1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
7 * Support portable version of Windows build
8 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
9 and rewrite the parsing of those files
10 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
13 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
14 * New SMB access module using libdsm
15 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
16 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
17 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
18 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
19 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
20 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
21 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
22 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
23 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
24 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
25 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
26 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
27 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
28 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
29 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
30 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
31 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
34 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
35 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
36 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
37 * Support for Daala video
38 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
39 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
40 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
41 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
42 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
43 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
44 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
45 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
46 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
47 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
48 * Basic TTML subtitles support
49 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
50 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
51 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
52 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
53 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
57 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
58 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
59 * Support Daala in Ogg
60 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
61 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
62 * Support SBV subtitles
63 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
64 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
65 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
66 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
67 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
68 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
69 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
70 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
71 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
72 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
73 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
74 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
75 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
76 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
77 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
80 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
81 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
82 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
85 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
86 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
87 * Added Tizen audio module.
89 Audio filters and output:
90 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
93 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
94 * Wayland shell surface window provider
95 * Wayland shared memory video output
96 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
97 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
98 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
99 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
100 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
101 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
102 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
105 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
108 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
109 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
110 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
113 * Chromecast output module
114 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
117 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
120 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
121 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
122 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
126 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
127 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
130 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
131 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
132 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
133 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
134 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
137 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
140 * Batch convert support
143 * Support key accelerators
146 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
147 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
148 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
149 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
150 This allows to attach media events between create and start
151 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
152 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
153 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
154 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
155 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
156 identifier (if there is one available)
157 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
158 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
159 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
160 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
161 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
162 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
163 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
164 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
165 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
168 * Support for the SystemD Journal
169 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
170 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
171 * New Android module for logging
174 * remove langfromtelx
175 * remove ZPL playlist format
176 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
177 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
178 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
182 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
183 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
184 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
185 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
188 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
189 --------------------------------
192 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
193 * Fix some VP9 decoding
195 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
196 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
197 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
198 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
203 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
204 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
205 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
206 * Revert to older ASX code
207 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
210 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
211 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
212 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
215 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
216 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
217 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
220 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
221 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
222 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
225 * Fix recent items behaviour
226 * Fix rotation filter activation
227 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
230 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
231 * Fix extensions registration during install
232 * Fix extensions dialog crash
233 * Default to no DxVA decoding
236 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
239 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
240 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
241 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
242 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
243 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
244 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
247 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
248 --------------------------------
251 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
252 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
255 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
256 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
257 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
258 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
261 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
262 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
263 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
264 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
266 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
267 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
268 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
271 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
272 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
273 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
274 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
275 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
276 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
277 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
278 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
279 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
280 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
281 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
282 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
283 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
284 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
285 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
286 * New jpeg image decoder
287 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
288 * New SVG image decoder
289 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
290 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
291 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
294 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
295 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
296 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
297 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
298 * New png image encoder using libpng
301 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
302 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
303 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
304 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
305 synchronization and tracks exclusion
306 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
307 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
308 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
309 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
310 * Support Opus in MKV
312 * Basic support for WebVTT
313 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
314 * Support HDPR TS files
315 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
316 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
317 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
318 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
319 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
320 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
321 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
322 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
323 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
324 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
325 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
326 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
329 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
330 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
331 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
332 * New Android native window provider module
333 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
334 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
335 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
338 * New Oldmovie effect filter
339 * New VHS effect filter
340 * New Freeze effect filter
341 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
342 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
343 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
346 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
347 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
348 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
349 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
350 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
351 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
354 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
355 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
357 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
360 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
361 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
362 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
363 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
364 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
365 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
366 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
367 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
368 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
370 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
371 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
372 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
375 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
376 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
379 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
380 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
383 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
384 * Add record button in Qt menus
385 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
386 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
387 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
390 * Support for OS X Yosemite
391 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
392 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
393 * Fixes for advanced preferences
394 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
395 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
396 * Option to increase playlist font size
397 * Improved crash log reporting
400 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
401 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
402 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
403 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
406 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
409 * iOS video output: use ios2
410 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
411 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
414 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
415 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
416 * Update of all translations:
417 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
418 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
419 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
420 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
421 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
422 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
423 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
426 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
427 --------------------------------
433 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
434 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
435 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
436 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
437 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
438 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
439 * Fix potential crash in zip access
440 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
441 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
444 * Update translations and greek encoding
447 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
448 --------------------------------
451 * Fix compilation on OS/2
454 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
456 Mac OS X audio output:
457 * Fix channel ordering
458 * Increase the buffersize
461 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
462 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
463 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
466 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
469 * Correctly support video-on-top
470 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
471 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
474 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
477 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
478 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
481 * Update British English
484 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
485 --------------------------------
488 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
491 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
494 * Fix DVD playback regression
495 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
496 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
499 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
500 --------------------------------
503 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
504 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
507 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
508 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
509 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
512 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
513 by updating codec libraries
514 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
515 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
516 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
519 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
520 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
521 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
522 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
525 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
526 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
529 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
530 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
531 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
532 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
533 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
536 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
537 * Fix record file names
540 * Fix minimal size possible on start
541 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
542 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
543 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
544 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
547 * Fix album art display on Windows
550 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
551 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
552 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
553 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
554 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
555 and Simplified Chinese translations
556 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
559 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
560 --------------------------------
563 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
564 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
565 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
566 audio devices on OS X
567 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
568 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
571 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
572 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
575 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
576 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
579 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
582 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
583 * Improve A-B loop control
584 * Fix album art update when changing media
587 * Add a language option in the interface
588 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
589 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
590 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
591 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
592 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
593 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
594 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
597 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
600 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
601 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
602 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
603 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
606 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
607 --------------------------------
610 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
612 * Fix some subtitles track selection
615 * VP9 support in WebM
616 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
617 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
620 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
621 * Support Speex in ogg files
622 * Fix some .mov playlists support
623 * Support Alac in mkv
624 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
625 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
628 * Fix DVB options parsing
629 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
630 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
633 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
634 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
637 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
638 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
641 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
642 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
643 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
644 * Fix play after drag'n drop
645 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
648 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
649 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
652 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
653 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
656 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
657 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
658 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
659 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
660 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
661 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
662 * Improves interface resizings
665 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
666 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
667 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
668 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
669 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
673 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
674 --------------------------------
677 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
678 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
679 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
680 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
681 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
683 3rd party libraries (contrib):
684 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
687 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
688 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
689 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
690 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
691 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
694 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
695 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
699 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
700 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
701 * Support for Ulead DV audio
702 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
703 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
704 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
705 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
706 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
707 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
708 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
709 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
710 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
711 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
714 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
715 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
716 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
719 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
720 remove support for previous OS X releases
721 * Major improvements in DASH support
722 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
723 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
724 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
725 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
726 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
727 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
728 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
729 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
730 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
731 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
732 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
735 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
736 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
737 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
738 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
739 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
740 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
741 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
742 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
743 * Support for more MJPEG streams
744 * Add support for liveleak streams
745 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
746 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
747 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
750 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
751 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
752 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
753 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
754 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
755 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
756 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
757 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
758 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
759 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
760 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
763 * New remapping channel filter
764 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
765 * New VSXu visualization plugin
766 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
767 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
768 * New gain audio filter
771 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
772 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
773 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
774 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
775 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
776 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
777 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
778 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
779 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
782 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
783 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
784 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
785 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
786 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
787 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
788 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
791 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
792 * Options support for AVIO output module
793 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
794 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
795 * Livehttp stream encryption support
796 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
797 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
800 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
803 * configurable password for the HTTP server
804 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
805 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
806 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
807 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
808 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
809 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
810 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
814 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
817 * Add support for multiple video outputs
818 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
820 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
821 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
822 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
823 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
824 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
825 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
826 VLC's internal volume level
827 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
829 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
830 selection and to manage the list of presets
831 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
832 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
833 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
834 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
835 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
836 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
837 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
838 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
839 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
840 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
842 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
843 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
844 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
845 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
846 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
847 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
848 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
849 3rd party applications
850 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
851 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
852 (system-wide settings)
853 * Add support for the Video Title option
854 * Add support for the Boss Key
855 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
856 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
859 * Partial support for Qt5.0
860 * Menus modifications and improvements
861 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
862 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
863 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
864 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
865 * EPG display fixes and improvements
866 * Add SD pixmap sources
867 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
868 * Display playlist total duration
869 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
870 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
871 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
876 * Extend sliders, offsets options
877 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
878 * Numerous fixes and improvements
879 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
882 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
883 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
884 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
885 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
886 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
887 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
888 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
889 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
890 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
891 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
894 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
895 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
896 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
897 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
898 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
899 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
901 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
902 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
903 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
904 * Broken crop video filter
906 * OSD parser and menu
907 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
908 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
909 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
910 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
914 * Update of all translations
917 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
918 --------------------------------
921 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
922 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
925 * Fix modplug security issues
928 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
929 --------------------------------
933 * Fix crash in QTsound
934 * Fix screen mouse file location
935 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
938 * Fix use after free in sgimb
939 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
942 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
945 * Fix interface crashes
946 * Fix autostart playback option
947 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
950 * update Welsh translation
951 * New Kannada translation
954 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
955 --------------------------------
958 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
959 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
963 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
966 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
969 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
972 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
976 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
979 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
982 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
983 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
984 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
987 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
988 --------------------------------
991 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
994 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
997 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
998 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
999 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1000 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1001 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1002 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1005 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1006 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1007 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1008 * 3rd party codecs updates
1011 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1012 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1013 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1014 in the advanced preferences panel
1015 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1016 * Fix crash within the video output code
1017 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1018 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1019 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1020 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1021 lua extensions, ...)
1022 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1025 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1028 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1029 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1032 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1035 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1036 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1037 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1038 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1039 Dutch, Danish, translations
1040 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1043 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1044 --------------------------------
1047 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1050 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1051 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1052 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1055 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1056 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1057 * Fix koreus lua parser
1058 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1059 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1060 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1061 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1064 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1065 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1068 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1071 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1072 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1073 * Fix Time counter UI look
1074 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1077 * Fix https streaming
1080 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1081 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1082 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1085 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1086 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1087 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1088 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1089 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1092 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1093 --------------------------------
1096 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1097 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1098 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1099 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1100 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1101 during playback on Mac OS X
1104 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1105 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1106 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1109 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1110 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1111 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1112 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1113 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1116 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1117 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1118 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1119 * Support Youtube live streams
1122 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1125 * Fix media info dialog update
1126 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1127 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1128 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1129 * Fix album art display at start
1132 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1133 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1134 * Fix menus display and behavior
1135 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1136 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1137 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1138 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1139 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1140 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1141 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1144 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1145 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1146 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1147 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1148 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1149 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1150 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1151 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1152 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1155 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1156 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1157 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1158 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1159 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1162 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1163 --------------------------------
1166 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1169 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1170 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1173 * Add GateKeeper support
1174 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1175 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1176 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1179 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1182 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1183 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1184 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1185 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1186 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1189 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1194 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1195 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1196 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1197 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1198 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1199 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1200 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1201 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1202 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1203 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1207 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1208 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1209 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1210 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1211 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1212 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1213 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1214 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1215 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1216 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1217 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1218 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1221 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1222 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1224 * Fix MP3 free format support
1227 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1228 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1229 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1230 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1231 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1234 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1235 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1237 Audio filters and output:
1238 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1239 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1240 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1241 * Do not apply volume in file output
1242 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1243 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1246 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1247 the persistant media library
1248 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1249 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1250 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1251 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1252 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1253 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1254 press on the Play/Pause button
1255 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1256 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1257 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1258 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1259 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1260 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1261 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1262 Synchronization panel
1263 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1264 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1265 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1266 * Fix crashes on exit
1267 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1269 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1270 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1271 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1272 automatically reset on the first launch.
1273 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1274 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1275 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1278 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1279 * Fixes for icecast SD
1282 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1283 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1284 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1285 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1286 * Fix tags and file names display
1287 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1290 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1291 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1294 * Fix display of some buttons
1295 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1296 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1299 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1300 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1301 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1304 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1305 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1306 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1307 Thai translations update
1308 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1311 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1312 --------------------------------
1315 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1316 * fix the samba module compilation
1317 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1318 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1319 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1320 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1323 * Support for MXPEG files
1324 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1325 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1328 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1329 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1330 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1333 * Fix ogm header creation
1336 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1337 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1340 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1341 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1342 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1343 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1346 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1349 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1350 * allow to hide the sidebar
1351 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1352 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1353 * noticebly faster launch time
1354 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1355 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1356 * improve track synchronization panel
1357 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1358 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1361 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1362 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1363 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1364 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1367 * fix for menus display
1368 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1369 * documentation update
1372 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1373 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1376 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1377 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1378 * Update Jamendo selections
1382 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1383 * fix a crash on VLM close
1386 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1387 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1388 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1389 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1392 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1395 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1396 ---------------------------------
1399 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1400 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1401 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1402 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1403 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1404 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1405 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1406 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1407 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1408 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1409 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1410 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1411 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1412 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1413 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1414 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1415 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1416 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1417 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1418 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1419 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1420 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1421 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1422 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1423 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1424 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1426 Important changes for packagers:
1427 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1428 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1429 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1430 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1431 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1432 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1433 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1434 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1435 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1436 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1439 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1440 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1441 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1442 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1443 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1444 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1445 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1448 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1449 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1450 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1451 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1452 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1453 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1454 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1455 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1456 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1457 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1458 * PulseAudio audio input support
1459 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1460 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1461 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1462 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1463 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1464 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1465 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1466 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1469 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1470 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1471 are notably concerned.
1472 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1473 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1474 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1475 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1476 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1477 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1478 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1479 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1480 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1481 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1482 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1483 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1484 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1485 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1486 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1489 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1490 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1491 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1492 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1493 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1494 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1495 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1496 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1497 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1498 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1499 * Improved support of tracker files
1500 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1503 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1504 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1505 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1506 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1507 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1508 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1509 and important cleanups and optimisations
1510 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1511 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1512 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1513 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1514 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1515 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1516 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1517 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1518 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1519 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1520 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1521 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1522 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1523 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1524 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1525 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1526 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1527 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1528 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1529 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1530 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1533 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1534 * New video output for iOS platform
1535 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1536 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1537 * Various vmem improvements
1538 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1539 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1540 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1541 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1542 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1543 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1545 Audio Output and Filters:
1546 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1547 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1548 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1549 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1550 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1551 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1552 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1553 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1554 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1555 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1558 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1559 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1560 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1561 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1562 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1563 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1564 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1565 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1566 * New anti-flickering filter
1567 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1568 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1569 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1570 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1571 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1572 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1573 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1576 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1577 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1578 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1579 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1580 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1581 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1582 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1583 * Major rework of VoD support
1584 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1585 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1586 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1587 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1588 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1589 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1590 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1591 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1592 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1593 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1596 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1597 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1600 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1601 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1602 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1603 list of available audio and video filters
1604 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1605 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1606 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1609 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1610 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1611 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1612 * id3tag: use taglib
1613 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1614 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1615 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1616 * removal of the noise filter
1617 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1618 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1619 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1620 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1623 * Update of translations for most languages.
1624 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1627 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1628 ----------------------------------
1631 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1632 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1635 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1636 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1639 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1640 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1641 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1644 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1647 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1648 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1651 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1654 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1655 ----------------------------------
1658 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1659 including support for OS X Lion
1660 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1661 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1664 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1667 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1668 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1669 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1672 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1675 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1676 ----------------------------------
1679 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1680 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1683 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1684 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1685 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1686 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1687 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1689 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1690 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1691 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1693 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1694 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1697 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1700 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1703 * Fix quitting on Linux
1704 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1708 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1711 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1714 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1715 ---------------------------------
1717 Windows and Mac OS X:
1718 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1721 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1722 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1725 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1728 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1731 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1733 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1734 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1736 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1737 * RTP output and XML export
1738 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1742 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1743 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1744 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1745 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1748 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1749 --------------------------------
1751 Windows and Mac OS X:
1752 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1755 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1758 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1759 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1760 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1761 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1762 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1763 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1766 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1767 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1771 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1772 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1773 * New Luganda Translation
1776 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1777 --------------------------------
1780 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1783 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1784 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1785 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1786 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1789 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1791 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1792 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1793 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1794 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1795 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1796 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1797 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1798 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1800 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1801 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1802 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1803 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1804 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1805 * Configure and build system improvements
1806 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1809 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1810 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1811 * New icelandic translation
1814 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1815 --------------------------------
1818 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1819 #234484 and #260719.
1822 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1823 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1824 and stability reasons
1827 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1831 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1834 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1835 ----------------------------------
1838 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1841 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1842 ---------------------------------
1845 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1846 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1847 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1848 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1851 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1854 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1855 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1856 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1857 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1860 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1861 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1862 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1864 Subtitles and renderer:
1865 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1866 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1867 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1868 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1869 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1872 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1873 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1874 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1875 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1878 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1879 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1881 Miscellaneous fixes:
1882 * KDE device solid actions
1884 * Transcode integer overflow
1885 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1886 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1889 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1890 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1891 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1894 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1895 ----------------------------------
1898 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1902 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1905 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1908 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1909 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1910 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1911 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1914 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1918 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1921 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1924 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1925 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1927 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1931 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1932 * Miscellaneous fixes
1935 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1936 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1937 French and Ukrainian
1938 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1939 * New Asturian translation
1942 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1943 ----------------------------------
1946 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1948 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1951 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1954 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1955 * Various fixes for Windows
1958 * New Armenian translation
1959 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1960 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1963 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1964 --------------------------------
1967 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1968 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1969 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1972 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1973 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1976 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1977 --------------------------------
1979 Access and demuxers:
1980 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1981 * fix for podcasts parsing
1982 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1985 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1986 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1989 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1990 * fix m3u playlists exports
1993 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1996 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1999 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2002 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2005 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2008 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2009 --------------------------------
2012 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2013 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2016 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2017 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2020 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2021 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2022 * fix console output encoding
2024 Interface and extensions:
2025 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2026 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2029 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2030 --------------------------------
2033 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2034 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2035 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2036 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2037 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2038 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2039 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2040 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2041 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2042 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2043 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2044 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2045 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2046 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2047 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2048 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2052 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2053 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2054 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2055 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2056 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2059 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2062 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2063 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2064 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2068 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2071 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2072 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2073 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2076 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2077 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2078 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2079 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2082 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2083 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2086 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2087 --------------------------------
2089 Important changes for users:
2090 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2091 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2093 Important changes for packagers:
2094 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2095 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2096 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2097 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2098 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2100 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2102 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2103 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2104 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2105 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2106 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2109 * Support for the sftp protocol
2110 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2111 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2112 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2113 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2114 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2117 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2118 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2119 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2121 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2122 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2123 * Invmem module improvements
2124 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2125 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2126 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2127 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2128 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2129 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2130 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2131 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2132 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2133 * Support for VP8 codec
2134 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2137 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2138 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2139 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2140 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2141 * Various EGP improvements
2142 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2143 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2146 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2147 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2148 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2149 * Podcast images are now displayed
2152 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2153 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2154 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2155 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2156 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2157 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2158 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2159 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2160 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2161 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2162 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2165 * New content extensions lua framework
2168 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2169 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2170 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2171 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2172 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2173 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2174 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2177 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2178 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2179 * Service discovery based on libudev
2180 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2183 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2184 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2185 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2186 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2187 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2188 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2189 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2192 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2193 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2194 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2197 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2199 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2200 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2203 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2206 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2207 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2208 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2209 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2210 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2211 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2212 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2215 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2216 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2219 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2220 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2221 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2225 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2226 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2227 * Improved Solaris port
2230 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2231 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2234 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2235 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2236 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2237 * transrate: broken since too long
2238 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2239 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2240 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2241 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2242 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2243 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2244 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2245 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2246 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2247 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2248 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2249 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2250 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2251 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2254 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2255 --------------------------------
2258 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2260 Decoders/Packetizers:
2261 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2264 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2265 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2266 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2267 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2268 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2271 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2272 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2275 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2276 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2279 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2280 and Walloon translations updated
2281 * Sinhala translation started
2284 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2285 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2288 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2289 --------------------------------
2292 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2293 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2296 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2299 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2300 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2303 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2304 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2305 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2306 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2309 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2310 --------------------------------
2313 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2314 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2317 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2318 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2321 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2322 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2325 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2328 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2329 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2332 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2333 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2336 * New Walloon translation
2337 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2340 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2341 --------------------------------
2344 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2345 regressions in most popular drivers
2346 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2349 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2350 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2351 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2354 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2355 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2358 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2359 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2360 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2361 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2362 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2365 * New udev module for linux
2368 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2371 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2374 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2375 --------------------------------
2378 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2379 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2380 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2383 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2384 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2387 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2388 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2391 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2394 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2395 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2396 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2397 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2400 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2401 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2402 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2403 - no support for Goom and SDL
2404 - limited text rendering support
2405 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2408 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2409 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2410 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2411 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2412 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2413 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2414 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2415 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2416 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2420 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2423 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2426 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2427 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2428 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2429 Arabic and French translation updates
2432 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2433 --------------------------------
2436 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2437 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2438 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2439 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2440 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2441 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2444 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2445 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2446 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2449 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2450 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2451 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2454 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2457 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2458 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2461 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2462 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2463 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2464 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2465 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2466 * Fix various crashes
2469 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2471 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2475 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2476 ---------------------------------
2480 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2481 See 'Access:' for more info.
2482 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2485 * Instantaneous pausing
2486 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2487 * Finer speed control
2488 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2489 * Timeshift for most medias
2490 * RTSP trickplay support
2491 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2494 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2495 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2496 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2497 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2498 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2499 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2500 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2501 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2502 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2503 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2506 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2507 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2508 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2509 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2510 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2511 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2512 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2515 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2516 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2519 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2520 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2521 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2522 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2523 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2524 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2525 * DVB scanning on linux
2526 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2527 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2528 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2529 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2530 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2531 * MTP device access on Unix
2532 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2533 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2536 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2537 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2538 Windows and Mac OS X.
2541 * Export the playlist in HTML
2542 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2543 * Better metadata handling and reading
2545 Linux/Windows interface:
2546 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2547 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2548 * Recently played items list
2549 * Interface toolbar customizations
2550 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2551 - More menus actions
2552 - Finer speed slider
2553 - Improvements on many dialogs
2554 - New dialog for plugins listing
2555 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2556 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2557 * Better integration in GTK environments
2560 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2561 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2562 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2563 * Additional usability improvements
2566 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2567 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2568 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2569 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2570 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2573 * New Maemo port with:
2574 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2575 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2578 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2581 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2582 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2583 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2584 * Support for latest iSight models
2587 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2588 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2591 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2592 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2593 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2594 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2595 The old image video output has been removed.
2596 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2597 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2600 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2608 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2609 --------------------------------------
2615 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2616 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2617 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2618 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2619 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2620 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2621 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2623 Various fixes to the following modules:
2626 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2627 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2628 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2630 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2635 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2636 ---------------------------------
2639 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2640 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2643 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2644 ---------------------------------
2647 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2650 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2653 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2654 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2655 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2656 main controller window.
2657 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2660 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2665 * Updates of other localizations
2668 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2669 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2670 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2671 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2672 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2675 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2676 ---------------------------------
2679 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2681 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2684 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2685 --------------------------------
2690 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2691 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2694 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2695 --------------------------------
2697 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2698 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2701 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2704 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2705 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2708 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2709 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2712 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2713 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2714 * Various fixed in playlist
2717 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2720 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2723 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2724 ------------------------------------
2726 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2727 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2730 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2731 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2732 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2735 * Stability fix for the video output.
2738 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2739 --------------------------------
2742 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2743 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2744 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2745 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2746 * Fixed update system bugs
2747 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2750 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2751 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2752 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2753 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2754 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2755 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2756 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2757 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2758 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2759 modern Mac OS X versions
2762 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2763 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2765 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2766 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2769 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2770 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2771 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2772 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2773 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2774 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2777 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2778 --------------------------------
2780 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2781 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2782 * Multiple bugfixes.
2785 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2786 --------------------------------
2788 * Multiple bug fixes.
2791 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2792 ---------------------------------
2796 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2797 recent to work correctly
2798 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2799 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2800 edit the ".hosts" file.
2801 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2802 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2803 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2804 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2805 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2806 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2807 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2808 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2809 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2810 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2811 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2812 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2813 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2814 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2815 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2816 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2817 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2818 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2819 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2820 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2821 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2822 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2823 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2824 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2825 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2826 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2827 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2828 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2829 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2830 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2831 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2832 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2833 and postproc modules.
2834 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2835 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2836 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2837 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2839 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2840 filter. For example:
2841 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2842 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2844 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2845 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2851 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2853 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2854 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2857 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2858 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2860 * Shoutcast TV listings
2861 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2863 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2864 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2866 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2869 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2870 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2871 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2872 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2873 * JACK audio input support
2874 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2875 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2876 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2877 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2878 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2879 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2880 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2881 (available as a separate download).
2882 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2883 * RTMP input support
2884 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2885 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2886 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2888 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2889 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2892 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2893 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2894 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2895 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2897 * APEv1/2 tags support
2898 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2899 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2901 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2902 * TiVo Series 2 support
2903 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2908 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2909 * Flash Screen Video support
2910 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2911 * DosBox Capture support
2912 * Karl Morton's Video support
2913 * limited atrac3 support
2915 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2916 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2917 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2918 * H.264 PAFF support
2919 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2920 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2921 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2922 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2923 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2926 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2927 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2928 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2929 * AQTitle subtitles support
2930 * MKV USF subtitles support
2931 * HTML-based subtitles support
2932 * MPSub subtitles support
2933 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2934 * MPL2 subtitles support
2935 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2936 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2937 * Realtext subtitle support
2938 * DKS subtitle support
2939 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2940 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2943 * Flash Screen Video support
2944 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2946 Video outputs and filters:
2947 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2948 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2949 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2950 * New puzzle video output filter
2951 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2952 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2954 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2955 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2956 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2957 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2958 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2959 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2960 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2961 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2962 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2963 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2964 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2965 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2966 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2967 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2969 Audio outputs and filters:
2970 * Replay gain support
2971 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2972 new scaletempo audio filter)
2973 * New spatializer audio filter
2974 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2977 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2978 * New RTP payload formats:
2979 * Speex voice audio codec
2980 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2981 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2982 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2983 * DCCP transport for RTP
2984 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2989 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2990 end-user suitable way.
2991 * Improved user interaction
2992 * Improved mouse gestures
2993 * Vastly improved Update checker
2994 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2996 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2997 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2999 * Improved video output features
3000 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3001 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3002 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3003 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3004 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3006 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3007 if libncursesw is available.
3008 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3009 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3010 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3012 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3013 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3014 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3015 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3016 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3017 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3018 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3019 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3022 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3023 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3024 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3027 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3028 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3029 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3030 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3031 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3032 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3035 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3036 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3046 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3047 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3048 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3051 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3052 ----------------------------------
3055 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3058 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3059 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3060 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3061 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3062 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3063 * Updated Polish translation
3066 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3067 ----------------------------------
3070 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3071 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3072 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3075 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3076 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3077 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3078 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3079 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3080 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3081 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3082 to an unexpected application termination
3083 * New Serbian translation
3084 * Updated Romanian translation
3087 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3088 ----------------------------------
3091 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3092 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3093 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3094 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3095 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3096 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3097 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3098 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3101 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3102 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3103 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3104 * Fixed AAC resampling
3105 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3106 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3109 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3110 ----------------------------------
3113 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3114 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3115 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3116 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3117 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3120 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3121 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3122 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3123 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3124 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3127 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3128 ----------------------------------
3131 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3132 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3135 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3136 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3137 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3138 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3140 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3144 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3147 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3150 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3153 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3156 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3157 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3158 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3159 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3160 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3162 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3163 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3164 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3165 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3168 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3171 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3172 ----------------------------------
3175 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3176 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3177 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3179 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3180 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3182 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3183 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3186 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3188 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3189 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3190 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3191 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3192 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3193 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3194 two different movies
3195 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3196 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3197 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3200 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3203 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3204 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3205 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3206 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3209 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3210 ----------------------------------
3212 Various bugfixes, notably:
3213 * Windows Vista compatibility
3214 * Cropping in Direct3D
3215 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3216 * RSS filter string overflow
3218 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3220 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3221 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3224 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3225 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3228 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3231 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3234 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3237 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3238 ----------------------------------
3240 Various bugfixes, notably:
3241 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3242 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3243 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3244 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3245 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3246 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3249 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3250 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3253 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3255 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3256 * Diverse usability improvements
3257 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3258 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3259 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3262 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3263 ---------------------------------
3265 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3266 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3269 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3272 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3273 --------------------------------
3276 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3279 * Support for RTSP authentication
3280 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3281 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3282 * ATSC support for DVB input
3283 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3284 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3285 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3288 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3289 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3290 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3291 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3292 * Matroska WavPack support
3293 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3294 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3295 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3298 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3299 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3300 * Improved libcaca support
3304 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3305 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3307 * Systray support in skins
3309 * Support for Apple Remote control
3310 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3311 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3312 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3313 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3315 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3318 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3319 Windows 9x/ME users:
3320 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3321 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3322 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3323 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3324 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3326 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3327 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3336 * Updates to the libvlc API
3337 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3340 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3341 --------------------------------
3344 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3345 * Support for downloading updates
3349 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3350 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3351 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3352 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3354 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3355 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3356 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3359 * Cook (Real audio) support
3361 Playlist / Services discovery:
3362 * XSPF playlist support
3364 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3367 * New JACK audio output
3370 * New video filters:
3371 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3372 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3373 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3374 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3375 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3376 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3379 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3382 * System to inform the user and request information
3383 - HTTP authentication
3387 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3388 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3389 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3392 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3393 - Improved playlist handling
3394 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3396 - Embedded Video output
3397 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3398 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3399 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3400 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3401 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3403 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3404 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3407 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3410 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3411 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3412 * Growl "Now playing" support
3415 * Ability to log to syslog
3416 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3419 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3421 * A bit more automatic testing
3424 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3425 ---------------------------------
3428 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3429 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3432 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3433 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3436 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3439 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3440 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3446 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3449 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3450 --------------------------------
3453 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3457 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3458 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3459 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3462 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3463 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3464 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3465 * GnomeVFS input module
3466 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3467 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3470 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3471 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3472 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3475 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3476 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3482 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3483 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3486 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3487 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3488 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3491 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3493 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3494 - New extended controls panel
3495 - New bookmarks window
3496 - Fixed playlist sorting
3497 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3499 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3500 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3501 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3502 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3506 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3507 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3509 - Include macro to include other files
3513 * Should now work outside IE as well
3516 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3519 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3520 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3523 The following languages were added:
3527 * Simplified Chinese
3528 The following languages were re-added:
3532 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3533 --------------------------------
3536 * Rewrite of the playlist
3538 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3539 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3540 * Preferences improvements:
3541 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3542 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3544 * Core image manipulation support
3545 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3546 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3547 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3548 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3549 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3550 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3551 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3552 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3553 * Access filter architecture
3554 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3555 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3559 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3560 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3561 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3562 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3563 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3564 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3565 * Massive Matroska improvements
3566 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3568 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3569 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3570 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3571 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3572 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3574 Decoders / Encoders:
3575 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3576 * PNG decoder/encoder
3577 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3578 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3581 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3584 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3585 * Brand new SAP module
3586 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3587 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3588 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3589 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3590 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3591 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3595 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3598 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3599 * Image file video output (png)
3600 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3601 * Improvements to wall video filter
3602 * Support for font color and opacity
3608 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3609 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3610 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3614 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3615 - Improved preferences
3616 - Improvements to the wizard
3617 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3619 - Redesigned playlist
3620 - Improved preferences
3622 - Support for multiple actions
3625 - Support for the new playlist system
3627 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3630 * Screensaver disabling fix
3631 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3632 * Support for no-decoration windows
3635 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3636 * The OpenGL video output is back
3637 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3638 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3639 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3640 is not yet available in the new module
3641 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3644 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3653 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3656 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3659 The following languages were added:
3665 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3666 --------------------------------
3669 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3670 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3673 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3674 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3675 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3678 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3681 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3684 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3687 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3688 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3689 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3693 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3695 * Support of playlist group announcement
3698 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3699 --------------------------------
3702 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3703 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3704 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3705 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3706 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3707 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3710 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3711 (Stream your desktop)
3712 * Improved DVD support:
3713 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3714 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3715 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3716 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3717 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3718 (selection of titles/chapters).
3721 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3722 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3723 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3724 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3725 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3726 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3727 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3728 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3729 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3730 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3733 * G.726 audio support
3734 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3735 * MPEG-4 text support
3736 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3737 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3738 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3742 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3743 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3744 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3745 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3746 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3747 * DVB subtitles encoder
3748 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3749 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3751 * Text track muxing for mp4
3752 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3753 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3754 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3755 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3756 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3757 * Improved ASF muxer
3759 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3760 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3761 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3764 * New audio equalizer filter
3765 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3766 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3767 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3768 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3771 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3772 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3773 with support for effects.
3774 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3775 - New filters can be streamed.
3776 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3777 - Centralized scaling and blending
3779 - "time", to display current time
3780 - "marq", to display a marquee
3783 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3784 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3785 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3786 * A few skins2 improvements
3787 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3788 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3789 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3790 * Improved CORBA control module
3793 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3794 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3795 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3798 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3799 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3800 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3803 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3804 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3805 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3806 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3807 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3810 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3813 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3814 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3817 * Server/client network synchronization module
3818 * VBrick streams fully supported
3819 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3823 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3824 --------------------------------
3827 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3828 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3829 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3830 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3833 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3834 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3835 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3836 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3837 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3838 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3839 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3842 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3843 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3844 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3845 * Improved directory access module.
3846 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3847 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3848 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3849 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3850 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3853 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3854 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3855 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3858 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3859 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3860 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3863 * Improved session announcement system.
3864 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3865 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3866 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3867 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3868 * Improved transrater.
3869 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3870 * New configuration system.
3871 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3874 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3875 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3876 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3877 * Supports scheduling.
3878 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3879 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3882 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3883 - Ability to embed video output.
3884 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3885 - Lots of improvements.
3886 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3887 - New design and set of icons.
3888 - Ability to embed video output.
3889 - Support for hotkeys.
3890 - Support for bookmarks.
3892 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3893 - Better hotkeys handling.
3896 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3897 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3898 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3899 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3902 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3903 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3904 * Improved Windows installer.
3910 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3911 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3914 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3915 ---------------------------------
3918 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3919 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3922 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3923 --------------------------------
3926 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3927 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3930 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3931 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3932 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3933 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3936 * Internal improvments
3937 * Improved import/export
3940 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3942 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3943 small and strange formats.
3945 * New MOD audio demux.
3946 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3947 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3948 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3949 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3952 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3953 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3954 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3960 * New opengl video output plugin.
3963 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3964 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3967 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3968 --------------------------------
3971 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3972 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3973 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3974 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3975 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3976 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3977 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3978 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3981 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3986 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3987 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3988 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3989 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3990 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3991 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3992 * Better Icecast support.
3993 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3994 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3997 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3998 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3999 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4000 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4001 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4002 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4003 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4006 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4007 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4008 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4009 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4010 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4011 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4012 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4013 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4014 * Preliminary RTP support.
4015 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4020 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4021 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4023 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4024 - Improvements and help in preferences
4025 - New streaming wizard
4026 - Revised Disc Open menu
4028 - Improvements of the standard pages
4029 - Support for new commands
4030 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4033 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4034 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4037 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4038 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4039 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4040 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4041 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4042 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4043 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4044 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4045 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4048 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4050 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4051 * Support for Panther.
4052 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4053 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4056 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4057 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4058 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4059 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4060 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4061 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4062 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4063 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4066 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4067 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4068 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4071 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4074 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4075 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4076 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4077 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4080 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4081 --------------------------------
4084 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4087 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4088 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4091 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4092 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4095 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4098 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4099 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4102 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4105 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4108 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4109 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4113 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4114 --------------------------------
4117 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4118 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4122 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4123 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4124 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4126 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4127 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4130 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4133 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4136 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4137 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4141 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4142 --------------------------------
4145 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4146 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4150 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4151 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4152 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4153 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4154 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4157 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4158 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4159 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4162 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4163 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4164 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4167 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4168 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4169 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4170 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4171 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4174 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4175 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4176 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4179 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4182 * Improved build system.
4183 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4184 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4185 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4186 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4189 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4190 --------------------------------
4193 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4196 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4197 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4198 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4199 * Video 4 Linux support
4200 * CD Digital Audio support
4201 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4204 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4205 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4206 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4207 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4210 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4211 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4212 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4213 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4214 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4215 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4216 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4219 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4220 * New HTTP remote control interface
4223 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4224 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4225 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4226 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4227 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4230 * New reset option for the preferences
4231 * You can set your language in the prefences
4232 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4233 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4234 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4235 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4238 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4239 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4240 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4243 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4244 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4245 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4246 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4247 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4248 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4249 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4250 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4251 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4252 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4255 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4256 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4257 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4258 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4259 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4260 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4261 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4264 * Interface localization
4265 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4266 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4267 * New full-featured Preferences window
4270 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4271 --------------------------------
4274 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4275 * support for skins at the interface level
4276 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4277 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4278 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4279 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4280 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4283 * fixed HTTP redirects
4284 * support for opening an entire directory
4285 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4286 * new video4linux access plug-in
4287 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4290 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4291 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4292 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4295 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4296 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4297 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4298 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4299 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4300 * new codec for raw I420 video
4301 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4304 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4305 (although it still misses some important features)
4306 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4309 * new HTTP output support
4310 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4311 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4314 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4317 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4320 * reorderable playlist
4321 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4322 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4323 * support for mono audio output devices
4324 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4325 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4326 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4327 * the messages window remembers more lines
4328 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4329 * http and ogg stream output options
4330 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4333 * new skinnable interface
4334 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4336 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4337 * support for FLAC audio format
4338 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4340 * network tab in the interface
4341 * "apply" handling in preferences
4344 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4345 ---------------------------------
4348 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4349 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4350 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4351 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4353 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4354 * DTS S/PDIF support
4357 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4358 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4359 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4360 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4363 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4364 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4367 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4370 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4373 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4375 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4376 * rc interface is now fully useable
4377 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4380 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4381 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4382 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4383 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4384 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4386 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4387 * support for mouse gestures
4388 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4391 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4392 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4395 * improved ID3 tag detection
4396 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4397 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4398 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4400 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4403 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4404 ---------------------------------
4407 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4408 English was set as the preferred language
4411 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4412 --------------------------------
4415 * new mouse gesture interface
4416 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4420 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4421 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4422 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4425 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4426 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4430 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4433 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4434 without the user consent
4437 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4439 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4440 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4441 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4444 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4445 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4446 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4447 * playlist enhancements
4448 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4449 * new step forward/step backward commands
4450 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4451 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4452 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4455 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4456 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4457 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4460 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4461 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4464 * native video output is working again
4465 * only commandline interface support
4466 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4469 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4470 --------------------------------
4473 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4474 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4475 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4476 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4477 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4478 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4479 and A/52 streams are supported)
4480 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4485 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4486 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4487 * VCD entry points support
4488 * VCD image file support
4491 * support for *.asf format
4492 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4493 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4494 * support for ogg encapsulation
4495 * support for raw DV format
4496 * support for *.wav format
4497 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4500 Stream discovery & playlists:
4501 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4502 * support for .m3u file format
4503 * support for .asx file format
4504 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4507 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4508 (only available with the .avi demux)
4509 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4510 * support for raw PCM data
4511 * support for Cinepak video codec
4512 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4513 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4514 * support for Xvid codec
4515 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4516 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4517 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4519 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4521 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4524 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4527 * new WxWindows interface
4528 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4529 device and the channels configuration
4530 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4531 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4532 format that VLC can play
4533 * new swedish translation
4534 * enhancements of the playlist window
4535 * new messages window to see debug info
4536 * fixed a few crashes
4539 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4540 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4541 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4542 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working