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 in URL, and key authentication
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.
45 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
48 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
49 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
50 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
51 * Support for Daala video
52 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
53 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
54 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
55 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
56 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
57 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
58 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
59 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
60 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
61 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
62 * Basic TTML subtitles support
63 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
64 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
65 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
66 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
67 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
69 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
72 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
73 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
74 * Support Daala in Ogg
75 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
76 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
77 * Support SBV subtitles
78 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
79 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
80 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
81 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
82 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
83 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
84 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
85 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
86 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
87 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
88 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
89 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
90 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
91 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
92 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
93 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
96 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
97 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
98 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
99 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
102 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
103 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
104 * Added Tizen audio module.
106 Audio filters and output:
107 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
110 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
111 * Wayland shell surface window provider
112 * Wayland shared memory video output
113 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
114 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
115 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
116 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
117 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
118 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
119 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
122 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
125 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
126 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
127 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
128 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
131 * Chromecast output module
132 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
135 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
136 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
139 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
140 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
141 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
145 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
146 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
147 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
148 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
151 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
152 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
153 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
154 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
155 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
158 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
161 * Batch convert support
164 * Support key accelerators
167 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
168 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
169 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
170 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
171 This allows to attach media events between create and start
172 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
173 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
174 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
175 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
176 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
177 identifier (if there is one available)
178 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
179 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
180 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
181 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
182 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
183 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
184 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
185 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
186 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
187 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
188 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
189 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
190 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
193 * Support for the SystemD Journal
194 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
195 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
196 * New Android module for logging
199 * remove langfromtelx
200 * remove ZPL playlist format
201 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
202 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
203 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
204 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
205 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
206 * Add a memory keystore
207 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
208 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
212 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
213 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
214 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
215 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
216 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
217 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
218 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
219 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
220 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
221 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
224 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
225 --------------------------------
228 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
229 * Fix some VP9 decoding
231 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
232 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
233 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
234 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
239 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
240 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
241 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
242 * Revert to older ASX code
243 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
246 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
247 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
248 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
251 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
252 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
253 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
256 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
257 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
258 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
261 * Fix recent items behaviour
262 * Fix rotation filter activation
263 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
266 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
267 * Fix extensions registration during install
268 * Fix extensions dialog crash
269 * Default to no DxVA decoding
272 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
275 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
276 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
277 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
278 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
279 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
280 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
283 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
284 --------------------------------
287 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
288 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
291 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
292 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
293 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
294 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
297 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
298 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
299 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
300 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
302 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
303 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
304 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
307 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
308 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
309 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
310 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
311 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
312 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
313 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
314 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
315 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
316 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
317 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
318 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
319 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
320 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
321 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
322 * New jpeg image decoder
323 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
324 * New SVG image decoder
325 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
326 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
327 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
330 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
331 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
332 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
333 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
334 * New png image encoder using libpng
337 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
338 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
339 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
340 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
341 synchronization and tracks exclusion
342 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
343 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
344 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
345 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
346 * Support Opus in MKV
348 * Basic support for WebVTT
349 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
350 * Support HDPR TS files
351 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
352 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
353 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
354 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
355 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
356 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
357 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
358 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
359 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
360 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
361 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
362 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
365 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
366 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
367 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
368 * New Android native window provider module
369 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
370 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
371 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
374 * New Oldmovie effect filter
375 * New VHS effect filter
376 * New Freeze effect filter
377 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
378 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
379 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
382 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
383 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
384 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
385 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
386 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
387 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
390 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
391 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
393 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
396 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
397 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
398 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
399 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
400 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
401 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
402 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
403 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
404 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
406 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
407 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
408 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
411 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
412 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
415 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
416 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
419 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
420 * Add record button in Qt menus
421 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
422 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
423 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
426 * Support for OS X Yosemite
427 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
428 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
429 * Fixes for advanced preferences
430 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
431 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
432 * Option to increase playlist font size
433 * Improved crash log reporting
436 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
437 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
438 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
439 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
442 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
445 * iOS video output: use ios2
446 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
447 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
450 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
451 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
452 * Update of all translations:
453 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
454 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
455 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
456 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
457 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
458 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
459 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
462 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
463 --------------------------------
469 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
470 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
471 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
472 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
473 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
474 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
475 * Fix potential crash in zip access
476 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
477 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
480 * Update translations and greek encoding
483 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
484 --------------------------------
487 * Fix compilation on OS/2
490 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
492 Mac OS X audio output:
493 * Fix channel ordering
494 * Increase the buffersize
497 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
498 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
499 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
502 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
505 * Correctly support video-on-top
506 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
507 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
510 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
513 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
514 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
517 * Update British English
520 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
521 --------------------------------
524 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
527 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
530 * Fix DVD playback regression
531 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
532 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
535 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
536 --------------------------------
539 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
540 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
543 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
544 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
545 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
548 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
549 by updating codec libraries
550 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
551 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
552 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
555 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
556 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
557 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
558 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
561 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
562 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
565 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
566 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
567 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
568 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
569 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
572 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
573 * Fix record file names
576 * Fix minimal size possible on start
577 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
578 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
579 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
580 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
583 * Fix album art display on Windows
586 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
587 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
588 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
589 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
590 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
591 and Simplified Chinese translations
592 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
595 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
596 --------------------------------
599 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
600 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
601 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
602 audio devices on OS X
603 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
604 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
607 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
608 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
611 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
612 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
615 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
618 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
619 * Improve A-B loop control
620 * Fix album art update when changing media
623 * Add a language option in the interface
624 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
625 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
626 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
627 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
628 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
629 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
630 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
633 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
636 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
637 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
638 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
639 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
642 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
643 --------------------------------
646 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
648 * Fix some subtitles track selection
651 * VP9 support in WebM
652 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
653 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
656 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
657 * Support Speex in ogg files
658 * Fix some .mov playlists support
659 * Support Alac in mkv
660 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
661 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
664 * Fix DVB options parsing
665 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
666 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
669 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
670 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
673 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
674 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
677 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
678 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
679 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
680 * Fix play after drag'n drop
681 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
684 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
685 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
688 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
689 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
692 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
693 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
694 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
695 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
696 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
697 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
698 * Improves interface resizings
701 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
702 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
703 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
704 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
705 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
709 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
710 --------------------------------
713 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
714 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
715 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
716 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
717 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
719 3rd party libraries (contrib):
720 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
723 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
724 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
725 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
726 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
727 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
730 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
731 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
735 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
736 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
737 * Support for Ulead DV audio
738 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
739 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
740 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
741 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
742 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
743 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
744 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
745 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
746 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
747 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
750 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
751 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
752 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
755 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
756 remove support for previous OS X releases
757 * Major improvements in DASH support
758 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
759 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
760 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
761 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
762 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
763 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
764 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
765 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
766 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
767 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
768 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
771 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
772 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
773 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
774 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
775 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
776 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
777 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
778 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
779 * Support for more MJPEG streams
780 * Add support for liveleak streams
781 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
782 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
783 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
786 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
787 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
788 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
789 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
790 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
791 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
792 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
793 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
794 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
795 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
796 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
799 * New remapping channel filter
800 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
801 * New VSXu visualization plugin
802 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
803 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
804 * New gain audio filter
807 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
808 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
809 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
810 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
811 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
812 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
813 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
814 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
815 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
818 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
819 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
820 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
821 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
822 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
823 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
824 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
827 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
828 * Options support for AVIO output module
829 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
830 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
831 * Livehttp stream encryption support
832 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
833 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
836 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
839 * configurable password for the HTTP server
840 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
841 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
842 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
843 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
844 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
845 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
846 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
850 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
853 * Add support for multiple video outputs
854 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
856 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
857 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
858 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
859 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
860 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
861 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
862 VLC's internal volume level
863 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
865 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
866 selection and to manage the list of presets
867 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
868 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
869 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
870 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
871 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
872 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
873 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
874 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
875 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
876 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
878 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
879 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
880 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
881 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
882 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
883 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
884 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
885 3rd party applications
886 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
887 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
888 (system-wide settings)
889 * Add support for the Video Title option
890 * Add support for the Boss Key
891 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
892 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
895 * Partial support for Qt5.0
896 * Menus modifications and improvements
897 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
898 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
899 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
900 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
901 * EPG display fixes and improvements
902 * Add SD pixmap sources
903 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
904 * Display playlist total duration
905 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
906 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
907 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
912 * Extend sliders, offsets options
913 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
914 * Numerous fixes and improvements
915 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
918 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
919 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
920 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
921 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
922 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
923 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
924 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
925 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
926 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
927 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
930 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
931 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
932 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
933 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
934 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
935 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
937 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
938 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
939 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
940 * Broken crop video filter
942 * OSD parser and menu
943 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
944 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
945 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
946 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
950 * Update of all translations
953 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
954 --------------------------------
957 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
958 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
961 * Fix modplug security issues
964 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
965 --------------------------------
969 * Fix crash in QTsound
970 * Fix screen mouse file location
971 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
974 * Fix use after free in sgimb
975 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
978 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
981 * Fix interface crashes
982 * Fix autostart playback option
983 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
986 * update Welsh translation
987 * New Kannada translation
990 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
991 --------------------------------
994 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
995 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
999 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1002 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1005 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1008 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1011 * Minor improvements
1012 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1015 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1018 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1019 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1020 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1023 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1030 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1033 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1034 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1035 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1036 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1037 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1038 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1041 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1042 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1043 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1044 * 3rd party codecs updates
1047 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1048 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1049 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1050 in the advanced preferences panel
1051 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1052 * Fix crash within the video output code
1053 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1054 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1055 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1056 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1057 lua extensions, ...)
1058 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1061 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1064 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1065 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1068 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1071 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1072 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1073 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1074 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1075 Dutch, Danish, translations
1076 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1079 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1080 --------------------------------
1083 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1086 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1087 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1088 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1091 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1092 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1093 * Fix koreus lua parser
1094 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1095 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1096 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1097 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1100 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1101 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1104 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1107 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1108 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1109 * Fix Time counter UI look
1110 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1113 * Fix https streaming
1116 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1117 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1118 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1121 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1122 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1123 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1124 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1125 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1128 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1133 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1134 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1135 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1136 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1137 during playback on Mac OS X
1140 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1141 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1142 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1145 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1146 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1147 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1148 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1149 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1152 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1153 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1154 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1155 * Support Youtube live streams
1158 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1161 * Fix media info dialog update
1162 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1163 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1164 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1165 * Fix album art display at start
1168 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1169 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1170 * Fix menus display and behavior
1171 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1172 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1173 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1174 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1175 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1176 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1177 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1180 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1181 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1182 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1183 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1184 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1185 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1186 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1187 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1188 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1191 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1192 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1193 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1194 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1195 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1198 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1199 --------------------------------
1202 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1205 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1206 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1209 * Add GateKeeper support
1210 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1211 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1212 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1215 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1218 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1219 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1220 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1221 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1222 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1225 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1226 --------------------------------
1229 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1230 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1231 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1232 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1233 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1234 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1235 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1236 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1237 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1238 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1239 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1243 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1244 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1245 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1246 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1247 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1248 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1249 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1250 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1251 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1252 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1253 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1254 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1257 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1258 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1260 * Fix MP3 free format support
1263 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1264 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1265 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1266 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1267 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1270 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1271 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1273 Audio filters and output:
1274 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1275 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1276 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1277 * Do not apply volume in file output
1278 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1279 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1282 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1283 the persistant media library
1284 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1285 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1286 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1287 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1288 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1289 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1290 press on the Play/Pause button
1291 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1292 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1293 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1294 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1295 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1296 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1297 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1298 Synchronization panel
1299 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1300 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1301 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1302 * Fix crashes on exit
1303 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1305 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1306 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1307 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1308 automatically reset on the first launch.
1309 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1310 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1311 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1314 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1315 * Fixes for icecast SD
1318 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1319 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1320 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1321 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1322 * Fix tags and file names display
1323 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1326 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1327 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1330 * Fix display of some buttons
1331 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1332 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1335 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1336 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1337 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1340 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1341 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1342 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1343 Thai translations update
1344 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1347 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1348 --------------------------------
1351 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1352 * fix the samba module compilation
1353 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1354 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1355 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1356 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1359 * Support for MXPEG files
1360 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1361 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1364 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1365 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1366 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1369 * Fix ogm header creation
1372 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1373 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1376 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1377 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1378 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1379 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1382 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1385 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1386 * allow to hide the sidebar
1387 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1388 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1389 * noticebly faster launch time
1390 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1391 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1392 * improve track synchronization panel
1393 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1394 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1397 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1398 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1399 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1400 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1403 * fix for menus display
1404 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1405 * documentation update
1408 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1409 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1412 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1413 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1414 * Update Jamendo selections
1418 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1419 * fix a crash on VLM close
1422 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1423 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1424 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1425 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1428 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1431 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1432 ---------------------------------
1435 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1436 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1437 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1438 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1439 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1440 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1441 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1442 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1443 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1444 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1445 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1446 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1447 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1448 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1449 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1450 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1451 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1452 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1453 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1454 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1455 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1456 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1457 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1458 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1459 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1460 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1462 Important changes for packagers:
1463 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1464 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1465 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1466 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1467 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1468 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1469 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1470 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1471 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1472 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1475 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1476 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1477 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1478 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1479 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1480 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1481 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1484 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1485 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1486 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1487 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1488 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1489 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1490 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1491 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1492 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1493 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1494 * PulseAudio audio input support
1495 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1496 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1497 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1498 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1499 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1500 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1501 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1502 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1505 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1506 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1507 are notably concerned.
1508 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1509 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1510 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1511 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1512 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1513 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1514 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1515 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1516 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1517 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1518 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1519 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1520 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1521 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1522 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1525 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1526 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1527 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1528 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1529 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1530 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1531 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1532 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1533 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1534 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1535 * Improved support of tracker files
1536 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1539 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1540 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1541 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1542 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1543 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1544 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1545 and important cleanups and optimisations
1546 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1547 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1548 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1549 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1550 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1551 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1552 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1553 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1554 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1555 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1556 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1557 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1558 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1559 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1560 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1561 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1562 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1563 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1564 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1565 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1566 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1569 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1570 * New video output for iOS platform
1571 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1572 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1573 * Various vmem improvements
1574 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1575 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1576 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1577 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1578 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1579 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1581 Audio Output and Filters:
1582 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1583 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1584 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1585 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1586 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1587 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1588 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1589 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1590 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1591 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1594 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1595 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1596 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1597 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1598 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1599 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1600 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1601 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1602 * New anti-flickering filter
1603 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1604 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1605 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1606 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1607 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1608 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1609 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1612 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1613 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1614 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1615 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1616 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1617 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1618 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1619 * Major rework of VoD support
1620 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1621 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1622 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1623 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1624 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1625 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1626 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1627 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1628 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1629 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1632 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1633 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1636 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1637 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1638 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1639 list of available audio and video filters
1640 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1641 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1642 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1645 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1646 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1647 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1648 * id3tag: use taglib
1649 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1650 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1651 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1652 * removal of the noise filter
1653 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1654 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1655 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1656 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1659 * Update of translations for most languages.
1660 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1663 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1664 ----------------------------------
1667 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1668 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1671 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1672 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1675 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1676 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1677 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1680 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1683 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1684 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1687 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1690 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1691 ----------------------------------
1694 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1695 including support for OS X Lion
1696 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1697 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1700 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1703 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1704 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1705 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1708 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1711 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1712 ----------------------------------
1715 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1716 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1719 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1720 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1721 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1722 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1723 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1725 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1726 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1727 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1729 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1730 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1733 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1736 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1739 * Fix quitting on Linux
1740 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1744 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1747 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1750 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1751 ---------------------------------
1753 Windows and Mac OS X:
1754 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1757 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1758 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1761 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1764 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1767 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1769 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1770 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1772 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1773 * RTP output and XML export
1774 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1778 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1779 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1780 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1781 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1784 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1785 --------------------------------
1787 Windows and Mac OS X:
1788 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1791 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1794 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1795 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1796 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1797 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1798 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1799 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1802 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1803 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1807 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1808 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1809 * New Luganda Translation
1812 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1813 --------------------------------
1816 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1819 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1820 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1821 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1822 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1825 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1827 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1828 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1829 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1830 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1831 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1832 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1833 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1834 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1836 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1837 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1838 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1839 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1840 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1841 * Configure and build system improvements
1842 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1845 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1846 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1847 * New icelandic translation
1850 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1851 --------------------------------
1854 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1855 #234484 and #260719.
1858 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1859 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1860 and stability reasons
1863 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1867 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1870 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1871 ----------------------------------
1874 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1877 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1878 ---------------------------------
1881 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1882 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1883 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1884 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1887 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1890 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1891 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1892 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1893 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1896 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1897 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1898 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1900 Subtitles and renderer:
1901 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1902 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1903 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1904 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1905 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1908 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1909 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1910 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1911 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1914 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1915 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1917 Miscellaneous fixes:
1918 * KDE device solid actions
1920 * Transcode integer overflow
1921 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1922 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1925 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1926 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1927 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1930 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1931 ----------------------------------
1934 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1938 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1941 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1944 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1945 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1946 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1947 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1950 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1954 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1957 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1960 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1961 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1963 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1967 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1968 * Miscellaneous fixes
1971 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1972 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1973 French and Ukrainian
1974 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1975 * New Asturian translation
1978 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1979 ----------------------------------
1982 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1984 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1987 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1990 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1991 * Various fixes for Windows
1994 * New Armenian translation
1995 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1996 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1999 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2000 --------------------------------
2003 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2004 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2005 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2008 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2009 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2012 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2013 --------------------------------
2015 Access and demuxers:
2016 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2017 * fix for podcasts parsing
2018 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2021 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2022 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2025 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2026 * fix m3u playlists exports
2029 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2032 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2035 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2038 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2041 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2044 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2045 --------------------------------
2048 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2049 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2052 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2053 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2056 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2057 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2058 * fix console output encoding
2060 Interface and extensions:
2061 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2062 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2065 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2066 --------------------------------
2069 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2070 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2071 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2072 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2073 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2074 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2075 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2076 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2077 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2078 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2079 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2080 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2081 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2082 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2083 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2084 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2088 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2089 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2090 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2091 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2092 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2095 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2098 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2099 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2100 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2104 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2107 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2108 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2109 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2112 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2113 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2114 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2115 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2118 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2119 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2122 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2123 --------------------------------
2125 Important changes for users:
2126 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2127 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2129 Important changes for packagers:
2130 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2131 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2132 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2133 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2134 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2136 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2138 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2139 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2140 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2141 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2142 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2145 * Support for the sftp protocol
2146 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2147 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2148 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2149 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2150 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2153 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2154 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2155 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2157 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2158 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2159 * Invmem module improvements
2160 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2161 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2162 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2163 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2164 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2165 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2166 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2167 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2168 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2169 * Support for VP8 codec
2170 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2173 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2174 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2175 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2176 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2177 * Various EGP improvements
2178 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2179 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2182 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2183 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2184 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2185 * Podcast images are now displayed
2188 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2189 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2190 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2191 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2192 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2193 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2194 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2195 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2196 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2197 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2198 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2201 * New content extensions lua framework
2204 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2205 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2206 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2207 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2208 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2209 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2210 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2213 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2214 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2215 * Service discovery based on libudev
2216 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2219 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2220 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2221 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2222 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2223 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2224 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2225 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2228 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2229 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2230 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2233 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2235 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2236 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2239 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2242 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2243 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2244 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2245 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2246 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2247 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2248 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2251 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2252 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2255 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2256 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2257 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2261 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2262 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2263 * Improved Solaris port
2266 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2267 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2270 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2271 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2272 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2273 * transrate: broken since too long
2274 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2275 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2276 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2277 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2278 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2279 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2280 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2281 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2282 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2283 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2284 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2285 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2286 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2287 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2290 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2291 --------------------------------
2294 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2296 Decoders/Packetizers:
2297 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2300 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2301 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2302 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2303 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2304 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2307 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2308 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2311 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2312 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2315 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2316 and Walloon translations updated
2317 * Sinhala translation started
2320 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2321 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2324 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2329 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2332 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2335 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2336 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2339 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2340 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2341 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2342 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2345 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2346 --------------------------------
2349 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2350 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2353 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2354 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2357 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2358 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2361 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2364 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2365 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2368 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2369 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2372 * New Walloon translation
2373 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2376 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2381 regressions in most popular drivers
2382 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2385 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2386 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2387 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2390 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2391 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2394 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2395 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2396 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2397 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2398 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2401 * New udev module for linux
2404 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2407 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2410 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2411 --------------------------------
2414 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2415 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2416 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2419 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2420 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2423 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2424 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2427 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2430 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2431 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2432 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2433 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2436 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2437 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2438 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2439 - no support for Goom and SDL
2440 - limited text rendering support
2441 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2444 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2445 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2446 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2447 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2448 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2449 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2450 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2451 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2452 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2456 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2459 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2462 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2463 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2464 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2465 Arabic and French translation updates
2468 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2469 --------------------------------
2472 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2473 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2474 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2475 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2476 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2477 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2480 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2481 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2482 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2485 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2486 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2487 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2490 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2493 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2494 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2497 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2498 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2499 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2500 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2501 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2502 * Fix various crashes
2505 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2507 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2511 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2512 ---------------------------------
2516 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2517 See 'Access:' for more info.
2518 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2521 * Instantaneous pausing
2522 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2523 * Finer speed control
2524 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2525 * Timeshift for most medias
2526 * RTSP trickplay support
2527 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2530 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2531 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2532 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2533 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2534 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2535 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2536 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2537 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2538 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2539 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2542 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2543 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2544 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2545 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2546 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2547 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2548 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2551 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2552 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2555 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2556 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2557 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2558 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2559 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2560 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2561 * DVB scanning on linux
2562 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2563 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2564 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2565 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2566 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2567 * MTP device access on Unix
2568 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2569 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2572 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2573 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2574 Windows and Mac OS X.
2577 * Export the playlist in HTML
2578 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2579 * Better metadata handling and reading
2581 Linux/Windows interface:
2582 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2583 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2584 * Recently played items list
2585 * Interface toolbar customizations
2586 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2587 - More menus actions
2588 - Finer speed slider
2589 - Improvements on many dialogs
2590 - New dialog for plugins listing
2591 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2592 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2593 * Better integration in GTK environments
2596 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2597 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2598 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2599 * Additional usability improvements
2602 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2603 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2604 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2605 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2606 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2609 * New Maemo port with:
2610 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2611 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2614 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2617 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2618 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2619 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2620 * Support for latest iSight models
2623 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2624 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2627 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2628 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2629 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2630 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2631 The old image video output has been removed.
2632 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2633 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2636 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2644 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2645 --------------------------------------
2651 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2652 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2653 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2654 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2655 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2656 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2657 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2659 Various fixes to the following modules:
2662 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2663 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2664 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2666 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2671 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2672 ---------------------------------
2675 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2676 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2679 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2680 ---------------------------------
2683 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2686 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2689 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2690 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2691 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2692 main controller window.
2693 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2696 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2701 * Updates of other localizations
2704 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2705 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2706 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2707 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2708 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2711 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2712 ---------------------------------
2715 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2717 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2720 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2721 --------------------------------
2726 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2727 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2730 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2731 --------------------------------
2733 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2734 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2737 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2740 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2741 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2744 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2745 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2748 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2749 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2750 * Various fixed in playlist
2753 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2756 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2759 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2760 ------------------------------------
2762 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2763 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2766 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2767 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2768 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2771 * Stability fix for the video output.
2774 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2775 --------------------------------
2778 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2779 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2780 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2781 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2782 * Fixed update system bugs
2783 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2786 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2787 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2788 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2789 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2790 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2791 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2792 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2793 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2794 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2795 modern Mac OS X versions
2798 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2799 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2801 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2802 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2805 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2806 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2807 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2808 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2809 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2810 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2813 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2814 --------------------------------
2816 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2817 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2818 * Multiple bugfixes.
2821 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2822 --------------------------------
2824 * Multiple bug fixes.
2827 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2828 ---------------------------------
2832 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2833 recent to work correctly
2834 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2835 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2836 edit the ".hosts" file.
2837 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2838 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2839 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2840 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2841 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2842 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2843 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2844 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2845 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2846 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2847 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2848 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2849 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2850 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2851 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2852 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2853 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2854 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2855 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2856 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2857 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2858 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2859 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2860 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2861 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2862 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2863 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2864 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2865 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2866 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2867 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2868 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2869 and postproc modules.
2870 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2871 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2872 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2873 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2875 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2876 filter. For example:
2877 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2878 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2880 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2881 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2887 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2889 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2890 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2893 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2894 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2896 * Shoutcast TV listings
2897 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2899 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2900 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2902 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2905 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2906 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2907 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2908 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2909 * JACK audio input support
2910 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2911 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2912 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2913 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2914 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2915 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2916 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2917 (available as a separate download).
2918 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2919 * RTMP input support
2920 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2921 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2922 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2924 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2925 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2928 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2929 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2930 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2931 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2933 * APEv1/2 tags support
2934 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2935 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2937 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2938 * TiVo Series 2 support
2939 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2944 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2945 * Flash Screen Video support
2946 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2947 * DosBox Capture support
2948 * Karl Morton's Video support
2949 * limited atrac3 support
2951 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2952 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2953 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2954 * H.264 PAFF support
2955 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2956 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2957 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2958 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2959 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2962 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2963 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2964 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2965 * AQTitle subtitles support
2966 * MKV USF subtitles support
2967 * HTML-based subtitles support
2968 * MPSub subtitles support
2969 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2970 * MPL2 subtitles support
2971 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2972 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2973 * Realtext subtitle support
2974 * DKS subtitle support
2975 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2976 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2979 * Flash Screen Video support
2980 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2982 Video outputs and filters:
2983 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2984 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2985 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2986 * New puzzle video output filter
2987 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2988 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2990 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2991 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2992 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2993 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2994 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2995 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2996 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2997 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2998 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2999 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3000 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3001 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3002 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3003 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3005 Audio outputs and filters:
3006 * Replay gain support
3007 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3008 new scaletempo audio filter)
3009 * New spatializer audio filter
3010 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3013 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3014 * New RTP payload formats:
3015 * Speex voice audio codec
3016 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3017 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3018 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3019 * DCCP transport for RTP
3020 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3025 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3026 end-user suitable way.
3027 * Improved user interaction
3028 * Improved mouse gestures
3029 * Vastly improved Update checker
3030 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3032 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3033 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3035 * Improved video output features
3036 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3037 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3038 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3039 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3040 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3042 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3043 if libncursesw is available.
3044 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3045 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3046 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3048 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3049 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3050 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3051 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3052 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3053 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3054 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3055 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3058 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3059 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3060 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3063 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3064 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3065 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3066 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3067 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3068 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3071 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3072 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3082 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3083 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3084 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3087 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3088 ----------------------------------
3091 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3094 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3095 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3096 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3097 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3098 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3099 * Updated Polish translation
3102 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3103 ----------------------------------
3106 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3107 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3108 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3111 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3112 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3113 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3114 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3115 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3116 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3117 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3118 to an unexpected application termination
3119 * New Serbian translation
3120 * Updated Romanian translation
3123 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3124 ----------------------------------
3127 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3128 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3129 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3130 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3131 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3132 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3133 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3134 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3137 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3138 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3139 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3140 * Fixed AAC resampling
3141 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3142 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3145 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3146 ----------------------------------
3149 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3150 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3151 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3152 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3153 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3156 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3157 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3158 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3159 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3160 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3163 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3164 ----------------------------------
3167 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3168 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3171 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3172 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3173 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3174 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3176 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3180 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3183 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3186 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3189 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3192 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3193 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3194 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3195 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3196 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3198 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3199 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3200 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3201 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3204 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3207 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3208 ----------------------------------
3211 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3212 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3213 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3215 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3216 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3218 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3219 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3222 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3224 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3225 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3226 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3227 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3228 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3229 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3230 two different movies
3231 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3232 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3233 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3236 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3239 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3240 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3241 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3242 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3245 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3246 ----------------------------------
3248 Various bugfixes, notably:
3249 * Windows Vista compatibility
3250 * Cropping in Direct3D
3251 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3252 * RSS filter string overflow
3254 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3256 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3257 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3260 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3261 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3264 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3267 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3270 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3273 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3274 ----------------------------------
3276 Various bugfixes, notably:
3277 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3278 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3279 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3280 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3281 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3282 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3285 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3286 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3289 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3291 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3292 * Diverse usability improvements
3293 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3294 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3295 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3298 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3299 ---------------------------------
3301 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3302 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3305 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3308 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3309 --------------------------------
3312 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3315 * Support for RTSP authentication
3316 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3317 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3318 * ATSC support for DVB input
3319 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3320 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3321 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3324 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3325 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3326 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3327 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3328 * Matroska WavPack support
3329 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3330 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3331 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3334 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3335 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3336 * Improved libcaca support
3340 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3341 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3343 * Systray support in skins
3345 * Support for Apple Remote control
3346 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3347 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3348 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3349 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3351 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3354 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3355 Windows 9x/ME users:
3356 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3357 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3358 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3359 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3360 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3362 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3363 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3372 * Updates to the libvlc API
3373 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3376 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3377 --------------------------------
3380 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3381 * Support for downloading updates
3385 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3386 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3387 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3388 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3390 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3391 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3392 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3395 * Cook (Real audio) support
3397 Playlist / Services discovery:
3398 * XSPF playlist support
3400 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3403 * New JACK audio output
3406 * New video filters:
3407 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3408 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3409 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3410 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3411 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3412 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3415 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3418 * System to inform the user and request information
3419 - HTTP authentication
3423 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3424 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3425 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3428 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3429 - Improved playlist handling
3430 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3432 - Embedded Video output
3433 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3434 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3435 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3436 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3437 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3439 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3440 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3443 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3446 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3447 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3448 * Growl "Now playing" support
3451 * Ability to log to syslog
3452 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3455 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3457 * A bit more automatic testing
3460 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3461 ---------------------------------
3464 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3465 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3468 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3469 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3472 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3475 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3476 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3482 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3485 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3486 --------------------------------
3489 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3493 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3494 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3495 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3498 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3499 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3500 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3501 * GnomeVFS input module
3502 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3503 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3506 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3507 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3508 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3511 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3512 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3518 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3519 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3522 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3523 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3524 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3527 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3529 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3530 - New extended controls panel
3531 - New bookmarks window
3532 - Fixed playlist sorting
3533 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3535 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3536 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3537 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3538 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3542 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3543 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3545 - Include macro to include other files
3549 * Should now work outside IE as well
3552 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3555 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3556 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3559 The following languages were added:
3563 * Simplified Chinese
3564 The following languages were re-added:
3568 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3569 --------------------------------
3572 * Rewrite of the playlist
3574 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3575 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3576 * Preferences improvements:
3577 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3578 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3580 * Core image manipulation support
3581 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3582 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3583 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3584 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3585 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3586 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3587 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3588 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3589 * Access filter architecture
3590 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3591 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3595 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3596 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3597 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3598 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3599 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3600 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3601 * Massive Matroska improvements
3602 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3604 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3605 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3606 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3607 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3608 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3610 Decoders / Encoders:
3611 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3612 * PNG decoder/encoder
3613 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3614 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3617 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3620 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3621 * Brand new SAP module
3622 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3623 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3624 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3625 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3626 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3627 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3631 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3634 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3635 * Image file video output (png)
3636 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3637 * Improvements to wall video filter
3638 * Support for font color and opacity
3644 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3645 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3646 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3650 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3651 - Improved preferences
3652 - Improvements to the wizard
3653 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3655 - Redesigned playlist
3656 - Improved preferences
3658 - Support for multiple actions
3661 - Support for the new playlist system
3663 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3666 * Screensaver disabling fix
3667 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3668 * Support for no-decoration windows
3671 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3672 * The OpenGL video output is back
3673 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3674 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3675 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3676 is not yet available in the new module
3677 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3680 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3689 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3692 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3695 The following languages were added:
3701 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3702 --------------------------------
3705 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3706 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3709 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3710 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3711 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3714 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3717 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3720 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3723 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3724 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3725 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3729 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3731 * Support of playlist group announcement
3734 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3735 --------------------------------
3738 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3739 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3740 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3741 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3742 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3743 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3746 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3747 (Stream your desktop)
3748 * Improved DVD support:
3749 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3750 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3751 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3752 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3753 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3754 (selection of titles/chapters).
3757 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3758 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3759 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3760 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3761 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3762 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3763 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3764 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3765 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3766 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3769 * G.726 audio support
3770 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3771 * MPEG-4 text support
3772 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3773 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3774 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3778 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3779 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3780 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3781 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3782 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3783 * DVB subtitles encoder
3784 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3785 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3787 * Text track muxing for mp4
3788 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3789 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3790 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3791 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3792 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3793 * Improved ASF muxer
3795 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3796 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3797 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3800 * New audio equalizer filter
3801 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3802 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3803 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3804 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3807 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3808 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3809 with support for effects.
3810 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3811 - New filters can be streamed.
3812 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3813 - Centralized scaling and blending
3815 - "time", to display current time
3816 - "marq", to display a marquee
3819 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3820 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3821 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3822 * A few skins2 improvements
3823 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3824 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3825 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3826 * Improved CORBA control module
3829 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3830 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3831 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3834 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3835 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3836 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3839 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3840 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3841 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3842 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3843 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3846 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3849 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3850 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3853 * Server/client network synchronization module
3854 * VBrick streams fully supported
3855 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3859 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3860 --------------------------------
3863 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3864 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3865 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3866 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3869 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3870 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3871 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3872 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3873 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3874 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3875 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3878 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3879 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3880 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3881 * Improved directory access module.
3882 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3883 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3884 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3885 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3886 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3889 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3890 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3891 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3894 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3895 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3896 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3899 * Improved session announcement system.
3900 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3901 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3902 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3903 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3904 * Improved transrater.
3905 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3906 * New configuration system.
3907 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3910 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3911 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3912 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3913 * Supports scheduling.
3914 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3915 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3918 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3919 - Ability to embed video output.
3920 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3921 - Lots of improvements.
3922 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3923 - New design and set of icons.
3924 - Ability to embed video output.
3925 - Support for hotkeys.
3926 - Support for bookmarks.
3928 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3929 - Better hotkeys handling.
3932 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3933 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3934 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3935 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3938 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3939 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3940 * Improved Windows installer.
3946 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3947 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3950 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3951 ---------------------------------
3954 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3955 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3958 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3959 --------------------------------
3962 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3963 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3966 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3967 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3968 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3969 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3972 * Internal improvments
3973 * Improved import/export
3976 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3978 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3979 small and strange formats.
3981 * New MOD audio demux.
3982 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3983 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3984 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3985 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3988 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3989 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3990 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3996 * New opengl video output plugin.
3999 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4000 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4003 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4004 --------------------------------
4007 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4008 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4009 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4010 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4011 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4012 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4013 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4014 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4017 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4022 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4023 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4024 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4025 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4026 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4027 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4028 * Better Icecast support.
4029 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4030 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4033 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4034 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4035 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4036 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4037 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4038 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4039 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4042 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4043 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4044 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4045 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4046 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4047 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4048 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4049 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4050 * Preliminary RTP support.
4051 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4056 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4057 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4059 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4060 - Improvements and help in preferences
4061 - New streaming wizard
4062 - Revised Disc Open menu
4064 - Improvements of the standard pages
4065 - Support for new commands
4066 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4069 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4070 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4073 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4074 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4075 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4076 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4077 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4078 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4079 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4080 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4081 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4084 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4086 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4087 * Support for Panther.
4088 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4089 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4092 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4093 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4094 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4095 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4096 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4097 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4098 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4099 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4102 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4103 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4104 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4107 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4110 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4111 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4112 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4113 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4116 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4117 --------------------------------
4120 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4123 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4124 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4127 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4128 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4131 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4134 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4135 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4138 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4141 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4144 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4145 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4149 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4150 --------------------------------
4153 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4154 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4158 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4159 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4160 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4162 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4163 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4166 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4169 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4172 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4173 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4177 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4178 --------------------------------
4181 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4182 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4186 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4187 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4188 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4189 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4190 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4193 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4194 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4195 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4198 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4199 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4200 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4203 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4204 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4205 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4206 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4207 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4210 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4211 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4212 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4215 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4218 * Improved build system.
4219 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4220 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4221 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4222 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4225 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4226 --------------------------------
4229 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4232 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4233 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4234 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4235 * Video 4 Linux support
4236 * CD Digital Audio support
4237 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4240 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4241 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4242 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4243 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4246 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4247 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4248 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4249 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4250 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4251 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4252 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4255 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4256 * New HTTP remote control interface
4259 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4260 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4261 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4262 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4263 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4266 * New reset option for the preferences
4267 * You can set your language in the prefences
4268 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4269 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4270 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4271 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4274 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4275 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4276 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4279 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4280 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4281 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4282 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4283 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4284 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4285 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4286 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4287 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4288 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4291 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4292 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4293 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4294 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4295 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4296 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4297 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4300 * Interface localization
4301 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4302 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4303 * New full-featured Preferences window
4306 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4307 --------------------------------
4310 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4311 * support for skins at the interface level
4312 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4313 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4314 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4315 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4316 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4319 * fixed HTTP redirects
4320 * support for opening an entire directory
4321 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4322 * new video4linux access plug-in
4323 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4326 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4327 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4328 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4331 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4332 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4333 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4334 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4335 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4336 * new codec for raw I420 video
4337 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4340 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4341 (although it still misses some important features)
4342 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4345 * new HTTP output support
4346 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4347 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4350 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4353 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4356 * reorderable playlist
4357 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4358 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4359 * support for mono audio output devices
4360 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4361 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4362 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4363 * the messages window remembers more lines
4364 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4365 * http and ogg stream output options
4366 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4369 * new skinnable interface
4370 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4372 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4373 * support for FLAC audio format
4374 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4376 * network tab in the interface
4377 * "apply" handling in preferences
4380 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4381 ---------------------------------
4384 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4385 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4386 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4387 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4389 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4390 * DTS S/PDIF support
4393 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4394 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4395 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4396 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4399 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4400 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4403 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4406 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4409 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4411 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4412 * rc interface is now fully useable
4413 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4416 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4417 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4418 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4419 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4420 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4422 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4423 * support for mouse gestures
4424 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4427 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4428 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4431 * improved ID3 tag detection
4432 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4433 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4434 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4436 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4439 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4440 ---------------------------------
4443 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4444 English was set as the preferred language
4447 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4448 --------------------------------
4451 * new mouse gesture interface
4452 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4456 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4457 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4458 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4461 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4462 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4466 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4469 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4470 without the user consent
4473 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4475 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4476 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4477 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4480 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4481 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4482 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4483 * playlist enhancements
4484 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4485 * new step forward/step backward commands
4486 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4487 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4488 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4491 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4492 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4493 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4496 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4497 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4500 * native video output is working again
4501 * only commandline interface support
4502 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4505 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4506 --------------------------------
4509 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4510 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4511 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4512 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4513 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4514 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4515 and A/52 streams are supported)
4516 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4521 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4522 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4523 * VCD entry points support
4524 * VCD image file support
4527 * support for *.asf format
4528 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4529 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4530 * support for ogg encapsulation
4531 * support for raw DV format
4532 * support for *.wav format
4533 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4536 Stream discovery & playlists:
4537 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4538 * support for .m3u file format
4539 * support for .asx file format
4540 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4543 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4544 (only available with the .avi demux)
4545 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4546 * support for raw PCM data
4547 * support for Cinepak video codec
4548 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4549 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4550 * support for Xvid codec
4551 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4552 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4553 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4555 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4557 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4560 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4563 * new WxWindows interface
4564 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4565 device and the channels configuration
4566 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4567 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4568 format that VLC can play
4569 * new swedish translation
4570 * enhancements of the playlist window
4571 * new messages window to see debug info
4572 * fixed a few crashes
4575 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4576 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4577 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4578 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working