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 XXX: DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS HERE :XXX
12 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
13 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in vlc 0.8.6:
14 - "Streaming wizard" and "VLM control". These features will be replaced
15 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
16 features, we advise you to keep vlc 0.8.6
17 - Similarly, "Bookmarks" will be reintroduced in an improved version at a
19 * The default for --sout-keep has changed. It's now activated by default.
20 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
21 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
22 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
23 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
24 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
30 * Vastly improved playlist support:
31 * Media library support
33 * Shoutcast TV listings
34 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
35 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/luaplaylist/README.txt
36 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
39 * UDP-Lite protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
40 * DCCP protocol (requires OS support) for RTP/AVP
41 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
42 * JACK audio input support
43 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
44 * Input run time option ( improved live stream recording )
45 * Fixed aiff stereo file
46 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
47 * Improved FLAC demuxer ( duration / current time / meta data )
49 * APEv1/2 tags support
50 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
53 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
54 * MKV USF subtitles support
55 * HTML based subtitles support
56 * Flash Screen Video support
57 * CamStudio Screen Video support
58 * DosBox Capture support
59 * Karl Morton's Video support
60 * limited atrac3 support
61 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files (Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...)
64 * Flash Screen Video support
66 Video output and filters:
67 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
68 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
69 * New puzzle video output filter
70 * Rewrite motion detection video filter
71 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
73 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
74 * New erase video filter (remove a logo from a video)
75 * Enhancements to subtitles' renderer to support bold, italics and some HTML
77 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
78 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
79 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module). This
80 was previously part of the mosaic module.
81 * Fix random characters problem in RSS filter.
82 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
85 * Replay gain support.
86 * Play audio when going slower/faster ( no pitch filter yet )
89 * UDP-Lite (requires OS support) for RTP/TS encapsulation
93 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
95 * Improved user interaction
96 * Improved mouse gestures
98 * Allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface (experimental).
99 * D-Bus Interface (experimental) implements the MPRIS
100 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
101 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
103 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
106 * new BDA device driver plugin for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft
113 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
114 ----------------------------------
116 Various bugfixes, notably:
117 * Windows Vista compatibility
118 * Cropping in Direct3D
119 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
120 * RSS filter string overflow
122 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
124 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
125 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316)
128 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
131 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
134 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
137 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
140 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
141 ----------------------------------
143 Various bugfixes, notably:
144 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
145 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
146 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
147 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
148 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
149 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
152 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
153 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
156 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
158 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
159 * Diverse usability improvements
160 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
161 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
162 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
165 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
166 ---------------------------------
169 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701)
172 * Fullscreen controller improvements
175 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
176 --------------------------------
179 * Shoutcast TV listings support
182 * Support for RTSP authentication
183 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
184 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
185 * ATSC support for DVB input
186 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
187 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
188 * Improved support for Flash Video files
191 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
192 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
193 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
194 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
195 * Matroska WavPack support
196 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
197 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
198 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
201 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
202 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
203 * Improved libcaca support
207 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
208 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
210 * Systray support in skins
212 * Support for Apple Remote control
213 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
214 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
215 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
216 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
218 * Notifications using notification-daemon
221 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
223 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
224 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
225 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
226 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
227 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
229 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
230 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
239 * Updates to the libvlc API
240 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
243 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
244 --------------------------------
247 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
248 * Support for downloading updates
252 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
253 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
254 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
255 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
257 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
258 * Improved subtitles encoding support
259 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
262 * Cook (Real audio) support
264 Playlist / Services discovery:
265 * XSPF playlist support
267 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
270 * New JACK audio output
274 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
275 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
276 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
277 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
278 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
279 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
282 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
285 * System to inform the user and request information
286 - HTTP authentication
290 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
291 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
292 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
295 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
296 - Improved playlist handling
297 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
299 - Embedded Video output
300 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
301 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
302 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
303 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
304 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
306 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
307 - A bunch of new RPN functions
310 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
313 * Mac-Intel compatibility
314 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
315 * Growl "Now playing" support
318 * Ability to log to syslog
319 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
322 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
324 * A bit more automatic testing
327 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
328 ---------------------------------
331 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
332 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
335 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
336 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
339 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
342 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
343 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
349 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
352 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
353 --------------------------------
356 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
360 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
361 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
362 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
365 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
366 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
367 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
368 * GnomeVFS input module
369 * Support for RTP packet reordering
370 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
373 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
374 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
375 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
378 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
379 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
385 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
386 Mixer and Dolby Surround
389 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
390 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
391 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
394 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
396 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
397 - New extended controls panel
398 - New bookmarks window
399 - Fixed playlist sorting
400 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
402 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
403 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
404 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
405 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
409 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
410 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
412 - Include macro to include other files
416 * Should now work outside IE as well
419 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
422 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
423 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
426 The following languages were added:
431 The following languages were re-added:
435 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
436 --------------------------------
439 * Rewrite of the playlist
441 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
442 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
443 * Preferences improvements:
444 - New organization, designed to improve usability
445 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
447 * Core image manipulation support
448 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
449 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
450 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
451 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
452 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
453 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
454 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
455 now separated by ':' instead of ','
456 * Access filter architecture
457 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
458 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
462 * Support for SOCKS proxy
463 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
464 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
465 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
466 * Better support for Kasenna streams
467 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
468 * Massive Matroska improvements
469 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
471 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
472 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
473 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
474 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
475 * Support for FTP over IPv6
478 * Dirac decoder and encoder
479 * PNG decoder/encoder
480 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
481 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
484 * New Record and Timeshift filters
487 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
488 * Brand new SAP module
489 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
490 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
491 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
492 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
493 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
494 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
498 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
501 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
502 * Image file video output (png)
503 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
504 * Improvements to wall video filter
505 * Support for font color and opacity
511 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
512 - Seeking support in VoD streams
513 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
517 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
518 - Improved preferences
519 - Improvements to the wizard
520 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
522 - Redesigned playlist
523 - Improved preferences
525 - Support for multiple actions
528 - Support for the new playlist system
530 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
533 * Screensaver disabling fix
534 * DirectShow tuner configuration
535 * Support for no-decoration windows
538 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
539 * The OpenGL video output is back
540 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
541 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
542 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
543 is not yet available in the new module
544 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
547 * Support for single-buffered overlay
556 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
559 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
562 The following languages were added:
568 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
569 --------------------------------
572 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
573 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
576 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
577 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
578 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
581 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
584 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
587 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
590 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
591 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
592 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
596 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
598 * Support of playlist group announcement
601 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
602 --------------------------------
605 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
606 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
607 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
608 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
609 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
610 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
613 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
614 (Stream your desktop)
615 * Improved DVD support:
616 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
617 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
618 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
619 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
620 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
621 (selection of titles/chapters).
624 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
625 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
626 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
627 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
628 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
629 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
630 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
631 * Improved Ogg demuxer
632 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
633 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
636 * G.726 audio support
637 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
638 * MPEG-4 text support
639 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
640 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
641 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
645 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
646 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
647 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
648 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
649 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
650 * DVB subtitles encoder
651 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
652 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
654 * Text track muxing for mp4
655 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
656 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
657 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
658 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
659 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
662 * H.263 RTP streaming support
663 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
664 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
667 * New audio equalizer filter
668 * Very trivial volume normalizer
669 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
670 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
671 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
674 * Roku HD1000 Video output
675 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
676 with support for effects.
677 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
678 - New filters can be streamed.
679 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
680 - Centralized scaling and blending
682 - "time", to display current time
683 - "marq", to display a marquee
686 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
687 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
688 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
689 * A few skins2 improvements
690 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
691 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
692 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
693 * Improved CORBA control module
696 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
697 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
698 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
701 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
702 * Experimental SVG rendering module
703 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
706 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
707 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
708 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
709 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
710 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
713 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
716 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
717 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
720 * Server/client network synchronization module
721 * VBrick streams fully supported
722 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
726 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
727 --------------------------------
730 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
731 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
732 * Improved HTTP daemon.
733 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
736 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
737 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
738 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
739 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
740 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
741 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
742 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
745 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
746 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
747 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
748 * Improved directory access module.
749 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
750 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
751 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
752 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
753 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
756 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
757 * mmsh streaming fixes.
758 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
761 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
762 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
763 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
766 * Improved session announcement system.
767 * Minimize threads usage by default.
768 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
769 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
770 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
771 * Improved transrater.
772 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
773 * New configuration system.
774 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
777 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
778 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
779 * Supports live streams and VoD.
780 * Supports scheduling.
781 * Telnet interface for vlm.
782 * HTTP interface for vlm.
785 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
786 - Ability to embed video output.
787 - Support for bitmap fonts.
788 - Lots of improvements.
789 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
790 - New design and set of icons.
791 - Ability to embed video output.
792 - Support for hotkeys.
793 - Support for bookmarks.
795 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
796 - Better hotkeys handling.
799 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
800 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
801 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
802 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
805 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
806 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
807 * Improved Windows installer.
813 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
814 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
817 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
818 ---------------------------------
821 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
822 * Playing MOD files is working now.
825 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
826 --------------------------------
829 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
830 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
833 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
834 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
835 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
836 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
839 * Internal improvments
840 * Improved import/export
843 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
845 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
846 small and strange formats.
848 * New MOD audio demux.
849 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
850 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
851 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
852 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
855 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
856 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
857 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
863 * New opengl video output plugin.
866 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
867 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
870 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
871 --------------------------------
874 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
875 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
876 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
877 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
878 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
879 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
880 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
881 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
884 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
889 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
890 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
891 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
892 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
893 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
894 * Reworked DVB tuning.
895 * Better Icecast support.
896 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
897 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
900 * Support for Theora video encoding.
901 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
902 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
903 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
904 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
905 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
906 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
909 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
910 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
911 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
912 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
913 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
914 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
915 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
916 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
917 * Preliminary RTP support.
918 * Fixes to SAP announces.
923 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
924 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
926 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
927 - Improvements and help in preferences
928 - New streaming wizard
929 - Revised Disc Open menu
931 - Improvements of the standard pages
932 - Support for new commands
933 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
936 * Many fixes to the SAP module
937 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
940 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
941 * Text subtitles autodetection.
942 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
943 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
944 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
945 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
946 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
947 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
948 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
951 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
953 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
954 * Support for Panther.
955 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
956 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
959 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
960 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
961 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
962 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
963 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
964 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
965 * Multimonitor support (untested).
966 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
969 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
970 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
971 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
974 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
977 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
978 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
979 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
980 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
983 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
984 --------------------------------
987 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
990 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
991 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
994 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
995 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
998 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1001 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1002 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1005 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1008 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1011 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1012 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1016 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1017 --------------------------------
1020 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1021 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1025 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1026 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1027 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1029 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1030 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1033 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1036 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1039 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1040 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1044 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1045 --------------------------------
1048 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1049 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1053 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1054 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1055 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1056 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1057 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1060 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1061 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1062 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1065 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1066 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1067 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1070 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1071 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1072 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1073 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1074 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1077 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1078 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1079 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1082 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1085 * Improved build system.
1086 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1087 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1088 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1089 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1092 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1093 --------------------------------
1096 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1099 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1100 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1101 * Video 4 Linux support
1102 * CD Digital Audio support
1103 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1106 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1107 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1108 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1109 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1112 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1113 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1114 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1115 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1116 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1117 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1118 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1121 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1122 * New HTTP remote control interface
1125 * 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.
1126 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1127 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1128 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1131 * New reset option for the preferences
1132 * You can set your language in the prefences
1133 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1134 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1135 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1136 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1139 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1140 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1141 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1144 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1145 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1146 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1147 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1148 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1149 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1150 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1151 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1152 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1153 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1156 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1157 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1158 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1159 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1160 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1161 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1162 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1165 * Interface localization
1166 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1167 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1168 * New full-featured Preferences window
1171 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1172 --------------------------------
1175 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1176 * support for skins at the interface level
1177 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1178 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1179 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1180 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1181 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1184 * fixed HTTP redirects
1185 * support for opening an entire directory
1186 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1187 * new video4linux access plug-in
1188 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1191 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1192 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1193 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1196 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1197 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1198 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1199 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1200 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1201 * new codec for raw I420 video
1202 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1205 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1206 (although it still misses some important features)
1207 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1210 * new HTTP output support
1211 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1212 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1215 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1218 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1221 * reorderable playlist
1222 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1223 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1224 * support for mono audio output devices
1225 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1226 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1227 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1228 * the messages window remembers more lines
1229 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1230 * http and ogg stream output options
1231 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1234 * new skinnable interface
1235 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1237 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1238 * support for FLAC audio format
1239 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1241 * network tab in the interface
1242 * "apply" handling in preferences
1245 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1246 ---------------------------------
1249 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1250 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1251 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1252 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1254 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1255 * DTS S/PDIF support
1258 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1259 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1260 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1261 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1264 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1265 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1268 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1271 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1274 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1276 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1277 * rc interface is now fully useable
1278 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1281 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1282 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1283 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1284 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1285 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1287 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1288 * support for mouse gestures
1289 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1292 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1293 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1296 * improved ID3 tag detection
1297 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1298 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1299 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1301 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1304 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1305 ---------------------------------
1308 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1309 English was set as the preferred language
1312 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1313 --------------------------------
1316 * new mouse gesture interface
1317 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1321 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1322 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1323 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1326 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1327 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1331 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1334 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1335 without the user consent
1338 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1340 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1341 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1342 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1345 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1346 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1347 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1348 * playlist enhancements
1349 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1350 * new step forward/step backward commands
1351 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1352 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1353 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1356 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1357 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1358 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1361 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1362 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1365 * native video output is working again
1366 * only commandline interface support
1367 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1370 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1371 --------------------------------
1374 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1375 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1376 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1377 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1378 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1379 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1380 and A/52 streams are supported)
1381 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1386 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1387 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1388 * VCD entry points support
1389 * VCD image file support
1392 * support for *.asf format
1393 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1394 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1395 * support for ogg encapsulation
1396 * support for raw DV format
1397 * support for *.wav format
1398 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1401 Stream discovery & playlists:
1402 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1403 * support for .m3u file format
1404 * support for .asx file format
1405 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1408 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1409 (only available with the .avi demux)
1410 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1411 * support for raw PCM data
1412 * support for Cinepak video codec
1413 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1414 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1415 * support for Xvid codec
1416 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1417 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1418 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1420 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1422 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1425 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1428 * new WxWindows interface
1429 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1430 device and the channels configuration
1431 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1432 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1433 format that VLC can play
1434 * new swedish translation
1435 * enhancements of the playlist window
1436 * new messages window to see debug info
1437 * fixed a few crashes
1440 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1441 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1442 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1443 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working