3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (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 the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 It will be replaced by a better alternative in the next version.
21 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
22 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
23 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
24 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
25 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
26 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
27 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
28 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
29 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
30 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
31 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
32 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
33 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
34 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
35 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
36 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
37 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
38 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the avcodec, avformat,
39 swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and
46 * Vastly improved playlist support:
47 * Media library support
49 * Shoutcast TV listings
50 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
52 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
53 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
54 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
55 share/lua/meta/README.txt
58 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
59 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
60 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
61 * JACK audio input support
62 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
63 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
64 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
65 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
66 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
68 * APEv1/2 tags support
69 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
70 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
72 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
73 * TiVo Series 2 support
74 * v4l2 access module support
75 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
76 * CD+G karaoke Files support
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X using OpenGL
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module (Mac OS X only)
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
84 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
88 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
89 * Flash Screen Video support
90 * CamStudio Screen Video support
91 * DosBox Capture support
92 * Karl Morton's Video support
93 * limited atrac3 support
94 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
95 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
96 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
97 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
99 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
100 * NellyMoser ASAO support
101 * APE (Monkey audio) support
102 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
103 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
106 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
107 * AQTitle subtitles support
108 * MKV USF subtitles support
109 * HTML-based subtitles support
110 * MPSub subtitles support
111 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
112 * MPL2 subtitles support
113 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
114 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
115 * Realtext subtitle support
116 * DKS subtitle support
117 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
120 * Flash Screen Video support
121 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
123 Video output and filters:
124 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
125 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
126 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
127 * New puzzle video output filter
128 * Re-written motion detection video filter
129 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
131 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
132 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
133 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
134 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
135 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
136 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
137 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
138 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
139 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
140 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
141 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
142 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
144 Audio output and filters
145 * Replay gain support
146 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
147 * New spatializer audio filter
148 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
151 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
152 * New RTP payload formats:
153 * Speex voice audio codec
154 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
155 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
156 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
157 * DCCP transport for RTP
158 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
162 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
164 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
165 end-user suitable way.
166 * Improved user interaction
167 * Improved mouse gestures
168 * Vastly improved Update checker
169 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
171 * Improved video output features
172 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
173 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
174 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
175 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
177 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
178 if libncursesw is available.
179 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
180 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
182 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
183 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
184 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
185 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
186 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
187 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
188 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
189 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
192 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
193 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
194 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
197 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
198 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
199 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
200 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
201 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 was discontinued.
204 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
205 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
213 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
214 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
215 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
217 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
218 ----------------------------------
221 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
222 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
223 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
224 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
225 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
228 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
229 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
230 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
231 * Close MMS access on network timeout
232 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
235 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
236 ----------------------------------
239 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
240 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
243 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
244 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
245 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
246 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
248 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
252 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
255 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
258 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
261 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
264 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
265 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
266 encoding on multi-cpu systems
267 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
268 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
270 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
271 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
272 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
273 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
276 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
279 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
280 ----------------------------------
283 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
284 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
285 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
287 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
288 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
290 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
291 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
294 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
296 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
297 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
298 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
299 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
300 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
301 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
303 * Support for current Ogg file formats
304 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
305 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
308 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
311 * The automatic updating facility was removed
312 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
313 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
314 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
317 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
318 ----------------------------------
320 Various bugfixes, notably:
321 * Windows Vista compatibility
322 * Cropping in Direct3D
323 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
324 * RSS filter string overflow
326 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
328 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
329 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
332 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
333 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
336 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
339 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
342 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
345 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
346 ----------------------------------
348 Various bugfixes, notably:
349 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
350 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
351 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
352 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
353 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
354 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
357 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
358 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
361 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
363 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
364 * Diverse usability improvements
365 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
366 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
367 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
370 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
371 ---------------------------------
374 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
377 * Fullscreen controller improvements
380 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
381 --------------------------------
384 * Shoutcast TV listings support
387 * Support for RTSP authentication
388 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
389 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
390 * ATSC support for DVB input
391 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
392 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
393 * Improved support for Flash Video files
396 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
397 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
398 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
399 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
400 * Matroska WavPack support
401 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
402 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
403 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
406 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
407 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
408 * Improved libcaca support
412 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
413 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
415 * Systray support in skins
417 * Support for Apple Remote control
418 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
419 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
420 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
421 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
423 * Notifications using notification-daemon
426 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
428 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
429 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
430 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
431 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
432 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
434 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
435 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
444 * Updates to the libvlc API
445 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
448 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
449 --------------------------------
452 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
453 * Support for downloading updates
457 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
458 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
459 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
460 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
462 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
463 * Improved subtitles encoding support
464 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
467 * Cook (Real audio) support
469 Playlist / Services discovery:
470 * XSPF playlist support
472 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
475 * New JACK audio output
479 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
480 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
481 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
482 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
483 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
484 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
487 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
490 * System to inform the user and request information
491 - HTTP authentication
495 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
496 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
497 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
500 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
501 - Improved playlist handling
502 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
504 - Embedded Video output
505 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
506 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
507 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
508 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
509 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
511 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
512 - A bunch of new RPN functions
515 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
518 * Mac-Intel compatibility
519 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
520 * Growl "Now playing" support
523 * Ability to log to syslog
524 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
527 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
529 * A bit more automatic testing
532 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
533 ---------------------------------
536 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
537 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
540 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
541 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
544 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
547 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
548 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
554 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
557 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
558 --------------------------------
561 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
565 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
566 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
567 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
570 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
571 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
572 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
573 * GnomeVFS input module
574 * Support for RTP packet reordering
575 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
578 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
579 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
580 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
583 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
584 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
590 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
591 Mixer and Dolby Surround
594 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
595 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
596 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
599 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
601 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
602 - New extended controls panel
603 - New bookmarks window
604 - Fixed playlist sorting
605 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
607 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
608 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
609 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
610 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
614 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
615 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
617 - Include macro to include other files
621 * Should now work outside IE as well
624 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
627 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
628 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
631 The following languages were added:
636 The following languages were re-added:
640 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
641 --------------------------------
644 * Rewrite of the playlist
646 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
647 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
648 * Preferences improvements:
649 - New organization, designed to improve usability
650 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
652 * Core image manipulation support
653 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
654 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
655 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
656 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
657 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
658 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
659 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
660 now separated by ':' instead of ','
661 * Access filter architecture
662 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
663 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
667 * Support for SOCKS proxy
668 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
669 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
670 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
671 * Better support for Kasenna streams
672 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
673 * Massive Matroska improvements
674 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
676 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
677 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
678 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
679 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
680 * Support for FTP over IPv6
683 * Dirac decoder and encoder
684 * PNG decoder/encoder
685 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
686 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
689 * New Record and Timeshift filters
692 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
693 * Brand new SAP module
694 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
695 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
696 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
697 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
698 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
699 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
703 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
706 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
707 * Image file video output (png)
708 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
709 * Improvements to wall video filter
710 * Support for font color and opacity
716 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
717 - Seeking support in VoD streams
718 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
722 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
723 - Improved preferences
724 - Improvements to the wizard
725 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
727 - Redesigned playlist
728 - Improved preferences
730 - Support for multiple actions
733 - Support for the new playlist system
735 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
738 * Screensaver disabling fix
739 * DirectShow tuner configuration
740 * Support for no-decoration windows
743 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
744 * The OpenGL video output is back
745 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
746 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
747 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
748 is not yet available in the new module
749 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
752 * Support for single-buffered overlay
761 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
764 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
767 The following languages were added:
773 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
774 --------------------------------
777 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
778 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
781 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
782 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
783 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
786 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
789 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
792 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
795 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
796 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
797 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
801 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
803 * Support of playlist group announcement
806 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
807 --------------------------------
810 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
811 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
812 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
813 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
814 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
815 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
818 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
819 (Stream your desktop)
820 * Improved DVD support:
821 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
822 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
823 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
824 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
825 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
826 (selection of titles/chapters).
829 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
830 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
831 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
832 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
833 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
834 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
835 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
836 * Improved Ogg demuxer
837 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
838 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
841 * G.726 audio support
842 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
843 * MPEG-4 text support
844 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
845 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
846 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
850 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
851 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
852 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
853 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
854 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
855 * DVB subtitles encoder
856 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
857 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
859 * Text track muxing for mp4
860 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
861 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
862 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
863 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
864 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
867 * H.263 RTP streaming support
868 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
869 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
872 * New audio equalizer filter
873 * Very trivial volume normalizer
874 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
875 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
876 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
879 * Roku HD1000 Video output
880 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
881 with support for effects.
882 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
883 - New filters can be streamed.
884 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
885 - Centralized scaling and blending
887 - "time", to display current time
888 - "marq", to display a marquee
891 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
892 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
893 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
894 * A few skins2 improvements
895 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
896 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
897 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
898 * Improved CORBA control module
901 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
902 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
903 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
906 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
907 * Experimental SVG rendering module
908 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
911 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
912 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
913 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
914 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
915 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
918 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
921 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
922 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
925 * Server/client network synchronization module
926 * VBrick streams fully supported
927 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
931 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
932 --------------------------------
935 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
936 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
937 * Improved HTTP daemon.
938 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
941 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
942 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
943 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
944 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
945 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
946 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
947 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
950 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
951 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
952 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
953 * Improved directory access module.
954 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
955 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
956 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
957 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
958 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
961 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
962 * mmsh streaming fixes.
963 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
966 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
967 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
968 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
971 * Improved session announcement system.
972 * Minimize threads usage by default.
973 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
974 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
975 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
976 * Improved transrater.
977 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
978 * New configuration system.
979 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
982 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
983 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
984 * Supports live streams and VoD.
985 * Supports scheduling.
986 * Telnet interface for vlm.
987 * HTTP interface for vlm.
990 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
991 - Ability to embed video output.
992 - Support for bitmap fonts.
993 - Lots of improvements.
994 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
995 - New design and set of icons.
996 - Ability to embed video output.
997 - Support for hotkeys.
998 - Support for bookmarks.
1000 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1001 - Better hotkeys handling.
1004 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1005 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1006 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1007 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1010 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1011 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1012 * Improved Windows installer.
1018 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1019 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1022 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1023 ---------------------------------
1026 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1027 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1030 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1031 --------------------------------
1034 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1035 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1038 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1039 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1040 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1041 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1044 * Internal improvments
1045 * Improved import/export
1048 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1050 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1051 small and strange formats.
1053 * New MOD audio demux.
1054 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1055 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1056 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1057 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1060 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1061 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1062 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1068 * New opengl video output plugin.
1071 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1072 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1075 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1076 --------------------------------
1079 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1080 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1081 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1082 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1083 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1084 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1085 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1086 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1089 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1094 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1095 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1096 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1097 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1098 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1099 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1100 * Better Icecast support.
1101 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1102 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1105 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1106 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1107 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1108 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1109 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1110 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1111 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1114 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1115 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1116 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1117 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1118 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1119 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1120 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1121 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1122 * Preliminary RTP support.
1123 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1128 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1129 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1131 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1132 - Improvements and help in preferences
1133 - New streaming wizard
1134 - Revised Disc Open menu
1136 - Improvements of the standard pages
1137 - Support for new commands
1138 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1141 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1142 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1145 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1146 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1147 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1148 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1149 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1150 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1151 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1152 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1153 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1156 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1158 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1159 * Support for Panther.
1160 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1161 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1164 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1165 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1166 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1167 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1168 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1169 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1170 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1171 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1174 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1175 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1176 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1179 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1182 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1183 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1184 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1185 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1188 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1189 --------------------------------
1192 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1195 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1196 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1199 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1200 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1203 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1206 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1207 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1210 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1213 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1216 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1217 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1221 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1222 --------------------------------
1225 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1226 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1230 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1231 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1232 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1234 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1235 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1238 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1241 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1244 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1245 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1249 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1250 --------------------------------
1253 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1254 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1258 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1259 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1260 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1261 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1262 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1265 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1266 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1267 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1270 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1271 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1272 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1275 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1276 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1277 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1278 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1279 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1282 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1283 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1284 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1287 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1290 * Improved build system.
1291 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1292 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1293 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1294 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1297 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1298 --------------------------------
1301 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1304 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1305 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1306 * Video 4 Linux support
1307 * CD Digital Audio support
1308 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1311 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1312 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1313 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1314 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1317 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1318 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1319 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1320 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1321 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1322 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1323 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1326 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1327 * New HTTP remote control interface
1330 * 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.
1331 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1332 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1333 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1336 * New reset option for the preferences
1337 * You can set your language in the prefences
1338 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1339 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1340 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1341 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1344 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1345 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1346 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1349 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1350 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1351 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1352 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1353 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1354 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1355 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1356 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1357 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1358 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1361 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1362 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1363 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1364 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1365 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1366 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1367 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1370 * Interface localization
1371 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1372 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1373 * New full-featured Preferences window
1376 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1377 --------------------------------
1380 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1381 * support for skins at the interface level
1382 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1383 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1384 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1385 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1386 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1389 * fixed HTTP redirects
1390 * support for opening an entire directory
1391 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1392 * new video4linux access plug-in
1393 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1396 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1397 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1398 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1401 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1402 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1403 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1404 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1405 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1406 * new codec for raw I420 video
1407 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1410 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1411 (although it still misses some important features)
1412 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1415 * new HTTP output support
1416 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1417 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1420 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1423 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1426 * reorderable playlist
1427 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1428 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1429 * support for mono audio output devices
1430 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1431 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1432 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1433 * the messages window remembers more lines
1434 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1435 * http and ogg stream output options
1436 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1439 * new skinnable interface
1440 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1442 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1443 * support for FLAC audio format
1444 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1446 * network tab in the interface
1447 * "apply" handling in preferences
1450 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1451 ---------------------------------
1454 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1455 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1456 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1457 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1459 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1460 * DTS S/PDIF support
1463 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1464 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1465 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1466 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1469 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1470 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1473 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1476 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1479 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1481 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1482 * rc interface is now fully useable
1483 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1486 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1487 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1488 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1489 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1490 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1492 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1493 * support for mouse gestures
1494 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1497 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1498 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1501 * improved ID3 tag detection
1502 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1503 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1504 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1506 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1509 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1510 ---------------------------------
1513 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1514 English was set as the preferred language
1517 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1518 --------------------------------
1521 * new mouse gesture interface
1522 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1526 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1527 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1528 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1531 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1532 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1536 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1539 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1540 without the user consent
1543 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1545 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1546 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1547 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1550 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1551 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1552 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1553 * playlist enhancements
1554 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1555 * new step forward/step backward commands
1556 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1557 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1558 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1561 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1562 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1563 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1566 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1567 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1570 * native video output is working again
1571 * only commandline interface support
1572 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1575 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1576 --------------------------------
1579 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1580 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1581 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1582 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1583 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1584 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1585 and A/52 streams are supported)
1586 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1591 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1592 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1593 * VCD entry points support
1594 * VCD image file support
1597 * support for *.asf format
1598 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1599 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1600 * support for ogg encapsulation
1601 * support for raw DV format
1602 * support for *.wav format
1603 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1606 Stream discovery & playlists:
1607 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1608 * support for .m3u file format
1609 * support for .asx file format
1610 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1613 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1614 (only available with the .avi demux)
1615 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1616 * support for raw PCM data
1617 * support for Cinepak video codec
1618 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1619 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1620 * support for Xvid codec
1621 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1622 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1623 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1625 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1627 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1630 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1633 * new WxWindows interface
1634 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1635 device and the channels configuration
1636 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1637 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1638 format that VLC can play
1639 * new swedish translation
1640 * enhancements of the playlist window
1641 * new messages window to see debug info
1642 * fixed a few crashes
1645 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1646 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1647 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1648 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working