1 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.1.0-git:
2 ------------------------------------
5 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
8 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
9 * EXPERIMENTAL support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM)
10 (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
13 * Completely reworked user interface (based upon works from GSoC 2008)
16 * WPL playlist support
17 * ZPL playlist support
18 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
21 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
24 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
25 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
28 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
29 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
32 * Support of .milk visualisation files using projectM libraries
42 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
43 --------------------------------
46 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
47 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
48 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
49 * Fix Dailymotion access script
50 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
51 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
54 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
55 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ, DZCORE Labs, Algeria
58 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
59 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
60 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
63 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
66 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
67 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
70 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
71 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
72 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
73 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
74 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
78 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
80 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk, Lithuanian
83 Changes between 0.9.9a and 1.0.0:
84 ---------------------------------
88 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
89 See 'Access:' for more info.
90 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
93 * Instantaneous pausing
94 * Frame-by-Frame playback
96 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
97 * Timeshift for most medias
98 * RTSP trickplay support
99 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
102 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
103 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
104 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
105 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
106 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
107 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
108 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
109 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
110 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
111 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
114 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
115 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
116 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
117 * Metadata for mod files are supported
118 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
119 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
120 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
123 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
124 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
127 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
128 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
129 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
130 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
131 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
132 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
133 * DVB scanning on linux
134 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
135 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
136 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
137 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
138 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
139 * MTP device access on Unix
140 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
141 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
144 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
145 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
146 Windows and Mac OS X.
149 * Export the playlist in HTML
150 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
151 * Better metadata handling and reading
153 Linux/Windows interface:
154 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
155 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
156 * Recently played items list
157 * Interface toolbar customizations
158 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
161 - Improvements on many dialogs
162 - New dialog for plugins listing
163 - Fixed-size mode for videos
164 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
165 * Better integration in GTK environments
168 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
169 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
170 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
171 * Additional usability improvements
174 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
175 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
176 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
177 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
178 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
181 * New Maemo port with:
182 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
183 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
186 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
189 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
190 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
191 * Support for latest iSight models
194 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
195 * Surround support for PulseAudio
198 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
199 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
200 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
201 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
202 The old image video output has been removed.
203 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
204 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
207 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
210 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
211 ---------------------------------
214 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
215 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
218 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
219 ---------------------------------
222 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
225 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
228 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
229 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
230 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
231 main controller window.
232 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
235 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
240 * Updates of other localizations
243 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
244 * Lots of small bugfixes.
245 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
246 * Telnet fixes on Windows
247 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
249 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
250 ---------------------------------
253 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
255 Bunch of small bugfixes.
258 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
259 --------------------------------
264 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
265 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
268 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
269 --------------------------------
271 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
272 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
275 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
278 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
279 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
282 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
283 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
286 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
287 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
288 * Various fixed in playlist
291 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
294 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
297 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
298 ------------------------------------
300 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
301 * Fixes several memory leaks.
304 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
305 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
306 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
309 * Stability fix for the video output.
312 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
313 --------------------------------
316 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
317 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
318 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
319 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
320 * Fixed update system bugs
321 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
324 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
325 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
326 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
327 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
328 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
329 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
330 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
331 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
332 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
333 modern Mac OS X versions
336 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
337 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
339 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
340 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
343 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
344 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
345 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
346 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
347 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
348 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
351 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
352 --------------------------------
354 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
355 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
359 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
360 --------------------------------
362 * Multiple bug fixes.
365 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
366 ---------------------------------
370 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
371 recent to work correctly
372 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
373 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
374 edit the ".hosts" file.
375 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
376 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
377 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
378 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
379 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
380 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
381 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
382 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
383 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
384 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
385 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
386 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
387 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
388 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
389 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
390 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
391 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
392 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
393 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
394 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
395 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
396 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
397 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
398 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
399 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
400 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
401 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
402 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
403 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
404 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
405 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
406 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
407 and postproc modules.
408 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
409 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
410 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
411 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
413 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
415 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
416 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
418 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
419 * Glide video output module has been removed.
425 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
427 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
428 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
431 * Vastly improved playlist support:
432 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
434 * Shoutcast TV listings
435 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
437 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
438 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
440 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
443 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
444 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
445 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
446 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
447 * JACK audio input support
448 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
449 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
450 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
451 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
452 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
453 * Experimental EyeTV access module
454 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
455 (available as a separate download).
456 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
458 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
459 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
460 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
462 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
463 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
466 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
467 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
468 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
469 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
471 * APEv1/2 tags support
472 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
473 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
475 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
476 * TiVo Series 2 support
477 * CD+G karaoke Files support
482 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
483 * Flash Screen Video support
484 * CamStudio Screen Video support
485 * DosBox Capture support
486 * Karl Morton's Video support
487 * limited atrac3 support
489 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
490 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
491 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
493 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
494 * NellyMoser ASAO support
495 * APE (Monkey audio) support
496 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
497 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
500 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
501 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
502 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
503 * AQTitle subtitles support
504 * MKV USF subtitles support
505 * HTML-based subtitles support
506 * MPSub subtitles support
507 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
508 * MPL2 subtitles support
509 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
510 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
511 * Realtext subtitle support
512 * DKS subtitle support
513 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
514 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
517 * Flash Screen Video support
518 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
520 Video outputs and filters:
521 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
522 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
523 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
524 * New puzzle video output filter
525 * Re-written motion detection video filter
526 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
528 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
529 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
530 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
531 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
532 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
533 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
534 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
535 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
536 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
537 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
538 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
539 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
540 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
541 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
543 Audio outputs and filters:
544 * Replay gain support
545 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
546 new scaletempo audio filter)
547 * New spatializer audio filter
548 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
551 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
552 * New RTP payload formats:
553 * Speex voice audio codec
554 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
555 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
556 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
557 * DCCP transport for RTP
558 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
563 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
564 end-user suitable way.
565 * Improved user interaction
566 * Improved mouse gestures
567 * Vastly improved Update checker
568 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
570 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
571 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
573 * Improved video output features
574 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
575 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
576 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
577 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
578 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
580 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
581 if libncursesw is available.
582 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
583 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
584 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
586 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
587 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
588 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
589 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
590 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
591 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
592 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
593 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
596 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
597 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
598 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
601 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
602 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
603 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
604 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
605 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
606 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
609 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
610 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
620 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
621 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
622 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
625 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
626 ----------------------------------
629 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
632 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
633 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
634 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
635 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
636 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
637 * Updated Polish translation
640 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
641 ----------------------------------
644 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
645 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
646 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
649 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
650 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
651 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
652 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
653 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
654 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
655 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
656 to an unexpected application termination
657 * New Serbian translation
658 * Updated Romanian translation
661 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
662 ----------------------------------
665 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
666 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
667 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
668 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
669 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
670 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
671 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
672 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
675 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
676 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
677 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
678 * Fixed AAC resampling
679 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
680 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
683 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
684 ----------------------------------
687 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
688 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
689 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
690 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
691 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
694 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
695 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
696 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
697 * Close MMS access on network timeout
698 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
701 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
702 ----------------------------------
705 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
706 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
709 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
710 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
711 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
712 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
714 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
718 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
721 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
724 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
727 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
730 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
731 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
732 encoding on multi-cpu systems
733 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
734 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
736 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
737 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
738 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
739 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
742 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
745 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
746 ----------------------------------
749 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
750 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
751 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
753 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
754 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
756 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
757 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
760 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
762 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
763 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
764 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
765 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
766 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
767 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
769 * Support for current Ogg file formats
770 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
771 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
774 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
777 * The automatic updating facility was removed
778 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
779 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
780 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
783 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
784 ----------------------------------
786 Various bugfixes, notably:
787 * Windows Vista compatibility
788 * Cropping in Direct3D
789 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
790 * RSS filter string overflow
792 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
794 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
795 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
798 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
799 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
802 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
805 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
808 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
811 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
812 ----------------------------------
814 Various bugfixes, notably:
815 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
816 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
817 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
818 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
819 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
820 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
823 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
824 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
827 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
829 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
830 * Diverse usability improvements
831 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
832 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
833 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
836 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
837 ---------------------------------
840 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
843 * Fullscreen controller improvements
846 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
847 --------------------------------
850 * Shoutcast TV listings support
853 * Support for RTSP authentication
854 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
855 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
856 * ATSC support for DVB input
857 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
858 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
859 * Improved support for Flash Video files
862 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
863 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
864 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
865 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
866 * Matroska WavPack support
867 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
868 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
869 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
872 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
873 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
874 * Improved libcaca support
878 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
879 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
881 * Systray support in skins
883 * Support for Apple Remote control
884 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
885 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
886 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
887 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
889 * Notifications using notification-daemon
892 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
894 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
895 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
896 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
897 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
898 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
900 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
901 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
910 * Updates to the libvlc API
911 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
914 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
915 --------------------------------
918 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
919 * Support for downloading updates
923 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
924 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
925 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
926 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
928 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
929 * Improved subtitles encoding support
930 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
933 * Cook (Real audio) support
935 Playlist / Services discovery:
936 * XSPF playlist support
938 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
941 * New JACK audio output
945 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
946 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
947 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
948 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
949 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
950 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
953 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
956 * System to inform the user and request information
957 - HTTP authentication
961 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
962 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
963 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
966 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
967 - Improved playlist handling
968 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
970 - Embedded Video output
971 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
972 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
973 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
974 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
975 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
977 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
978 - A bunch of new RPN functions
981 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
984 * Mac-Intel compatibility
985 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
986 * Growl "Now playing" support
989 * Ability to log to syslog
990 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
993 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
995 * A bit more automatic testing
998 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
999 ---------------------------------
1002 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
1003 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
1006 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
1007 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
1010 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
1013 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
1014 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
1020 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
1023 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
1031 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
1032 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
1033 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
1036 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
1037 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
1038 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
1039 * GnomeVFS input module
1040 * Support for RTP packet reordering
1041 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
1044 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
1045 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
1046 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
1049 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
1050 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
1056 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
1057 Mixer and Dolby Surround
1060 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
1061 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
1062 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
1065 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
1067 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
1068 - New extended controls panel
1069 - New bookmarks window
1070 - Fixed playlist sorting
1071 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
1073 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
1074 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
1075 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
1076 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
1080 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
1081 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
1083 - Include macro to include other files
1087 * Should now work outside IE as well
1090 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
1093 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
1094 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
1097 The following languages were added:
1101 * Simplified Chinese
1102 The following languages were re-added:
1106 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
1107 --------------------------------
1110 * Rewrite of the playlist
1112 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
1113 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
1114 * Preferences improvements:
1115 - New organization, designed to improve usability
1116 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
1118 * Core image manipulation support
1119 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
1120 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
1121 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
1122 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
1123 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
1124 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
1125 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
1126 now separated by ':' instead of ','
1127 * Access filter architecture
1128 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
1129 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
1133 * Support for SOCKS proxy
1134 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
1135 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
1136 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
1137 * Better support for Kasenna streams
1138 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
1139 * Massive Matroska improvements
1140 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
1142 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
1143 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
1144 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
1145 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
1146 * Support for FTP over IPv6
1148 Decoders / Encoders:
1149 * Dirac decoder and encoder
1150 * PNG decoder/encoder
1151 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
1152 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
1155 * New Record and Timeshift filters
1158 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
1159 * Brand new SAP module
1160 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
1161 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
1162 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
1163 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
1164 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
1165 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
1169 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
1172 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
1173 * Image file video output (png)
1174 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
1175 * Improvements to wall video filter
1176 * Support for font color and opacity
1182 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
1183 - Seeking support in VoD streams
1184 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
1188 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
1189 - Improved preferences
1190 - Improvements to the wizard
1191 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
1193 - Redesigned playlist
1194 - Improved preferences
1196 - Support for multiple actions
1199 - Support for the new playlist system
1201 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
1204 * Screensaver disabling fix
1205 * DirectShow tuner configuration
1206 * Support for no-decoration windows
1209 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
1210 * The OpenGL video output is back
1211 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
1212 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
1213 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
1214 is not yet available in the new module
1215 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
1218 * Support for single-buffered overlay
1227 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
1230 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
1233 The following languages were added:
1239 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
1240 --------------------------------
1243 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
1244 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
1247 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
1248 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
1249 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
1252 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1255 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
1258 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
1261 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
1262 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
1263 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
1267 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
1269 * Support of playlist group announcement
1272 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
1273 --------------------------------
1276 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
1277 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
1278 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
1279 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
1280 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
1281 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
1284 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
1285 (Stream your desktop)
1286 * Improved DVD support:
1287 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
1288 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
1289 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
1290 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
1291 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
1292 (selection of titles/chapters).
1295 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
1296 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
1297 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
1298 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
1299 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
1300 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1301 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
1302 * Improved Ogg demuxer
1303 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
1304 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
1307 * G.726 audio support
1308 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
1309 * MPEG-4 text support
1310 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
1311 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
1312 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
1316 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
1317 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
1318 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
1319 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
1320 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
1321 * DVB subtitles encoder
1322 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
1323 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
1325 * Text track muxing for mp4
1326 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
1327 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
1328 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
1329 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
1330 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
1331 * Improved ASF muxer
1333 * H.263 RTP streaming support
1334 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
1335 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
1338 * New audio equalizer filter
1339 * Very trivial volume normalizer
1340 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
1341 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
1342 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
1345 * Roku HD1000 Video output
1346 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
1347 with support for effects.
1348 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
1349 - New filters can be streamed.
1350 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
1351 - Centralized scaling and blending
1353 - "time", to display current time
1354 - "marq", to display a marquee
1357 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
1358 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
1359 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
1360 * A few skins2 improvements
1361 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
1362 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
1363 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
1364 * Improved CORBA control module
1367 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
1368 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
1369 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
1372 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
1373 * Experimental SVG rendering module
1374 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
1377 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
1378 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
1379 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
1380 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
1381 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
1384 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
1387 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
1388 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
1391 * Server/client network synchronization module
1392 * VBrick streams fully supported
1393 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1397 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1398 --------------------------------
1401 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1402 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1403 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1404 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1407 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1408 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1409 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1410 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1411 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1412 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1413 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1416 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1417 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1418 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1419 * Improved directory access module.
1420 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1421 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1422 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1423 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1424 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1427 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1428 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1429 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1432 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1433 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1434 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1437 * Improved session announcement system.
1438 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1439 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1440 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1441 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1442 * Improved transrater.
1443 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1444 * New configuration system.
1445 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1448 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1449 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1450 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1451 * Supports scheduling.
1452 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1453 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1456 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1457 - Ability to embed video output.
1458 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1459 - Lots of improvements.
1460 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1461 - New design and set of icons.
1462 - Ability to embed video output.
1463 - Support for hotkeys.
1464 - Support for bookmarks.
1466 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1467 - Better hotkeys handling.
1470 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1471 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1472 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1473 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1476 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1477 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1478 * Improved Windows installer.
1484 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1485 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1488 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1489 ---------------------------------
1492 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1493 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1496 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1497 --------------------------------
1500 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1501 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1504 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1505 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1506 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1507 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1510 * Internal improvments
1511 * Improved import/export
1514 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1516 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1517 small and strange formats.
1519 * New MOD audio demux.
1520 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1521 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1522 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1523 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1526 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1527 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1528 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1534 * New opengl video output plugin.
1537 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1538 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1541 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1542 --------------------------------
1545 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1546 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1547 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1548 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1549 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1550 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1551 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1552 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1555 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1560 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1561 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1562 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1563 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1564 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1565 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1566 * Better Icecast support.
1567 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1568 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1571 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1572 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1573 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1574 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1575 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1576 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1577 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1580 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1581 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1582 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1583 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1584 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1585 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1586 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1587 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1588 * Preliminary RTP support.
1589 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1594 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1595 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1597 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1598 - Improvements and help in preferences
1599 - New streaming wizard
1600 - Revised Disc Open menu
1602 - Improvements of the standard pages
1603 - Support for new commands
1604 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1607 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1608 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1611 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1612 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1613 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1614 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1615 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1616 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1617 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1618 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1619 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1622 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1624 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1625 * Support for Panther.
1626 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1627 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1630 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1631 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1632 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1633 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1634 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1635 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1636 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1637 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1640 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1641 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1642 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1645 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1648 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1649 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1650 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1651 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1654 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1655 --------------------------------
1658 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1661 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1662 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1665 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1666 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1669 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1672 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1673 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1676 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1679 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1682 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1683 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1687 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1688 --------------------------------
1691 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1692 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1696 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1697 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1698 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1700 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1701 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1704 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1707 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1710 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1711 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1715 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1716 --------------------------------
1719 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1720 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1724 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1725 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1726 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1727 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1728 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1731 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1732 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1733 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1736 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1737 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1738 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1741 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1742 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1743 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1744 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1745 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1748 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1749 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1750 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1753 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1756 * Improved build system.
1757 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1758 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1759 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1760 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1763 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1764 --------------------------------
1767 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1770 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1771 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1772 * Video 4 Linux support
1773 * CD Digital Audio support
1774 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1777 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1778 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1779 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1780 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1783 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1784 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1785 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1786 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1787 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1788 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1789 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1792 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1793 * New HTTP remote control interface
1796 * 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.
1797 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1798 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1799 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1802 * New reset option for the preferences
1803 * You can set your language in the prefences
1804 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1805 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1806 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1807 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1810 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1811 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1812 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1815 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1816 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1817 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1818 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1819 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1820 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1821 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1822 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1823 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1824 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1827 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1828 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1829 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1830 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1831 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1832 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1833 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1836 * Interface localization
1837 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1838 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1839 * New full-featured Preferences window
1842 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1843 --------------------------------
1846 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1847 * support for skins at the interface level
1848 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1849 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1850 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1851 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1852 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1855 * fixed HTTP redirects
1856 * support for opening an entire directory
1857 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1858 * new video4linux access plug-in
1859 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1862 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1863 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1864 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1867 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1868 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1869 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1870 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1871 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1872 * new codec for raw I420 video
1873 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1876 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1877 (although it still misses some important features)
1878 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1881 * new HTTP output support
1882 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1883 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1886 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1889 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1892 * reorderable playlist
1893 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1894 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1895 * support for mono audio output devices
1896 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1897 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1898 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1899 * the messages window remembers more lines
1900 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1901 * http and ogg stream output options
1902 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1905 * new skinnable interface
1906 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1908 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1909 * support for FLAC audio format
1910 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1912 * network tab in the interface
1913 * "apply" handling in preferences
1916 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1917 ---------------------------------
1920 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1921 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1922 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1923 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1925 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1926 * DTS S/PDIF support
1929 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1930 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1931 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1932 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1935 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1936 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1939 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1942 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1945 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1947 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1948 * rc interface is now fully useable
1949 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1952 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1953 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1954 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1955 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1956 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1958 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1959 * support for mouse gestures
1960 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1963 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1964 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1967 * improved ID3 tag detection
1968 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1969 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1970 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1972 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1975 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1976 ---------------------------------
1979 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1980 English was set as the preferred language
1983 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1984 --------------------------------
1987 * new mouse gesture interface
1988 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1992 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1993 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1994 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1997 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1998 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
2002 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
2005 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
2006 without the user consent
2009 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
2011 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
2012 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
2013 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
2016 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
2017 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
2018 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
2019 * playlist enhancements
2020 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
2021 * new step forward/step backward commands
2022 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
2023 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
2024 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
2027 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
2028 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
2029 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
2032 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
2033 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
2036 * native video output is working again
2037 * only commandline interface support
2038 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
2041 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
2042 --------------------------------
2045 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
2046 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
2047 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
2048 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
2049 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
2050 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
2051 and A/52 streams are supported)
2052 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
2057 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
2058 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
2059 * VCD entry points support
2060 * VCD image file support
2063 * support for *.asf format
2064 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
2065 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
2066 * support for ogg encapsulation
2067 * support for raw DV format
2068 * support for *.wav format
2069 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
2072 Stream discovery & playlists:
2073 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
2074 * support for .m3u file format
2075 * support for .asx file format
2076 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
2079 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
2080 (only available with the .avi demux)
2081 * support for ADPCM audio codec
2082 * support for raw PCM data
2083 * support for Cinepak video codec
2084 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
2085 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
2086 * support for Xvid codec
2087 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
2088 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
2089 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
2091 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
2093 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
2096 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
2099 * new WxWindows interface
2100 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
2101 device and the channels configuration
2102 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
2103 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
2104 format that VLC can play
2105 * new swedish translation
2106 * enhancements of the playlist window
2107 * new messages window to see debug info
2108 * fixed a few crashes
2111 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
2112 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
2113 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
2114 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working