1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support wayland surface type
15 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
16 * Support portable version of Windows build
17 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
18 and rewrite the parsing of those files
19 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
20 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
21 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
24 * New NFS access module using libnfs
25 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
26 * New SMB access module using libdsm
27 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
28 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
29 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
30 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
31 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
32 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
33 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
34 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
35 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
36 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
37 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
38 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
39 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
40 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
41 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
42 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
43 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
44 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
47 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
48 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
49 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
50 * Support for Daala video
51 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
52 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
53 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
54 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
55 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
56 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
57 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
58 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
59 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
60 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
61 * Basic TTML subtitles support
62 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
63 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
64 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
65 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
66 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
70 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
71 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
72 * Support Daala in Ogg
73 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
74 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
75 * Support SBV subtitles
76 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
77 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
78 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
79 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
80 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
81 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
82 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
83 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
84 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
85 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
86 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
87 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
88 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
89 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
90 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
93 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
94 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
95 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
98 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
99 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
100 * Added Tizen audio module.
102 Audio filters and output:
103 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
106 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
107 * Wayland shell surface window provider
108 * Wayland shared memory video output
109 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
110 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
111 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
112 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
113 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
114 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
115 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
118 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
121 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
122 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
123 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
126 * Chromecast output module
127 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
130 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
133 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
134 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
135 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
139 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
140 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
143 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
144 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
145 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
146 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
147 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
150 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
153 * Batch convert support
156 * Support key accelerators
159 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
160 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
161 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
162 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
163 This allows to attach media events between create and start
164 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
165 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
166 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
167 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
168 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
169 identifier (if there is one available)
170 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
171 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
172 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
173 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
174 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
175 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
176 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
177 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
178 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
181 * Support for the SystemD Journal
182 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
183 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
184 * New Android module for logging
187 * remove langfromtelx
188 * remove ZPL playlist format
189 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
190 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
191 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
192 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
193 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
194 * Add a plaintext keystore
198 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
199 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
200 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
201 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
202 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
203 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
204 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
205 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
208 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
209 --------------------------------
212 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
213 * Fix some VP9 decoding
215 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
216 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
217 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
218 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
223 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
224 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
225 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
226 * Revert to older ASX code
227 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
230 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
231 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
232 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
235 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
236 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
237 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
240 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
241 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
242 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
245 * Fix recent items behaviour
246 * Fix rotation filter activation
247 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
250 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
251 * Fix extensions registration during install
252 * Fix extensions dialog crash
253 * Default to no DxVA decoding
256 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
259 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
260 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
261 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
262 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
263 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
264 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
267 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
268 --------------------------------
271 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
272 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
275 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
276 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
277 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
278 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
281 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
282 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
283 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
284 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
286 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
287 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
288 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
291 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
292 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
293 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
294 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
295 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
296 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
297 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
298 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
299 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
300 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
301 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
302 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
303 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
304 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
305 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
306 * New jpeg image decoder
307 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
308 * New SVG image decoder
309 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
310 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
311 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
314 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
315 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
316 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
317 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
318 * New png image encoder using libpng
321 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
322 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
323 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
324 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
325 synchronization and tracks exclusion
326 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
327 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
328 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
329 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
330 * Support Opus in MKV
332 * Basic support for WebVTT
333 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
334 * Support HDPR TS files
335 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
336 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
337 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
338 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
339 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
340 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
341 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
342 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
343 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
344 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
345 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
346 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
349 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
350 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
351 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
352 * New Android native window provider module
353 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
354 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
355 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
358 * New Oldmovie effect filter
359 * New VHS effect filter
360 * New Freeze effect filter
361 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
362 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
363 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
366 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
367 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
368 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
369 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
370 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
371 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
374 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
375 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
377 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
380 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
381 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
382 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
383 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
384 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
385 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
386 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
387 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
388 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
390 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
391 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
392 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
395 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
396 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
399 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
400 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
403 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
404 * Add record button in Qt menus
405 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
406 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
407 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
410 * Support for OS X Yosemite
411 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
412 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
413 * Fixes for advanced preferences
414 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
415 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
416 * Option to increase playlist font size
417 * Improved crash log reporting
420 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
421 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
422 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
423 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
426 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
429 * iOS video output: use ios2
430 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
431 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
434 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
435 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
436 * Update of all translations:
437 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
438 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
439 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
440 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
441 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
442 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
443 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
446 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
447 --------------------------------
453 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
454 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
455 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
456 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
457 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
458 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
459 * Fix potential crash in zip access
460 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
461 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
464 * Update translations and greek encoding
467 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
468 --------------------------------
471 * Fix compilation on OS/2
474 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
476 Mac OS X audio output:
477 * Fix channel ordering
478 * Increase the buffersize
481 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
482 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
483 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
486 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
489 * Correctly support video-on-top
490 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
491 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
494 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
497 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
498 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
501 * Update British English
504 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
505 --------------------------------
508 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
511 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
514 * Fix DVD playback regression
515 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
516 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
519 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
520 --------------------------------
523 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
524 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
527 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
528 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
529 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
532 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
533 by updating codec libraries
534 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
535 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
536 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
539 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
540 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
541 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
542 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
545 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
546 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
549 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
550 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
551 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
552 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
553 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
556 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
557 * Fix record file names
560 * Fix minimal size possible on start
561 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
562 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
563 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
564 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
567 * Fix album art display on Windows
570 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
571 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
572 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
573 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
574 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
575 and Simplified Chinese translations
576 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
579 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
580 --------------------------------
583 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
584 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
585 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
586 audio devices on OS X
587 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
588 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
591 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
592 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
595 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
596 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
599 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
602 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
603 * Improve A-B loop control
604 * Fix album art update when changing media
607 * Add a language option in the interface
608 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
609 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
610 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
611 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
612 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
613 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
614 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
617 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
620 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
621 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
622 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
623 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
626 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
627 --------------------------------
630 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
632 * Fix some subtitles track selection
635 * VP9 support in WebM
636 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
637 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
640 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
641 * Support Speex in ogg files
642 * Fix some .mov playlists support
643 * Support Alac in mkv
644 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
645 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
648 * Fix DVB options parsing
649 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
650 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
653 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
654 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
657 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
658 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
661 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
662 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
663 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
664 * Fix play after drag'n drop
665 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
668 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
669 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
672 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
673 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
676 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
677 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
678 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
679 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
680 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
681 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
682 * Improves interface resizings
685 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
686 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
687 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
688 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
689 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
693 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
694 --------------------------------
697 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
698 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
699 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
700 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
701 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
703 3rd party libraries (contrib):
704 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
707 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
708 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
709 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
710 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
711 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
714 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
715 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
719 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
720 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
721 * Support for Ulead DV audio
722 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
723 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
724 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
725 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
726 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
727 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
728 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
729 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
730 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
731 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
734 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
735 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
736 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
739 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
740 remove support for previous OS X releases
741 * Major improvements in DASH support
742 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
743 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
744 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
745 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
746 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
747 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
748 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
749 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
750 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
751 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
752 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
755 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
756 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
757 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
758 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
759 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
760 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
761 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
762 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
763 * Support for more MJPEG streams
764 * Add support for liveleak streams
765 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
766 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
767 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
770 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
771 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
772 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
773 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
774 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
775 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
776 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
777 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
778 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
779 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
780 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
783 * New remapping channel filter
784 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
785 * New VSXu visualization plugin
786 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
787 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
788 * New gain audio filter
791 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
792 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
793 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
794 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
795 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
796 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
797 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
798 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
799 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
802 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
803 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
804 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
805 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
806 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
807 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
808 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
811 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
812 * Options support for AVIO output module
813 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
814 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
815 * Livehttp stream encryption support
816 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
817 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
820 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
823 * configurable password for the HTTP server
824 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
825 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
826 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
827 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
828 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
829 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
830 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
834 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
837 * Add support for multiple video outputs
838 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
840 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
841 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
842 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
843 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
844 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
845 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
846 VLC's internal volume level
847 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
849 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
850 selection and to manage the list of presets
851 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
852 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
853 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
854 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
855 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
856 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
857 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
858 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
859 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
860 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
862 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
863 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
864 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
865 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
866 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
867 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
868 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
869 3rd party applications
870 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
871 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
872 (system-wide settings)
873 * Add support for the Video Title option
874 * Add support for the Boss Key
875 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
876 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
879 * Partial support for Qt5.0
880 * Menus modifications and improvements
881 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
882 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
883 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
884 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
885 * EPG display fixes and improvements
886 * Add SD pixmap sources
887 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
888 * Display playlist total duration
889 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
890 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
891 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
896 * Extend sliders, offsets options
897 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
898 * Numerous fixes and improvements
899 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
902 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
903 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
904 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
905 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
906 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
907 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
908 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
909 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
910 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
911 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
914 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
915 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
916 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
917 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
918 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
919 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
921 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
922 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
923 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
924 * Broken crop video filter
926 * OSD parser and menu
927 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
928 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
929 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
930 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
934 * Update of all translations
937 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
938 --------------------------------
941 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
942 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
945 * Fix modplug security issues
948 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
949 --------------------------------
953 * Fix crash in QTsound
954 * Fix screen mouse file location
955 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
958 * Fix use after free in sgimb
959 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
962 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
965 * Fix interface crashes
966 * Fix autostart playback option
967 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
970 * update Welsh translation
971 * New Kannada translation
974 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
975 --------------------------------
978 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
979 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
983 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
986 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
989 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
992 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
996 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
999 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1002 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1003 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1004 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1007 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1008 --------------------------------
1011 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1014 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1017 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1018 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1019 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1020 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1021 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1022 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1025 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1026 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1027 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1028 * 3rd party codecs updates
1031 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1032 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1033 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1034 in the advanced preferences panel
1035 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1036 * Fix crash within the video output code
1037 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1038 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1039 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1040 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1041 lua extensions, ...)
1042 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1045 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1048 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1049 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1052 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1055 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1056 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1057 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1058 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1059 Dutch, Danish, translations
1060 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1063 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1064 --------------------------------
1067 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1070 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1071 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1072 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1075 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1076 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1077 * Fix koreus lua parser
1078 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1079 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1080 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1081 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1084 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1085 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1088 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1091 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1092 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1093 * Fix Time counter UI look
1094 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1097 * Fix https streaming
1100 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1101 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1102 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1105 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1106 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1107 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1108 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1109 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1112 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1113 --------------------------------
1116 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1117 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1118 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1119 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1120 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1121 during playback on Mac OS X
1124 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1125 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1126 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1129 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1130 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1131 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1132 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1133 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1136 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1137 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1138 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1139 * Support Youtube live streams
1142 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1145 * Fix media info dialog update
1146 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1147 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1148 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1149 * Fix album art display at start
1152 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1153 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1154 * Fix menus display and behavior
1155 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1156 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1157 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1158 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1159 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1160 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1161 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1164 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1165 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1166 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1167 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1168 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1169 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1170 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1171 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1172 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1175 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1176 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1177 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1178 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1179 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1182 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1189 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1190 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1193 * Add GateKeeper support
1194 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1195 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1196 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1199 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1202 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1203 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1204 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1205 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1206 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1209 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1210 --------------------------------
1213 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1214 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1215 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1216 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1217 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1218 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1219 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1220 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1221 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1222 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1223 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1227 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1228 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1229 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1230 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1231 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1232 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1233 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1234 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1235 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1236 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1237 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1238 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1241 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1242 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1244 * Fix MP3 free format support
1247 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1248 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1249 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1250 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1251 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1254 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1255 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1257 Audio filters and output:
1258 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1259 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1260 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1261 * Do not apply volume in file output
1262 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1263 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1266 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1267 the persistant media library
1268 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1269 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1270 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1271 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1272 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1273 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1274 press on the Play/Pause button
1275 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1276 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1277 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1278 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1279 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1280 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1281 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1282 Synchronization panel
1283 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1284 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1285 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1286 * Fix crashes on exit
1287 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1289 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1290 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1291 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1292 automatically reset on the first launch.
1293 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1294 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1295 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1298 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1299 * Fixes for icecast SD
1302 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1303 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1304 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1305 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1306 * Fix tags and file names display
1307 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1310 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1311 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1314 * Fix display of some buttons
1315 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1316 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1319 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1320 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1321 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1324 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1325 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1326 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1327 Thai translations update
1328 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1331 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1332 --------------------------------
1335 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1336 * fix the samba module compilation
1337 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1338 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1339 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1340 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1343 * Support for MXPEG files
1344 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1345 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1348 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1349 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1350 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1353 * Fix ogm header creation
1356 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1357 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1360 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1361 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1362 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1363 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1366 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1369 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1370 * allow to hide the sidebar
1371 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1372 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1373 * noticebly faster launch time
1374 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1375 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1376 * improve track synchronization panel
1377 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1378 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1381 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1382 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1383 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1384 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1387 * fix for menus display
1388 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1389 * documentation update
1392 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1393 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1396 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1397 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1398 * Update Jamendo selections
1402 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1403 * fix a crash on VLM close
1406 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1407 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1408 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1409 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1412 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1415 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1416 ---------------------------------
1419 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1420 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1421 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1422 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1423 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1424 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1425 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1426 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1427 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1428 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1429 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1430 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1431 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1432 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1433 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1434 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1435 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1436 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1437 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1438 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1439 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1440 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1441 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1442 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1443 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1444 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1446 Important changes for packagers:
1447 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1448 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1449 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1450 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1451 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1452 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1453 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1454 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1455 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1456 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1459 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1460 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1461 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1462 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1463 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1464 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1465 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1468 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1469 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1470 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1471 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1472 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1473 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1474 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1475 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1476 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1477 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1478 * PulseAudio audio input support
1479 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1480 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1481 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1482 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1483 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1484 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1485 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1486 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1489 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1490 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1491 are notably concerned.
1492 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1493 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1494 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1495 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1496 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1497 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1498 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1499 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1500 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1501 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1502 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1503 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1504 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1505 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1506 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1509 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1510 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1511 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1512 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1513 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1514 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1515 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1516 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1517 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1518 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1519 * Improved support of tracker files
1520 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1523 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1524 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1525 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1526 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1527 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1528 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1529 and important cleanups and optimisations
1530 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1531 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1532 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1533 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1534 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1535 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1536 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1537 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1538 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1539 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1540 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1541 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1542 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1543 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1544 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1545 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1546 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1547 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1548 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1549 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1550 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1553 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1554 * New video output for iOS platform
1555 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1556 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1557 * Various vmem improvements
1558 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1559 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1560 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1561 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1562 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1563 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1565 Audio Output and Filters:
1566 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1567 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1568 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1569 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1570 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1571 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1572 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1573 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1574 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1575 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1578 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1579 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1580 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1581 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1582 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1583 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1584 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1585 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1586 * New anti-flickering filter
1587 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1588 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1589 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1590 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1591 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1592 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1593 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1596 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1597 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1598 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1599 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1600 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1601 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1602 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1603 * Major rework of VoD support
1604 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1605 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1606 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1607 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1608 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1609 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1610 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1611 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1612 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1613 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1616 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1617 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1620 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1621 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1622 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1623 list of available audio and video filters
1624 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1625 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1626 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1629 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1630 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1631 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1632 * id3tag: use taglib
1633 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1634 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1635 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1636 * removal of the noise filter
1637 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1638 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1639 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1640 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1643 * Update of translations for most languages.
1644 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1647 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1648 ----------------------------------
1651 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1652 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1655 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1656 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1659 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1660 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1661 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1664 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1667 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1668 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1671 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1674 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1675 ----------------------------------
1678 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1679 including support for OS X Lion
1680 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1681 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1684 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1687 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1688 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1689 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1692 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1695 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1696 ----------------------------------
1699 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1700 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1703 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1704 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1705 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1706 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1707 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1709 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1710 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1711 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1713 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1714 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1717 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1720 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1723 * Fix quitting on Linux
1724 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1728 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1731 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1734 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1735 ---------------------------------
1737 Windows and Mac OS X:
1738 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1741 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1742 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1745 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1748 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1751 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1753 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1754 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1756 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1757 * RTP output and XML export
1758 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1762 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1763 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1764 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1765 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1768 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1769 --------------------------------
1771 Windows and Mac OS X:
1772 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1775 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1778 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1779 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1780 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1781 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1782 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1783 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1786 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1787 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1791 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1792 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1793 * New Luganda Translation
1796 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1797 --------------------------------
1800 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1803 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1804 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1805 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1806 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1809 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1811 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1812 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1813 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1814 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1815 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1816 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1817 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1818 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1820 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1821 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1822 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1823 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1824 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1825 * Configure and build system improvements
1826 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1829 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1830 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1831 * New icelandic translation
1834 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1835 --------------------------------
1838 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1839 #234484 and #260719.
1842 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1843 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1844 and stability reasons
1847 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1851 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1854 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1855 ----------------------------------
1858 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1861 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1862 ---------------------------------
1865 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1866 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1867 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1868 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1871 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1874 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1875 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1876 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1877 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1880 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1881 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1882 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1884 Subtitles and renderer:
1885 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1886 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1887 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1888 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1889 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1892 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1893 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1894 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1895 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1898 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1899 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1901 Miscellaneous fixes:
1902 * KDE device solid actions
1904 * Transcode integer overflow
1905 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1906 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1909 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1910 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1911 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1914 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1915 ----------------------------------
1918 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1922 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1925 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1928 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1929 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1930 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1931 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1934 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1938 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1941 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1944 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1945 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1947 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1951 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1952 * Miscellaneous fixes
1955 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1956 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1957 French and Ukrainian
1958 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1959 * New Asturian translation
1962 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1963 ----------------------------------
1966 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1968 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1971 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1974 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1975 * Various fixes for Windows
1978 * New Armenian translation
1979 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1980 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1983 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1984 --------------------------------
1987 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1988 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1989 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1992 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1993 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1996 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1997 --------------------------------
1999 Access and demuxers:
2000 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2001 * fix for podcasts parsing
2002 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2005 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2006 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2009 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2010 * fix m3u playlists exports
2013 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2016 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2019 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2022 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2025 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2028 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2029 --------------------------------
2032 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2033 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2036 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2037 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2040 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2041 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2042 * fix console output encoding
2044 Interface and extensions:
2045 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2046 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2049 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2050 --------------------------------
2053 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2054 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2055 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2056 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2057 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2058 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2059 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2060 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2061 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2062 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2063 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2064 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2065 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2066 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2067 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2068 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2072 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2073 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2074 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2075 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2076 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2079 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2082 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2083 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2084 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2088 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2091 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2092 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2093 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2096 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2097 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2098 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2099 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2102 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2103 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2106 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2107 --------------------------------
2109 Important changes for users:
2110 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2111 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2113 Important changes for packagers:
2114 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2115 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2116 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2117 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2118 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2120 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2122 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2123 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2124 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2125 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2126 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2129 * Support for the sftp protocol
2130 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2131 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2132 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2133 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2134 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2137 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2138 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2139 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2141 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2142 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2143 * Invmem module improvements
2144 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2145 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2146 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2147 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2148 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2149 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2150 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2151 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2152 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2153 * Support for VP8 codec
2154 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2157 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2158 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2159 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2160 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2161 * Various EGP improvements
2162 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2163 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2166 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2167 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2168 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2169 * Podcast images are now displayed
2172 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2173 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2174 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2175 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2176 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2177 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2178 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2179 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2180 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2181 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2182 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2185 * New content extensions lua framework
2188 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2189 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2190 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2191 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2192 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2193 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2194 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2197 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2198 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2199 * Service discovery based on libudev
2200 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2203 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2204 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2205 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2206 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2207 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2208 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2209 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2212 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2213 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2214 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2217 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2219 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2220 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2223 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2226 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2227 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2228 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2229 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2230 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2231 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2232 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2235 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2236 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2239 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2240 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2241 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2245 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2246 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2247 * Improved Solaris port
2250 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2251 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2254 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2255 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2256 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2257 * transrate: broken since too long
2258 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2259 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2260 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2261 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2262 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2263 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2264 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2265 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2266 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2267 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2268 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2269 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2270 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2271 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2274 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2275 --------------------------------
2278 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2280 Decoders/Packetizers:
2281 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2284 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2285 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2286 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2287 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2288 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2291 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2292 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2295 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2296 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2299 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2300 and Walloon translations updated
2301 * Sinhala translation started
2304 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2305 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2308 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2309 --------------------------------
2312 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2313 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2316 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2319 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2320 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2323 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2324 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2325 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2326 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2329 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2330 --------------------------------
2333 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2334 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2337 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2338 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2341 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2342 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2345 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2348 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2349 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2352 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2353 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2356 * New Walloon translation
2357 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2360 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2361 --------------------------------
2364 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2365 regressions in most popular drivers
2366 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2369 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2370 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2371 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2374 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2375 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2378 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2379 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2380 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2381 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2382 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2385 * New udev module for linux
2388 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2391 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2394 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2395 --------------------------------
2398 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2399 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2400 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2403 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2404 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2407 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2408 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2411 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2414 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2415 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2416 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2417 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2420 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2421 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2422 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2423 - no support for Goom and SDL
2424 - limited text rendering support
2425 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2428 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2429 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2430 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2431 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2432 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2433 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2434 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2435 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2436 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2440 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2443 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2446 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2447 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2448 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2449 Arabic and French translation updates
2452 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2453 --------------------------------
2456 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2457 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2458 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2459 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2460 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2461 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2464 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2465 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2466 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2469 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2470 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2471 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2474 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2477 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2478 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2481 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2482 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2483 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2484 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2485 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2486 * Fix various crashes
2489 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2491 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2495 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2496 ---------------------------------
2500 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2501 See 'Access:' for more info.
2502 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2505 * Instantaneous pausing
2506 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2507 * Finer speed control
2508 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2509 * Timeshift for most medias
2510 * RTSP trickplay support
2511 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2514 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2515 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2516 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2517 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2518 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2519 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2520 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2521 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2522 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2523 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2526 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2527 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2528 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2529 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2530 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2531 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2532 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2535 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2536 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2539 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2540 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2541 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2542 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2543 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2544 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2545 * DVB scanning on linux
2546 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2547 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2548 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2549 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2550 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2551 * MTP device access on Unix
2552 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2553 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2556 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2557 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2558 Windows and Mac OS X.
2561 * Export the playlist in HTML
2562 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2563 * Better metadata handling and reading
2565 Linux/Windows interface:
2566 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2567 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2568 * Recently played items list
2569 * Interface toolbar customizations
2570 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2571 - More menus actions
2572 - Finer speed slider
2573 - Improvements on many dialogs
2574 - New dialog for plugins listing
2575 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2576 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2577 * Better integration in GTK environments
2580 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2581 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2582 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2583 * Additional usability improvements
2586 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2587 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2588 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2589 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2590 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2593 * New Maemo port with:
2594 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2595 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2598 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2601 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2602 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2603 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2604 * Support for latest iSight models
2607 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2608 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2611 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2612 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2613 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2614 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2615 The old image video output has been removed.
2616 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2617 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2620 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2628 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2629 --------------------------------------
2635 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2636 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2637 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2638 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2639 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2640 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2641 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2643 Various fixes to the following modules:
2646 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2647 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2648 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2650 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2655 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2656 ---------------------------------
2659 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2660 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2663 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2664 ---------------------------------
2667 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2670 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2673 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2674 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2675 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2676 main controller window.
2677 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2680 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2685 * Updates of other localizations
2688 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2689 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2690 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2691 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2692 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2695 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2696 ---------------------------------
2699 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2701 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2704 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2705 --------------------------------
2710 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2711 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2714 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2715 --------------------------------
2717 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2718 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2721 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2724 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2725 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2728 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2729 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2732 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2733 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2734 * Various fixed in playlist
2737 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2740 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2743 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2744 ------------------------------------
2746 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2747 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2750 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2751 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2752 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2755 * Stability fix for the video output.
2758 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2759 --------------------------------
2762 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2763 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2764 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2765 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2766 * Fixed update system bugs
2767 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2770 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2771 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2772 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2773 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2774 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2775 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2776 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2777 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2778 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2779 modern Mac OS X versions
2782 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2783 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2785 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2786 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2789 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2790 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2791 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2792 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2793 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2794 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2797 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2798 --------------------------------
2800 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2801 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2802 * Multiple bugfixes.
2805 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2806 --------------------------------
2808 * Multiple bug fixes.
2811 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2812 ---------------------------------
2816 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2817 recent to work correctly
2818 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2819 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2820 edit the ".hosts" file.
2821 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2822 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2823 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2824 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2825 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2826 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2827 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2828 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2829 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2830 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2831 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2832 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2833 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2834 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2835 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2836 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2837 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2838 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2839 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2840 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2841 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2842 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2843 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2844 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2845 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2846 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2847 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2848 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2849 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2850 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2851 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2852 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2853 and postproc modules.
2854 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2855 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2856 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2857 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2859 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2860 filter. For example:
2861 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2862 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2864 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2865 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2871 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2873 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2874 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2877 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2878 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2880 * Shoutcast TV listings
2881 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2883 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2884 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2886 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2889 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2890 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2891 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2892 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2893 * JACK audio input support
2894 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2895 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2896 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2897 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2898 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2899 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2900 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2901 (available as a separate download).
2902 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2903 * RTMP input support
2904 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2905 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2906 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2908 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2909 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2912 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2913 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2914 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2915 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2917 * APEv1/2 tags support
2918 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2919 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2921 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2922 * TiVo Series 2 support
2923 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2928 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2929 * Flash Screen Video support
2930 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2931 * DosBox Capture support
2932 * Karl Morton's Video support
2933 * limited atrac3 support
2935 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2936 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2937 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2938 * H.264 PAFF support
2939 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2940 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2941 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2942 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2943 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2946 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2947 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2948 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2949 * AQTitle subtitles support
2950 * MKV USF subtitles support
2951 * HTML-based subtitles support
2952 * MPSub subtitles support
2953 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2954 * MPL2 subtitles support
2955 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2956 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2957 * Realtext subtitle support
2958 * DKS subtitle support
2959 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2960 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2963 * Flash Screen Video support
2964 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2966 Video outputs and filters:
2967 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2968 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2969 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2970 * New puzzle video output filter
2971 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2972 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2974 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2975 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2976 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2977 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2978 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2979 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2980 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2981 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2982 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2983 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2984 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2985 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2986 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2987 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2989 Audio outputs and filters:
2990 * Replay gain support
2991 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2992 new scaletempo audio filter)
2993 * New spatializer audio filter
2994 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2997 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2998 * New RTP payload formats:
2999 * Speex voice audio codec
3000 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3001 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3002 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3003 * DCCP transport for RTP
3004 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3009 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3010 end-user suitable way.
3011 * Improved user interaction
3012 * Improved mouse gestures
3013 * Vastly improved Update checker
3014 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3016 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3017 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3019 * Improved video output features
3020 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3021 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3022 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3023 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3024 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3026 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3027 if libncursesw is available.
3028 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3029 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3030 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3032 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3033 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3034 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3035 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3036 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3037 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3038 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3039 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3042 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3043 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3044 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3047 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3048 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3049 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3050 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3051 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3052 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3055 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3056 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3066 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3067 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3068 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3071 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3072 ----------------------------------
3075 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3078 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3079 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3080 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3081 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3082 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3083 * Updated Polish translation
3086 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3087 ----------------------------------
3090 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3091 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3092 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3095 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3096 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3097 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3098 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3099 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3100 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3101 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3102 to an unexpected application termination
3103 * New Serbian translation
3104 * Updated Romanian translation
3107 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3108 ----------------------------------
3111 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3112 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3113 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3114 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3115 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3116 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3117 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3118 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3121 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3122 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3123 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3124 * Fixed AAC resampling
3125 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3126 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3129 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3130 ----------------------------------
3133 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3134 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3135 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3136 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3137 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3140 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3141 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3142 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3143 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3144 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3147 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3148 ----------------------------------
3151 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3152 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3155 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3156 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3157 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3158 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3160 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3164 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3167 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3170 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3173 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3176 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3177 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3178 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3179 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3180 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3182 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3183 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3184 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3185 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3188 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3191 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3192 ----------------------------------
3195 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3196 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3197 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3199 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3200 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3202 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3203 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3206 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3208 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3209 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3210 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3211 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3212 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3213 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3214 two different movies
3215 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3216 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3217 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3220 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3223 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3224 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3225 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3226 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3229 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3230 ----------------------------------
3232 Various bugfixes, notably:
3233 * Windows Vista compatibility
3234 * Cropping in Direct3D
3235 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3236 * RSS filter string overflow
3238 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3240 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3241 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3244 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3245 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3248 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3251 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3254 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3257 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3258 ----------------------------------
3260 Various bugfixes, notably:
3261 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3262 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3263 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3264 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3265 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3266 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3269 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3270 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3273 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3275 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3276 * Diverse usability improvements
3277 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3278 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3279 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3282 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3283 ---------------------------------
3285 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3286 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3289 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3292 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3293 --------------------------------
3296 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3299 * Support for RTSP authentication
3300 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3301 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3302 * ATSC support for DVB input
3303 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3304 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3305 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3308 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3309 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3310 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3311 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3312 * Matroska WavPack support
3313 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3314 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3315 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3318 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3319 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3320 * Improved libcaca support
3324 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3325 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3327 * Systray support in skins
3329 * Support for Apple Remote control
3330 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3331 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3332 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3333 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3335 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3338 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3339 Windows 9x/ME users:
3340 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3341 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3342 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3343 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3344 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3346 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3347 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3356 * Updates to the libvlc API
3357 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3360 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3361 --------------------------------
3364 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3365 * Support for downloading updates
3369 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3370 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3371 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3372 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3374 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3375 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3376 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3379 * Cook (Real audio) support
3381 Playlist / Services discovery:
3382 * XSPF playlist support
3384 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3387 * New JACK audio output
3390 * New video filters:
3391 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3392 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3393 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3394 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3395 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3396 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3399 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3402 * System to inform the user and request information
3403 - HTTP authentication
3407 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3408 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3409 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3412 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3413 - Improved playlist handling
3414 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3416 - Embedded Video output
3417 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3418 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3419 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3420 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3421 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3423 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3424 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3427 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3430 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3431 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3432 * Growl "Now playing" support
3435 * Ability to log to syslog
3436 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3439 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3441 * A bit more automatic testing
3444 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3445 ---------------------------------
3448 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3449 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3452 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3453 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3456 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3459 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3460 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3466 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3469 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3470 --------------------------------
3473 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3477 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3478 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3479 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3482 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3483 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3484 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3485 * GnomeVFS input module
3486 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3487 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3490 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3491 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3492 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3495 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3496 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3502 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3503 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3506 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3507 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3508 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3511 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3513 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3514 - New extended controls panel
3515 - New bookmarks window
3516 - Fixed playlist sorting
3517 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3519 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3520 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3521 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3522 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3526 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3527 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3529 - Include macro to include other files
3533 * Should now work outside IE as well
3536 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3539 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3540 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3543 The following languages were added:
3547 * Simplified Chinese
3548 The following languages were re-added:
3552 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3553 --------------------------------
3556 * Rewrite of the playlist
3558 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3559 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3560 * Preferences improvements:
3561 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3562 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3564 * Core image manipulation support
3565 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3566 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3567 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3568 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3569 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3570 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3571 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3572 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3573 * Access filter architecture
3574 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3575 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3579 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3580 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3581 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3582 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3583 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3584 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3585 * Massive Matroska improvements
3586 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3588 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3589 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3590 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3591 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3592 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3594 Decoders / Encoders:
3595 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3596 * PNG decoder/encoder
3597 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3598 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3601 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3604 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3605 * Brand new SAP module
3606 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3607 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3608 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3609 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3610 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3611 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3615 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3618 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3619 * Image file video output (png)
3620 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3621 * Improvements to wall video filter
3622 * Support for font color and opacity
3628 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3629 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3630 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3634 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3635 - Improved preferences
3636 - Improvements to the wizard
3637 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3639 - Redesigned playlist
3640 - Improved preferences
3642 - Support for multiple actions
3645 - Support for the new playlist system
3647 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3650 * Screensaver disabling fix
3651 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3652 * Support for no-decoration windows
3655 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3656 * The OpenGL video output is back
3657 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3658 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3659 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3660 is not yet available in the new module
3661 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3664 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3673 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3676 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3679 The following languages were added:
3685 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3686 --------------------------------
3689 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3690 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3693 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3694 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3695 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3698 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3701 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3704 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3707 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3708 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3709 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3713 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3715 * Support of playlist group announcement
3718 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3719 --------------------------------
3722 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3723 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3724 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3725 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3726 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3727 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3730 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3731 (Stream your desktop)
3732 * Improved DVD support:
3733 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3734 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3735 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3736 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3737 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3738 (selection of titles/chapters).
3741 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3742 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3743 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3744 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3745 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3746 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3747 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3748 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3749 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3750 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3753 * G.726 audio support
3754 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3755 * MPEG-4 text support
3756 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3757 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3758 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3762 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3763 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3764 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3765 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3766 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3767 * DVB subtitles encoder
3768 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3769 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3771 * Text track muxing for mp4
3772 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3773 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3774 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3775 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3776 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3777 * Improved ASF muxer
3779 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3780 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3781 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3784 * New audio equalizer filter
3785 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3786 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3787 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3788 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3791 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3792 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3793 with support for effects.
3794 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3795 - New filters can be streamed.
3796 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3797 - Centralized scaling and blending
3799 - "time", to display current time
3800 - "marq", to display a marquee
3803 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3804 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3805 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3806 * A few skins2 improvements
3807 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3808 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3809 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3810 * Improved CORBA control module
3813 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3814 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3815 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3818 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3819 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3820 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3823 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3824 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3825 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3826 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3827 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3830 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3833 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3834 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3837 * Server/client network synchronization module
3838 * VBrick streams fully supported
3839 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3843 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3844 --------------------------------
3847 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3848 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3849 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3850 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3853 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3854 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3855 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3856 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3857 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3858 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3859 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3862 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3863 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3864 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3865 * Improved directory access module.
3866 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3867 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3868 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3869 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3870 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3873 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3874 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3875 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3878 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3879 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3880 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3883 * Improved session announcement system.
3884 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3885 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3886 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3887 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3888 * Improved transrater.
3889 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3890 * New configuration system.
3891 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3894 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3895 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3896 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3897 * Supports scheduling.
3898 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3899 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3902 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3903 - Ability to embed video output.
3904 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3905 - Lots of improvements.
3906 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3907 - New design and set of icons.
3908 - Ability to embed video output.
3909 - Support for hotkeys.
3910 - Support for bookmarks.
3912 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3913 - Better hotkeys handling.
3916 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3917 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3918 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3919 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3922 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3923 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3924 * Improved Windows installer.
3930 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3931 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3934 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3935 ---------------------------------
3938 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3939 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3942 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3943 --------------------------------
3946 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3947 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3950 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3951 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3952 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3953 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3956 * Internal improvments
3957 * Improved import/export
3960 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3962 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3963 small and strange formats.
3965 * New MOD audio demux.
3966 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3967 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3968 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3969 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3972 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3973 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3974 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3980 * New opengl video output plugin.
3983 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3984 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3987 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3988 --------------------------------
3991 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3992 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3993 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3994 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3995 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3996 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3997 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3998 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4001 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4006 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4007 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4008 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4009 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4010 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4011 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4012 * Better Icecast support.
4013 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4014 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4017 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4018 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4019 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4020 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4021 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4022 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4023 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4026 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4027 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4028 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4029 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4030 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4031 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4032 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4033 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4034 * Preliminary RTP support.
4035 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4040 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4041 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4043 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4044 - Improvements and help in preferences
4045 - New streaming wizard
4046 - Revised Disc Open menu
4048 - Improvements of the standard pages
4049 - Support for new commands
4050 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4053 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4054 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4057 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4058 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4059 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4060 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4061 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4062 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4063 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4064 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4065 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4068 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4070 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4071 * Support for Panther.
4072 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4073 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4076 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4077 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4078 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4079 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4080 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4081 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4082 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4083 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4086 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4087 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4088 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4091 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4094 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4095 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4096 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4097 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4100 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4101 --------------------------------
4104 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4107 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4108 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4111 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4112 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4115 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4118 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4119 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4122 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4125 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4128 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4129 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4133 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4134 --------------------------------
4137 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4138 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4142 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4143 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4144 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4146 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4147 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4150 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4153 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4156 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4157 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4161 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4162 --------------------------------
4165 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4166 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4170 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4171 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4172 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4173 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4174 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4177 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4178 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4179 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4182 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4183 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4184 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4187 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4188 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4189 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4190 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4191 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4194 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4195 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4196 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4199 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4202 * Improved build system.
4203 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4204 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4205 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4206 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4209 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4210 --------------------------------
4213 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4216 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4217 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4218 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4219 * Video 4 Linux support
4220 * CD Digital Audio support
4221 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4224 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4225 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4226 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4227 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4230 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4231 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4232 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4233 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4234 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4235 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4236 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4239 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4240 * New HTTP remote control interface
4243 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4244 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4245 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4246 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4247 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4250 * New reset option for the preferences
4251 * You can set your language in the prefences
4252 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4253 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4254 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4255 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4258 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4259 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4260 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4263 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4264 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4265 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4266 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4267 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4268 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4269 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4270 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4271 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4272 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4275 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4276 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4277 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4278 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4279 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4280 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4281 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4284 * Interface localization
4285 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4286 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4287 * New full-featured Preferences window
4290 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4291 --------------------------------
4294 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4295 * support for skins at the interface level
4296 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4297 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4298 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4299 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4300 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4303 * fixed HTTP redirects
4304 * support for opening an entire directory
4305 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4306 * new video4linux access plug-in
4307 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4310 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4311 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4312 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4315 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4316 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4317 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4318 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4319 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4320 * new codec for raw I420 video
4321 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4324 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4325 (although it still misses some important features)
4326 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4329 * new HTTP output support
4330 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4331 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4334 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4337 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4340 * reorderable playlist
4341 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4342 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4343 * support for mono audio output devices
4344 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4345 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4346 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4347 * the messages window remembers more lines
4348 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4349 * http and ogg stream output options
4350 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4353 * new skinnable interface
4354 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4356 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4357 * support for FLAC audio format
4358 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4360 * network tab in the interface
4361 * "apply" handling in preferences
4364 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4365 ---------------------------------
4368 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4369 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4370 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4371 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4373 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4374 * DTS S/PDIF support
4377 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4378 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4379 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4380 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4383 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4384 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4387 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4390 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4393 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4395 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4396 * rc interface is now fully useable
4397 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4400 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4401 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4402 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4403 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4404 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4406 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4407 * support for mouse gestures
4408 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4411 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4412 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4415 * improved ID3 tag detection
4416 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4417 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4418 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4420 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4423 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4424 ---------------------------------
4427 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4428 English was set as the preferred language
4431 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4432 --------------------------------
4435 * new mouse gesture interface
4436 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4440 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4441 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4442 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4445 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4446 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4450 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4453 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4454 without the user consent
4457 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4459 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4460 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4461 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4464 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4465 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4466 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4467 * playlist enhancements
4468 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4469 * new step forward/step backward commands
4470 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4471 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4472 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4475 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4476 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4477 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4480 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4481 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4484 * native video output is working again
4485 * only commandline interface support
4486 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4489 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4490 --------------------------------
4493 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4494 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4495 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4496 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4497 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4498 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4499 and A/52 streams are supported)
4500 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4505 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4506 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4507 * VCD entry points support
4508 * VCD image file support
4511 * support for *.asf format
4512 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4513 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4514 * support for ogg encapsulation
4515 * support for raw DV format
4516 * support for *.wav format
4517 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4520 Stream discovery & playlists:
4521 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4522 * support for .m3u file format
4523 * support for .asx file format
4524 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4527 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4528 (only available with the .avi demux)
4529 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4530 * support for raw PCM data
4531 * support for Cinepak video codec
4532 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4533 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4534 * support for Xvid codec
4535 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4536 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4537 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4539 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4541 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4544 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4547 * new WxWindows interface
4548 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4549 device and the channels configuration
4550 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4551 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4552 format that VLC can play
4553 * new swedish translation
4554 * enhancements of the playlist window
4555 * new messages window to see debug info
4556 * fixed a few crashes
4559 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4560 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4561 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4562 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working