1372 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1375 * System to inform the user and request information
1376 - HTTP authentication
1380 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1381 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1382 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1385 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1386 - Improved playlist handling
1387 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1389 - Embedded Video output
1390 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1391 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1392 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1393 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1394 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1396 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1397 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1400 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1403 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1404 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1405 * Growl "Now playing" support
1408 * Ability to log to syslog
1409 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1412 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1414 * A bit more automatic testing
1417 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1418 ---------------------------------
1421 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1422 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1425 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1426 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1429 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1432 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1433 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1439 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1442 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1443 --------------------------------
1446 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1450 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1451 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1452 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1455 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1456 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1457 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1458 * GnomeVFS input module
1459 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1460 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1463 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1464 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1465 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1468 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1469 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1475 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1476 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1479 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1480 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1481 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1484 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1486 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1487 - New extended controls panel
1488 - New bookmarks window
1489 - Fixed playlist sorting
1490 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1492 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1493 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1494 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1495 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1499 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1500 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1502 - Include macro to include other files
1506 * Should now work outside IE as well
1509 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1512 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1513 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1516 The following languages were added:
1520 * Simplified Chinese
1521 The following languages were re-added:
1525 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1526 --------------------------------
1529 * Rewrite of the playlist
1531 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1532 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1533 * Preferences improvements:
1534 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1535 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1537 * Core image manipulation support
1538 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1539 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1540 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1541 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1542 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1543 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1544 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1545 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1546 * Access filter architecture
1547 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1548 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1552 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1553 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1554 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1555 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1556 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1557 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1558 * Massive Matroska improvements
1559 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1561 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1562 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1563 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1564 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1565 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1567 Decoders / Encoders:
1568 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1569 * PNG decoder/encoder
1570 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1571 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1574 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1577 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1578 * Brand new SAP module
1579 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1580 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1581 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1582 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1583 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1584 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1588 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1591 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1592 * Image file video output (png)
1593 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1594 * Improvements to wall video filter
1595 * Support for font color and opacity
1601 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1602 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1603 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1607 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1608 - Improved preferences
1609 - Improvements to the wizard
1610 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1612 - Redesigned playlist
1613 - Improved preferences
1615 - Support for multiple actions
1618 - Support for the new playlist system
1620 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1623 * Screensaver disabling fix
1624 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1625 * Support for no-decoration windows
1628 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1629 * The OpenGL video output is back
1630 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1631 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1632 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1633 is not yet available in the new module
1634 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1637 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1646 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1649 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1652 The following languages were added:
1658 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1659 --------------------------------
1662 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1663 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1666 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1667 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1668 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1671 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1674 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1677 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1680 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1681 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1682 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1686 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1688 * Support of playlist group announcement
1691 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1692 --------------------------------
1695 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1696 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1697 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1698 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1699 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1700 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1703 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1704 (Stream your desktop)
1705 * Improved DVD support:
1706 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1707 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1708 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1709 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1710 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1711 (selection of titles/chapters).
1714 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1715 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1716 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1717 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1718 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1719 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1720 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1721 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1722 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1723 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1726 * G.726 audio support
1727 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1728 * MPEG-4 text support
1729 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1730 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1731 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1735 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1736 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1737 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1738 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1739 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1740 * DVB subtitles encoder
1741 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1742 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1744 * Text track muxing for mp4
1745 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1746 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1747 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1748 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1749 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1750 * Improved ASF muxer
1752 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1753 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1754 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1757 * New audio equalizer filter
1758 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1759 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1760 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1761 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1764 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1765 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1766 with support for effects.
1767 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1768 - New filters can be streamed.
1769 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1770 - Centralized scaling and blending
1772 - "time", to display current time
1773 - "marq", to display a marquee
1776 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1777 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1778 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1779 * A few skins2 improvements
1780 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1781 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1782 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1783 * Improved CORBA control module
1786 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1787 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1788 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1791 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1792 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1793 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1796 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1797 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1798 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1799 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1800 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1803 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1806 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1807 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1810 * Server/client network synchronization module
1811 * VBrick streams fully supported
1812 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1816 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1817 --------------------------------
1820 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1821 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1822 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1823 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1826 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1827 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1828 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1829 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1830 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1831 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1832 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1835 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1836 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1837 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1838 * Improved directory access module.
1839 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1840 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1841 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1842 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1843 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1846 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1847 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1848 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1851 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1852 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1853 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1856 * Improved session announcement system.
1857 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1858 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1859 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1860 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1861 * Improved transrater.
1862 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1863 * New configuration system.
1864 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1867 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1868 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1869 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1870 * Supports scheduling.
1871 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1872 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1875 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1876 - Ability to embed video output.
1877 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1878 - Lots of improvements.
1879 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1880 - New design and set of icons.
1881 - Ability to embed video output.
1882 - Support for hotkeys.
1883 - Support for bookmarks.
1885 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1886 - Better hotkeys handling.
1889 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1890 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1891 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1892 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1895 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1896 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1897 * Improved Windows installer.
1903 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1904 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1907 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1908 ---------------------------------
1911 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1912 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1915 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1916 --------------------------------
1919 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1920 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1923 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1924 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1925 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1926 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1929 * Internal improvments
1930 * Improved import/export
1933 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1935 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1936 small and strange formats.
1938 * New MOD audio demux.
1939 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1940 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1941 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1942 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1945 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1946 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1947 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1953 * New opengl video output plugin.
1956 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1957 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1960 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1961 --------------------------------
1964 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1965 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1966 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1967 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1968 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1969 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1970 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1971 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1974 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1979 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1980 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1981 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1982 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1983 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1984 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1985 * Better Icecast support.
1986 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1987 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1990 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1991 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1992 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1993 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1994 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1995 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1996 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1999 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2000 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2001 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2002 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2003 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2004 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2005 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2006 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2007 * Preliminary RTP support.
2008 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2013 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2014 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2016 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2017 - Improvements and help in preferences
2018 - New streaming wizard
2019 - Revised Disc Open menu
2021 - Improvements of the standard pages
2022 - Support for new commands
2023 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2026 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2027 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2030 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2031 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2032 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2033 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2034 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2035 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2036 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2037 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2038 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2041 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2043 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2044 * Support for Panther.
2045 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2046 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2049 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2050 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2051 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2052 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2053 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2054 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2055 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2056 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2059 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2060 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2061 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2064 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2067 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2068 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2069 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2070 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2073 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2074 --------------------------------
2077 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2080 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2081 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2084 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2085 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2088 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2091 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2092 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2095 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2098 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2101 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2102 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2106 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2107 --------------------------------
2110 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2111 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2115 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2116 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2117 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2119 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2120 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2123 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2126 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2129 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2130 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2134 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2135 --------------------------------
2138 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2139 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2143 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2144 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2145 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2146 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2147 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2150 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2151 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2152 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2155 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2156 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2157 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2160 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2161 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2162 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2163 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2164 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2167 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2168 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2169 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2172 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2175 * Improved build system.
2176 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2177 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2178 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2179 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2182 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2183 --------------------------------
2186 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2189 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2190 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2191 * Video 4 Linux support
2192 * CD Digital Audio support
2193 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2196 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2197 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2198 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2199 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2202 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2203 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2204 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2205 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2206 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2207 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2208 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2211 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2212 * New HTTP remote control interface
2215 * 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.
2216 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2217 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2218 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2221 * New reset option for the preferences
2222 * You can set your language in the prefences
2223 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2224 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2225 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2226 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2229 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2230 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2231 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2234 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2235 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2236 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2237 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2238 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2239 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2240 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2241 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2242 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2243 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2246 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2247 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2248 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2249 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2250 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2251 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2252 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2255 * Interface localization
2256 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2257 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2258 * New full-featured Preferences window
2261 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2266 * support for skins at the interface level
2267 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2268 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2269 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2270 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2271 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2274 * fixed HTTP redirects
2275 * support for opening an entire directory
2276 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2277 * new video4linux access plug-in
2278 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2281 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2282 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2283 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2286 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2287 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2288 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2289 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2290 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2291 * new codec for raw I420 video
2292 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2295 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2296 (although it still misses some important features)
2297 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2300 * new HTTP output support
2301 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2302 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2305 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2308 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2311 * reorderable playlist
2312 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2313 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2314 * support for mono audio output devices
2315 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2316 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2317 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2318 * the messages window remembers more lines
2319 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2320 * http and ogg stream output options
2321 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2324 * new skinnable interface
2325 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2327 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2328 * support for FLAC audio format
2329 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2331 * network tab in the interface
2332 * "apply" handling in preferences
2335 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2336 ---------------------------------
2339 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2340 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2341 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2342 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2344 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2345 * DTS S/PDIF support
2348 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2349 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2350 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2351 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2354 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2355 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2358 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2361 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2364 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2366 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2367 * rc interface is now fully useable
2368 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2371 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2372 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2373 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2374 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2375 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2377 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2378 * support for mouse gestures
2379 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2382 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2383 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2386 * improved ID3 tag detection
2387 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2388 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2389 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2391 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2394 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2395 ---------------------------------
2398 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2399 English was set as the preferred language
2402 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2403 --------------------------------
2406 * new mouse gesture interface
2407 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2411 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2412 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2413 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2416 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2417 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2421 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2424 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2425 without the user consent
2428 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2430 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2431 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2432 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2435 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2436 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2437 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2438 * playlist enhancements
2439 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2440 * new step forward/step backward commands
2441 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2442 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2443 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2446 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2447 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2448 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2451 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2452 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2455 * native video output is working again
2456 * only commandline interface support
2457 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2460 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2461 --------------------------------
2464 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2465 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2466 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2467 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2468 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2469 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2470 and A/52 streams are supported)
2471 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2476 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2477 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2478 * VCD entry points support
2479 * VCD image file support
2482 * support for *.asf format
2483 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2484 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2485 * support for ogg encapsulation
2486 * support for raw DV format
2487 * support for *.wav format
2488 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2491 Stream discovery & playlists:
2492 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2493 * support for .m3u file format
2494 * support for .asx file format
2495 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2498 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2499 (only available with the .avi demux)
2500 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2501 * support for raw PCM data
2502 * support for Cinepak video codec
2503 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2504 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2505 * support for Xvid codec
2506 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2507 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2508 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2510 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2512 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2515 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2518 * new WxWindows interface
2519 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2520 device and the channels configuration
2521 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2522 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2523 format that VLC can play
2524 * new swedish translation
2525 * enhancements of the playlist window
2526 * new messages window to see debug info
2527 * fixed a few crashes
2530 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2531 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2532 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2533 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working