3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-svn (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
9 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
10 edit the ".hosts" file.
11 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
12 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
13 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
14 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
15 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
16 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
17 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
18 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
19 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
20 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
21 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
22 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
23 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
25 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
36 * Vastly improved playlist support:
37 * Media library support
39 * Shoutcast TV listings
40 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
41 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
42 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
45 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
46 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
47 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
48 * JACK audio input support
49 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
50 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
51 * Fixed aiff stereo file
52 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
53 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
55 * APEv1/2 tags support
56 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
60 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
61 * MKV USF subtitles support
62 * HTML based subtitles support
63 * Flash Screen Video support
64 * CamStudio Screen Video support
65 * DosBox Capture support
66 * Karl Morton's Video support
67 * limited atrac3 support
68 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
71 * Flash Screen Video support
73 Video output and filters:
74 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
75 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
76 * New puzzle video output filter
77 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
78 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
80 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
81 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
82 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
84 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
85 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
86 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
87 was previously part of the mosaic module.
88 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
89 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
90 * Support for Intel SSE2 intruction set in chroma converters
91 * Improved use of Intel MMX intruction set in chroma converters
94 * Replay gain support.
95 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
98 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
102 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
104 * Improved user interaction
105 * Improved mouse gestures
107 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
108 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
109 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
110 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
112 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
115 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
122 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
123 ----------------------------------
125 Various bugfixes, notably:
126 * Windows Vista compatibility
127 * Cropping in Direct3D
128 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
129 * RSS filter string overflow
131 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
133 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
134 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
137 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
140 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
143 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
146 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
149 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
150 ----------------------------------
152 Various bugfixes, notably:
153 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
154 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
155 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
156 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
157 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
158 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
161 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
162 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
165 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
167 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
168 * Diverse usability improvements
169 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
170 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
171 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
174 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
175 ---------------------------------
178 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
181 * Fullscreen controller improvements
184 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
185 --------------------------------
188 * Shoutcast TV listings support
191 * Support for RTSP authentication
192 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
193 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
194 * ATSC support for DVB input
195 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
196 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
197 * Improved support for Flash Video files
200 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
201 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
202 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
203 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
204 * Matroska WavPack support
205 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
206 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
207 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
210 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
211 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
212 * Improved libcaca support
216 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
217 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
219 * Systray support in skins
221 * Support for Apple Remote control
222 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
223 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
224 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
225 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
227 * Notifications using notification-daemon
230 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
232 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
233 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
234 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
235 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
236 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
238 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
239 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
248 * Updates to the libvlc API
249 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
252 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
253 --------------------------------
256 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
257 * Support for downloading updates
261 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
262 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
263 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
264 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
266 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
267 * Improved subtitles encoding support
268 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
271 * Cook (Real audio) support
273 Playlist / Services discovery:
274 * XSPF playlist support
276 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
279 * New JACK audio output
283 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
284 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
285 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
286 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
287 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
288 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
291 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
294 * System to inform the user and request information
295 - HTTP authentication
299 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
300 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
301 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
304 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
305 - Improved playlist handling
306 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
308 - Embedded Video output
309 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
310 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
311 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
312 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
313 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
315 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
316 - A bunch of new RPN functions
319 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
322 * Mac-Intel compatibility
323 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
324 * Growl "Now playing" support
327 * Ability to log to syslog
328 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
331 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
333 * A bit more automatic testing
336 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
337 ---------------------------------
340 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
341 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
344 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
345 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
348 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
351 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
352 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
358 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
361 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
362 --------------------------------
365 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
369 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
370 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
371 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
374 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
375 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
376 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
377 * GnomeVFS input module
378 * Support for RTP packet reordering
379 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
382 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
383 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
384 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
387 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
388 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
394 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
395 Mixer and Dolby Surround
398 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
399 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
400 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
403 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
405 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
406 - New extended controls panel
407 - New bookmarks window
408 - Fixed playlist sorting
409 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
411 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
412 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
413 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
414 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
418 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
419 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
421 - Include macro to include other files
425 * Should now work outside IE as well
428 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
431 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
432 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
435 The following languages were added:
440 The following languages were re-added:
444 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
445 --------------------------------
448 * Rewrite of the playlist
450 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
451 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
452 * Preferences improvements:
453 - New organization, designed to improve usability
454 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
456 * Core image manipulation support
457 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
458 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
459 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
460 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
461 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
462 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
463 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
464 now separated by ':' instead of ','
465 * Access filter architecture
466 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
467 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
471 * Support for SOCKS proxy
472 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
473 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
474 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
475 * Better support for Kasenna streams
476 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
477 * Massive Matroska improvements
478 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
480 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
481 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
482 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
483 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
484 * Support for FTP over IPv6
487 * Dirac decoder and encoder
488 * PNG decoder/encoder
489 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
490 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
493 * New Record and Timeshift filters
496 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
497 * Brand new SAP module
498 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
499 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
500 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
501 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
502 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
503 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
507 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
510 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
511 * Image file video output (png)
512 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
513 * Improvements to wall video filter
514 * Support for font color and opacity
520 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
521 - Seeking support in VoD streams
522 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
526 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
527 - Improved preferences
528 - Improvements to the wizard
529 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
531 - Redesigned playlist
532 - Improved preferences
534 - Support for multiple actions
537 - Support for the new playlist system
539 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
542 * Screensaver disabling fix
543 * DirectShow tuner configuration
544 * Support for no-decoration windows
547 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
548 * The OpenGL video output is back
549 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
550 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
551 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
552 is not yet available in the new module
553 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
556 * Support for single-buffered overlay
565 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
568 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
571 The following languages were added:
577 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
578 --------------------------------
581 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
582 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
585 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
586 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
587 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
590 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
593 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
596 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
599 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
600 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
601 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
605 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
607 * Support of playlist group announcement
610 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
611 --------------------------------
614 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
615 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
616 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
617 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
618 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
619 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
622 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
623 (Stream your desktop)
624 * Improved DVD support:
625 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
626 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
627 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
628 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
629 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
630 (selection of titles/chapters).
633 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
634 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
635 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
636 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
637 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
638 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
639 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
640 * Improved Ogg demuxer
641 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
642 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
645 * G.726 audio support
646 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
647 * MPEG-4 text support
648 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
649 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
650 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
654 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
655 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
656 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
657 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
658 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
659 * DVB subtitles encoder
660 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
661 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
663 * Text track muxing for mp4
664 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
665 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
666 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
667 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
668 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
671 * H.263 RTP streaming support
672 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
673 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
676 * New audio equalizer filter
677 * Very trivial volume normalizer
678 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
679 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
680 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
683 * Roku HD1000 Video output
684 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
685 with support for effects.
686 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
687 - New filters can be streamed.
688 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
689 - Centralized scaling and blending
691 - "time", to display current time
692 - "marq", to display a marquee
695 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
696 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
697 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
698 * A few skins2 improvements
699 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
700 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
701 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
702 * Improved CORBA control module
705 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
706 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
707 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
710 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
711 * Experimental SVG rendering module
712 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
715 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
716 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
717 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
718 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
719 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
722 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
725 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
726 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
729 * Server/client network synchronization module
730 * VBrick streams fully supported
731 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
735 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
736 --------------------------------
739 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
740 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
741 * Improved HTTP daemon.
742 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
745 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
746 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
747 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
748 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
749 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
750 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
751 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
754 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
755 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
756 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
757 * Improved directory access module.
758 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
759 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
760 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
761 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
762 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
765 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
766 * mmsh streaming fixes.
767 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
770 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
771 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
772 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
775 * Improved session announcement system.
776 * Minimize threads usage by default.
777 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
778 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
779 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
780 * Improved transrater.
781 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
782 * New configuration system.
783 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
786 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
787 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
788 * Supports live streams and VoD.
789 * Supports scheduling.
790 * Telnet interface for vlm.
791 * HTTP interface for vlm.
794 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
795 - Ability to embed video output.
796 - Support for bitmap fonts.
797 - Lots of improvements.
798 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
799 - New design and set of icons.
800 - Ability to embed video output.
801 - Support for hotkeys.
802 - Support for bookmarks.
804 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
805 - Better hotkeys handling.
808 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
809 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
810 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
811 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
814 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
815 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
816 * Improved Windows installer.
822 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
823 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
826 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
827 ---------------------------------
830 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
831 * Playing MOD files is working now.
834 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
835 --------------------------------
838 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
839 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
842 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
843 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
844 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
845 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
848 * Internal improvments
849 * Improved import/export
852 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
854 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
855 small and strange formats.
857 * New MOD audio demux.
858 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
859 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
860 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
861 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
864 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
865 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
866 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
872 * New opengl video output plugin.
875 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
876 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
879 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
880 --------------------------------
883 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
884 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
885 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
886 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
887 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
888 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
889 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
890 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
893 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
898 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
899 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
900 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
901 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
902 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
903 * Reworked DVB tuning.
904 * Better Icecast support.
905 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
906 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
909 * Support for Theora video encoding.
910 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
911 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
912 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
913 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
914 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
915 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
918 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
919 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
920 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
921 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
922 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
923 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
924 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
925 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
926 * Preliminary RTP support.
927 * Fixes to SAP announces.
932 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
933 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
935 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
936 - Improvements and help in preferences
937 - New streaming wizard
938 - Revised Disc Open menu
940 - Improvements of the standard pages
941 - Support for new commands
942 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
945 * Many fixes to the SAP module
946 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
949 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
950 * Text subtitles autodetection.
951 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
952 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
953 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
954 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
955 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
956 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
957 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
960 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
962 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
963 * Support for Panther.
964 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
965 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
968 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
969 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
970 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
971 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
972 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
973 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
974 * Multimonitor support (untested).
975 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
978 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
979 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
980 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
983 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
986 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
987 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
988 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
989 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
992 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
993 --------------------------------
996 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
999 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1000 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1003 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1004 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1007 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1010 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1011 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1014 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1017 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1020 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1021 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1025 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1030 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1034 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1035 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1036 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1038 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1039 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1042 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1045 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1048 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1049 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1053 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1058 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1062 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1063 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1064 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1065 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1066 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1069 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1070 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1071 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1074 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1075 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1076 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1079 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1080 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1081 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1082 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1083 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1086 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1087 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1088 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1091 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1094 * Improved build system.
1095 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1096 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1097 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1098 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1101 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1102 --------------------------------
1105 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1108 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1109 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1110 * Video 4 Linux support
1111 * CD Digital Audio support
1112 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1115 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1116 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1117 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1118 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1121 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1122 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1123 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1124 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1125 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1126 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1127 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1130 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1131 * New HTTP remote control interface
1134 * 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.
1135 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1136 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1137 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1140 * New reset option for the preferences
1141 * You can set your language in the prefences
1142 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1143 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1144 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1145 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1148 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1149 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1150 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1153 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1154 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1155 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1156 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1157 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1158 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1159 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1160 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1161 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1162 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1165 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1166 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1167 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1168 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1169 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1170 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1171 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1174 * Interface localization
1175 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1176 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1177 * New full-featured Preferences window
1180 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1181 --------------------------------
1184 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1185 * support for skins at the interface level
1186 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1187 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1188 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1189 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1190 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1193 * fixed HTTP redirects
1194 * support for opening an entire directory
1195 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1196 * new video4linux access plug-in
1197 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1200 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1201 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1202 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1205 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1206 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1207 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1208 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1209 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1210 * new codec for raw I420 video
1211 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1214 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1215 (although it still misses some important features)
1216 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1219 * new HTTP output support
1220 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1221 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1224 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1227 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1230 * reorderable playlist
1231 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1232 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1233 * support for mono audio output devices
1234 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1235 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1236 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1237 * the messages window remembers more lines
1238 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1239 * http and ogg stream output options
1240 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1243 * new skinnable interface
1244 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1246 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1247 * support for FLAC audio format
1248 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1250 * network tab in the interface
1251 * "apply" handling in preferences
1254 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1255 ---------------------------------
1258 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1259 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1260 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1261 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1263 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1264 * DTS S/PDIF support
1267 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1268 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1269 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1270 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1273 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1274 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1277 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1280 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1283 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1285 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1286 * rc interface is now fully useable
1287 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1290 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1291 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1292 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1293 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1294 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1296 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1297 * support for mouse gestures
1298 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1301 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1302 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1305 * improved ID3 tag detection
1306 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1307 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1308 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1310 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1313 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1314 ---------------------------------
1317 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1318 English was set as the preferred language
1321 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1322 --------------------------------
1325 * new mouse gesture interface
1326 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1330 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1331 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1332 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1335 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1336 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1340 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1343 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1344 without the user consent
1347 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1349 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1350 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1351 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1354 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1355 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1356 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1357 * playlist enhancements
1358 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1359 * new step forward/step backward commands
1360 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1361 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1362 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1365 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1366 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1367 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1370 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1371 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1374 * native video output is working again
1375 * only commandline interface support
1376 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1379 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1380 --------------------------------
1383 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1384 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1385 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1386 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1387 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1388 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1389 and A/52 streams are supported)
1390 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1395 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1396 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1397 * VCD entry points support
1398 * VCD image file support
1401 * support for *.asf format
1402 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1403 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1404 * support for ogg encapsulation
1405 * support for raw DV format
1406 * support for *.wav format
1407 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1410 Stream discovery & playlists:
1411 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1412 * support for .m3u file format
1413 * support for .asx file format
1414 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1417 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1418 (only available with the .avi demux)
1419 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1420 * support for raw PCM data
1421 * support for Cinepak video codec
1422 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1423 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1424 * support for Xvid codec
1425 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1426 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1427 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1429 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1431 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1434 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1437 * new WxWindows interface
1438 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1439 device and the channels configuration
1440 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1441 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1442 format that VLC can play
1443 * new swedish translation
1444 * enhancements of the playlist window
1445 * new messages window to see debug info
1446 * fixed a few crashes
1449 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1450 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1451 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1452 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working