1 Changes between 1.1.x and 1.2.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
6 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=2001:db8::1".
7 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
8 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
9 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
10 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
11 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
12 --http-crl (optional CRL).
13 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
14 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
16 Important changes for packagers:
17 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
18 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
19 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
20 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
21 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
22 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
23 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
24 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
25 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
26 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
27 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
29 * The NPAPI webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
30 * The ActiveX webplugin has moved to git://git.videolan.org/activex-vlc.git
33 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
34 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside video outputs
35 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
36 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
37 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
38 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
41 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
42 * BDA: experimental support for ClearQam devices
43 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
44 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
45 * DShow: support for freq and video standard selection
46 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
47 * Blu-Ray Discs integration using libbluray
48 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
49 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
50 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
51 * RTP: support for dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
52 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
53 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
54 * QTCapture: added support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices
55 * X11 Screen: support for capturing partially hidden windows
58 * You can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc
59 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
60 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
61 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
62 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
63 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
64 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
65 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
66 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
67 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
68 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
69 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
70 * Support for JPEG 2000 and Motion JPEG 2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
73 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
74 * C64 SID file playback support using sidplay2
75 * Ogg seeking improvements
76 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
77 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
78 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
79 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
82 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
83 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
84 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
85 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
86 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
87 and important cleanups and optimisations
88 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
89 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Output
90 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
91 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
92 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
93 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
94 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
95 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
96 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
97 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
98 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
99 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
100 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
103 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
104 * New video output for iOS platform
105 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
106 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
107 * Various vmem improvements
108 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
110 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
111 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
112 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, which requires a Quartz Extreme capable Mac
115 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
116 * New audio output in memory (amem)
117 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
118 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
119 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
122 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
123 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
124 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
125 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht up to 254 channels
126 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
127 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
128 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
129 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
130 * New anti-flickering filter
131 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
132 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
133 blackbox and customizable shadow
136 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
139 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
140 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
141 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
142 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
143 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
144 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
145 * RTP: support for Vorbis and Theora
146 * Major rework of VoD support
147 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
148 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
149 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
150 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
151 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
152 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
153 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
154 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
155 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
158 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
159 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
162 * New capabilities for libVLC:
163 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
164 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
165 list of available audio and video filters
166 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks, libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
167 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
170 * asademux: use libass only
171 * subsass: use libass
172 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
173 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
175 * upnp: use upnp_intel
176 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
177 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
178 * removal of the noise filter
179 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
180 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
181 removed in Growl's next release, too.
184 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
185 ----------------------------------
188 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
189 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
192 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
193 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
194 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
195 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
196 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
198 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
199 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
200 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
202 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
203 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
206 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
209 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
212 * Fix quitting on Linux
213 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
217 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
220 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
223 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
224 ---------------------------------
226 Windows and Mac OS X:
227 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
230 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
231 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
234 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
237 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
240 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
242 Miscellaneous fixes in:
243 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
245 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
246 * RTP output and XML export
247 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
251 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
252 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
253 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
254 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
257 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
258 --------------------------------
260 Windows and Mac OS X:
261 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
264 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
267 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
268 * Improve Apple Remote handling
269 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
270 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
271 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
272 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
275 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
276 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
280 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
281 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
282 * New Luganda Translation
285 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
286 --------------------------------
289 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
292 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
293 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
294 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
295 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
298 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
300 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
301 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
302 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
303 * mp4 demuxer improvements
304 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
305 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
306 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
307 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
309 Miscellaneous fixes in:
310 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
311 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
312 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
313 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
314 * Configure and build system improvements
315 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
318 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
319 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
320 * New icelandic translation
323 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
324 --------------------------------
327 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
331 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
332 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
333 and stability reasons
336 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
340 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
343 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
344 ----------------------------------
347 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
350 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
351 ---------------------------------
354 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
355 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
356 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
357 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
360 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
363 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
364 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
365 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
366 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
369 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
370 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
371 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
373 Subtitles and renderer:
374 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
375 * Mark more freetype options as safe
376 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
377 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
378 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
381 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
382 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
383 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
384 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
387 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
388 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
391 * KDE device solid actions
393 * Transcode integer overflow
394 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
395 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
398 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
399 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
400 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
403 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
404 ----------------------------------
407 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
411 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
414 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
417 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
418 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
419 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
420 * Taglib thread-safety fix
423 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
427 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
430 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
433 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
434 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
436 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
440 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
441 * Miscellaneous fixes
444 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
445 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
447 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
448 * New Asturian translation
451 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
452 ----------------------------------
455 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
457 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
460 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
463 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
464 * Various fixes for Windows
467 * New Armenian translation
468 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
469 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
472 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
473 --------------------------------
476 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
478 * Fix folders opening from the interface
481 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukranian
482 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
485 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
486 --------------------------------
489 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
490 * fix for podcasts parsing
491 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
494 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
495 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
498 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
499 * fix m3u playlists exports
502 * fix video autoresize behaviour
505 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
508 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
511 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
514 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
517 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
518 --------------------------------
521 * Avformat fps displaying fix
522 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
525 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
526 of mono streams, especially on Windows
529 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
530 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
531 * fix console output encoding
533 Interface and extensions:
534 * Youtube and other scripts updates
535 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
538 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
539 --------------------------------
542 * New capabilities for libVLC:
543 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
544 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
545 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
546 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
547 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
548 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
549 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
550 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
551 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
552 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
553 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
554 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
555 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
556 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
557 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
561 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
562 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
563 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
564 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
565 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
568 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
571 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
572 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
573 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
577 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
580 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
581 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
582 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
585 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
586 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
587 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
588 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
591 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
592 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
595 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
596 --------------------------------
598 Important changes for users:
599 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
600 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
602 Important changes for packagers:
603 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
604 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
605 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
606 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
607 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
609 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
611 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
612 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
613 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
614 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
615 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
618 * Support for the sftp protocol
619 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
620 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
621 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
622 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
623 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
626 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
627 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
628 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
630 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
631 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
632 * Invmem module improvements
633 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
634 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
635 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
636 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
637 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
638 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
639 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
640 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
641 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
642 * Support for VP8 codec
643 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
646 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
647 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
648 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
649 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
650 * Various EGP improvements
651 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
652 * Metadata and cover art improvements
655 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
656 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
657 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
658 * Podcast images are now displayed
661 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
662 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
663 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
664 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
665 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
666 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
667 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
668 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
669 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
670 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
671 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
674 * New content extensions lua framework
677 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
678 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
679 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
680 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
681 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
682 * NEON assembly audio converter module
683 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
686 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
687 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
688 * Service discovery based on libudev
689 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
692 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
693 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
694 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
695 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
696 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
697 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
698 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
701 * New smem module, streaming to memory
702 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
703 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
706 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
708 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
709 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
712 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
715 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
716 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
717 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
718 by Andy Matuschak et al.
719 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
720 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
721 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
724 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
725 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
728 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
729 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
730 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
734 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
735 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
736 * Improved Solaris port
739 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
740 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
743 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
744 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
745 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
746 * transrate: broken since too long
747 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
748 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
749 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
750 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
751 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
752 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
753 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
754 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
755 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
756 * cddax: use cdda instead.
757 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
758 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
759 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
760 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
763 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
764 --------------------------------
767 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
769 Decoders/Packetizers:
770 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
773 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
774 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
775 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
776 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
777 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
780 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
781 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
784 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
785 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
788 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
789 and Walloon translations updated
790 * Sinhala translation started
793 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
794 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
797 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
798 --------------------------------
801 * SubRip extra styles improvements
802 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
805 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
808 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
809 increase performance and fix x264 issues
812 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
813 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
814 Russian, Slovak translation updates
815 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
818 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
819 --------------------------------
822 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
823 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
826 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
827 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
830 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
831 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
834 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
837 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
838 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
841 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
842 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
845 * New Walloon translation
846 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
849 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
850 --------------------------------
853 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
854 regressions in most popular drivers
855 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
858 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
859 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
860 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
863 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
864 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
867 * Update for appletrailers lua script
868 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
869 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
870 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
871 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
874 * New udev module for linux
877 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
880 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
883 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
884 --------------------------------
887 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
888 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
889 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
892 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
893 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
896 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
897 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
900 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
903 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
904 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
905 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
906 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
909 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
910 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
911 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
912 - no support for Goom and SDL
913 - limited text rendering support
914 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
917 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
918 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
919 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
920 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
921 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
922 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
923 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
924 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
925 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
929 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
932 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
935 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
936 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
937 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
938 Arabic and French translation updates
941 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
942 --------------------------------
945 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
946 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
947 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
948 * Fix Dailymotion access script
949 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
950 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
953 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
954 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
957 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
958 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
959 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
962 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
965 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
966 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
969 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
970 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
971 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
972 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
973 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
974 * Fix various crashes
977 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
979 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
982 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
983 ---------------------------------
987 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
988 See 'Access:' for more info.
989 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
992 * Instantaneous pausing
993 * Frame-by-Frame playback
994 * Finer speed control
995 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
996 * Timeshift for most medias
997 * RTSP trickplay support
998 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1001 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1002 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1003 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1004 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1005 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1006 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1007 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1008 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1009 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1010 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1013 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1014 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1015 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1016 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1017 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1018 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1019 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1022 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1023 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1026 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1027 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1028 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1029 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1030 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1031 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1032 * DVB scanning on linux
1033 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1034 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1035 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1036 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1037 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1038 * MTP device access on Unix
1039 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1040 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1043 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1044 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1045 Windows and Mac OS X.
1048 * Export the playlist in HTML
1049 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1050 * Better metadata handling and reading
1052 Linux/Windows interface:
1053 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1054 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1055 * Recently played items list
1056 * Interface toolbar customizations
1057 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1058 - More menus actions
1059 - Finer speed slider
1060 - Improvements on many dialogs
1061 - New dialog for plugins listing
1062 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1063 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1064 * Better integration in GTK environments
1067 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1068 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1069 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1070 * Additional usability improvements
1073 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1074 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1075 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1076 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1077 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1080 * New Maemo port with:
1081 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1082 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1085 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1088 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1089 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1090 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1091 * Support for latest iSight models
1094 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1095 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1098 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1099 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1100 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1101 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1102 The old image video output has been removed.
1103 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1104 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1107 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1115 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1116 --------------------------------------
1122 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1123 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1124 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1125 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1126 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1127 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1128 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1130 Various fixes to the following modules:
1133 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1134 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1135 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1137 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1142 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1143 ---------------------------------
1146 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1147 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1150 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1151 ---------------------------------
1154 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1157 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1160 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1161 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1162 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1163 main controller window.
1164 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1167 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1172 * Updates of other localizations
1175 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1176 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1177 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1178 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1179 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1182 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1183 ---------------------------------
1186 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1188 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1191 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1192 --------------------------------
1197 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1198 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1201 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1202 --------------------------------
1204 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1205 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1208 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1211 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1212 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1215 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1216 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1219 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1220 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1221 * Various fixed in playlist
1224 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1227 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1230 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1231 ------------------------------------
1233 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1234 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1237 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1238 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1239 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1242 * Stability fix for the video output.
1245 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1246 --------------------------------
1249 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1250 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1251 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1252 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1253 * Fixed update system bugs
1254 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1257 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1258 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1259 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1260 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1261 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1262 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1263 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1264 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1265 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1266 modern Mac OS X versions
1269 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1270 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1272 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1273 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1276 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1277 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1278 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1279 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1280 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1281 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1284 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1285 --------------------------------
1287 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1288 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1289 * Multiple bugfixes.
1292 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1293 --------------------------------
1295 * Multiple bug fixes.
1298 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1299 ---------------------------------
1303 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1304 recent to work correctly
1305 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1306 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1307 edit the ".hosts" file.
1308 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1309 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1310 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1311 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1312 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1313 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1314 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1315 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1316 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1317 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1318 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1319 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1320 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1321 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1322 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1323 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1324 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1325 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1326 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1327 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1328 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1329 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1330 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1331 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1332 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1333 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1334 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1335 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1336 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1337 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1338 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1339 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1340 and postproc modules.
1341 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1342 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1343 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1344 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1346 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1347 filter. For example:
1348 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1349 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1351 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1352 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1358 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1360 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1361 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1364 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1365 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1367 * Shoutcast TV listings
1368 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1370 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1371 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1373 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
1376 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
1377 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
1378 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
1379 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
1380 * JACK audio input support
1381 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
1382 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
1383 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
1384 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
1385 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
1386 * Experimental EyeTV access module
1387 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
1388 (available as a separate download).
1389 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
1390 * RTMP input support
1391 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
1392 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
1393 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
1395 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
1396 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
1399 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
1400 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
1401 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
1402 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
1404 * APEv1/2 tags support
1405 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
1406 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
1408 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
1409 * TiVo Series 2 support
1410 * CD+G karaoke Files support
1415 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
1416 * Flash Screen Video support
1417 * CamStudio Screen Video support
1418 * DosBox Capture support
1419 * Karl Morton's Video support
1420 * limited atrac3 support
1422 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
1423 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
1424 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
1425 * H.264 PAFF support
1426 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
1427 * NellyMoser ASAO support
1428 * APE (Monkey audio) support
1429 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
1430 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
1433 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
1434 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
1435 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
1436 * AQTitle subtitles support
1437 * MKV USF subtitles support
1438 * HTML-based subtitles support
1439 * MPSub subtitles support
1440 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
1441 * MPL2 subtitles support
1442 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
1443 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
1444 * Realtext subtitle support
1445 * DKS subtitle support
1446 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
1447 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
1450 * Flash Screen Video support
1451 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
1453 Video outputs and filters:
1454 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
1455 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
1456 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
1457 * New puzzle video output filter
1458 * Re-written motion detection video filter
1459 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
1461 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
1462 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
1463 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
1464 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
1465 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
1466 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
1467 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1468 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
1469 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
1470 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
1471 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
1472 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
1473 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
1474 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
1476 Audio outputs and filters:
1477 * Replay gain support
1478 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
1479 new scaletempo audio filter)
1480 * New spatializer audio filter
1481 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
1484 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
1485 * New RTP payload formats:
1486 * Speex voice audio codec
1487 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
1488 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
1489 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
1490 * DCCP transport for RTP
1491 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
1496 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
1497 end-user suitable way.
1498 * Improved user interaction
1499 * Improved mouse gestures
1500 * Vastly improved Update checker
1501 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
1503 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
1504 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
1506 * Improved video output features
1507 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
1508 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
1509 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
1510 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
1511 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
1513 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
1514 if libncursesw is available.
1515 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
1516 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
1517 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
1519 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
1520 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
1521 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
1522 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
1523 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
1524 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
1525 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
1526 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
1529 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
1530 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
1531 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
1534 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
1535 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
1536 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
1537 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1538 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
1539 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
1542 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
1543 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
1553 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
1554 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
1555 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
1558 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
1559 ----------------------------------
1562 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
1565 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
1566 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
1567 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1568 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
1569 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
1570 * Updated Polish translation
1573 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
1574 ----------------------------------
1577 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
1578 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
1579 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
1582 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
1583 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
1584 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
1585 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
1586 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
1587 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
1588 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
1589 to an unexpected application termination
1590 * New Serbian translation
1591 * Updated Romanian translation
1594 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
1595 ----------------------------------
1598 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
1599 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
1600 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
1601 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
1602 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
1603 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
1604 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
1605 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
1608 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
1609 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
1610 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
1611 * Fixed AAC resampling
1612 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
1613 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
1616 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
1617 ----------------------------------
1620 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
1621 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
1622 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
1623 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
1624 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
1627 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
1628 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
1629 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
1630 * Close MMS access on network timeout
1631 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
1634 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
1635 ----------------------------------
1638 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
1639 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
1642 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
1643 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
1644 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
1645 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
1647 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
1651 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
1654 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
1657 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
1660 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
1663 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
1664 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
1665 encoding on multi-cpu systems
1666 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
1667 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
1669 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1670 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
1671 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
1672 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
1675 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
1678 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
1679 ----------------------------------
1682 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
1683 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
1684 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
1686 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
1687 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
1689 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
1690 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
1693 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
1695 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1696 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
1697 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
1698 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
1699 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
1700 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
1701 two different movies
1702 * Support for current Ogg file formats
1703 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
1704 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
1707 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
1710 * The automatic updating facility was removed
1711 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1712 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
1713 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
1716 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
1717 ----------------------------------
1719 Various bugfixes, notably:
1720 * Windows Vista compatibility
1721 * Cropping in Direct3D
1722 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
1723 * RSS filter string overflow
1725 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
1727 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
1728 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
1731 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
1732 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
1735 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
1738 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
1741 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
1744 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
1745 ----------------------------------
1747 Various bugfixes, notably:
1748 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
1749 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
1750 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
1751 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
1752 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
1753 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
1756 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
1757 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
1760 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
1762 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
1763 * Diverse usability improvements
1764 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
1765 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
1766 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
1769 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
1770 ---------------------------------
1772 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
1773 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
1776 * Fullscreen controller improvements
1779 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
1780 --------------------------------
1783 * Shoutcast TV listings support
1786 * Support for RTSP authentication
1787 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
1788 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
1789 * ATSC support for DVB input
1790 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
1791 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
1792 * Improved support for Flash Video files
1795 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
1796 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
1797 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
1798 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
1799 * Matroska WavPack support
1800 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
1801 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
1802 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
1805 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
1806 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
1807 * Improved libcaca support
1811 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
1812 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
1814 * Systray support in skins
1816 * Support for Apple Remote control
1817 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1818 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
1819 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
1820 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
1822 * Notifications using notification-daemon
1825 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
1826 Windows 9x/ME users:
1827 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
1828 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
1829 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
1830 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
1831 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
1833 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
1834 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
1843 * Updates to the libvlc API
1844 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
1847 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
1848 --------------------------------
1851 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
1852 * Support for downloading updates
1856 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
1857 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
1858 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
1859 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
1861 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
1862 * Improved subtitles encoding support
1863 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
1866 * Cook (Real audio) support
1868 Playlist / Services discovery:
1869 * XSPF playlist support
1871 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
1874 * New JACK audio output
1877 * New video filters:
1878 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
1879 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
1880 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
1881 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
1882 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
1883 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
1886 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
1889 * System to inform the user and request information
1890 - HTTP authentication
1894 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
1895 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1896 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
1899 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
1900 - Improved playlist handling
1901 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
1903 - Embedded Video output
1904 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
1905 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
1906 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
1907 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
1908 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
1910 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
1911 - A bunch of new RPN functions
1914 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
1917 * Mac-Intel compatibility
1918 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
1919 * Growl "Now playing" support
1922 * Ability to log to syslog
1923 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
1926 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
1928 * A bit more automatic testing
1931 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
1932 ---------------------------------
1935 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1936 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1939 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1940 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1943 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1946 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1947 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1953 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1956 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1957 --------------------------------
1960 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1964 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1965 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1966 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1969 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1970 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1971 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1972 * GnomeVFS input module
1973 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1974 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1977 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1978 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1979 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1982 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1983 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1989 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1990 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1993 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1994 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1995 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1998 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2000 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2001 - New extended controls panel
2002 - New bookmarks window
2003 - Fixed playlist sorting
2004 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2006 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2007 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2008 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2009 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2013 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2014 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2016 - Include macro to include other files
2020 * Should now work outside IE as well
2023 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2026 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2027 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2030 The following languages were added:
2034 * Simplified Chinese
2035 The following languages were re-added:
2039 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2040 --------------------------------
2043 * Rewrite of the playlist
2045 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2046 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2047 * Preferences improvements:
2048 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2049 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2051 * Core image manipulation support
2052 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2053 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2054 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2055 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2056 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2057 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2058 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2059 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2060 * Access filter architecture
2061 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2062 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2066 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2067 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2068 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2069 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2070 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2071 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2072 * Massive Matroska improvements
2073 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2075 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2076 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2077 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2078 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2079 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2081 Decoders / Encoders:
2082 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2083 * PNG decoder/encoder
2084 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2085 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2088 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2091 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2092 * Brand new SAP module
2093 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2094 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2095 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2096 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2097 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2098 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2102 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2105 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2106 * Image file video output (png)
2107 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2108 * Improvements to wall video filter
2109 * Support for font color and opacity
2115 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2116 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2117 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2121 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2122 - Improved preferences
2123 - Improvements to the wizard
2124 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2126 - Redesigned playlist
2127 - Improved preferences
2129 - Support for multiple actions
2132 - Support for the new playlist system
2134 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2137 * Screensaver disabling fix
2138 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2139 * Support for no-decoration windows
2142 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2143 * The OpenGL video output is back
2144 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2145 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2146 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2147 is not yet available in the new module
2148 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2151 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2160 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2163 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2166 The following languages were added:
2172 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2173 --------------------------------
2176 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2177 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2180 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2181 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2182 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2185 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2188 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2191 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2194 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2195 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2196 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2200 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2202 * Support of playlist group announcement
2205 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2206 --------------------------------
2209 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2210 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2211 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2212 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2213 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2214 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2217 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2218 (Stream your desktop)
2219 * Improved DVD support:
2220 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2221 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2222 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2223 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2224 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2225 (selection of titles/chapters).
2228 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2229 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2230 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2231 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2232 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2233 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2234 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2235 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2236 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2237 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2240 * G.726 audio support
2241 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2242 * MPEG-4 text support
2243 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2244 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2245 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2249 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2250 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2251 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2252 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2253 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2254 * DVB subtitles encoder
2255 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2256 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2258 * Text track muxing for mp4
2259 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2260 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2261 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2262 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2263 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2264 * Improved ASF muxer
2266 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2267 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2268 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2271 * New audio equalizer filter
2272 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2273 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2274 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2275 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2278 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2279 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2280 with support for effects.
2281 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2282 - New filters can be streamed.
2283 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2284 - Centralized scaling and blending
2286 - "time", to display current time
2287 - "marq", to display a marquee
2290 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2291 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2292 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2293 * A few skins2 improvements
2294 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2295 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2296 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2297 * Improved CORBA control module
2300 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2301 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2302 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2305 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2306 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2307 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2310 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2311 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2312 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2313 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2314 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2317 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2320 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2321 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2324 * Server/client network synchronization module
2325 * VBrick streams fully supported
2326 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2330 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2331 --------------------------------
2334 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2335 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2336 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2337 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2340 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2341 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2342 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2343 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2344 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2345 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2346 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2349 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2350 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2351 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2352 * Improved directory access module.
2353 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2354 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2355 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2356 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2357 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2360 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2361 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2362 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2365 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2366 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2367 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2370 * Improved session announcement system.
2371 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2372 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2373 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2374 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2375 * Improved transrater.
2376 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
2377 * New configuration system.
2378 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
2381 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
2382 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
2383 * Supports live streams and VoD.
2384 * Supports scheduling.
2385 * Telnet interface for vlm.
2386 * HTTP interface for vlm.
2389 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
2390 - Ability to embed video output.
2391 - Support for bitmap fonts.
2392 - Lots of improvements.
2393 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
2394 - New design and set of icons.
2395 - Ability to embed video output.
2396 - Support for hotkeys.
2397 - Support for bookmarks.
2399 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
2400 - Better hotkeys handling.
2403 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
2404 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
2405 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
2406 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
2409 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
2410 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
2411 * Improved Windows installer.
2417 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
2418 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
2421 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
2422 ---------------------------------
2425 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
2426 * Playing MOD files is working now.
2429 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
2430 --------------------------------
2433 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
2434 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
2437 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
2438 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
2439 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
2440 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
2443 * Internal improvments
2444 * Improved import/export
2447 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
2449 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
2450 small and strange formats.
2452 * New MOD audio demux.
2453 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
2454 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
2455 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
2456 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
2459 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
2460 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
2461 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
2467 * New opengl video output plugin.
2470 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
2471 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
2474 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
2475 --------------------------------
2478 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
2479 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
2480 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
2481 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
2482 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
2483 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
2484 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
2485 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
2488 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
2493 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
2494 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
2495 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
2496 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
2497 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
2498 * Reworked DVB tuning.
2499 * Better Icecast support.
2500 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
2501 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
2504 * Support for Theora video encoding.
2505 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
2506 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
2507 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
2508 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
2509 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
2510 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
2513 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
2514 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
2515 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
2516 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
2517 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
2518 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
2519 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
2520 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
2521 * Preliminary RTP support.
2522 * Fixes to SAP announces.
2527 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
2528 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
2530 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
2531 - Improvements and help in preferences
2532 - New streaming wizard
2533 - Revised Disc Open menu
2535 - Improvements of the standard pages
2536 - Support for new commands
2537 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
2540 * Many fixes to the SAP module
2541 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
2544 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
2545 * Text subtitles autodetection.
2546 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
2547 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
2548 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
2549 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
2550 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
2551 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
2552 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
2555 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
2557 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
2558 * Support for Panther.
2559 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
2560 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
2563 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
2564 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
2565 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2566 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
2567 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
2568 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
2569 * Multimonitor support (untested).
2570 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
2573 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
2574 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
2575 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
2578 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
2581 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
2582 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
2583 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
2584 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
2587 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
2588 --------------------------------
2591 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
2594 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
2595 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
2598 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
2599 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
2602 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
2605 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2606 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2609 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2612 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2615 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2616 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2620 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2621 --------------------------------
2624 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2625 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2629 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2630 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2631 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2633 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
2634 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
2637 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
2640 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
2643 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
2644 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
2648 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
2649 --------------------------------
2652 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
2653 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
2657 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
2658 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
2659 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
2660 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
2661 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
2664 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
2665 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
2666 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
2669 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
2670 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
2671 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
2674 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
2675 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
2676 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
2677 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
2678 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
2681 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
2682 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
2683 * A new CORBA control plugin.
2686 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
2689 * Improved build system.
2690 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
2691 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
2692 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
2693 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
2696 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
2697 --------------------------------
2700 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
2703 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
2704 * Fixed large file support on Windows
2705 * Video 4 Linux support
2706 * CD Digital Audio support
2707 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
2710 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
2711 * Support for OpenDML avi files
2712 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
2713 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
2716 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
2717 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
2718 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
2719 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
2720 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
2721 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
2722 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
2725 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
2726 * New HTTP remote control interface
2729 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
2730 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
2731 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
2732 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
2735 * New reset option for the preferences
2736 * You can set your language in the prefences
2737 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
2738 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
2739 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
2740 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
2743 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
2744 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
2745 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
2748 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
2749 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
2750 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
2751 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
2752 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
2753 * New icons by Davor Orel.
2754 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
2755 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
2756 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
2757 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
2760 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
2761 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
2762 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
2763 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
2764 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
2765 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
2766 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
2769 * Interface localization
2770 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
2771 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
2772 * New full-featured Preferences window
2775 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
2776 --------------------------------
2779 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
2780 * support for skins at the interface level
2781 * new OSD module using Freetype2
2782 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
2783 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
2784 input level before dropping out of date frames.
2785 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
2788 * fixed HTTP redirects
2789 * support for opening an entire directory
2790 * EOF should be detected more reliably
2791 * new video4linux access plug-in
2792 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
2795 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
2796 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
2797 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
2800 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
2801 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
2802 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
2803 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
2804 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
2805 * new codec for raw I420 video
2806 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
2809 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
2810 (although it still misses some important features)
2811 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
2814 * new HTTP output support
2815 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
2816 * fixed AV synchronization issues
2819 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
2822 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
2825 * reorderable playlist
2826 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
2827 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
2828 * support for mono audio output devices
2829 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
2830 * fixed several cosmetic issues
2831 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
2832 * the messages window remembers more lines
2833 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
2834 * http and ogg stream output options
2835 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
2838 * new skinnable interface
2839 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
2841 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
2842 * support for FLAC audio format
2843 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
2845 * network tab in the interface
2846 * "apply" handling in preferences
2849 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
2850 ---------------------------------
2853 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
2854 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
2855 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
2856 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
2858 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
2859 * DTS S/PDIF support
2862 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
2863 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
2864 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
2865 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
2868 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
2869 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
2872 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
2875 * fixed the GNU-pth support
2878 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
2880 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
2881 * rc interface is now fully useable
2882 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
2885 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
2886 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
2887 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
2888 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
2889 * VLC now uses the default audio device
2891 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
2892 * support for mouse gestures
2893 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
2896 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
2897 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
2900 * improved ID3 tag detection
2901 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
2902 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
2903 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
2905 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
2908 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
2909 ---------------------------------
2912 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
2913 English was set as the preferred language
2916 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
2917 --------------------------------
2920 * new mouse gesture interface
2921 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
2925 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
2926 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
2927 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
2930 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
2931 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2935 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2938 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2939 without the user consent
2942 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2944 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2945 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2946 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2949 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2950 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2951 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2952 * playlist enhancements
2953 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2954 * new step forward/step backward commands
2955 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2956 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2957 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2960 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2961 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2962 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2965 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2966 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2969 * native video output is working again
2970 * only commandline interface support
2971 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2974 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2975 --------------------------------
2978 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2979 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2980 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2981 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2982 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2983 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2984 and A/52 streams are supported)
2985 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2990 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2991 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2992 * VCD entry points support
2993 * VCD image file support
2996 * support for *.asf format
2997 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2998 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2999 * support for ogg encapsulation
3000 * support for raw DV format
3001 * support for *.wav format
3002 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3005 Stream discovery & playlists:
3006 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3007 * support for .m3u file format
3008 * support for .asx file format
3009 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3012 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3013 (only available with the .avi demux)
3014 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3015 * support for raw PCM data
3016 * support for Cinepak video codec
3017 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3018 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3019 * support for Xvid codec
3020 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3021 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3022 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3024 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3026 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3029 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3032 * new WxWindows interface
3033 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3034 device and the channels configuration
3035 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3036 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3037 format that VLC can play
3038 * new swedish translation
3039 * enhancements of the playlist window
3040 * new messages window to see debug info
3041 * fixed a few crashes
3044 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3045 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3046 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3047 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working