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
70 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
73 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
74 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
75 * Support Daala in Ogg
76 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
77 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
78 * Support SBV subtitles
79 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
80 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
81 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
82 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
83 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
84 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
85 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
86 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
87 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
88 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
89 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
90 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
91 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
92 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
93 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
94 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
95 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track In MP4 with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads.
98 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
99 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
100 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
101 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
104 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
105 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
106 * Added Tizen audio module.
107 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI
109 Audio filters and output:
110 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
113 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
114 * Wayland shell surface window provider
115 * Wayland shared memory video output
116 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
117 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
118 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
119 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
120 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
121 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
122 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
125 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
128 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
129 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
130 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
131 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
134 * Chromecast output module
135 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
138 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
139 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
142 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
143 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
144 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
148 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
149 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
150 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
151 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
154 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
155 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
156 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
157 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
158 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
161 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
164 * Batch convert support
167 * Support key accelerators
170 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
171 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
172 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
173 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
174 This allows to attach media events between create and start
175 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
176 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
177 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
178 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
179 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
180 identifier (if there is one available)
181 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
182 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
183 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
184 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
185 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
186 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
187 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
188 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
189 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
190 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
191 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
192 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
193 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
196 * Support for the SystemD Journal
197 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
198 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
199 * New Android module for logging
202 * remove langfromtelx
203 * remove ZPL playlist format
204 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
205 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
206 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
207 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
208 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
209 * Add a memory keystore
210 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
211 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
215 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
216 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
217 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
218 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
219 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
220 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
221 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
222 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
223 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
224 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
225 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
228 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
229 --------------------------------
232 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
233 * Fix some VP9 decoding
235 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
236 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
237 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
238 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
243 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
244 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
245 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
246 * Revert to older ASX code
247 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
250 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
251 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
252 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
255 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
256 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
257 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
260 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
261 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
262 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
265 * Fix recent items behaviour
266 * Fix rotation filter activation
267 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
270 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
271 * Fix extensions registration during install
272 * Fix extensions dialog crash
273 * Default to no DxVA decoding
276 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
279 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
280 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
281 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
282 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
283 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
284 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
287 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
288 --------------------------------
291 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
292 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
295 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
296 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
297 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
298 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
301 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
302 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
303 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
304 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
306 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
307 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
308 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
311 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
312 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
313 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
314 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
315 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
316 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
317 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
318 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
319 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
320 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
321 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
322 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
323 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
324 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
325 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
326 * New jpeg image decoder
327 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
328 * New SVG image decoder
329 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
330 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
331 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
334 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
335 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
336 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
337 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
338 * New png image encoder using libpng
341 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
342 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
343 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
344 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
345 synchronization and tracks exclusion
346 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
347 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
348 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
349 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
350 * Support Opus in MKV
352 * Basic support for WebVTT
353 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
354 * Support HDPR TS files
355 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
356 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
357 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
358 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
359 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
360 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
361 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
362 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
363 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
364 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
365 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
366 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
369 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
370 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
371 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
372 * New Android native window provider module
373 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
374 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
375 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
378 * New Oldmovie effect filter
379 * New VHS effect filter
380 * New Freeze effect filter
381 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
382 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
383 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
386 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
387 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
388 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
389 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
390 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
391 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
394 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
395 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
397 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
400 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
401 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
402 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
403 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
404 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
405 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
406 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
407 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
408 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
410 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
411 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
412 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
415 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
416 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
419 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
420 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
423 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
424 * Add record button in Qt menus
425 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
426 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
427 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
430 * Support for OS X Yosemite
431 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
432 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
433 * Fixes for advanced preferences
434 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
435 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
436 * Option to increase playlist font size
437 * Improved crash log reporting
440 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
441 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
442 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
443 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
446 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
449 * iOS video output: use ios2
450 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
451 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
454 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
455 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
456 * Update of all translations:
457 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
458 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
459 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
460 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
461 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
462 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
463 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
466 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
467 --------------------------------
473 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
474 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
475 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
476 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
477 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
478 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
479 * Fix potential crash in zip access
480 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
481 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
484 * Update translations and greek encoding
487 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
488 --------------------------------
491 * Fix compilation on OS/2
494 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
496 Mac OS X audio output:
497 * Fix channel ordering
498 * Increase the buffersize
501 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
502 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
503 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
506 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
509 * Correctly support video-on-top
510 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
511 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
514 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
517 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
518 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
521 * Update British English
524 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
525 --------------------------------
528 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
531 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
534 * Fix DVD playback regression
535 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
536 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
539 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
540 --------------------------------
543 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
544 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
547 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
548 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
549 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
552 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
553 by updating codec libraries
554 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
555 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
556 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
559 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
560 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
561 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
562 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
565 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
566 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
569 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
570 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
571 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
572 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
573 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
576 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
577 * Fix record file names
580 * Fix minimal size possible on start
581 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
582 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
583 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
584 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
587 * Fix album art display on Windows
590 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
591 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
592 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
593 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
594 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
595 and Simplified Chinese translations
596 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
599 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
600 --------------------------------
603 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
604 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
605 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
606 audio devices on OS X
607 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
608 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
611 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
612 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
615 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
616 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
619 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
622 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
623 * Improve A-B loop control
624 * Fix album art update when changing media
627 * Add a language option in the interface
628 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
629 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
630 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
631 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
632 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
633 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
634 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
637 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
640 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
641 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
642 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
643 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
646 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
647 --------------------------------
650 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
652 * Fix some subtitles track selection
655 * VP9 support in WebM
656 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
657 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
660 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
661 * Support Speex in ogg files
662 * Fix some .mov playlists support
663 * Support Alac in mkv
664 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
665 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
668 * Fix DVB options parsing
669 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
670 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
673 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
674 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
677 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
678 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
681 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
682 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
683 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
684 * Fix play after drag'n drop
685 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
688 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
689 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
692 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
693 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
696 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
697 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
698 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
699 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
700 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
701 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
702 * Improves interface resizings
705 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
706 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
707 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
708 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
709 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
713 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
714 --------------------------------
717 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
718 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
719 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
720 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
721 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
723 3rd party libraries (contrib):
724 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
727 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
728 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
729 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
730 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
731 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
734 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
735 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
739 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
740 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
741 * Support for Ulead DV audio
742 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
743 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
744 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
745 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
746 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
747 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
748 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
749 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
750 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
751 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
754 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
755 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
756 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
759 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
760 remove support for previous OS X releases
761 * Major improvements in DASH support
762 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
763 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
764 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
765 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
766 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
767 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
768 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
769 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
770 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
771 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
772 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
775 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
776 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
777 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
778 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
779 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
780 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
781 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
782 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
783 * Support for more MJPEG streams
784 * Add support for liveleak streams
785 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
786 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
787 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
790 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
791 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
792 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
793 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
794 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
795 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
796 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
797 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
798 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
799 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
800 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
803 * New remapping channel filter
804 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
805 * New VSXu visualization plugin
806 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
807 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
808 * New gain audio filter
811 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
812 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
813 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
814 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
815 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
816 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
817 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
818 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
819 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
822 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
823 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
824 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
825 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
826 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
827 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
828 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
831 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
832 * Options support for AVIO output module
833 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
834 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
835 * Livehttp stream encryption support
836 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
837 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
840 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
843 * configurable password for the HTTP server
844 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
845 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
846 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
847 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
848 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
849 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
850 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
854 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
857 * Add support for multiple video outputs
858 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
860 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
861 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
862 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
863 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
864 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
865 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
866 VLC's internal volume level
867 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
869 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
870 selection and to manage the list of presets
871 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
872 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
873 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
874 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
875 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
876 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
877 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
878 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
879 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
880 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
882 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
883 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
884 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
885 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
886 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
887 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
888 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
889 3rd party applications
890 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
891 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
892 (system-wide settings)
893 * Add support for the Video Title option
894 * Add support for the Boss Key
895 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
896 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
899 * Partial support for Qt5.0
900 * Menus modifications and improvements
901 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
902 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
903 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
904 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
905 * EPG display fixes and improvements
906 * Add SD pixmap sources
907 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
908 * Display playlist total duration
909 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
910 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
911 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
916 * Extend sliders, offsets options
917 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
918 * Numerous fixes and improvements
919 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
922 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
923 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
924 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
925 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
926 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
927 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
928 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
929 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
930 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
931 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
934 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
935 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
936 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
937 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
938 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
939 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
941 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
942 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
943 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
944 * Broken crop video filter
946 * OSD parser and menu
947 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
948 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
949 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
950 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
954 * Update of all translations
957 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
958 --------------------------------
961 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
962 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
965 * Fix modplug security issues
968 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
969 --------------------------------
973 * Fix crash in QTsound
974 * Fix screen mouse file location
975 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
978 * Fix use after free in sgimb
979 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
982 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
985 * Fix interface crashes
986 * Fix autostart playback option
987 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
990 * update Welsh translation
991 * New Kannada translation
994 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
995 --------------------------------
998 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
999 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1003 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1006 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1009 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1012 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1015 * Minor improvements
1016 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1019 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1022 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1023 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1024 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1027 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1028 --------------------------------
1031 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1034 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1037 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1038 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1039 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1040 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1041 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1042 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1045 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1046 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1047 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1048 * 3rd party codecs updates
1051 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1052 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1053 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1054 in the advanced preferences panel
1055 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1056 * Fix crash within the video output code
1057 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1058 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1059 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1060 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1061 lua extensions, ...)
1062 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1065 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1068 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1069 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1072 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1075 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1076 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1077 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1078 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1079 Dutch, Danish, translations
1080 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1083 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1084 --------------------------------
1087 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1090 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1091 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1092 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1095 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1096 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1097 * Fix koreus lua parser
1098 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1099 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1100 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1101 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1104 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1105 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1108 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1111 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1112 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1113 * Fix Time counter UI look
1114 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1117 * Fix https streaming
1120 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1121 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1122 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1125 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1126 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1127 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1128 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1129 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1132 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1133 --------------------------------
1136 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1137 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1138 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1139 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1140 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1141 during playback on Mac OS X
1144 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1145 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1146 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1149 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1150 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1151 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1152 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1153 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1156 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1157 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1158 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1159 * Support Youtube live streams
1162 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1165 * Fix media info dialog update
1166 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1167 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1168 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1169 * Fix album art display at start
1172 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1173 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1174 * Fix menus display and behavior
1175 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1176 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1177 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1178 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1179 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1180 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1181 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1184 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1185 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1186 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1187 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1188 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1189 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1190 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1191 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1192 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1195 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1196 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1197 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1198 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1199 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1202 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1203 --------------------------------
1206 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1209 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1210 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1213 * Add GateKeeper support
1214 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1215 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1216 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1219 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1222 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1223 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1224 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1225 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1226 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1229 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1230 --------------------------------
1233 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1234 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1235 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1236 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1237 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1238 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1239 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1240 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1241 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1242 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1243 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1247 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1248 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1249 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1250 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1251 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1252 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1253 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1254 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1255 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1256 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1257 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1258 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1261 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1262 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1264 * Fix MP3 free format support
1267 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1268 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1269 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1270 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1271 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1274 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1275 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1277 Audio filters and output:
1278 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1279 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1280 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1281 * Do not apply volume in file output
1282 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1283 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1286 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1287 the persistant media library
1288 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1289 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1290 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1291 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1292 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1293 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1294 press on the Play/Pause button
1295 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1296 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1297 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1298 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1299 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1300 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1301 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1302 Synchronization panel
1303 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1304 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1305 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1306 * Fix crashes on exit
1307 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1309 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1310 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1311 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1312 automatically reset on the first launch.
1313 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1314 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1315 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1318 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1319 * Fixes for icecast SD
1322 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1323 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1324 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1325 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1326 * Fix tags and file names display
1327 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1330 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1331 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1334 * Fix display of some buttons
1335 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1336 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1339 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1340 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1341 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1344 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1345 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1346 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1347 Thai translations update
1348 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1351 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1352 --------------------------------
1355 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1356 * fix the samba module compilation
1357 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1358 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1359 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1360 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1363 * Support for MXPEG files
1364 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1365 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1368 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1369 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1370 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1373 * Fix ogm header creation
1376 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1377 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1380 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1381 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1382 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1383 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1386 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1389 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1390 * allow to hide the sidebar
1391 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1392 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1393 * noticebly faster launch time
1394 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1395 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1396 * improve track synchronization panel
1397 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1398 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1401 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1402 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1403 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1404 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1407 * fix for menus display
1408 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1409 * documentation update
1412 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1413 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1416 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1417 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1418 * Update Jamendo selections
1422 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1423 * fix a crash on VLM close
1426 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1427 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1428 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1429 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1432 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1435 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1436 ---------------------------------
1439 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1440 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1441 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1442 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1443 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1444 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1445 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1446 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1447 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1448 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1449 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1450 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1451 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1452 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1453 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1454 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1455 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1456 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1457 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1458 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1459 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1460 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1461 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1462 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1463 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1464 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1466 Important changes for packagers:
1467 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1468 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1469 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1470 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1471 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1472 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1473 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1474 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1475 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1476 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1479 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1480 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1481 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1482 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1483 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1484 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1485 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1488 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1489 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1490 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1491 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1492 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1493 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1494 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1495 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1496 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1497 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1498 * PulseAudio audio input support
1499 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1500 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1501 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1502 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1503 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1504 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1505 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1506 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1509 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1510 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1511 are notably concerned.
1512 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1513 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1514 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1515 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1516 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1517 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1518 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1519 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1520 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1521 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1522 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1523 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1524 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1525 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1526 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1529 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1530 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1531 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1532 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1533 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1534 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1535 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1536 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1537 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1538 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1539 * Improved support of tracker files
1540 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1543 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1544 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1545 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1546 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1547 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1548 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1549 and important cleanups and optimisations
1550 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1551 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1552 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1553 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1554 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1555 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1556 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1557 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1558 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1559 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1560 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1561 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1562 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1563 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1564 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1565 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1566 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1567 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1568 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1569 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1570 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1573 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1574 * New video output for iOS platform
1575 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1576 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1577 * Various vmem improvements
1578 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1579 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1580 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1581 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1582 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1583 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1585 Audio Output and Filters:
1586 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1587 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1588 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1589 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1590 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1591 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1592 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1593 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1594 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1595 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1598 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1599 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1600 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1601 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1602 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1603 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1604 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1605 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1606 * New anti-flickering filter
1607 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1608 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1609 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1610 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1611 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1612 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1613 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1616 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1617 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1618 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1619 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1620 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1621 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1622 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1623 * Major rework of VoD support
1624 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1625 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1626 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1627 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1628 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1629 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1630 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1631 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1632 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1633 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1636 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1637 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1640 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1641 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1642 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1643 list of available audio and video filters
1644 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1645 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1646 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1649 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1650 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1651 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1652 * id3tag: use taglib
1653 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1654 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1655 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1656 * removal of the noise filter
1657 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1658 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1659 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1660 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1663 * Update of translations for most languages.
1664 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1667 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1668 ----------------------------------
1671 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1672 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1675 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1676 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1679 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1680 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1681 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1684 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1687 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1688 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1691 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1694 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1695 ----------------------------------
1698 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1699 including support for OS X Lion
1700 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1701 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1704 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1707 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1708 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1709 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1712 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1715 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1716 ----------------------------------
1719 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1720 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1723 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1724 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1725 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1726 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1727 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1729 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1730 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1731 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1733 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1734 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1737 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1740 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1743 * Fix quitting on Linux
1744 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1748 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1751 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1754 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1755 ---------------------------------
1757 Windows and Mac OS X:
1758 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1761 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1762 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1765 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1768 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1771 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1773 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1774 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1776 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1777 * RTP output and XML export
1778 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1782 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1783 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1784 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1785 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1788 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1789 --------------------------------
1791 Windows and Mac OS X:
1792 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1795 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1798 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1799 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1800 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1801 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1802 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1803 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1806 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1807 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1811 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1812 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1813 * New Luganda Translation
1816 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1817 --------------------------------
1820 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1823 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1824 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1825 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1826 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1829 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1831 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1832 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1833 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1834 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1835 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1836 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1837 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1838 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1840 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1841 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1842 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1843 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1844 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1845 * Configure and build system improvements
1846 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1849 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1850 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1851 * New icelandic translation
1854 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1855 --------------------------------
1858 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1859 #234484 and #260719.
1862 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1863 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1864 and stability reasons
1867 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1871 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1874 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1875 ----------------------------------
1878 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1881 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1882 ---------------------------------
1885 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1886 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1887 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1888 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1891 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1894 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1895 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1896 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1897 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1900 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1901 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1902 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1904 Subtitles and renderer:
1905 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1906 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1907 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1908 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1909 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1912 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1913 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1914 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1915 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1918 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1919 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1921 Miscellaneous fixes:
1922 * KDE device solid actions
1924 * Transcode integer overflow
1925 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1926 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1929 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1930 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1931 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1934 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1935 ----------------------------------
1938 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1942 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1945 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1948 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1949 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1950 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1951 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1954 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1958 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1961 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1964 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1965 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1967 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1971 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1972 * Miscellaneous fixes
1975 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1976 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1977 French and Ukrainian
1978 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1979 * New Asturian translation
1982 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1983 ----------------------------------
1986 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1988 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1991 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1994 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1995 * Various fixes for Windows
1998 * New Armenian translation
1999 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2000 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2003 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2004 --------------------------------
2007 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2008 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2009 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2012 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2013 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2016 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2017 --------------------------------
2019 Access and demuxers:
2020 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2021 * fix for podcasts parsing
2022 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2025 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2026 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2029 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2030 * fix m3u playlists exports
2033 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2036 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2039 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2042 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2045 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2048 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2049 --------------------------------
2052 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2053 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2056 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2057 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2060 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2061 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2062 * fix console output encoding
2064 Interface and extensions:
2065 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2066 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2069 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2070 --------------------------------
2073 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2074 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2075 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2076 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2077 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2078 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2079 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2080 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2081 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2082 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2083 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2084 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2085 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2086 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2087 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2088 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2092 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2093 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2094 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2095 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2096 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2099 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2102 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2103 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2104 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2108 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2111 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2112 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2113 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2116 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2117 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2118 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2119 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2122 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2123 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2126 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2127 --------------------------------
2129 Important changes for users:
2130 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2131 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2133 Important changes for packagers:
2134 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2135 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2136 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2137 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2138 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2140 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2142 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2143 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2144 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2145 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2146 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2149 * Support for the sftp protocol
2150 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2151 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2152 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2153 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2154 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2157 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2158 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2159 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2161 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2162 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2163 * Invmem module improvements
2164 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2165 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2166 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2167 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2168 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2169 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2170 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2171 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2172 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2173 * Support for VP8 codec
2174 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2177 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2178 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2179 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2180 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2181 * Various EGP improvements
2182 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2183 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2186 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2187 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2188 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2189 * Podcast images are now displayed
2192 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2193 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2194 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2195 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2196 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2197 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2198 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2199 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2200 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2201 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2202 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2205 * New content extensions lua framework
2208 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2209 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2210 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2211 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2212 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2213 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2214 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2217 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2218 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2219 * Service discovery based on libudev
2220 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2223 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2224 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2225 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2226 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2227 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2228 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2229 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2232 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2233 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2234 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2237 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2239 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2240 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2243 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2246 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2247 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2248 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2249 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2250 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2251 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2252 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2255 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2256 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2259 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2260 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2261 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2265 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2266 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2267 * Improved Solaris port
2270 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2271 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2274 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2275 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2276 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2277 * transrate: broken since too long
2278 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2279 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2280 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2281 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2282 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2283 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2284 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2285 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2286 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2287 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2288 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2289 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2290 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2291 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2294 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2295 --------------------------------
2298 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2300 Decoders/Packetizers:
2301 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2304 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2305 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2306 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2307 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2308 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2311 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2312 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2315 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2316 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2319 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2320 and Walloon translations updated
2321 * Sinhala translation started
2324 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2325 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2328 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2329 --------------------------------
2332 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2333 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2336 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2339 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2340 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2343 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2344 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2345 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2346 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2349 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2350 --------------------------------
2353 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2354 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2357 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2358 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2361 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2362 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2365 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2368 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2369 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2372 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2373 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2376 * New Walloon translation
2377 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2380 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2381 --------------------------------
2384 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2385 regressions in most popular drivers
2386 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2389 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2390 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2391 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2394 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2395 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2398 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2399 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2400 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2401 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2402 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2405 * New udev module for linux
2408 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2411 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2414 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2415 --------------------------------
2418 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2419 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2420 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2423 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2424 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2427 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2428 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2431 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2434 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2435 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2436 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2437 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2440 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2441 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2442 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2443 - no support for Goom and SDL
2444 - limited text rendering support
2445 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2448 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2449 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2450 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2451 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2452 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2453 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2454 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2455 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2456 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2460 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2463 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2466 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2467 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2468 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2469 Arabic and French translation updates
2472 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2473 --------------------------------
2476 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2477 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2478 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2479 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2480 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2481 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2484 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2485 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2486 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2489 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2490 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2491 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2494 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2497 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2498 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2501 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2502 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2503 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2504 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2505 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2506 * Fix various crashes
2509 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2511 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2515 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2516 ---------------------------------
2520 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2521 See 'Access:' for more info.
2522 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2525 * Instantaneous pausing
2526 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2527 * Finer speed control
2528 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2529 * Timeshift for most medias
2530 * RTSP trickplay support
2531 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2534 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2535 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2536 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2537 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2538 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2539 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2540 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2541 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2542 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2543 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2546 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2547 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2548 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2549 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2550 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2551 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2552 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2555 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2556 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2559 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2560 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2561 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2562 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2563 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2564 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2565 * DVB scanning on linux
2566 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2567 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2568 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2569 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2570 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2571 * MTP device access on Unix
2572 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2573 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2576 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2577 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2578 Windows and Mac OS X.
2581 * Export the playlist in HTML
2582 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2583 * Better metadata handling and reading
2585 Linux/Windows interface:
2586 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2587 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2588 * Recently played items list
2589 * Interface toolbar customizations
2590 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2591 - More menus actions
2592 - Finer speed slider
2593 - Improvements on many dialogs
2594 - New dialog for plugins listing
2595 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2596 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2597 * Better integration in GTK environments
2600 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2601 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2602 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2603 * Additional usability improvements
2606 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2607 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2608 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2609 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2610 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2613 * New Maemo port with:
2614 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2615 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2618 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2621 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2622 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2623 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2624 * Support for latest iSight models
2627 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2628 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2631 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2632 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2633 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2634 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2635 The old image video output has been removed.
2636 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2637 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2640 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2648 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2649 --------------------------------------
2655 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2656 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2657 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2658 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2659 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2660 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2661 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2663 Various fixes to the following modules:
2666 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2667 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2668 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2670 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2675 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2676 ---------------------------------
2679 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2680 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2683 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2684 ---------------------------------
2687 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2690 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2693 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2694 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2695 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2696 main controller window.
2697 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2700 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2705 * Updates of other localizations
2708 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2709 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2710 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2711 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2712 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2715 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2716 ---------------------------------
2719 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2721 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2724 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2725 --------------------------------
2730 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2731 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2734 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2735 --------------------------------
2737 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2738 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2741 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2744 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2745 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2748 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2749 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2752 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2753 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2754 * Various fixed in playlist
2757 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2760 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2763 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2764 ------------------------------------
2766 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2767 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2770 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2771 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2772 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2775 * Stability fix for the video output.
2778 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2779 --------------------------------
2782 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2783 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2784 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2785 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2786 * Fixed update system bugs
2787 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2790 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2791 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2792 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2793 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2794 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2795 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2796 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2797 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2798 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2799 modern Mac OS X versions
2802 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2803 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2805 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2806 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2809 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2810 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2811 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2812 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2813 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2814 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2817 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2818 --------------------------------
2820 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2821 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2822 * Multiple bugfixes.
2825 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2826 --------------------------------
2828 * Multiple bug fixes.
2831 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2832 ---------------------------------
2836 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2837 recent to work correctly
2838 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2839 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2840 edit the ".hosts" file.
2841 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2842 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2843 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2844 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2845 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2846 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2847 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2848 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2849 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2850 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2851 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2852 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2853 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2854 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2855 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2856 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2857 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2858 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2859 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2860 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2861 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2862 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2863 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2864 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2865 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2866 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2867 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2868 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2869 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2870 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2871 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2872 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2873 and postproc modules.
2874 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2875 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2876 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2877 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2879 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2880 filter. For example:
2881 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2882 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2884 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2885 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2891 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2893 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2894 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2897 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2898 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2900 * Shoutcast TV listings
2901 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2903 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2904 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2906 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2909 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2910 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2911 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2912 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2913 * JACK audio input support
2914 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2915 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2916 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2917 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2918 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2919 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2920 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2921 (available as a separate download).
2922 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2923 * RTMP input support
2924 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2925 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2926 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2928 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2929 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2932 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2933 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2934 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2935 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2937 * APEv1/2 tags support
2938 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2939 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2941 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2942 * TiVo Series 2 support
2943 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2948 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2949 * Flash Screen Video support
2950 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2951 * DosBox Capture support
2952 * Karl Morton's Video support
2953 * limited atrac3 support
2955 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2956 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2957 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2958 * H.264 PAFF support
2959 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2960 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2961 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2962 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2963 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2966 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2967 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2968 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2969 * AQTitle subtitles support
2970 * MKV USF subtitles support
2971 * HTML-based subtitles support
2972 * MPSub subtitles support
2973 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2974 * MPL2 subtitles support
2975 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2976 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2977 * Realtext subtitle support
2978 * DKS subtitle support
2979 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2980 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2983 * Flash Screen Video support
2984 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2986 Video outputs and filters:
2987 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2988 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2989 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2990 * New puzzle video output filter
2991 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2992 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2994 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2995 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2996 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2997 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2998 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2999 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3000 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3001 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3002 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3003 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3004 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3005 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3006 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3007 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3009 Audio outputs and filters:
3010 * Replay gain support
3011 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3012 new scaletempo audio filter)
3013 * New spatializer audio filter
3014 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3017 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3018 * New RTP payload formats:
3019 * Speex voice audio codec
3020 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3021 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3022 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3023 * DCCP transport for RTP
3024 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3029 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3030 end-user suitable way.
3031 * Improved user interaction
3032 * Improved mouse gestures
3033 * Vastly improved Update checker
3034 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3036 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3037 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3039 * Improved video output features
3040 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3041 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3042 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3043 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3044 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3046 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3047 if libncursesw is available.
3048 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3049 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3050 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3052 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3053 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3054 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3055 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3056 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3057 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3058 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3059 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3062 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3063 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3064 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3067 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3068 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3069 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3070 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3071 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3072 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3075 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3076 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3086 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3087 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3088 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3091 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3092 ----------------------------------
3095 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3098 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3099 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3100 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3101 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3102 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3103 * Updated Polish translation
3106 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3107 ----------------------------------
3110 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3111 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3112 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3115 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3116 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3117 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3118 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3119 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3120 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3121 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3122 to an unexpected application termination
3123 * New Serbian translation
3124 * Updated Romanian translation
3127 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3128 ----------------------------------
3131 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3132 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3133 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3134 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3135 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3136 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3137 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3138 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3141 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3142 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3143 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3144 * Fixed AAC resampling
3145 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3146 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3149 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3150 ----------------------------------
3153 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3154 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3155 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3156 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3157 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3160 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3161 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3162 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3163 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3164 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3167 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3168 ----------------------------------
3171 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3172 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3175 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3176 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3177 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3178 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3180 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3184 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3187 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3190 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3193 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3196 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3197 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3198 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3199 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3200 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3202 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3203 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3204 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3205 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3208 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3211 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3212 ----------------------------------
3215 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3216 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3217 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3219 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3220 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3222 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3223 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3226 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3228 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3229 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3230 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3231 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3232 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3233 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3234 two different movies
3235 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3236 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3237 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3240 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3243 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3244 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3245 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3246 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3249 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3250 ----------------------------------
3252 Various bugfixes, notably:
3253 * Windows Vista compatibility
3254 * Cropping in Direct3D
3255 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3256 * RSS filter string overflow
3258 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3260 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3261 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3264 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3265 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3268 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3271 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3274 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3277 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3278 ----------------------------------
3280 Various bugfixes, notably:
3281 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3282 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3283 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3284 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3285 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3286 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3289 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3290 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3293 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3295 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3296 * Diverse usability improvements
3297 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3298 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3299 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3302 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3303 ---------------------------------
3305 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3306 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3309 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3312 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3313 --------------------------------
3316 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3319 * Support for RTSP authentication
3320 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3321 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3322 * ATSC support for DVB input
3323 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3324 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3325 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3328 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3329 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3330 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3331 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3332 * Matroska WavPack support
3333 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3334 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3335 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3338 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3339 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3340 * Improved libcaca support
3344 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3345 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3347 * Systray support in skins
3349 * Support for Apple Remote control
3350 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3351 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3352 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3353 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3355 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3358 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3359 Windows 9x/ME users:
3360 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3361 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3362 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3363 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3364 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3366 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3367 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3376 * Updates to the libvlc API
3377 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3380 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3381 --------------------------------
3384 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3385 * Support for downloading updates
3389 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3390 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3391 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3392 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3394 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3395 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3396 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3399 * Cook (Real audio) support
3401 Playlist / Services discovery:
3402 * XSPF playlist support
3404 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3407 * New JACK audio output
3410 * New video filters:
3411 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3412 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3413 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3414 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3415 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3416 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3419 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3422 * System to inform the user and request information
3423 - HTTP authentication
3427 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3428 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3429 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3432 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3433 - Improved playlist handling
3434 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3436 - Embedded Video output
3437 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3438 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3439 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3440 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3441 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3443 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3444 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3447 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3450 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3451 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3452 * Growl "Now playing" support
3455 * Ability to log to syslog
3456 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3459 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3461 * A bit more automatic testing
3464 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3465 ---------------------------------
3468 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3469 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3472 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3473 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3476 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3479 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3480 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3486 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3489 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3490 --------------------------------
3493 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3497 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3498 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3499 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3502 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3503 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3504 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3505 * GnomeVFS input module
3506 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3507 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3510 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3511 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3512 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3515 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3516 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3522 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3523 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3526 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3527 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3528 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3531 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3533 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3534 - New extended controls panel
3535 - New bookmarks window
3536 - Fixed playlist sorting
3537 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3539 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3540 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3541 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3542 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3546 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3547 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3549 - Include macro to include other files
3553 * Should now work outside IE as well
3556 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3559 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3560 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3563 The following languages were added:
3567 * Simplified Chinese
3568 The following languages were re-added:
3572 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3573 --------------------------------
3576 * Rewrite of the playlist
3578 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3579 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3580 * Preferences improvements:
3581 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3582 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3584 * Core image manipulation support
3585 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3586 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3587 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3588 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3589 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3590 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3591 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3592 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3593 * Access filter architecture
3594 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3595 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3599 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3600 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3601 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3602 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3603 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3604 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3605 * Massive Matroska improvements
3606 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3608 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3609 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3610 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3611 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3612 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3614 Decoders / Encoders:
3615 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3616 * PNG decoder/encoder
3617 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3618 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3621 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3624 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3625 * Brand new SAP module
3626 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3627 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3628 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3629 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3630 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3631 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3635 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3638 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3639 * Image file video output (png)
3640 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3641 * Improvements to wall video filter
3642 * Support for font color and opacity
3648 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3649 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3650 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3654 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3655 - Improved preferences
3656 - Improvements to the wizard
3657 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3659 - Redesigned playlist
3660 - Improved preferences
3662 - Support for multiple actions
3665 - Support for the new playlist system
3667 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3670 * Screensaver disabling fix
3671 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3672 * Support for no-decoration windows
3675 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3676 * The OpenGL video output is back
3677 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3678 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3679 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3680 is not yet available in the new module
3681 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3684 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3693 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3696 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3699 The following languages were added:
3705 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3706 --------------------------------
3709 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3710 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3713 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3714 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3715 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3718 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3721 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3724 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3727 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3728 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3729 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3733 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3735 * Support of playlist group announcement
3738 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3739 --------------------------------
3742 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3743 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3744 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3745 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3746 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3747 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3750 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3751 (Stream your desktop)
3752 * Improved DVD support:
3753 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3754 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3755 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3756 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3757 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3758 (selection of titles/chapters).
3761 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3762 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3763 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3764 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3765 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3766 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3767 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3768 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3769 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3770 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3773 * G.726 audio support
3774 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3775 * MPEG-4 text support
3776 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3777 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3778 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3782 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3783 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3784 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3785 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3786 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3787 * DVB subtitles encoder
3788 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3789 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3791 * Text track muxing for mp4
3792 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3793 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3794 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3795 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3796 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3797 * Improved ASF muxer
3799 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3800 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3801 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3804 * New audio equalizer filter
3805 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3806 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3807 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3808 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3811 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3812 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3813 with support for effects.
3814 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3815 - New filters can be streamed.
3816 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3817 - Centralized scaling and blending
3819 - "time", to display current time
3820 - "marq", to display a marquee
3823 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3824 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3825 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3826 * A few skins2 improvements
3827 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3828 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3829 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3830 * Improved CORBA control module
3833 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3834 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3835 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3838 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3839 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3840 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3843 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3844 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3845 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3846 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3847 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3850 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3853 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3854 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3857 * Server/client network synchronization module
3858 * VBrick streams fully supported
3859 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3863 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3864 --------------------------------
3867 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3868 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3869 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3870 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3873 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3874 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3875 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3876 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3877 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3878 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3879 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3882 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3883 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3884 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3885 * Improved directory access module.
3886 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3887 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3888 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3889 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3890 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3893 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3894 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3895 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3898 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3899 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3900 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3903 * Improved session announcement system.
3904 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3905 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3906 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3907 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3908 * Improved transrater.
3909 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3910 * New configuration system.
3911 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3914 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3915 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3916 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3917 * Supports scheduling.
3918 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3919 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3922 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3923 - Ability to embed video output.
3924 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3925 - Lots of improvements.
3926 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3927 - New design and set of icons.
3928 - Ability to embed video output.
3929 - Support for hotkeys.
3930 - Support for bookmarks.
3932 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3933 - Better hotkeys handling.
3936 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3937 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3938 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3939 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3942 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3943 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3944 * Improved Windows installer.
3950 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3951 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3954 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3955 ---------------------------------
3958 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3959 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3962 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3963 --------------------------------
3966 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3967 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3970 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3971 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3972 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3973 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3976 * Internal improvments
3977 * Improved import/export
3980 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3982 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3983 small and strange formats.
3985 * New MOD audio demux.
3986 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3987 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3988 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3989 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3992 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3993 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3994 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4000 * New opengl video output plugin.
4003 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4004 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4007 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4008 --------------------------------
4011 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4012 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4013 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4014 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4015 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4016 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4017 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4018 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4021 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4026 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4027 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4028 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4029 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4030 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4031 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4032 * Better Icecast support.
4033 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4034 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4037 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4038 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4039 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4040 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4041 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4042 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4043 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4046 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4047 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4048 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4049 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4050 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4051 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4052 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4053 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4054 * Preliminary RTP support.
4055 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4060 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4061 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4063 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4064 - Improvements and help in preferences
4065 - New streaming wizard
4066 - Revised Disc Open menu
4068 - Improvements of the standard pages
4069 - Support for new commands
4070 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4073 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4074 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4077 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4078 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4079 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4080 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4081 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4082 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4083 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4084 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4085 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4088 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4090 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4091 * Support for Panther.
4092 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4093 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4096 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4097 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4098 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4099 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4100 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4101 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4102 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4103 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4106 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4107 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4108 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4111 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4114 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4115 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4116 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4117 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4120 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4121 --------------------------------
4124 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4127 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4128 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4131 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4132 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4135 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4138 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4139 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4142 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4145 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4148 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4149 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4153 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4154 --------------------------------
4157 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4158 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4162 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4163 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4164 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4166 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4167 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4170 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4173 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4176 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4177 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4181 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4182 --------------------------------
4185 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4186 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4190 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4191 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4192 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4193 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4194 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4197 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4198 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4199 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4202 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4203 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4204 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4207 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4208 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4209 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4210 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4211 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4214 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4215 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4216 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4219 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4222 * Improved build system.
4223 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4224 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4225 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4226 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4229 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4230 --------------------------------
4233 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4236 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4237 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4238 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4239 * Video 4 Linux support
4240 * CD Digital Audio support
4241 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4244 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4245 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4246 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4247 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4250 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4251 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4252 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4253 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4254 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4255 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4256 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4259 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4260 * New HTTP remote control interface
4263 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4264 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4265 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4266 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4267 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4270 * New reset option for the preferences
4271 * You can set your language in the prefences
4272 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4273 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4274 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4275 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4278 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4279 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4280 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4283 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4284 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4285 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4286 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4287 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4288 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4289 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4290 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4291 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4292 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4295 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4296 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4297 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4298 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4299 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4300 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4301 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4304 * Interface localization
4305 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4306 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4307 * New full-featured Preferences window
4310 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4311 --------------------------------
4314 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4315 * support for skins at the interface level
4316 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4317 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4318 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4319 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4320 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4323 * fixed HTTP redirects
4324 * support for opening an entire directory
4325 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4326 * new video4linux access plug-in
4327 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4330 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4331 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4332 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4335 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4336 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4337 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4338 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4339 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4340 * new codec for raw I420 video
4341 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4344 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4345 (although it still misses some important features)
4346 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4349 * new HTTP output support
4350 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4351 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4354 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4357 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4360 * reorderable playlist
4361 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4362 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4363 * support for mono audio output devices
4364 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4365 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4366 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4367 * the messages window remembers more lines
4368 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4369 * http and ogg stream output options
4370 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4373 * new skinnable interface
4374 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4376 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4377 * support for FLAC audio format
4378 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4380 * network tab in the interface
4381 * "apply" handling in preferences
4384 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4385 ---------------------------------
4388 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4389 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4390 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4391 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4393 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4394 * DTS S/PDIF support
4397 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4398 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4399 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4400 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4403 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4404 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4407 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4410 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4413 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4415 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4416 * rc interface is now fully useable
4417 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4420 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4421 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4422 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4423 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4424 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4426 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4427 * support for mouse gestures
4428 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4431 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4432 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4435 * improved ID3 tag detection
4436 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4437 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4438 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4440 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4443 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4444 ---------------------------------
4447 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4448 English was set as the preferred language
4451 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4452 --------------------------------
4455 * new mouse gesture interface
4456 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4460 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4461 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4462 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4465 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4466 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4470 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4473 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4474 without the user consent
4477 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4479 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4480 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4481 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4484 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4485 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4486 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4487 * playlist enhancements
4488 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4489 * new step forward/step backward commands
4490 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4491 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4492 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4495 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4496 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4497 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4500 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4501 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4504 * native video output is working again
4505 * only commandline interface support
4506 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4509 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4510 --------------------------------
4513 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4514 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4515 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4516 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4517 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4518 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4519 and A/52 streams are supported)
4520 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4525 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4526 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4527 * VCD entry points support
4528 * VCD image file support
4531 * support for *.asf format
4532 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4533 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4534 * support for ogg encapsulation
4535 * support for raw DV format
4536 * support for *.wav format
4537 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4540 Stream discovery & playlists:
4541 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4542 * support for .m3u file format
4543 * support for .asx file format
4544 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4547 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4548 (only available with the .avi demux)
4549 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4550 * support for raw PCM data
4551 * support for Cinepak video codec
4552 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4553 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4554 * support for Xvid codec
4555 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4556 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4557 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4559 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4561 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4564 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4567 * new WxWindows interface
4568 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4569 device and the channels configuration
4570 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4571 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4572 format that VLC can play
4573 * new swedish translation
4574 * enhancements of the playlist window
4575 * new messages window to see debug info
4576 * fixed a few crashes
4579 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4580 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4581 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4582 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working