1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
14 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
17 * Support for HEIF format
18 * Support for DASH WebM
19 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
22 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
24 * Remove iomx support for Android
26 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
27 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
28 * Support IMM4 decoder
31 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
32 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
37 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
38 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
39 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
42 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
43 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
46 * Remove Growl notification support
49 * Improved proxy configuration handling
52 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
53 --------------------------------
56 * Update subtitles display while paused
59 * Enable srt support on binary builds
62 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
63 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
64 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
65 * Fix subsdec wide character support
66 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
69 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
70 * Fix forced tracks selection
72 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
73 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
76 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
77 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
78 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
81 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
84 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
85 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
86 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
90 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
91 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
93 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
94 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
97 * Update of most languages
100 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
101 --------------------------------
104 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
105 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
108 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
109 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
110 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
111 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
112 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
113 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
114 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
115 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
118 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
119 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
120 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
121 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
122 * Fix TTML inside MP4
123 * Improve MP4 read of color information
124 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
125 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
126 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
127 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
128 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
129 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
130 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
133 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
136 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
137 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
138 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
139 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
140 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
141 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
144 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
145 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
148 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
149 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
150 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
151 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
152 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
153 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
154 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
155 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
156 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
157 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
158 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
159 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
160 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
161 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
162 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
165 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
166 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
167 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
169 * Fix remember playback position
170 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
171 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
172 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
173 * Fix localization issues
176 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
177 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
178 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
179 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
180 * Fix jump size not being configurable
181 * Fix missing time labels updates
182 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
184 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
187 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
188 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
189 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
190 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
191 * Improve support for NetBSD
192 * Fix MSI script for Windows
193 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
194 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
195 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
196 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
197 * Various VLSub improvements
198 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
199 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
202 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
203 --------------------------------
206 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
207 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
210 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
211 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
212 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
213 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
214 * Fix pink screen on Windows
217 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
218 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
221 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
222 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
223 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
224 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
227 * Improve MKV seeking speed
228 * Fix xspf base URL handling
229 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
230 * Fix adaptive http redirections
231 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
232 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
233 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
234 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
235 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
236 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
239 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
242 * Improve chromecast loading speed
243 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
244 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
245 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
246 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
250 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
251 * Auto-layout improvements
252 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
253 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
254 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
255 * Fix MKV files association
256 * Fix chromecast audio detection
259 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
262 * Improve interface look and feel.
265 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
266 --------------------------------
268 Platform support changes:
269 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
270 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
272 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
273 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
274 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
275 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
276 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
278 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
279 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
280 it should work, but not without limitations.
281 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
282 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
283 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
284 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
285 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
286 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
289 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
290 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
291 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
292 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
293 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
294 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
295 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
296 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
297 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
298 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
299 * Support wayland surface type
300 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
301 * Refactor preparsing input
302 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
303 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
304 es category single only or multiple es behavior
305 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
306 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
307 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
310 * New NFS access module using libnfs
311 * New SMB access module using libdsm
312 * Adaptive streaming:
313 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
314 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
315 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
316 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
317 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
318 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
319 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
320 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
321 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
322 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
323 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
324 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
325 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
326 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
327 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
328 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
329 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
330 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
331 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
332 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
333 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
334 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
335 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
336 * Improvements on DVB scanning
337 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
338 * Support for DVD ISO over network
339 * New SRT access module using libsrt
342 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
343 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
344 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
345 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
346 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
347 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
348 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
349 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
350 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
351 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
352 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
353 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
354 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
355 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
356 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
359 * Support for experimental AV1 video
360 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
361 * Support for experimental Daala video
362 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
363 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
364 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
365 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
366 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
367 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
368 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
369 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
370 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
371 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
372 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
373 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
374 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
375 can now decode up to 8 channels
376 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
377 * Support VPX high bit depth support
378 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
379 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
380 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
382 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
383 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
386 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
387 * Support for fragmented MP4
388 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
389 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
390 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
391 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
392 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
393 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
394 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
395 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
396 * Add new metadata fields
397 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
398 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
399 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
400 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
401 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
402 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
403 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
404 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
405 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
406 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
407 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
408 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
410 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
411 * Partial support of PSMF
412 * Fix broken SCR samples
413 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
414 * Improvements on MKV:
415 * Rewrite MKV seeking
416 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
417 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
418 * Improve DVD-menus support
419 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
420 * Support Daala in Ogg
421 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
422 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
423 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
424 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
425 * Support WMV extended content metadata
426 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
427 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
428 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
429 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
430 * Support SBV subtitles
431 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
432 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
433 * Support for isofLaC
434 * Improve fLaC seeking
435 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
436 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
439 * Add an ADF stream filter
440 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
441 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
442 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
443 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
444 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
445 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
448 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
449 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
452 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
453 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
454 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
455 * Add Tizen audio module
456 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
457 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
458 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
459 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
462 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
463 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
464 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
465 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
466 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
467 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
468 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
470 * Add a pitch shifting module
473 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
475 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
476 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
477 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
478 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
479 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
480 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
481 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
482 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
483 * Wayland shell surface window provider
484 * Wayland shared memory video output
485 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
486 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
487 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
488 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
489 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
490 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
491 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
492 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
495 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
496 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
497 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
498 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
499 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
500 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
501 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
504 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
505 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
506 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
507 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
510 * Chromecast output module
511 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
514 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
515 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
518 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
519 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
520 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
524 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
525 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
526 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
527 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
530 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
531 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
532 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
533 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
534 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
535 * Improve and simplify preferences window
536 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
537 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
538 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
539 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
540 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
543 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
546 * Batch convert support
547 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
550 * Support key accelerators
553 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
554 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
555 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
556 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
557 This allows to attach media events between create and start
558 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
559 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
560 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
561 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
562 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
563 identifier (if there is one available)
564 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
565 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
566 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
567 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
568 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
569 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
570 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
571 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
572 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
573 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
574 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
575 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
576 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
577 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
579 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
580 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
581 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
582 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
583 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
586 * Support for the SystemD Journal
587 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
588 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
589 * New Android module for logging
592 * remove langfromtelx
593 * remove ZPL playlist format
594 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
595 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
596 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
597 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
598 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
599 * Add a memory keystore
600 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
601 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
605 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
606 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
607 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
608 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
609 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
610 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
611 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
612 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
613 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
614 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
615 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
616 * BD access module (use libbluray)
617 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
618 * EyeTV access module
619 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
620 * VDA decoder: use VT
621 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
622 * SDL video output module
623 * DirectFB video output module
624 * RAOP stream output module
627 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
628 --------------------------------
631 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
636 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
637 --------------------------------
640 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
641 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
642 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
643 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
646 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
647 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
650 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
651 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
652 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
653 update to the newest version.
656 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
660 * Support libupnp 1.8
665 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
666 ----------------------------------
669 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
670 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
673 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
675 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
676 ----------------------------------
678 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
683 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
684 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
685 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
686 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
687 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
688 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
689 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
692 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
693 --------------------------------
696 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
697 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
698 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
699 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
700 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
701 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
705 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
706 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
707 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
708 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
709 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
710 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
711 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
714 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
715 * Fix screenshots size
718 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
719 * Fix FTP scan string injection
720 * Fix HTTP size handling
726 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
730 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
733 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
734 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
735 * Fix uninstaller path handling
736 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
739 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
740 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
744 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
745 --------------------------------
748 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
749 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
750 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
753 * Fix resizing issues
756 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
759 * Build fixes for Hurd
762 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
763 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
764 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
767 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
768 --------------------------------
771 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
772 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
776 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
777 * Fix crashes with libvpx
778 * Use libass without caching dialog
781 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
784 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
787 * Fix resume where you left off
788 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
789 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
790 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
793 * Fix crashes in media information panel
794 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
797 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
800 * Update of most translations
803 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
804 --------------------------------
807 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
808 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
809 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
810 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
811 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
814 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
815 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
816 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
817 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
818 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
819 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
820 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
823 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
824 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
825 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
826 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
827 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
828 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
831 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
832 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
833 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
834 be set manually by the user)
835 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
836 * Fix alsa default device selection
839 * Fix video control that fails to show up
840 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
841 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
842 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
843 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
846 * Support for OS X El Capitan
847 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
848 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
849 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
852 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
853 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
854 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
855 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
856 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
860 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
861 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
862 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
865 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
866 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
867 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
868 * Improve PNG encoding time
869 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
870 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
871 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
872 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
873 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
874 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
875 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
876 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
877 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
878 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
879 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
880 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
881 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
884 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
885 * Update of most translations
888 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
889 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
890 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
891 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
894 * Update of most translations
897 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
898 --------------------------------
901 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
902 * Fix some VP9 decoding
904 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
905 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
906 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
907 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
912 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
913 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
914 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
915 * Revert to older ASX code
916 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
919 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
920 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
921 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
924 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
925 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
926 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
929 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
930 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
931 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
934 * Fix recent items behaviour
935 * Fix rotation filter activation
936 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
939 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
940 * Fix extensions registration during install
941 * Fix extensions dialog crash
942 * Default to no DxVA decoding
945 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
948 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
949 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
950 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
951 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
952 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
953 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
956 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
957 --------------------------------
960 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
961 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
964 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
965 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
966 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
967 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
970 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
971 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
972 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
973 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
975 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
976 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
977 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
980 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
981 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
982 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
983 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
984 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
985 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
986 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
987 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
988 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
989 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
990 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
991 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
992 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
993 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
994 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
995 * New jpeg image decoder
996 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
997 * New SVG image decoder
998 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
999 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1000 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1003 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1004 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1005 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1006 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1007 * New png image encoder using libpng
1010 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1011 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1012 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1013 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1014 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1015 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1016 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1017 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1018 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1019 * Support Opus in MKV
1020 * Support VP8 in OGG
1021 * Basic support for WebVTT
1022 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1023 * Support HDPR TS files
1024 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1025 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1026 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1027 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1028 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1029 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1030 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1031 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1032 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1033 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1034 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1035 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1038 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1039 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1040 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1041 * New Android native window provider module
1042 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1043 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1044 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1047 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1048 * New VHS effect filter
1049 * New Freeze effect filter
1050 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1051 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1052 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1055 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1056 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1057 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1058 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1059 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1060 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1063 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1064 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1065 * Support VP8 in OGG
1066 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1069 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1070 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1071 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1072 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1073 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1074 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1075 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1076 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1077 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1079 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1080 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1081 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1084 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1085 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1088 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1089 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1092 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1093 * Add record button in Qt menus
1094 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1095 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1096 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1099 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1100 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1101 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1102 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1103 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1104 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1105 * Option to increase playlist font size
1106 * Improved crash log reporting
1109 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1110 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1111 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1112 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1115 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1118 * iOS video output: use ios2
1119 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1120 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1123 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1124 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1125 * Update of all translations:
1126 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1127 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1128 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1129 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1130 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1131 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1132 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1135 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1136 --------------------------------
1139 * Fix OSS stuttering
1142 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1143 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1144 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1145 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1146 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1147 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1148 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1149 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1150 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1153 * Update translations and greek encoding
1156 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1157 --------------------------------
1160 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1163 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1165 Mac OS X audio output:
1166 * Fix channel ordering
1167 * Increase the buffersize
1170 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1171 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1172 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1175 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1178 * Correctly support video-on-top
1179 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1180 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1183 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1186 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1187 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1190 * Update British English
1193 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1194 --------------------------------
1197 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1200 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1203 * Fix DVD playback regression
1204 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1205 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1208 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1209 --------------------------------
1212 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1213 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1216 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1217 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1218 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1221 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1222 by updating codec libraries
1223 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1224 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1225 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1228 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1229 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1230 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1231 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1234 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1235 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1238 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1239 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1240 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1241 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1242 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1245 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1246 * Fix record file names
1249 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1250 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1251 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1252 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1253 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1256 * Fix album art display on Windows
1259 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1260 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1261 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1262 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1263 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1264 and Simplified Chinese translations
1265 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1268 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1269 --------------------------------
1272 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1273 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1274 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1275 audio devices on OS X
1276 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1277 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1280 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1281 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1284 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1285 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1288 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1291 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1292 * Improve A-B loop control
1293 * Fix album art update when changing media
1296 * Add a language option in the interface
1297 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1298 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1299 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1300 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1301 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1302 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1303 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1306 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1309 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1310 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1311 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1312 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1315 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1316 --------------------------------
1319 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1321 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1324 * VP9 support in WebM
1325 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1326 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1329 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1330 * Support Speex in ogg files
1331 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1332 * Support Alac in mkv
1333 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1334 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1337 * Fix DVB options parsing
1338 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1339 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1342 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1343 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1346 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1347 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1350 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1351 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1352 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1353 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1354 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1357 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1358 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1361 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1362 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1365 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1366 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1367 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1368 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1369 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1370 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1371 * Improves interface resizings
1374 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1375 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1376 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1377 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1378 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1382 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1383 --------------------------------
1386 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1387 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1388 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1389 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1390 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1392 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1393 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1396 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1397 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1398 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1399 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1400 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1403 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1404 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1405 * Remove SQL support
1408 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1409 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1410 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1411 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1412 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1413 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1414 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1415 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1416 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1417 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1418 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1419 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1420 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1423 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1424 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1425 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1428 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1429 remove support for previous OS X releases
1430 * Major improvements in DASH support
1431 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1432 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1433 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1434 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1435 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1436 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1437 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1438 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1439 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1440 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1441 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1444 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1445 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1446 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1447 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1448 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1449 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1450 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1451 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1452 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1453 * Add support for liveleak streams
1454 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1455 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1456 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1459 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1460 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1461 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1462 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1463 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1464 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1465 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1466 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1467 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1468 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1469 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1472 * New remapping channel filter
1473 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1474 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1475 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1476 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1477 * New gain audio filter
1480 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1481 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1482 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1483 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1484 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1485 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1486 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1487 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1488 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1491 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1492 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1493 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1494 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1495 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1496 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1497 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1500 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1501 * Options support for AVIO output module
1502 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1503 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1504 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1505 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1506 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1509 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1512 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1513 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1514 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1515 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1516 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1517 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1518 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1519 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1522 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1523 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1526 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1527 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1529 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1530 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1531 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1532 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1533 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1534 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1535 VLC's internal volume level
1536 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1538 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1539 selection and to manage the list of presets
1540 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1541 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1542 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1543 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1544 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1545 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1546 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1547 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1548 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1549 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1551 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1552 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1553 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1554 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1555 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1556 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1557 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1558 3rd party applications
1559 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1560 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1561 (system-wide settings)
1562 * Add support for the Video Title option
1563 * Add support for the Boss Key
1564 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1565 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1568 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1569 * Menus modifications and improvements
1570 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1571 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1572 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1573 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1574 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1575 * Add SD pixmap sources
1576 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1577 * Display playlist total duration
1578 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1579 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1580 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1585 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1586 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1587 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1588 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1591 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1592 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1593 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1594 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1595 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1596 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1597 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1598 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1599 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1600 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1603 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1604 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1605 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1606 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1607 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1608 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1610 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1611 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1612 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1613 * Broken crop video filter
1615 * OSD parser and menu
1616 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1617 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1618 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1619 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1623 * Update of all translations
1626 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1627 --------------------------------
1630 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1631 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1634 * Fix modplug security issues
1637 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1638 --------------------------------
1642 * Fix crash in QTsound
1643 * Fix screen mouse file location
1644 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1647 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1648 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1651 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1654 * Fix interface crashes
1655 * Fix autostart playback option
1656 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1659 * update Welsh translation
1660 * New Kannada translation
1663 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1664 --------------------------------
1667 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1668 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1672 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1675 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1678 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1681 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1684 * Minor improvements
1685 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1688 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1691 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1692 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1693 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1696 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1697 --------------------------------
1700 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1703 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1706 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1707 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1708 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1709 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1710 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1711 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1714 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1715 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1716 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1717 * 3rd party codecs updates
1720 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1721 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1722 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1723 in the advanced preferences panel
1724 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1725 * Fix crash within the video output code
1726 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1727 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1728 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1729 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1730 lua extensions, ...)
1731 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1734 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1737 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1738 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1741 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1744 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1745 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1746 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1747 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1748 Dutch, Danish, translations
1749 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1752 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1753 --------------------------------
1756 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1759 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1760 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1761 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1764 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1765 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1766 * Fix koreus lua parser
1767 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1768 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1769 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1770 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1773 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1774 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1777 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1780 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1781 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1782 * Fix Time counter UI look
1783 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1786 * Fix https streaming
1789 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1790 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1791 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1794 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1795 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1796 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1797 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1798 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1801 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1802 --------------------------------
1805 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1806 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1807 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1808 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1809 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1810 during playback on Mac OS X
1813 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1814 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1815 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1818 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1819 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1820 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1821 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1822 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1825 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1826 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1827 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1828 * Support Youtube live streams
1831 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1834 * Fix media info dialog update
1835 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1836 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1837 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1838 * Fix album art display at start
1841 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1842 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1843 * Fix menus display and behavior
1844 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1845 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1846 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1847 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1848 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1849 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1850 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1853 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1854 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1855 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1856 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1857 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1858 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1859 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1860 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1861 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1864 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1865 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1866 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1867 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1868 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1871 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1872 --------------------------------
1875 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1878 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1879 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1882 * Add GateKeeper support
1883 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1884 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1885 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1888 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1891 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1892 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1893 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1894 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1895 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1898 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1899 --------------------------------
1902 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1903 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1904 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1905 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1906 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1907 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1908 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1909 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1910 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1911 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1912 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1916 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1917 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1918 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1919 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1920 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1921 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1922 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1923 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1924 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1925 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1926 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1927 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1930 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1931 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1933 * Fix MP3 free format support
1936 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1937 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1938 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1939 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1940 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1943 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1944 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1946 Audio filters and output:
1947 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1948 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1949 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1950 * Do not apply volume in file output
1951 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1952 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1955 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1956 the persistant media library
1957 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1958 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1959 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1960 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1961 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1962 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1963 press on the Play/Pause button
1964 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1965 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1966 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1967 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1968 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1969 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1970 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1971 Synchronization panel
1972 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1973 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1974 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1975 * Fix crashes on exit
1976 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1978 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1979 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1980 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1981 automatically reset on the first launch.
1982 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1983 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1984 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1987 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1988 * Fixes for icecast SD
1991 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1992 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1993 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1994 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1995 * Fix tags and file names display
1996 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1999 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2000 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2003 * Fix display of some buttons
2004 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2005 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2008 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2009 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2010 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2013 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2014 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2015 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2016 Thai translations update
2017 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2020 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2021 --------------------------------
2024 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2025 * fix the samba module compilation
2026 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2027 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2028 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2029 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2032 * Support for MXPEG files
2033 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2034 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2037 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2038 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2039 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2042 * Fix ogm header creation
2045 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2046 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2049 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2050 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2051 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2052 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2055 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2058 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2059 * allow to hide the sidebar
2060 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2061 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2062 * noticebly faster launch time
2063 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2064 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2065 * improve track synchronization panel
2066 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2067 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2070 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2071 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2072 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2073 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2076 * fix for menus display
2077 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2078 * documentation update
2081 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2082 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2085 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2086 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2087 * Update Jamendo selections
2091 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2092 * fix a crash on VLM close
2095 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2096 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2097 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2098 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2101 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2104 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2105 ---------------------------------
2108 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2109 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2110 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2111 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2112 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2113 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2114 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2115 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2116 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2117 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2118 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2119 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2120 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2121 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2122 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2123 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2124 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2125 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2126 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2127 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2128 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2129 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2130 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2131 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2132 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2133 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2135 Important changes for packagers:
2136 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2137 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2138 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2139 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2140 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2141 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2142 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2143 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2144 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2145 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2148 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2149 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2150 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2151 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2152 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2153 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2154 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2157 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2158 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2159 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2160 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2161 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2162 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2163 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2164 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2165 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2166 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2167 * PulseAudio audio input support
2168 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2169 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2170 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2171 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2172 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2173 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2174 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2175 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2178 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2179 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2180 are notably concerned.
2181 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2182 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2183 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2184 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2185 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2186 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2187 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2188 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2189 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2190 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2191 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2192 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2193 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2194 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2195 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2198 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2199 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2200 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2201 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2202 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2203 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2204 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2205 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2206 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2207 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2208 * Improved support of tracker files
2209 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2212 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2213 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2214 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2215 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2216 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2217 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2218 and important cleanups and optimisations
2219 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2220 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2221 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2222 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2223 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2224 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2225 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2226 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2227 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2228 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2229 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2230 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2231 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2232 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2233 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2234 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2235 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2236 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2237 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2238 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2239 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2242 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2243 * New video output for iOS platform
2244 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2245 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2246 * Various vmem improvements
2247 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2248 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2249 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2250 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2251 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2252 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2254 Audio Output and Filters:
2255 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2256 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2257 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2258 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2259 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2260 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2261 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2262 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2263 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2264 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2267 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2268 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2269 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2270 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2271 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2272 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2273 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2274 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2275 * New anti-flickering filter
2276 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2277 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2278 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2279 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2280 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2281 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2282 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2285 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2286 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2287 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2288 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2289 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2290 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2291 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2292 * Major rework of VoD support
2293 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2294 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2295 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2296 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2297 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2298 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2299 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2300 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2301 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2302 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2305 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2306 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2309 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2310 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2311 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2312 list of available audio and video filters
2313 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2314 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2315 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2318 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2319 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2320 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2321 * id3tag: use taglib
2322 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2323 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2324 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2325 * removal of the noise filter
2326 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2327 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2328 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2329 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2332 * Update of translations for most languages.
2333 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2336 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2337 ----------------------------------
2340 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2341 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2344 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2345 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2348 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2349 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2350 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2353 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2356 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2357 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2360 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2363 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2364 ----------------------------------
2367 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2368 including support for OS X Lion
2369 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2370 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2373 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2376 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2377 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2378 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2381 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2384 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2385 ----------------------------------
2388 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2389 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2392 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2393 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2394 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2395 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2396 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2398 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2399 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2400 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2402 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2403 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2406 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2409 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2412 * Fix quitting on Linux
2413 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2417 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2420 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2423 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2424 ---------------------------------
2426 Windows and Mac OS X:
2427 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2430 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2431 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2434 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2437 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2440 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2442 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2443 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2445 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2446 * RTP output and XML export
2447 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2451 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2452 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2453 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2454 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2457 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2458 --------------------------------
2460 Windows and Mac OS X:
2461 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2464 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2467 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2468 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2469 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2470 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2471 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2472 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2475 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2476 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2480 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2481 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2482 * New Luganda Translation
2485 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2486 --------------------------------
2489 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2492 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2493 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2494 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2495 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2498 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2500 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2501 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2502 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2503 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2504 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2505 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2506 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2507 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2509 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2510 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2511 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2512 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2513 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2514 * Configure and build system improvements
2515 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2518 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2519 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2520 * New icelandic translation
2523 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2524 --------------------------------
2527 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2528 #234484 and #260719.
2531 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2532 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2533 and stability reasons
2536 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2540 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2543 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2544 ----------------------------------
2547 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2550 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2551 ---------------------------------
2554 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2555 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2556 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2557 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2560 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2563 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2564 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2565 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2566 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2569 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2570 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2571 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2573 Subtitles and renderer:
2574 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2575 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2576 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2577 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2578 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2581 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2582 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2583 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2584 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2587 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2588 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2590 Miscellaneous fixes:
2591 * KDE device solid actions
2593 * Transcode integer overflow
2594 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2595 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2598 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2599 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2600 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2603 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2604 ----------------------------------
2607 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2611 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2614 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2617 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2618 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2619 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2620 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2623 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2627 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2630 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2633 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2634 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2636 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2640 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2641 * Miscellaneous fixes
2644 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2645 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2646 French and Ukrainian
2647 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2648 * New Asturian translation
2651 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2652 ----------------------------------
2655 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2657 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2660 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2663 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2664 * Various fixes for Windows
2667 * New Armenian translation
2668 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2669 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2672 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2673 --------------------------------
2676 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2677 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2678 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2681 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2682 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2685 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2686 --------------------------------
2688 Access and demuxers:
2689 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2690 * fix for podcasts parsing
2691 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2694 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2695 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2698 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2699 * fix m3u playlists exports
2702 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2705 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2708 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2711 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2714 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2717 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2718 --------------------------------
2721 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2722 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2725 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2726 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2729 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2730 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2731 * fix console output encoding
2733 Interface and extensions:
2734 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2735 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2738 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2739 --------------------------------
2742 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2743 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2744 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2745 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2746 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2747 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2748 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2749 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2750 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2751 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2752 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2753 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2754 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2755 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2756 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2757 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2761 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2762 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2763 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2764 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2765 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2768 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2771 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2772 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2773 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2777 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2780 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2781 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2782 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2785 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2786 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2787 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2788 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2791 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2792 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2795 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2796 --------------------------------
2798 Important changes for users:
2799 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2800 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2802 Important changes for packagers:
2803 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2804 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2805 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2806 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2807 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2809 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2811 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2812 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2813 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2814 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2815 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2818 * Support for the sftp protocol
2819 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2820 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2821 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2822 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2823 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2826 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2827 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2828 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2830 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2831 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2832 * Invmem module improvements
2833 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2834 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2835 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2836 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2837 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2838 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2839 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2840 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2841 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2842 * Support for VP8 codec
2843 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2846 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2847 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2848 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2849 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2850 * Various EGP improvements
2851 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2852 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2855 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2856 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2857 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2858 * Podcast images are now displayed
2861 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2862 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2863 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2864 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2865 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2866 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2867 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2868 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2869 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2870 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2871 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2874 * New content extensions lua framework
2877 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2878 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2879 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2880 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2881 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2882 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2883 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2886 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2887 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2888 * Service discovery based on libudev
2889 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2892 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2893 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2894 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2895 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2896 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2897 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2898 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2901 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2902 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2903 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2906 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2908 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2909 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2912 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2915 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2916 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2917 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2918 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2919 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2920 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2921 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2924 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2925 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2928 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2929 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2930 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2934 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2935 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2936 * Improved Solaris port
2939 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2940 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2943 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2944 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2945 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2946 * transrate: broken since too long
2947 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2948 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2949 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2950 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2951 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2952 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2953 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2954 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2955 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2956 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2957 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2958 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2959 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2960 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2963 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2964 --------------------------------
2967 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2969 Decoders/Packetizers:
2970 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2973 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2974 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2975 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2976 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2977 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2980 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2981 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2984 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2985 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2988 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2989 and Walloon translations updated
2990 * Sinhala translation started
2993 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2994 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2997 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2998 --------------------------------
3001 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3002 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3005 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3008 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3009 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3012 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3013 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3014 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3015 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3018 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3019 --------------------------------
3022 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3023 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3026 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3027 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3030 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3031 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3034 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3037 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3038 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3041 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3042 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3045 * New Walloon translation
3046 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3049 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3050 --------------------------------
3053 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3054 regressions in most popular drivers
3055 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3058 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3059 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3060 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3063 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3064 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3067 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3068 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3069 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3070 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3071 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3074 * New udev module for linux
3077 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3080 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3083 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3084 --------------------------------
3087 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3088 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3089 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3092 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3093 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3096 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3097 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3100 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3103 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3104 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3105 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3106 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3109 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3110 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3111 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3112 - no support for Goom and SDL
3113 - limited text rendering support
3114 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3117 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3118 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3119 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3120 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3121 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3122 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3123 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3124 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3125 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3129 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3132 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3135 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3136 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3137 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3138 Arabic and French translation updates
3141 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3142 --------------------------------
3145 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3146 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3147 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3148 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3149 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3150 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3153 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3154 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3155 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3158 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3159 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3160 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3163 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3166 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3167 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3170 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3171 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3172 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3173 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3174 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3175 * Fix various crashes
3178 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3180 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3184 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3185 ---------------------------------
3189 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3190 See 'Access:' for more info.
3191 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3194 * Instantaneous pausing
3195 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3196 * Finer speed control
3197 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3198 * Timeshift for most medias
3199 * RTSP trickplay support
3200 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3203 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3204 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3205 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3206 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3207 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3208 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3209 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3210 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3211 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3212 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3215 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3216 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3217 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3218 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3219 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3220 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3221 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3224 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3225 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3228 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3229 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3230 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3231 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3232 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3233 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3234 * DVB scanning on linux
3235 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3236 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3237 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3238 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3239 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3240 * MTP device access on Unix
3241 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3242 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3245 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3246 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3247 Windows and Mac OS X.
3250 * Export the playlist in HTML
3251 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3252 * Better metadata handling and reading
3254 Linux/Windows interface:
3255 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3256 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3257 * Recently played items list
3258 * Interface toolbar customizations
3259 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3260 - More menus actions
3261 - Finer speed slider
3262 - Improvements on many dialogs
3263 - New dialog for plugins listing
3264 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3265 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3266 * Better integration in GTK environments
3269 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3270 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3271 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3272 * Additional usability improvements
3275 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3276 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3277 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3278 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3279 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3282 * New Maemo port with:
3283 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3284 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3287 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3290 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3291 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3292 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3293 * Support for latest iSight models
3296 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3297 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3300 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3301 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3302 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3303 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3304 The old image video output has been removed.
3305 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3306 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3309 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3317 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3318 --------------------------------------
3324 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3325 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3326 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3327 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3328 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3329 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3330 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3332 Various fixes to the following modules:
3335 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3336 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3337 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3339 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3344 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3345 ---------------------------------
3348 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3349 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3352 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3353 ---------------------------------
3356 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3359 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3362 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3363 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3364 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3365 main controller window.
3366 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3369 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3374 * Updates of other localizations
3377 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3378 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3379 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3380 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3381 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3384 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3385 ---------------------------------
3388 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3390 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3393 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3394 --------------------------------
3399 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3400 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3403 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3404 --------------------------------
3406 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3407 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3410 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3413 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3414 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3417 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3418 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3421 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3422 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3423 * Various fixed in playlist
3426 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3429 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3432 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3433 ------------------------------------
3435 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3436 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3439 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3440 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3441 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3444 * Stability fix for the video output.
3447 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3448 --------------------------------
3451 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3452 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3453 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3454 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3455 * Fixed update system bugs
3456 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3459 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3460 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3461 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3462 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3463 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3464 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3465 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3466 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3467 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3468 modern Mac OS X versions
3471 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3472 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3474 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3475 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3478 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3479 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3480 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3481 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3482 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3483 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3486 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3487 --------------------------------
3489 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3490 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3491 * Multiple bugfixes.
3494 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3495 --------------------------------
3497 * Multiple bug fixes.
3500 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3501 ---------------------------------
3505 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3506 recent to work correctly
3507 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3508 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3509 edit the ".hosts" file.
3510 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3511 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3512 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3513 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3514 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3515 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3516 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3517 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3518 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3519 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3520 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3521 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3522 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3523 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3524 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3525 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3526 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3527 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3528 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3529 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3530 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3531 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3532 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3533 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3534 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3535 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3536 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3537 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3538 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3539 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3540 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3541 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3542 and postproc modules.
3543 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3544 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3545 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3546 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3548 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3549 filter. For example:
3550 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3551 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3553 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3554 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3560 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3562 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3563 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3566 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3567 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3569 * Shoutcast TV listings
3570 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3572 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3573 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3575 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3578 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3579 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3580 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3581 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3582 * JACK audio input support
3583 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3584 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3585 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3586 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3587 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3588 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3589 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3590 (available as a separate download).
3591 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3592 * RTMP input support
3593 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3594 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3595 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3597 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3598 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3601 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3602 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3603 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3604 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3606 * APEv1/2 tags support
3607 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3608 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3610 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3611 * TiVo Series 2 support
3612 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3617 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3618 * Flash Screen Video support
3619 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3620 * DosBox Capture support
3621 * Karl Morton's Video support
3622 * limited atrac3 support
3624 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3625 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3626 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3627 * H.264 PAFF support
3628 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3629 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3630 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3631 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3632 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3635 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3636 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3637 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3638 * AQTitle subtitles support
3639 * MKV USF subtitles support
3640 * HTML-based subtitles support
3641 * MPSub subtitles support
3642 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3643 * MPL2 subtitles support
3644 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3645 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3646 * Realtext subtitle support
3647 * DKS subtitle support
3648 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3649 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3652 * Flash Screen Video support
3653 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3655 Video outputs and filters:
3656 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3657 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3658 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3659 * New puzzle video output filter
3660 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3661 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3663 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3664 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3665 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3666 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3667 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3668 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3669 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3670 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3671 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3672 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3673 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3674 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3675 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3676 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3678 Audio outputs and filters:
3679 * Replay gain support
3680 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3681 new scaletempo audio filter)
3682 * New spatializer audio filter
3683 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3686 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3687 * New RTP payload formats:
3688 * Speex voice audio codec
3689 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3690 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3691 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3692 * DCCP transport for RTP
3693 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3698 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3699 end-user suitable way.
3700 * Improved user interaction
3701 * Improved mouse gestures
3702 * Vastly improved Update checker
3703 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3705 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3706 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3708 * Improved video output features
3709 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3710 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3711 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3712 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3713 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3715 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3716 if libncursesw is available.
3717 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3718 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3719 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3721 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3722 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3723 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3724 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3725 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3726 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3727 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3728 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3731 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3732 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3733 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3736 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3737 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3738 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3739 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3740 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3741 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3744 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3745 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3755 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3756 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3757 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3760 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3761 ----------------------------------
3764 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3767 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3768 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3769 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3770 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3771 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3772 * Updated Polish translation
3775 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3776 ----------------------------------
3779 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3780 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3781 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3784 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3785 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3786 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3787 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3788 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3789 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3790 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3791 to an unexpected application termination
3792 * New Serbian translation
3793 * Updated Romanian translation
3796 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3797 ----------------------------------
3800 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3801 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3802 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3803 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3804 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3805 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3806 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3807 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3810 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3811 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3812 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3813 * Fixed AAC resampling
3814 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3815 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3818 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3819 ----------------------------------
3822 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3823 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3824 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3825 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3826 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3829 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3830 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3831 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3832 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3833 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3836 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3837 ----------------------------------
3840 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3841 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3844 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3845 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3846 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3847 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3849 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3853 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3856 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3859 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3862 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3865 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3866 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3867 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3868 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3869 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3871 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3872 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3873 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3874 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3877 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3880 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3881 ----------------------------------
3884 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3885 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3886 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3888 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3889 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3891 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3892 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3895 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3897 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3898 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3899 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3900 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3901 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3902 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3903 two different movies
3904 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3905 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3906 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3909 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3912 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3913 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3914 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3915 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3918 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3919 ----------------------------------
3921 Various bugfixes, notably:
3922 * Windows Vista compatibility
3923 * Cropping in Direct3D
3924 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3925 * RSS filter string overflow
3927 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3929 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3930 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3933 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3934 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3937 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3940 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3943 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3946 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3947 ----------------------------------
3949 Various bugfixes, notably:
3950 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3951 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3952 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3953 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3954 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3955 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3958 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3959 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3962 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3964 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3965 * Diverse usability improvements
3966 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3967 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3968 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3971 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3972 ---------------------------------
3974 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3975 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3978 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3981 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3982 --------------------------------
3985 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3988 * Support for RTSP authentication
3989 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3990 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3991 * ATSC support for DVB input
3992 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3993 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3994 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3997 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3998 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3999 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4000 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4001 * Matroska WavPack support
4002 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4003 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4004 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4007 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4008 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4009 * Improved libcaca support
4013 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4014 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4016 * Systray support in skins
4018 * Support for Apple Remote control
4019 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4020 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4021 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4022 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4024 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4027 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4028 Windows 9x/ME users:
4029 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4030 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4031 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4032 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4033 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4035 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4036 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4045 * Updates to the libvlc API
4046 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4049 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4050 --------------------------------
4053 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4054 * Support for downloading updates
4058 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4059 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4060 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4061 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4063 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4064 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4065 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4068 * Cook (Real audio) support
4070 Playlist / Services discovery:
4071 * XSPF playlist support
4073 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4076 * New JACK audio output
4079 * New video filters:
4080 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4081 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4082 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4083 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4084 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4085 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4088 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4091 * System to inform the user and request information
4092 - HTTP authentication
4096 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4097 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4098 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4101 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4102 - Improved playlist handling
4103 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4105 - Embedded Video output
4106 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4107 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4108 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4109 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4110 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4112 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4113 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4116 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4119 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4120 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4121 * Growl "Now playing" support
4124 * Ability to log to syslog
4125 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4128 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4130 * A bit more automatic testing
4133 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4134 ---------------------------------
4137 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4138 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4141 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4142 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4145 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4148 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4149 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4155 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4158 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4159 --------------------------------
4162 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4166 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4167 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4168 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4171 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4172 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4173 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4174 * GnomeVFS input module
4175 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4176 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4179 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4180 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4181 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4184 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4185 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4191 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4192 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4195 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4196 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4197 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4200 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4202 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4203 - New extended controls panel
4204 - New bookmarks window
4205 - Fixed playlist sorting
4206 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4208 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4209 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4210 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4211 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4215 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4216 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4218 - Include macro to include other files
4222 * Should now work outside IE as well
4225 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4228 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4229 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4232 The following languages were added:
4236 * Simplified Chinese
4237 The following languages were re-added:
4241 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4242 --------------------------------
4245 * Rewrite of the playlist
4247 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4248 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4249 * Preferences improvements:
4250 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4251 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4253 * Core image manipulation support
4254 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4255 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4256 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4257 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4258 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4259 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4260 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4261 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4262 * Access filter architecture
4263 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4264 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4268 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4269 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4270 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4271 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4272 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4273 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4274 * Massive Matroska improvements
4275 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4277 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4278 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4279 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4280 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4281 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4283 Decoders / Encoders:
4284 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4285 * PNG decoder/encoder
4286 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4287 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4290 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4293 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4294 * Brand new SAP module
4295 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4296 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4297 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4298 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4299 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4300 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4304 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4307 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4308 * Image file video output (png)
4309 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4310 * Improvements to wall video filter
4311 * Support for font color and opacity
4317 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4318 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4319 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4323 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4324 - Improved preferences
4325 - Improvements to the wizard
4326 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4328 - Redesigned playlist
4329 - Improved preferences
4331 - Support for multiple actions
4334 - Support for the new playlist system
4336 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4339 * Screensaver disabling fix
4340 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4341 * Support for no-decoration windows
4344 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4345 * The OpenGL video output is back
4346 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4347 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4348 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4349 is not yet available in the new module
4350 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4353 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4362 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4365 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4368 The following languages were added:
4374 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4375 --------------------------------
4378 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4379 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4382 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4383 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4384 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4387 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4390 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4393 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4396 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4397 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4398 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4402 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4404 * Support of playlist group announcement
4407 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4408 --------------------------------
4411 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4412 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4413 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4414 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4415 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4416 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4419 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4420 (Stream your desktop)
4421 * Improved DVD support:
4422 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4423 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4424 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4425 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4426 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4427 (selection of titles/chapters).
4430 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4431 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4432 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4433 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4434 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4435 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4436 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4437 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4438 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4439 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4442 * G.726 audio support
4443 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4444 * MPEG-4 text support
4445 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4446 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4447 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4451 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4452 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4453 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4454 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4455 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4456 * DVB subtitles encoder
4457 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4458 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4460 * Text track muxing for mp4
4461 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4462 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4463 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4464 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4465 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4466 * Improved ASF muxer
4468 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4469 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4470 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4473 * New audio equalizer filter
4474 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4475 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4476 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4477 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4480 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4481 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4482 with support for effects.
4483 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4484 - New filters can be streamed.
4485 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4486 - Centralized scaling and blending
4488 - "time", to display current time
4489 - "marq", to display a marquee
4492 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4493 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4494 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4495 * A few skins2 improvements
4496 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4497 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4498 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4499 * Improved CORBA control module
4502 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4503 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4504 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4507 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4508 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4509 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4512 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4513 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4514 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4515 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4516 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4519 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4522 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4523 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4526 * Server/client network synchronization module
4527 * VBrick streams fully supported
4528 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4532 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4533 --------------------------------
4536 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4537 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4538 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4539 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4542 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4543 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4544 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4545 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4546 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4547 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4548 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4551 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4552 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4553 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4554 * Improved directory access module.
4555 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4556 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4557 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4558 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4559 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4562 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4563 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4564 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4567 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4568 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4569 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4572 * Improved session announcement system.
4573 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4574 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4575 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4576 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4577 * Improved transrater.
4578 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4579 * New configuration system.
4580 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4583 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4584 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4585 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4586 * Supports scheduling.
4587 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4588 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4591 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4592 - Ability to embed video output.
4593 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4594 - Lots of improvements.
4595 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4596 - New design and set of icons.
4597 - Ability to embed video output.
4598 - Support for hotkeys.
4599 - Support for bookmarks.
4601 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4602 - Better hotkeys handling.
4605 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4606 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4607 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4608 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4611 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4612 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4613 * Improved Windows installer.
4619 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4620 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4623 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4624 ---------------------------------
4627 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4628 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4631 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4632 --------------------------------
4635 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4636 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4639 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4640 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4641 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4642 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4645 * Internal improvments
4646 * Improved import/export
4649 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4651 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4652 small and strange formats.
4654 * New MOD audio demux.
4655 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4656 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4657 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4658 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4661 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4662 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4663 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4669 * New opengl video output plugin.
4672 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4673 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4676 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4677 --------------------------------
4680 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4681 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4682 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4683 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4684 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4685 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4686 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4687 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4690 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4695 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4696 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4697 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4698 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4699 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4700 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4701 * Better Icecast support.
4702 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4703 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4706 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4707 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4708 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4709 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4710 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4711 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4712 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4715 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4716 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4717 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4718 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4719 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4720 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4721 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4722 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4723 * Preliminary RTP support.
4724 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4729 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4730 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4732 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4733 - Improvements and help in preferences
4734 - New streaming wizard
4735 - Revised Disc Open menu
4737 - Improvements of the standard pages
4738 - Support for new commands
4739 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4742 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4743 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4746 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4747 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4748 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4749 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4750 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4751 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4752 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4753 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4754 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4757 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4759 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4760 * Support for Panther.
4761 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4762 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4765 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4766 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4767 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4768 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4769 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4770 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4771 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4772 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4775 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4776 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4777 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4780 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4783 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4784 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4785 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4786 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4789 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4790 --------------------------------
4793 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4796 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4797 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4800 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4801 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4804 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4807 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4808 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4811 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4814 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4817 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4818 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4822 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4823 --------------------------------
4826 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4827 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4831 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4832 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4833 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4835 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4836 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4839 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4842 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4845 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4846 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4850 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4851 --------------------------------
4854 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4855 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4859 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4860 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4861 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4862 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4863 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4866 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4867 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4868 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4871 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4872 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4873 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4876 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4877 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4878 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4879 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4880 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4883 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4884 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4885 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4888 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4891 * Improved build system.
4892 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4893 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4894 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4895 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4898 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4899 --------------------------------
4902 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4905 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4906 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4907 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4908 * Video 4 Linux support
4909 * CD Digital Audio support
4910 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4913 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4914 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4915 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4916 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4919 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4920 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4921 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4922 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4923 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4924 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4925 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4928 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4929 * New HTTP remote control interface
4932 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4933 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4934 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4935 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4936 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4939 * New reset option for the preferences
4940 * You can set your language in the prefences
4941 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4942 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4943 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4944 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4947 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4948 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4949 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4952 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4953 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4954 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4955 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4956 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4957 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4958 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4959 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4960 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4961 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4964 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4965 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4966 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4967 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4968 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4969 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4970 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4973 * Interface localization
4974 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4975 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4976 * New full-featured Preferences window
4979 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4980 --------------------------------
4983 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4984 * support for skins at the interface level
4985 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4986 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4987 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4988 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4989 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4992 * fixed HTTP redirects
4993 * support for opening an entire directory
4994 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4995 * new video4linux access plug-in
4996 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4999 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5000 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5001 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5004 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5005 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5006 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5007 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5008 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5009 * new codec for raw I420 video
5010 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5013 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5014 (although it still misses some important features)
5015 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5018 * new HTTP output support
5019 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5020 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5023 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5026 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5029 * reorderable playlist
5030 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5031 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5032 * support for mono audio output devices
5033 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5034 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5035 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5036 * the messages window remembers more lines
5037 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5038 * http and ogg stream output options
5039 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5042 * new skinnable interface
5043 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5045 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5046 * support for FLAC audio format
5047 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5049 * network tab in the interface
5050 * "apply" handling in preferences
5053 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5054 ---------------------------------
5057 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5058 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5059 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5060 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5062 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5063 * DTS S/PDIF support
5066 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5067 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5068 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5069 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5072 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5073 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5076 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5079 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5082 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5084 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5085 * rc interface is now fully useable
5086 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5089 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5090 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5091 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5092 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5093 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5095 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5096 * support for mouse gestures
5097 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5100 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5101 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5104 * improved ID3 tag detection
5105 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5106 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5107 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5109 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5112 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5113 ---------------------------------
5116 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5117 English was set as the preferred language
5120 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5121 --------------------------------
5124 * new mouse gesture interface
5125 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5129 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5130 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5131 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5134 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5135 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5139 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5142 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5143 without the user consent
5146 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5148 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5149 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5150 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5153 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5154 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5155 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5156 * playlist enhancements
5157 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5158 * new step forward/step backward commands
5159 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5160 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5161 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5164 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5165 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5166 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5169 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5170 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5173 * native video output is working again
5174 * only commandline interface support
5175 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5178 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5179 --------------------------------
5182 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5183 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5184 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5185 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5186 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5187 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5188 and A/52 streams are supported)
5189 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5194 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5195 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5196 * VCD entry points support
5197 * VCD image file support
5200 * support for *.asf format
5201 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5202 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5203 * support for ogg encapsulation
5204 * support for raw DV format
5205 * support for *.wav format
5206 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5209 Stream discovery & playlists:
5210 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5211 * support for .m3u file format
5212 * support for .asx file format
5213 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5216 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5217 (only available with the .avi demux)
5218 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5219 * support for raw PCM data
5220 * support for Cinepak video codec
5221 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5222 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5223 * support for Xvid codec
5224 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5225 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5226 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5228 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5230 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5233 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5236 * new WxWindows interface
5237 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5238 device and the channels configuration
5239 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5240 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5241 format that VLC can play
5242 * new swedish translation
5243 * enhancements of the playlist window
5244 * new messages window to see debug info
5245 * fixed a few crashes
5248 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5249 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5250 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5251 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working