1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
29 * New NFS access module using libnfs
30 * New SMB access module using libdsm
31 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
32 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
33 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
34 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
35 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
36 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
37 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
38 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
39 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
40 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
41 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
42 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
43 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
44 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
45 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
46 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
47 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
48 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
49 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
50 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
51 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
52 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
53 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
54 * Improvements on DVB scanning
55 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
58 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
59 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
60 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
61 * Support for experimental Daala video
62 * Support for experimental AV1 video
63 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
64 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
65 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
66 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
67 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
68 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
69 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
70 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
71 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
72 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
73 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
74 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
75 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX codecs
76 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
77 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
78 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
79 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
81 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
82 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
83 * Support VPX high bit depth support
84 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
87 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
88 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
89 * Support Daala in Ogg
90 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
91 * Support for fragmented MP4
92 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
93 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
94 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
95 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
96 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
97 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
98 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
99 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
100 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
101 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
102 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
103 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
104 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
105 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
106 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
107 * Support WMV extended content metadata
108 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
109 * Support SBV subtitles
110 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
111 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
112 * Support raw h265/hevc files
113 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
114 * Rewrite MKV seeking
115 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
118 * Added ADF stream filter
119 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
120 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
121 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
122 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
125 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
128 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
129 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
130 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
131 * Added Tizen audio module
132 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD)
133 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
136 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
137 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
138 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
141 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
142 * Wayland shell surface window provider
143 * Wayland shared memory video output
144 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
145 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
146 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
147 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
148 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
149 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
150 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
151 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
154 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
157 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
158 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
159 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
160 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
163 * Chromecast output module
164 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
167 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
168 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
171 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
172 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
173 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
177 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
178 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
179 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
180 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
183 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
184 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
185 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
186 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
187 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
188 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
189 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
190 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
193 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
196 * Batch convert support
197 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
200 * Support key accelerators
203 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
204 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
205 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
206 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
207 This allows to attach media events between create and start
208 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
209 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
210 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
211 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
212 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
213 identifier (if there is one available)
214 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
215 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
216 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
217 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
218 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
219 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
220 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
221 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
222 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
223 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
224 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
225 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
226 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
227 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
228 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
230 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
231 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
232 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
235 * Support for the SystemD Journal
236 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
237 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
238 * New Android module for logging
241 * remove langfromtelx
242 * remove ZPL playlist format
243 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
244 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
245 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
246 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
247 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
248 * Add a memory keystore
249 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
250 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
254 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
255 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
256 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
257 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
258 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
259 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
260 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
261 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
262 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
263 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
264 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
265 * BD access module (use libbluray)
268 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
269 --------------------------------
272 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
273 * Fix some VP9 decoding
275 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
276 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
277 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
278 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
283 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
284 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
285 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
286 * Revert to older ASX code
287 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
290 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
291 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
292 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
295 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
296 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
297 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
300 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
301 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
302 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
305 * Fix recent items behaviour
306 * Fix rotation filter activation
307 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
310 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
311 * Fix extensions registration during install
312 * Fix extensions dialog crash
313 * Default to no DxVA decoding
316 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
319 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
320 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
321 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
322 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
323 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
324 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
327 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
328 --------------------------------
331 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
332 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
335 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
336 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
337 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
338 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
341 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
342 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
343 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
344 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
346 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
347 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
348 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
351 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
352 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
353 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
354 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
355 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
356 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
357 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
358 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
359 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
360 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
361 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
362 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
363 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
364 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
365 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
366 * New jpeg image decoder
367 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
368 * New SVG image decoder
369 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
370 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
371 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
374 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
375 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
376 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
377 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
378 * New png image encoder using libpng
381 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
382 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
383 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
384 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
385 synchronization and tracks exclusion
386 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
387 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
388 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
389 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
390 * Support Opus in MKV
392 * Basic support for WebVTT
393 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
394 * Support HDPR TS files
395 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
396 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
397 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
398 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
399 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
400 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
401 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
402 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
403 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
404 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
405 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
406 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
409 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
410 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
411 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
412 * New Android native window provider module
413 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
414 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
415 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
418 * New Oldmovie effect filter
419 * New VHS effect filter
420 * New Freeze effect filter
421 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
422 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
423 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
426 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
427 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
428 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
429 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
430 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
431 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
434 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
435 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
437 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
440 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
441 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
442 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
443 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
444 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
445 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
446 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
447 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
448 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
450 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
451 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
452 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
455 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
456 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
459 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
460 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
463 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
464 * Add record button in Qt menus
465 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
466 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
467 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
470 * Support for OS X Yosemite
471 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
472 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
473 * Fixes for advanced preferences
474 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
475 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
476 * Option to increase playlist font size
477 * Improved crash log reporting
480 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
481 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
482 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
483 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
486 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
489 * iOS video output: use ios2
490 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
491 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
494 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
495 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
496 * Update of all translations:
497 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
498 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
499 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
500 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
501 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
502 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
503 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
506 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
507 --------------------------------
513 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
514 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
515 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
516 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
517 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
518 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
519 * Fix potential crash in zip access
520 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
521 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
524 * Update translations and greek encoding
527 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
528 --------------------------------
531 * Fix compilation on OS/2
534 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
536 Mac OS X audio output:
537 * Fix channel ordering
538 * Increase the buffersize
541 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
542 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
543 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
546 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
549 * Correctly support video-on-top
550 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
551 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
554 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
557 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
558 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
561 * Update British English
564 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
565 --------------------------------
568 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
571 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
574 * Fix DVD playback regression
575 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
576 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
579 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
580 --------------------------------
583 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
584 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
587 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
588 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
589 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
592 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
593 by updating codec libraries
594 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
595 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
596 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
599 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
600 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
601 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
602 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
605 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
606 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
609 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
610 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
611 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
612 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
613 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
616 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
617 * Fix record file names
620 * Fix minimal size possible on start
621 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
622 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
623 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
624 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
627 * Fix album art display on Windows
630 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
631 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
632 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
633 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
634 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
635 and Simplified Chinese translations
636 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
639 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
640 --------------------------------
643 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
644 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
645 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
646 audio devices on OS X
647 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
648 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
651 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
652 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
655 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
656 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
659 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
662 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
663 * Improve A-B loop control
664 * Fix album art update when changing media
667 * Add a language option in the interface
668 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
669 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
670 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
671 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
672 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
673 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
674 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
677 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
680 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
681 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
682 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
683 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
686 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
687 --------------------------------
690 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
692 * Fix some subtitles track selection
695 * VP9 support in WebM
696 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
697 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
700 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
701 * Support Speex in ogg files
702 * Fix some .mov playlists support
703 * Support Alac in mkv
704 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
705 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
708 * Fix DVB options parsing
709 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
710 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
713 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
714 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
717 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
718 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
721 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
722 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
723 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
724 * Fix play after drag'n drop
725 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
728 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
729 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
732 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
733 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
736 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
737 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
738 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
739 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
740 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
741 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
742 * Improves interface resizings
745 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
746 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
747 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
748 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
749 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
753 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
754 --------------------------------
757 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
758 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
759 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
760 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
761 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
763 3rd party libraries (contrib):
764 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
767 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
768 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
769 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
770 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
771 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
774 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
775 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
779 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
780 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
781 * Support for Ulead DV audio
782 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
783 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
784 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
785 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
786 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
787 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
788 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
789 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
790 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
791 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
794 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
795 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
796 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
799 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
800 remove support for previous OS X releases
801 * Major improvements in DASH support
802 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
803 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
804 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
805 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
806 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
807 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
808 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
809 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
810 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
811 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
812 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
815 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
816 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
817 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
818 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
819 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
820 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
821 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
822 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
823 * Support for more MJPEG streams
824 * Add support for liveleak streams
825 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
826 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
827 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
830 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
831 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
832 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
833 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
834 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
835 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
836 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
837 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
838 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
839 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
840 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
843 * New remapping channel filter
844 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
845 * New VSXu visualization plugin
846 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
847 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
848 * New gain audio filter
851 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
852 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
853 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
854 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
855 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
856 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
857 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
858 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
859 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
862 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
863 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
864 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
865 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
866 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
867 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
868 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
871 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
872 * Options support for AVIO output module
873 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
874 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
875 * Livehttp stream encryption support
876 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
877 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
880 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
883 * configurable password for the HTTP server
884 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
885 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
886 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
887 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
888 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
889 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
890 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
894 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
897 * Add support for multiple video outputs
898 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
900 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
901 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
902 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
903 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
904 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
905 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
906 VLC's internal volume level
907 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
909 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
910 selection and to manage the list of presets
911 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
912 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
913 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
914 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
915 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
916 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
917 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
918 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
919 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
920 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
922 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
923 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
924 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
925 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
926 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
927 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
928 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
929 3rd party applications
930 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
931 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
932 (system-wide settings)
933 * Add support for the Video Title option
934 * Add support for the Boss Key
935 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
936 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
939 * Partial support for Qt5.0
940 * Menus modifications and improvements
941 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
942 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
943 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
944 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
945 * EPG display fixes and improvements
946 * Add SD pixmap sources
947 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
948 * Display playlist total duration
949 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
950 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
951 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
956 * Extend sliders, offsets options
957 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
958 * Numerous fixes and improvements
959 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
962 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
963 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
964 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
965 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
966 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
967 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
968 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
969 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
970 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
971 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
974 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
975 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
976 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
977 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
978 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
979 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
981 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
982 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
983 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
984 * Broken crop video filter
986 * OSD parser and menu
987 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
988 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
989 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
990 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
994 * Update of all translations
997 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
998 --------------------------------
1001 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1002 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1005 * Fix modplug security issues
1008 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1009 --------------------------------
1013 * Fix crash in QTsound
1014 * Fix screen mouse file location
1015 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1018 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1019 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1022 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1025 * Fix interface crashes
1026 * Fix autostart playback option
1027 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1030 * update Welsh translation
1031 * New Kannada translation
1034 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1035 --------------------------------
1038 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1039 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1043 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1046 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1049 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1052 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1055 * Minor improvements
1056 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1059 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1062 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1063 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1064 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1067 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1068 --------------------------------
1071 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1074 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1077 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1078 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1079 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1080 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1081 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1082 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1085 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1086 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1087 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1088 * 3rd party codecs updates
1091 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1092 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1093 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1094 in the advanced preferences panel
1095 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1096 * Fix crash within the video output code
1097 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1098 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1099 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1100 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1101 lua extensions, ...)
1102 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1105 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1108 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1109 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1112 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1115 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1116 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1117 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1118 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1119 Dutch, Danish, translations
1120 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1123 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1124 --------------------------------
1127 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1130 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1131 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1132 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1135 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1136 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1137 * Fix koreus lua parser
1138 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1139 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1140 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1141 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1144 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1145 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1148 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1151 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1152 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1153 * Fix Time counter UI look
1154 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1157 * Fix https streaming
1160 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1161 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1162 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1165 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1166 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1167 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1168 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1169 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1172 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1173 --------------------------------
1176 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1177 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1178 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1179 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1180 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1181 during playback on Mac OS X
1184 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1185 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1186 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1189 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1190 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1191 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1192 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1193 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1196 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1197 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1198 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1199 * Support Youtube live streams
1202 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1205 * Fix media info dialog update
1206 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1207 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1208 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1209 * Fix album art display at start
1212 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1213 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1214 * Fix menus display and behavior
1215 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1216 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1217 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1218 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1219 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1220 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1221 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1224 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1225 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1226 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1227 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1228 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1229 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1230 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1231 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1232 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1235 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1236 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1237 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1238 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1239 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1242 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1243 --------------------------------
1246 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1249 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1250 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1253 * Add GateKeeper support
1254 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1255 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1256 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1259 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1262 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1263 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1264 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1265 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1266 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1269 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1270 --------------------------------
1273 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1274 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1275 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1276 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1277 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1278 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1279 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1280 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1281 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1282 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1283 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1287 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1288 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1289 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1290 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1291 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1292 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1293 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1294 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1295 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1296 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1297 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1298 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1301 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1302 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1304 * Fix MP3 free format support
1307 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1308 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1309 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1310 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1311 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1314 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1315 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1317 Audio filters and output:
1318 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1319 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1320 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1321 * Do not apply volume in file output
1322 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1323 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1326 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1327 the persistant media library
1328 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1329 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1330 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1331 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1332 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1333 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1334 press on the Play/Pause button
1335 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1336 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1337 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1338 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1339 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1340 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1341 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1342 Synchronization panel
1343 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1344 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1345 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1346 * Fix crashes on exit
1347 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1349 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1350 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1351 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1352 automatically reset on the first launch.
1353 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1354 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1355 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1358 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1359 * Fixes for icecast SD
1362 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1363 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1364 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1365 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1366 * Fix tags and file names display
1367 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1370 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1371 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1374 * Fix display of some buttons
1375 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1376 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1379 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1380 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1381 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1384 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1385 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1386 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1387 Thai translations update
1388 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1391 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1392 --------------------------------
1395 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1396 * fix the samba module compilation
1397 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1398 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1399 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1400 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1403 * Support for MXPEG files
1404 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1405 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1408 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1409 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1410 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1413 * Fix ogm header creation
1416 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1417 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1420 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1421 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1422 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1423 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1426 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1429 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1430 * allow to hide the sidebar
1431 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1432 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1433 * noticebly faster launch time
1434 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1435 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1436 * improve track synchronization panel
1437 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1438 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1441 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1442 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1443 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1444 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1447 * fix for menus display
1448 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1449 * documentation update
1452 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1453 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1456 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1457 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1458 * Update Jamendo selections
1462 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1463 * fix a crash on VLM close
1466 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1467 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1468 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1469 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1472 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1475 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1476 ---------------------------------
1479 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1480 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1481 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1482 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1483 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1484 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1485 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1486 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1487 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1488 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1489 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1490 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1491 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1492 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1493 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1494 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1495 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1496 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1497 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1498 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1499 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1500 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1501 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1502 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1503 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1504 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1506 Important changes for packagers:
1507 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1508 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1509 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1510 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1511 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1512 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1513 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1514 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1515 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1516 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1519 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1520 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1521 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1522 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1523 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1524 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1525 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1528 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1529 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1530 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1531 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1532 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1533 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1534 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1535 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1536 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1537 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1538 * PulseAudio audio input support
1539 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1540 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1541 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1542 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1543 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1544 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1545 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1546 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1549 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1550 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1551 are notably concerned.
1552 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1553 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1554 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1555 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1556 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1557 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1558 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1559 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1560 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1561 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1562 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1563 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1564 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1565 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1566 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1569 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1570 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1571 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1572 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1573 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1574 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1575 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1576 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1577 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1578 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1579 * Improved support of tracker files
1580 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1583 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1584 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1585 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1586 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1587 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1588 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1589 and important cleanups and optimisations
1590 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1591 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1592 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1593 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1594 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1595 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1596 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1597 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1598 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1599 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1600 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1601 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1602 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1603 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1604 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1605 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1606 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1607 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1608 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1609 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1610 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1613 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1614 * New video output for iOS platform
1615 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1616 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1617 * Various vmem improvements
1618 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1619 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1620 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1621 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1622 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1623 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1625 Audio Output and Filters:
1626 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1627 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1628 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1629 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1630 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1631 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1632 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1633 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1634 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1635 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1638 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1639 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1640 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1641 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1642 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1643 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1644 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1645 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1646 * New anti-flickering filter
1647 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1648 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1649 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1650 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1651 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1652 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1653 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1656 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1657 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1658 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1659 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1660 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1661 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1662 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1663 * Major rework of VoD support
1664 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1665 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1666 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1667 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1668 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1669 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1670 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1671 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1672 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1673 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1676 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1677 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1680 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1681 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1682 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1683 list of available audio and video filters
1684 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1685 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1686 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1689 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1690 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1691 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1692 * id3tag: use taglib
1693 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1694 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1695 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1696 * removal of the noise filter
1697 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1698 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1699 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1700 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1703 * Update of translations for most languages.
1704 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1707 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1708 ----------------------------------
1711 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1712 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1715 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1716 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1719 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1720 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1721 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1724 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1727 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1728 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1731 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1734 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1735 ----------------------------------
1738 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1739 including support for OS X Lion
1740 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1741 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1744 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1747 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1748 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1749 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1752 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1755 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1756 ----------------------------------
1759 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1760 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1763 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1764 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1765 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1766 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1767 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1769 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1770 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1771 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1773 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1774 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1777 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1780 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1783 * Fix quitting on Linux
1784 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1788 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1791 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1794 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1795 ---------------------------------
1797 Windows and Mac OS X:
1798 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1801 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1802 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1805 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1808 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1811 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1813 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1814 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1816 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1817 * RTP output and XML export
1818 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1822 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1823 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1824 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1825 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1828 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1829 --------------------------------
1831 Windows and Mac OS X:
1832 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1835 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1838 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1839 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1840 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1841 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1842 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1843 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1846 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1847 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1851 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1852 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1853 * New Luganda Translation
1856 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1857 --------------------------------
1860 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1863 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1864 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1865 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1866 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1869 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1871 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1872 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1873 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1874 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1875 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1876 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1877 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1878 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1880 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1881 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1882 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1883 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1884 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1885 * Configure and build system improvements
1886 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1889 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1890 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1891 * New icelandic translation
1894 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1895 --------------------------------
1898 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1899 #234484 and #260719.
1902 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1903 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1904 and stability reasons
1907 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1911 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1914 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1915 ----------------------------------
1918 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1921 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1922 ---------------------------------
1925 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1926 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1927 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1928 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1931 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1934 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1935 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1936 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1937 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1940 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1941 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1942 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1944 Subtitles and renderer:
1945 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1946 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1947 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1948 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1949 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1952 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1953 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1954 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1955 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1958 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1959 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1961 Miscellaneous fixes:
1962 * KDE device solid actions
1964 * Transcode integer overflow
1965 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1966 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1969 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1970 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1971 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1974 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1975 ----------------------------------
1978 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1982 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1985 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1988 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1989 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1990 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1991 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1994 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1998 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2001 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2004 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2005 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2007 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2011 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2012 * Miscellaneous fixes
2015 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2016 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2017 French and Ukrainian
2018 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2019 * New Asturian translation
2022 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2023 ----------------------------------
2026 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2028 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2031 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2034 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2035 * Various fixes for Windows
2038 * New Armenian translation
2039 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2040 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2043 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2044 --------------------------------
2047 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2048 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2049 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2052 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2053 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2056 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2057 --------------------------------
2059 Access and demuxers:
2060 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2061 * fix for podcasts parsing
2062 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2065 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2066 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2069 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2070 * fix m3u playlists exports
2073 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2076 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2079 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2082 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2085 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2088 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2089 --------------------------------
2092 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2093 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2096 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2097 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2100 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2101 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2102 * fix console output encoding
2104 Interface and extensions:
2105 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2106 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2109 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2110 --------------------------------
2113 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2114 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2115 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2116 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2117 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2118 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2119 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2120 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2121 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2122 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2123 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2124 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2125 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2126 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2127 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2128 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2132 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2133 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2134 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2135 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2136 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2139 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2142 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2143 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2144 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2148 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2151 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2152 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2153 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2156 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2157 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2158 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2159 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2162 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2163 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2166 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2167 --------------------------------
2169 Important changes for users:
2170 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2171 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2173 Important changes for packagers:
2174 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2175 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2176 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2177 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2178 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2180 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2182 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2183 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2184 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2185 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2186 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2189 * Support for the sftp protocol
2190 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2191 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2192 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2193 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2194 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2197 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2198 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2199 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2201 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2202 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2203 * Invmem module improvements
2204 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2205 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2206 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2207 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2208 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2209 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2210 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2211 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2212 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2213 * Support for VP8 codec
2214 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2217 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2218 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2219 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2220 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2221 * Various EGP improvements
2222 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2223 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2226 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2227 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2228 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2229 * Podcast images are now displayed
2232 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2233 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2234 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2235 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2236 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2237 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2238 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2239 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2240 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2241 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2242 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2245 * New content extensions lua framework
2248 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2249 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2250 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2251 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2252 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2253 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2254 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2257 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2258 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2259 * Service discovery based on libudev
2260 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2263 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2264 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2265 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2266 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2267 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2268 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2269 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2272 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2273 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2274 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2277 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2279 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2280 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2283 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2286 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2287 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2288 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2289 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2290 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2291 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2292 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2295 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2296 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2299 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2300 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2301 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2305 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2306 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2307 * Improved Solaris port
2310 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2311 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2314 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2315 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2316 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2317 * transrate: broken since too long
2318 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2319 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2320 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2321 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2322 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2323 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2324 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2325 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2326 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2327 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2328 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2329 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2330 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2331 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2334 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2335 --------------------------------
2338 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2340 Decoders/Packetizers:
2341 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2344 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2345 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2346 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2347 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2348 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2351 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2352 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2355 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2356 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2359 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2360 and Walloon translations updated
2361 * Sinhala translation started
2364 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2365 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2368 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2369 --------------------------------
2372 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2373 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2376 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2379 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2380 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2383 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2384 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2385 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2386 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2389 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2390 --------------------------------
2393 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2394 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2397 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2398 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2401 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2402 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2405 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2408 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2409 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2412 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2413 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2416 * New Walloon translation
2417 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2420 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2421 --------------------------------
2424 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2425 regressions in most popular drivers
2426 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2429 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2430 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2431 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2434 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2435 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2438 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2439 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2440 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2441 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2442 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2445 * New udev module for linux
2448 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2451 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2454 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2455 --------------------------------
2458 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2459 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2460 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2463 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2464 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2467 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2468 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2471 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2474 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2475 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2476 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2477 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2480 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2481 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2482 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2483 - no support for Goom and SDL
2484 - limited text rendering support
2485 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2488 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2489 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2490 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2491 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2492 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2493 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2494 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2495 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2496 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2500 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2503 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2506 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2507 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2508 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2509 Arabic and French translation updates
2512 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2513 --------------------------------
2516 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2517 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2518 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2519 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2520 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2521 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2524 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2525 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2526 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2529 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2530 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2531 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2534 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2537 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2538 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2541 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2542 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2543 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2544 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2545 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2546 * Fix various crashes
2549 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2551 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2555 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2556 ---------------------------------
2560 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2561 See 'Access:' for more info.
2562 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2565 * Instantaneous pausing
2566 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2567 * Finer speed control
2568 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2569 * Timeshift for most medias
2570 * RTSP trickplay support
2571 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2574 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2575 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2576 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2577 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2578 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2579 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2580 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2581 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2582 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2583 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2586 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2587 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2588 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2589 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2590 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2591 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2592 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2595 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2596 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2599 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2600 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2601 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2602 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2603 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2604 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2605 * DVB scanning on linux
2606 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2607 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2608 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2609 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2610 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2611 * MTP device access on Unix
2612 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2613 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2616 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2617 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2618 Windows and Mac OS X.
2621 * Export the playlist in HTML
2622 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2623 * Better metadata handling and reading
2625 Linux/Windows interface:
2626 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2627 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2628 * Recently played items list
2629 * Interface toolbar customizations
2630 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2631 - More menus actions
2632 - Finer speed slider
2633 - Improvements on many dialogs
2634 - New dialog for plugins listing
2635 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2636 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2637 * Better integration in GTK environments
2640 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2641 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2642 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2643 * Additional usability improvements
2646 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2647 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2648 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2649 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2650 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2653 * New Maemo port with:
2654 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2655 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2658 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2661 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2662 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2663 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2664 * Support for latest iSight models
2667 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2668 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2671 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2672 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2673 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2674 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2675 The old image video output has been removed.
2676 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2677 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2680 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2688 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2689 --------------------------------------
2695 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2696 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2697 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2698 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2699 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2700 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2701 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2703 Various fixes to the following modules:
2706 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2707 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2708 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2710 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2715 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2716 ---------------------------------
2719 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2720 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2723 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2724 ---------------------------------
2727 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2730 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2733 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2734 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2735 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2736 main controller window.
2737 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2740 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2745 * Updates of other localizations
2748 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2749 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2750 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2751 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2752 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2755 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2756 ---------------------------------
2759 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2761 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2764 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2765 --------------------------------
2770 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2771 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2774 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2775 --------------------------------
2777 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2778 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2781 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2784 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2785 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2788 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2789 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2792 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2793 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2794 * Various fixed in playlist
2797 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2800 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2803 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2804 ------------------------------------
2806 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2807 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2810 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2811 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2812 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2815 * Stability fix for the video output.
2818 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2819 --------------------------------
2822 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2823 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2824 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2825 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2826 * Fixed update system bugs
2827 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2830 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2831 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2832 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2833 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2834 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2835 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2836 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2837 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2838 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2839 modern Mac OS X versions
2842 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2843 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2845 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2846 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2849 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2850 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2851 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2852 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2853 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2854 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2857 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2858 --------------------------------
2860 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2861 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2862 * Multiple bugfixes.
2865 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2866 --------------------------------
2868 * Multiple bug fixes.
2871 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2872 ---------------------------------
2876 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2877 recent to work correctly
2878 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2879 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2880 edit the ".hosts" file.
2881 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2882 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2883 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2884 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2885 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2886 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2887 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2888 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2889 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2890 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2891 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2892 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2893 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2894 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2895 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2896 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2897 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2898 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2899 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2900 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2901 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2902 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2903 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2904 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2905 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2906 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2907 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2908 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2909 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2910 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2911 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2912 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2913 and postproc modules.
2914 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2915 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2916 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2917 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2919 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2920 filter. For example:
2921 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2922 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2924 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2925 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2931 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2933 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2934 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2937 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2938 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2940 * Shoutcast TV listings
2941 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2943 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2944 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2946 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2949 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2950 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2951 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2952 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2953 * JACK audio input support
2954 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2955 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2956 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2957 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2958 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2959 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2960 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2961 (available as a separate download).
2962 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2963 * RTMP input support
2964 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2965 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2966 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2968 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2969 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2972 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2973 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2974 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2975 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2977 * APEv1/2 tags support
2978 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2979 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2981 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2982 * TiVo Series 2 support
2983 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2988 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2989 * Flash Screen Video support
2990 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2991 * DosBox Capture support
2992 * Karl Morton's Video support
2993 * limited atrac3 support
2995 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2996 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2997 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2998 * H.264 PAFF support
2999 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3000 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3001 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3002 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3003 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3006 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3007 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3008 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3009 * AQTitle subtitles support
3010 * MKV USF subtitles support
3011 * HTML-based subtitles support
3012 * MPSub subtitles support
3013 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3014 * MPL2 subtitles support
3015 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3016 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3017 * Realtext subtitle support
3018 * DKS subtitle support
3019 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3020 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3023 * Flash Screen Video support
3024 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3026 Video outputs and filters:
3027 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3028 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3029 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3030 * New puzzle video output filter
3031 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3032 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3034 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3035 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3036 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3037 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3038 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3039 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3040 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3041 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3042 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3043 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3044 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3045 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3046 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3047 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3049 Audio outputs and filters:
3050 * Replay gain support
3051 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3052 new scaletempo audio filter)
3053 * New spatializer audio filter
3054 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3057 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3058 * New RTP payload formats:
3059 * Speex voice audio codec
3060 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3061 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3062 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3063 * DCCP transport for RTP
3064 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3069 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3070 end-user suitable way.
3071 * Improved user interaction
3072 * Improved mouse gestures
3073 * Vastly improved Update checker
3074 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3076 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3077 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3079 * Improved video output features
3080 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3081 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3082 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3083 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3084 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3086 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3087 if libncursesw is available.
3088 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3089 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3090 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3092 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3093 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3094 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3095 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3096 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3097 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3098 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3099 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3102 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3103 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3104 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3107 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3108 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3109 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3110 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3111 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3112 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3115 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3116 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3126 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3127 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3128 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3131 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3132 ----------------------------------
3135 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3138 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3139 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3140 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3141 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3142 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3143 * Updated Polish translation
3146 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3147 ----------------------------------
3150 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3151 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3152 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3155 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3156 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3157 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3158 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3159 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3160 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3161 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3162 to an unexpected application termination
3163 * New Serbian translation
3164 * Updated Romanian translation
3167 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3168 ----------------------------------
3171 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3172 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3173 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3174 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3175 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3176 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3177 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3178 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3181 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3182 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3183 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3184 * Fixed AAC resampling
3185 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3186 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3189 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3190 ----------------------------------
3193 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3194 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3195 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3196 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3197 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3200 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3201 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3202 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3203 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3204 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3207 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3208 ----------------------------------
3211 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3212 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3215 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3216 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3217 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3218 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3220 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3224 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3227 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3230 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3233 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3236 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3237 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3238 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3239 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3240 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3242 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3243 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3244 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3245 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3248 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3251 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3252 ----------------------------------
3255 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3256 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3257 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3259 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3260 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3262 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3263 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3266 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3268 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3269 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3270 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3271 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3272 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3273 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3274 two different movies
3275 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3276 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3277 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3280 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3283 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3284 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3285 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3286 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3289 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3290 ----------------------------------
3292 Various bugfixes, notably:
3293 * Windows Vista compatibility
3294 * Cropping in Direct3D
3295 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3296 * RSS filter string overflow
3298 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3300 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3301 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3304 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3305 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3308 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3311 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3314 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3317 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3318 ----------------------------------
3320 Various bugfixes, notably:
3321 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3322 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3323 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3324 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3325 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3326 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3329 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3330 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3333 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3335 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3336 * Diverse usability improvements
3337 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3338 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3339 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3342 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3343 ---------------------------------
3345 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3346 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3349 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3352 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3353 --------------------------------
3356 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3359 * Support for RTSP authentication
3360 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3361 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3362 * ATSC support for DVB input
3363 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3364 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3365 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3368 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3369 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3370 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3371 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3372 * Matroska WavPack support
3373 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3374 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3375 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3378 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3379 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3380 * Improved libcaca support
3384 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3385 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3387 * Systray support in skins
3389 * Support for Apple Remote control
3390 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3391 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3392 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3393 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3395 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3398 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3399 Windows 9x/ME users:
3400 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3401 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3402 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3403 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3404 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3406 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3407 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3416 * Updates to the libvlc API
3417 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3420 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3421 --------------------------------
3424 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3425 * Support for downloading updates
3429 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3430 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3431 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3432 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3434 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3435 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3436 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3439 * Cook (Real audio) support
3441 Playlist / Services discovery:
3442 * XSPF playlist support
3444 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3447 * New JACK audio output
3450 * New video filters:
3451 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3452 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3453 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3454 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3455 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3456 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3459 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3462 * System to inform the user and request information
3463 - HTTP authentication
3467 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3468 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3469 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3472 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3473 - Improved playlist handling
3474 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3476 - Embedded Video output
3477 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3478 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3479 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3480 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3481 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3483 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3484 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3487 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3490 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3491 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3492 * Growl "Now playing" support
3495 * Ability to log to syslog
3496 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3499 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3501 * A bit more automatic testing
3504 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3505 ---------------------------------
3508 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3509 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3512 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3513 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3516 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3519 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3520 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3526 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3529 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3530 --------------------------------
3533 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3537 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3538 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3539 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3542 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3543 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3544 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3545 * GnomeVFS input module
3546 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3547 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3550 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3551 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3552 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3555 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3556 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3562 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3563 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3566 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3567 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3568 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3571 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3573 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3574 - New extended controls panel
3575 - New bookmarks window
3576 - Fixed playlist sorting
3577 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3579 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3580 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3581 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3582 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3586 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3587 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3589 - Include macro to include other files
3593 * Should now work outside IE as well
3596 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3599 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3600 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3603 The following languages were added:
3607 * Simplified Chinese
3608 The following languages were re-added:
3612 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3613 --------------------------------
3616 * Rewrite of the playlist
3618 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3619 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3620 * Preferences improvements:
3621 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3622 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3624 * Core image manipulation support
3625 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3626 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3627 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3628 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3629 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3630 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3631 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3632 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3633 * Access filter architecture
3634 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3635 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3639 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3640 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3641 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3642 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3643 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3644 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3645 * Massive Matroska improvements
3646 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3648 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3649 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3650 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3651 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3652 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3654 Decoders / Encoders:
3655 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3656 * PNG decoder/encoder
3657 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3658 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3661 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3664 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3665 * Brand new SAP module
3666 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3667 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3668 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3669 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3670 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3671 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3675 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3678 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3679 * Image file video output (png)
3680 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3681 * Improvements to wall video filter
3682 * Support for font color and opacity
3688 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3689 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3690 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3694 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3695 - Improved preferences
3696 - Improvements to the wizard
3697 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3699 - Redesigned playlist
3700 - Improved preferences
3702 - Support for multiple actions
3705 - Support for the new playlist system
3707 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3710 * Screensaver disabling fix
3711 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3712 * Support for no-decoration windows
3715 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3716 * The OpenGL video output is back
3717 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3718 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3719 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3720 is not yet available in the new module
3721 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3724 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3733 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3736 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3739 The following languages were added:
3745 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3746 --------------------------------
3749 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3750 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3753 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3754 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3755 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3758 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3761 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3764 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3767 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3768 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3769 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3773 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3775 * Support of playlist group announcement
3778 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3779 --------------------------------
3782 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3783 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3784 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3785 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3786 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3787 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3790 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3791 (Stream your desktop)
3792 * Improved DVD support:
3793 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3794 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3795 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3796 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3797 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3798 (selection of titles/chapters).
3801 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3802 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3803 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3804 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3805 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3806 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3807 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3808 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3809 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3810 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3813 * G.726 audio support
3814 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3815 * MPEG-4 text support
3816 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3817 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3818 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3822 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3823 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3824 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3825 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3826 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3827 * DVB subtitles encoder
3828 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3829 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3831 * Text track muxing for mp4
3832 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3833 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3834 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3835 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3836 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3837 * Improved ASF muxer
3839 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3840 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3841 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3844 * New audio equalizer filter
3845 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3846 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3847 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3848 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3851 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3852 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3853 with support for effects.
3854 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3855 - New filters can be streamed.
3856 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3857 - Centralized scaling and blending
3859 - "time", to display current time
3860 - "marq", to display a marquee
3863 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3864 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3865 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3866 * A few skins2 improvements
3867 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3868 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3869 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3870 * Improved CORBA control module
3873 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3874 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3875 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3878 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3879 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3880 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3883 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3884 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3885 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3886 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3887 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3890 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3893 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3894 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3897 * Server/client network synchronization module
3898 * VBrick streams fully supported
3899 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3903 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3904 --------------------------------
3907 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3908 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3909 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3910 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3913 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3914 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3915 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3916 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3917 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3918 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3919 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3922 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3923 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3924 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3925 * Improved directory access module.
3926 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3927 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3928 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3929 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3930 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3933 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3934 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3935 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3938 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3939 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3940 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3943 * Improved session announcement system.
3944 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3945 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3946 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3947 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3948 * Improved transrater.
3949 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3950 * New configuration system.
3951 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3954 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3955 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3956 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3957 * Supports scheduling.
3958 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3959 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3962 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3963 - Ability to embed video output.
3964 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3965 - Lots of improvements.
3966 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3967 - New design and set of icons.
3968 - Ability to embed video output.
3969 - Support for hotkeys.
3970 - Support for bookmarks.
3972 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3973 - Better hotkeys handling.
3976 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3977 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3978 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3979 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3982 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3983 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3984 * Improved Windows installer.
3990 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3991 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3994 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3995 ---------------------------------
3998 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3999 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4002 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4003 --------------------------------
4006 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4007 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4010 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4011 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4012 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4013 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4016 * Internal improvments
4017 * Improved import/export
4020 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4022 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4023 small and strange formats.
4025 * New MOD audio demux.
4026 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4027 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4028 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4029 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4032 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4033 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4034 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4040 * New opengl video output plugin.
4043 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4044 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4047 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4048 --------------------------------
4051 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4052 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4053 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4054 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4055 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4056 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4057 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4058 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4061 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4066 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4067 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4068 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4069 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4070 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4071 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4072 * Better Icecast support.
4073 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4074 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4077 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4078 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4079 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4080 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4081 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4082 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4083 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4086 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4087 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4088 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4089 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4090 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4091 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4092 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4093 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4094 * Preliminary RTP support.
4095 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4100 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4101 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4103 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4104 - Improvements and help in preferences
4105 - New streaming wizard
4106 - Revised Disc Open menu
4108 - Improvements of the standard pages
4109 - Support for new commands
4110 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4113 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4114 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4117 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4118 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4119 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4120 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4121 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4122 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4123 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4124 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4125 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4128 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4130 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4131 * Support for Panther.
4132 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4133 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4136 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4137 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4138 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4139 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4140 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4141 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4142 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4143 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4146 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4147 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4148 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4151 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4154 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4155 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4156 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4157 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4160 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4161 --------------------------------
4164 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4167 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4168 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4171 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4172 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4175 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4178 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4179 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4182 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4185 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4188 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4189 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4193 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4194 --------------------------------
4197 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4198 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4202 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4203 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4204 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4206 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4207 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4210 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4213 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4216 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4217 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4221 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4222 --------------------------------
4225 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4226 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4230 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4231 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4232 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4233 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4234 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4237 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4238 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4239 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4242 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4243 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4244 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4247 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4248 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4249 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4250 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4251 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4254 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4255 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4256 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4259 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4262 * Improved build system.
4263 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4264 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4265 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4266 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4269 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4270 --------------------------------
4273 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4276 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4277 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4278 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4279 * Video 4 Linux support
4280 * CD Digital Audio support
4281 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4284 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4285 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4286 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4287 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4290 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4291 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4292 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4293 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4294 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4295 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4296 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4299 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4300 * New HTTP remote control interface
4303 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4304 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4305 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4306 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4307 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4310 * New reset option for the preferences
4311 * You can set your language in the prefences
4312 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4313 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4314 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4315 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4318 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4319 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4320 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4323 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4324 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4325 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4326 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4327 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4328 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4329 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4330 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4331 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4332 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4335 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4336 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4337 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4338 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4339 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4340 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4341 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4344 * Interface localization
4345 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4346 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4347 * New full-featured Preferences window
4350 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4351 --------------------------------
4354 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4355 * support for skins at the interface level
4356 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4357 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4358 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4359 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4360 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4363 * fixed HTTP redirects
4364 * support for opening an entire directory
4365 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4366 * new video4linux access plug-in
4367 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4370 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4371 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4372 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4375 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4376 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4377 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4378 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4379 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4380 * new codec for raw I420 video
4381 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4384 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4385 (although it still misses some important features)
4386 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4389 * new HTTP output support
4390 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4391 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4394 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4397 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4400 * reorderable playlist
4401 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4402 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4403 * support for mono audio output devices
4404 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4405 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4406 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4407 * the messages window remembers more lines
4408 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4409 * http and ogg stream output options
4410 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4413 * new skinnable interface
4414 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4416 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4417 * support for FLAC audio format
4418 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4420 * network tab in the interface
4421 * "apply" handling in preferences
4424 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4425 ---------------------------------
4428 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4429 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4430 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4431 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4433 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4434 * DTS S/PDIF support
4437 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4438 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4439 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4440 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4443 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4444 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4447 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4450 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4453 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4455 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4456 * rc interface is now fully useable
4457 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4460 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4461 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4462 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4463 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4464 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4466 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4467 * support for mouse gestures
4468 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4471 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4472 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4475 * improved ID3 tag detection
4476 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4477 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4478 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4480 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4483 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4484 ---------------------------------
4487 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4488 English was set as the preferred language
4491 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4492 --------------------------------
4495 * new mouse gesture interface
4496 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4500 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4501 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4502 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4505 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4506 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4510 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4513 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4514 without the user consent
4517 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4519 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4520 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4521 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4524 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4525 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4526 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4527 * playlist enhancements
4528 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4529 * new step forward/step backward commands
4530 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4531 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4532 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4535 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4536 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4537 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4540 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4541 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4544 * native video output is working again
4545 * only commandline interface support
4546 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4549 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4550 --------------------------------
4553 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4554 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4555 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4556 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4557 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4558 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4559 and A/52 streams are supported)
4560 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4565 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4566 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4567 * VCD entry points support
4568 * VCD image file support
4571 * support for *.asf format
4572 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4573 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4574 * support for ogg encapsulation
4575 * support for raw DV format
4576 * support for *.wav format
4577 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4580 Stream discovery & playlists:
4581 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4582 * support for .m3u file format
4583 * support for .asx file format
4584 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4587 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4588 (only available with the .avi demux)
4589 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4590 * support for raw PCM data
4591 * support for Cinepak video codec
4592 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4593 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4594 * support for Xvid codec
4595 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4596 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4597 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4599 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4601 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4604 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4607 * new WxWindows interface
4608 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4609 device and the channels configuration
4610 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4611 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4612 format that VLC can play
4613 * new swedish translation
4614 * enhancements of the playlist window
4615 * new messages window to see debug info
4616 * fixed a few crashes
4619 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4620 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4621 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4622 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working