1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
9 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
10 * New SMB access module using libdsm
11 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
12 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
13 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
14 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
15 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
16 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
17 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
18 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
19 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
20 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
21 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
22 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
23 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
26 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
27 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
28 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
29 * Support for Daala video
30 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI
31 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
32 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
33 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
34 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
35 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
36 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
37 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
38 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
39 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
40 * Basic TTML subtitles support
43 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
44 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
45 * Support Daala in Ogg
46 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer
47 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
48 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
49 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
50 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
51 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
52 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
53 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
54 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
55 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
56 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
57 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
58 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
61 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
64 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
65 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
68 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
69 * Wayland shell surface window provider
70 * Wayland shared memory video output
71 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
72 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
73 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
74 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
75 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes.
78 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
79 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
80 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
83 * Chromecast output module
84 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
87 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
90 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
91 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
95 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
96 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
99 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
100 * Port to Yosemite X.10
103 * Batch convert support
106 * Support key accelerators
109 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
110 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
111 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
112 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
113 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
114 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
115 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
116 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
117 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
118 identifier (if there is one available)
119 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
122 * Support for the SystemD Journal
123 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
124 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
125 * New Android module for logging
128 * remove langfromtelx
129 * remove ZPL playlist format
132 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
133 --------------------------------
136 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
137 * Fix some VP9 decoding
139 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
140 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
141 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
142 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
147 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
148 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
149 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
150 * Revert to older ASX code
151 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
154 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
155 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
156 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
159 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
160 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
161 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
164 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
165 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
166 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
169 * Fix recent items behaviour
170 * Fix rotation filter activation
171 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
174 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
175 * Fix extensions registration during install
176 * Fix extensions dialog crash
177 * Default to no DxVA decoding
180 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
183 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
184 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
185 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
186 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
187 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
188 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
191 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
192 --------------------------------
195 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
196 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
199 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
200 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
201 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
202 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
205 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
206 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
207 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
208 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
210 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
211 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
212 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
215 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
216 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
217 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
218 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
219 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
220 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
221 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
222 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
223 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
224 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
225 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
226 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
227 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
228 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
229 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
230 * New jpeg image decoder
231 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
232 * New SVG image decoder
233 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
234 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
235 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
238 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
239 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
240 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
241 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
242 * New png image encoder using libpng
245 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
246 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
247 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
248 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
249 synchronization and tracks exclusion
250 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
251 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
252 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
253 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
254 * Support Opus in MKV
256 * Basic support for WebVTT
257 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
258 * Support HDPR TS files
259 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
260 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
261 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
262 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
263 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
264 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
265 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
266 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
267 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
268 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
269 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
270 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
273 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
274 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
275 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
276 * New Android native window provider module
277 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
278 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
279 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
282 * New Oldmovie effect filter
283 * New VHS effect filter
284 * New Freeze effect filter
285 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
286 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
287 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
290 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
291 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
292 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
293 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
294 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
295 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
298 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
299 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
301 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
304 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
305 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
306 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
307 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
308 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
309 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
310 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
311 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
312 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
314 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
315 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
316 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
319 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
320 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
323 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
324 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
327 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
328 * Add record button in Qt menus
329 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
330 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
331 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
334 * Support for OS X Yosemite
335 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
336 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
337 * Fixes for advanced preferences
338 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
339 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
340 * Option to increase playlist font size
341 * Improved crash log reporting
344 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
345 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
346 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
347 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
350 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
353 * iOS video output: use ios2
354 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
355 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
358 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
359 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
360 * Update of all translations:
361 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
362 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
363 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
364 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
365 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
366 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
367 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
370 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
371 --------------------------------
377 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
378 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
379 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
380 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
381 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
382 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
383 * Fix potential crash in zip access
384 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
385 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
388 * Update translations and greek encoding
391 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
392 --------------------------------
395 * Fix compilation on OS/2
398 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
400 Mac OS X audio output:
401 * Fix channel ordering
402 * Increase the buffersize
405 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
406 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
407 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
410 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
413 * Correctly support video-on-top
414 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
415 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
418 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
421 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
422 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
425 * Update British English
428 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
429 --------------------------------
432 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
435 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
438 * Fix DVD playback regression
439 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
440 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
443 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
444 --------------------------------
447 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
448 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
451 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
452 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
453 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
456 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
457 by updating codec libraries
458 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
459 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
460 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
463 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
464 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
465 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
466 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
469 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
470 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
473 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
474 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
475 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
476 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
477 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
480 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
481 * Fix record file names
484 * Fix minimal size possible on start
485 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
486 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
487 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
488 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
491 * Fix album art display on Windows
494 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
495 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
496 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
497 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
498 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
499 and Simplified Chinese translations
500 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
503 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
504 --------------------------------
507 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
508 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
509 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
510 audio devices on OS X
511 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
512 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
515 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
516 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
519 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
520 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
523 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
526 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
527 * Improve A-B loop control
528 * Fix album art update when changing media
531 * Add a language option in the interface
532 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
533 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
534 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
535 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
536 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
537 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
538 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
541 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
544 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
545 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
546 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
547 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
550 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
551 --------------------------------
554 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
556 * Fix some subtitles track selection
559 * VP9 support in WebM
560 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
561 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
564 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
565 * Support Speex in ogg files
566 * Fix some .mov playlists support
567 * Support Alac in mkv
568 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
569 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
572 * Fix DVB options parsing
573 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
574 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
577 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
578 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
581 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
582 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
585 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
586 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
587 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
588 * Fix play after drag'n drop
589 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
592 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
593 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
596 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
597 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
600 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
601 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
602 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
603 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
604 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
605 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
606 * Improves interface resizings
609 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
610 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
611 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
612 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
613 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
617 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
618 --------------------------------
621 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
622 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
623 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
624 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
625 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
627 3rd party libraries (contrib):
628 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
631 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
632 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
633 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
634 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
635 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
638 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
639 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
643 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
644 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
645 * Support for Ulead DV audio
646 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
647 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
648 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
649 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
650 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
651 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
652 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
653 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
654 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
655 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
658 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
659 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
660 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
663 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
664 remove support for previous OS X releases
665 * Major improvements in DASH support
666 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
667 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
668 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
669 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
670 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
671 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
672 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
673 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
674 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
675 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
676 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
679 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
680 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
681 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
682 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
683 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
684 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
685 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
686 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
687 * Support for more MJPEG streams
688 * Add support for liveleak streams
689 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
690 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
691 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
694 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
695 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
696 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
697 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
698 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
699 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
700 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
701 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
702 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
703 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
704 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
707 * New remapping channel filter
708 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
709 * New VSXu visualization plugin
710 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
711 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
712 * New gain audio filter
715 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
716 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
717 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
718 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
719 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
720 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
721 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
722 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
723 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
726 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
727 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
728 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
729 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
730 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
731 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
732 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
735 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
736 * Options support for AVIO output module
737 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
738 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
739 * Livehttp stream encryption support
740 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
741 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
744 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
747 * configurable password for the HTTP server
748 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
749 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
750 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
751 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
752 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
753 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
754 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
758 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
761 * Add support for multiple video outputs
762 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
764 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
765 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
766 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
767 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
768 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
769 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
770 VLC's internal volume level
771 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
773 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
774 selection and to manage the list of presets
775 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
776 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
777 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
778 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
779 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
780 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
781 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
782 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
783 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
784 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
786 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
787 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
788 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
789 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
790 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
791 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
792 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
793 3rd party applications
794 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
795 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
796 (system-wide settings)
797 * Add support for the Video Title option
798 * Add support for the Boss Key
799 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
800 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
803 * Partial support for Qt5.0
804 * Menus modifications and improvements
805 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
806 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
807 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
808 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
809 * EPG display fixes and improvements
810 * Add SD pixmap sources
811 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
812 * Display playlist total duration
813 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
814 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
815 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
820 * Extend sliders, offsets options
821 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
822 * Numerous fixes and improvements
823 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
826 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
827 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
828 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
829 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
830 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
831 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
832 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
833 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
834 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
835 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
838 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
839 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
840 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
841 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
842 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
843 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
845 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
846 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
847 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
848 * Broken crop video filter
850 * OSD parser and menu
851 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
852 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
853 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
854 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
858 * Update of all translations
861 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
862 --------------------------------
865 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
866 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
869 * Fix modplug security issues
872 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
873 --------------------------------
877 * Fix crash in QTsound
878 * Fix screen mouse file location
879 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
882 * Fix use after free in sgimb
883 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
886 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
889 * Fix interface crashes
890 * Fix autostart playback option
891 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
894 * update Welsh translation
895 * New Kannada translation
898 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
899 --------------------------------
902 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
903 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
907 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
910 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
913 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
916 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
920 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
923 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
926 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
927 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
928 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
931 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
932 --------------------------------
935 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
938 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
941 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
942 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
943 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
944 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
945 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
946 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
949 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
950 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
951 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
952 * 3rd party codecs updates
955 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
956 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
957 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
958 in the advanced preferences panel
959 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
960 * Fix crash within the video output code
961 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
962 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
963 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
964 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
966 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
969 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
972 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
973 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
976 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
979 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
980 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
981 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
982 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
983 Dutch, Danish, translations
984 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
987 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
988 --------------------------------
991 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
994 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
995 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
996 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
999 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1000 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1001 * Fix koreus lua parser
1002 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1003 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1004 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1005 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1008 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1009 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1012 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1015 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1016 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1017 * Fix Time counter UI look
1018 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1021 * Fix https streaming
1024 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1025 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1026 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1029 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1030 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1031 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1032 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1033 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1036 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1037 --------------------------------
1040 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1041 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1042 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1043 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1044 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1045 during playback on Mac OS X
1048 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1049 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1050 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1053 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1054 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1055 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1056 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1057 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1060 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1061 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1062 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1063 * Support Youtube live streams
1066 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1069 * Fix media info dialog update
1070 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1071 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1072 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1073 * Fix album art display at start
1076 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1077 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1078 * Fix menus display and behavior
1079 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1080 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1081 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1082 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1083 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1084 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1085 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1088 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1089 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1090 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1091 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1092 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1093 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1094 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1095 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1096 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1099 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1100 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1101 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1102 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1103 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1106 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1107 --------------------------------
1110 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1113 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1114 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1117 * Add GateKeeper support
1118 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1119 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1120 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1123 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1126 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1127 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1128 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1129 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1130 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1133 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1134 --------------------------------
1137 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1138 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1139 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1140 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1141 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1142 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1143 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1144 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1145 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1146 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1147 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1151 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1152 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1153 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1154 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1155 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1156 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1157 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1158 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1159 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1160 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1161 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1162 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1165 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1166 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1168 * Fix MP3 free format support
1171 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1172 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1173 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1174 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1175 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1178 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1179 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1181 Audio filters and output:
1182 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1183 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1184 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1185 * Do not apply volume in file output
1186 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1187 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1190 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1191 the persistant media library
1192 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1193 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1194 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1195 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1196 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1197 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1198 press on the Play/Pause button
1199 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1200 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1201 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1202 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1203 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1204 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1205 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1206 Synchronization panel
1207 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1208 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1209 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1210 * Fix crashes on exit
1211 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1213 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1214 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1215 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1216 automatically reset on the first launch.
1217 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1218 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1219 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1222 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1223 * Fixes for icecast SD
1226 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1227 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1228 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1229 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1230 * Fix tags and file names display
1231 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1234 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1235 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1238 * Fix display of some buttons
1239 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1240 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1243 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1244 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1245 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1248 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1249 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1250 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1251 Thai translations update
1252 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1255 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1256 --------------------------------
1259 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1260 * fix the samba module compilation
1261 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1262 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1263 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1264 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1267 * Support for MXPEG files
1268 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1269 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1272 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1273 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1274 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1277 * Fix ogm header creation
1280 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1281 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1284 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1285 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1286 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1287 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1290 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1293 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1294 * allow to hide the sidebar
1295 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1296 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1297 * noticebly faster launch time
1298 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1299 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1300 * improve track synchronization panel
1301 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1302 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1305 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1306 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1307 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1308 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1311 * fix for menus display
1312 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1313 * documentation update
1316 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1317 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1320 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1321 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1322 * Update Jamendo selections
1326 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1327 * fix a crash on VLM close
1330 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1331 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1332 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1333 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1336 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1339 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1340 ---------------------------------
1343 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1344 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1345 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1346 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1347 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1348 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1349 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1350 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1351 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1352 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1353 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1354 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1355 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1356 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1357 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1358 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1359 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1360 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1361 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1362 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1363 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1364 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1365 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1366 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1367 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1368 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1370 Important changes for packagers:
1371 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1372 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1373 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1374 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1375 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1376 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1377 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1378 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1379 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1380 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1383 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1384 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1385 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1386 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1387 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1388 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1389 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1392 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1393 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1394 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1395 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1396 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1397 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1398 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1399 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1400 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1401 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1402 * PulseAudio audio input support
1403 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1404 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1405 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1406 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1407 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1408 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1409 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1410 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1413 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1414 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1415 are notably concerned.
1416 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1417 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1418 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1419 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1420 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1421 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1422 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1423 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1424 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1425 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1426 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1427 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1428 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1429 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1430 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1433 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1434 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1435 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1436 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1437 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1438 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1439 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1440 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1441 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1442 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1443 * Improved support of tracker files
1444 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1447 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1448 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1449 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1450 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1451 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1452 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1453 and important cleanups and optimisations
1454 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1455 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1456 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1457 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1458 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1459 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1460 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1461 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1462 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1463 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1464 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1465 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1466 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1467 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1468 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1469 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1470 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1471 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1472 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1473 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1474 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1477 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1478 * New video output for iOS platform
1479 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1480 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1481 * Various vmem improvements
1482 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1483 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1484 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1485 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1486 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1487 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1489 Audio Output and Filters:
1490 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1491 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1492 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1493 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1494 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1495 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1496 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1497 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1498 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1499 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1502 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1503 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1504 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1505 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1506 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1507 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1508 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1509 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1510 * New anti-flickering filter
1511 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1512 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1513 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1514 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1515 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1516 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1517 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1520 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1521 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1522 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1523 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1524 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1525 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1526 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1527 * Major rework of VoD support
1528 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1529 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1530 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1531 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1532 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1533 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1534 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1535 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1536 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1537 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1540 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1541 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1544 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1545 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1546 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1547 list of available audio and video filters
1548 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1549 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1550 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1553 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1554 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1555 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1556 * id3tag: use taglib
1557 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1558 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1559 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1560 * removal of the noise filter
1561 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1562 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1563 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1564 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1567 * Update of translations for most languages.
1568 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1571 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1572 ----------------------------------
1575 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1576 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1579 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1580 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1583 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1584 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1585 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1588 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1591 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1592 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1595 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1598 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1599 ----------------------------------
1602 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1603 including support for OS X Lion
1604 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1605 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1608 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1611 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1612 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1613 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1616 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1619 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1620 ----------------------------------
1623 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1624 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1627 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1628 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1629 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1630 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1631 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1633 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1634 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1635 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1637 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1638 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1641 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1644 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1647 * Fix quitting on Linux
1648 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1652 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1655 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1658 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1659 ---------------------------------
1661 Windows and Mac OS X:
1662 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1665 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1666 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1669 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1672 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1675 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1677 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1678 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1680 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1681 * RTP output and XML export
1682 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1686 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1687 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1688 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1689 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1692 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1693 --------------------------------
1695 Windows and Mac OS X:
1696 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1699 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1702 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1703 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1704 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1705 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1706 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1707 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1710 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1711 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1715 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1716 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1717 * New Luganda Translation
1720 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1721 --------------------------------
1724 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1727 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1728 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1729 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1730 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1733 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1735 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1736 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1737 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1738 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1739 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1740 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1741 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1742 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1744 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1745 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1746 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1747 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1748 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1749 * Configure and build system improvements
1750 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1753 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1754 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1755 * New icelandic translation
1758 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1759 --------------------------------
1762 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1763 #234484 and #260719.
1766 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1767 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1768 and stability reasons
1771 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1775 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1778 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1779 ----------------------------------
1782 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1785 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1786 ---------------------------------
1789 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1790 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1791 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1792 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1795 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1798 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1799 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1800 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1801 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1804 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1805 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1806 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1808 Subtitles and renderer:
1809 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1810 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1811 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1812 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1813 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1816 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1817 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1818 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1819 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1822 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1823 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1825 Miscellaneous fixes:
1826 * KDE device solid actions
1828 * Transcode integer overflow
1829 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1830 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1833 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1834 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1835 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1838 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1839 ----------------------------------
1842 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1846 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1849 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1852 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1853 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1854 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1855 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1858 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1862 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1865 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1868 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1869 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1871 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1875 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1876 * Miscellaneous fixes
1879 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1880 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1881 French and Ukrainian
1882 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1883 * New Asturian translation
1886 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1887 ----------------------------------
1890 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1892 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1895 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1898 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1899 * Various fixes for Windows
1902 * New Armenian translation
1903 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1904 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1907 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1908 --------------------------------
1911 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1912 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1913 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1916 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1917 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1920 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1921 --------------------------------
1923 Access and demuxers:
1924 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1925 * fix for podcasts parsing
1926 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1929 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1930 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1933 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1934 * fix m3u playlists exports
1937 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1940 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1943 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1946 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1949 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1952 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1953 --------------------------------
1956 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1957 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1960 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1961 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1964 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1965 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1966 * fix console output encoding
1968 Interface and extensions:
1969 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1970 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1973 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1974 --------------------------------
1977 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1978 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1979 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1980 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1981 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1982 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1983 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1984 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1985 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1986 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1987 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1988 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1989 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1990 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1991 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1992 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1996 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1997 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1998 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1999 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2000 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2003 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2006 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2007 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2008 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2012 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2015 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2016 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2017 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2020 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2021 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2022 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2023 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2026 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2027 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2030 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2031 --------------------------------
2033 Important changes for users:
2034 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2035 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2037 Important changes for packagers:
2038 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2039 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2040 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2041 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2042 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2044 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2046 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2047 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2048 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2049 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2050 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2053 * Support for the sftp protocol
2054 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2055 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2056 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2057 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2058 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2061 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2062 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2063 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2065 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2066 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2067 * Invmem module improvements
2068 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2069 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2070 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2071 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2072 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2073 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2074 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2075 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2076 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2077 * Support for VP8 codec
2078 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2081 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2082 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2083 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2084 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2085 * Various EGP improvements
2086 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2087 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2090 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2091 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2092 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2093 * Podcast images are now displayed
2096 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2097 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2098 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2099 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2100 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2101 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2102 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2103 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2104 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2105 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2106 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2109 * New content extensions lua framework
2112 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2113 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2114 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2115 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2116 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2117 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2118 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2121 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2122 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2123 * Service discovery based on libudev
2124 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2127 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2128 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2129 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2130 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2131 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2132 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2133 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2136 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2137 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2138 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2141 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2143 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2144 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2147 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2150 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2151 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2152 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2153 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2154 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2155 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2156 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2159 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2160 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2163 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2164 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2165 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2169 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2170 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2171 * Improved Solaris port
2174 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2175 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2178 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2179 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2180 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2181 * transrate: broken since too long
2182 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2183 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2184 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2185 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2186 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2187 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2188 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2189 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2190 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2191 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2192 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2193 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2194 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2195 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2198 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2199 --------------------------------
2202 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2204 Decoders/Packetizers:
2205 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2208 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2209 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2210 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2211 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2212 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2215 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2216 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2219 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2220 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2223 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2224 and Walloon translations updated
2225 * Sinhala translation started
2228 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2229 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2232 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2233 --------------------------------
2236 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2237 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2240 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2243 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2244 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2247 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2248 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2249 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2250 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2253 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2254 --------------------------------
2257 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2258 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2261 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2262 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2265 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2266 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2269 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2272 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2273 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2276 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2277 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2280 * New Walloon translation
2281 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2284 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2285 --------------------------------
2288 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2289 regressions in most popular drivers
2290 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2293 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2294 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2295 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2298 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2299 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2302 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2303 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2304 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2305 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2306 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2309 * New udev module for linux
2312 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2315 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2318 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2319 --------------------------------
2322 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2323 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2324 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2327 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2328 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2331 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2332 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2335 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2338 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2339 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2340 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2341 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2344 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2345 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2346 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2347 - no support for Goom and SDL
2348 - limited text rendering support
2349 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2352 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2353 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2354 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2355 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2356 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2357 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2358 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2359 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2360 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2364 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2367 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2370 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2371 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2372 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2373 Arabic and French translation updates
2376 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2377 --------------------------------
2380 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2381 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2382 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2383 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2384 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2385 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2388 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2389 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2390 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2393 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2394 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2395 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2398 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2401 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2402 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2405 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2406 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2407 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2408 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2409 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2410 * Fix various crashes
2413 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2415 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2419 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2420 ---------------------------------
2424 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2425 See 'Access:' for more info.
2426 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2429 * Instantaneous pausing
2430 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2431 * Finer speed control
2432 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2433 * Timeshift for most medias
2434 * RTSP trickplay support
2435 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2438 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2439 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2440 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2441 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2442 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2443 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2444 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2445 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2446 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2447 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2450 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2451 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2452 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2453 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2454 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2455 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2456 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2459 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2460 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2463 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2464 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2465 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2466 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2467 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2468 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2469 * DVB scanning on linux
2470 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2471 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2472 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2473 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2474 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2475 * MTP device access on Unix
2476 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2477 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2480 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2481 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2482 Windows and Mac OS X.
2485 * Export the playlist in HTML
2486 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2487 * Better metadata handling and reading
2489 Linux/Windows interface:
2490 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2491 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2492 * Recently played items list
2493 * Interface toolbar customizations
2494 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2495 - More menus actions
2496 - Finer speed slider
2497 - Improvements on many dialogs
2498 - New dialog for plugins listing
2499 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2500 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2501 * Better integration in GTK environments
2504 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2505 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2506 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2507 * Additional usability improvements
2510 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2511 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2512 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2513 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2514 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2517 * New Maemo port with:
2518 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2519 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2522 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2525 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2526 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2527 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2528 * Support for latest iSight models
2531 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2532 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2535 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2536 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2537 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2538 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2539 The old image video output has been removed.
2540 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2541 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2544 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2552 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2553 --------------------------------------
2559 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2560 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2561 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2562 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2563 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2564 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2565 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2567 Various fixes to the following modules:
2570 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2571 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2572 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2574 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2579 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2580 ---------------------------------
2583 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2584 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2587 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2588 ---------------------------------
2591 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2594 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2597 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2598 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2599 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2600 main controller window.
2601 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2604 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2609 * Updates of other localizations
2612 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2613 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2614 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2615 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2616 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2619 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2620 ---------------------------------
2623 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2625 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2628 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2629 --------------------------------
2634 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2635 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2638 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2639 --------------------------------
2641 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2642 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2645 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2648 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2649 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2652 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2653 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2656 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2657 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2658 * Various fixed in playlist
2661 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2664 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2667 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2668 ------------------------------------
2670 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2671 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2674 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2675 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2676 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2679 * Stability fix for the video output.
2682 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2683 --------------------------------
2686 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2687 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2688 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2689 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2690 * Fixed update system bugs
2691 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2694 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2695 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2696 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2697 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2698 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2699 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2700 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2701 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2702 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2703 modern Mac OS X versions
2706 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2707 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2709 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2710 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2713 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2714 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2715 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2716 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2717 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2718 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2721 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2722 --------------------------------
2724 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2725 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2726 * Multiple bugfixes.
2729 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2730 --------------------------------
2732 * Multiple bug fixes.
2735 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2736 ---------------------------------
2740 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2741 recent to work correctly
2742 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2743 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2744 edit the ".hosts" file.
2745 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2746 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2747 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2748 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2749 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2750 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2751 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2752 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2753 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2754 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2755 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2756 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2757 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2758 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2759 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2760 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2761 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2762 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2763 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2764 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2765 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2766 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2767 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2768 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2769 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2770 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2771 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2772 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2773 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2774 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2775 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2776 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2777 and postproc modules.
2778 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2779 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2780 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2781 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2783 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2784 filter. For example:
2785 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2786 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2788 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2789 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2795 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2797 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2798 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2801 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2802 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2804 * Shoutcast TV listings
2805 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2807 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2808 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2810 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2813 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2814 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2815 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2816 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2817 * JACK audio input support
2818 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2819 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2820 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2821 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2822 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2823 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2824 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2825 (available as a separate download).
2826 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2827 * RTMP input support
2828 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2829 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2830 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2832 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2833 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2836 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2837 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2838 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2839 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2841 * APEv1/2 tags support
2842 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2843 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2845 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2846 * TiVo Series 2 support
2847 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2852 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2853 * Flash Screen Video support
2854 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2855 * DosBox Capture support
2856 * Karl Morton's Video support
2857 * limited atrac3 support
2859 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2860 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2861 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2862 * H.264 PAFF support
2863 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2864 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2865 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2866 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2867 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2870 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2871 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2872 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2873 * AQTitle subtitles support
2874 * MKV USF subtitles support
2875 * HTML-based subtitles support
2876 * MPSub subtitles support
2877 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2878 * MPL2 subtitles support
2879 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2880 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2881 * Realtext subtitle support
2882 * DKS subtitle support
2883 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2884 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2887 * Flash Screen Video support
2888 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2890 Video outputs and filters:
2891 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2892 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2893 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2894 * New puzzle video output filter
2895 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2896 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2898 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2899 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2900 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2901 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2902 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2903 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2904 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2905 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2906 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2907 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2908 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2909 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2910 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2911 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2913 Audio outputs and filters:
2914 * Replay gain support
2915 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2916 new scaletempo audio filter)
2917 * New spatializer audio filter
2918 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2921 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2922 * New RTP payload formats:
2923 * Speex voice audio codec
2924 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2925 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2926 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2927 * DCCP transport for RTP
2928 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2933 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2934 end-user suitable way.
2935 * Improved user interaction
2936 * Improved mouse gestures
2937 * Vastly improved Update checker
2938 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2940 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2941 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2943 * Improved video output features
2944 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2945 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2946 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2947 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2948 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2950 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2951 if libncursesw is available.
2952 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2953 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2954 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2956 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2957 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2958 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2959 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2960 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2961 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2962 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2963 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2966 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2967 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2968 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2971 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2972 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2973 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2974 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2975 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2976 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2979 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2980 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2990 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2991 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2992 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2995 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2996 ----------------------------------
2999 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3002 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3003 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3004 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3005 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3006 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3007 * Updated Polish translation
3010 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3011 ----------------------------------
3014 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3015 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3016 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3019 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3020 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3021 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3022 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3023 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3024 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3025 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3026 to an unexpected application termination
3027 * New Serbian translation
3028 * Updated Romanian translation
3031 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3032 ----------------------------------
3035 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3036 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3037 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3038 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3039 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3040 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3041 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3042 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3045 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3046 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3047 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3048 * Fixed AAC resampling
3049 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3050 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3053 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3054 ----------------------------------
3057 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3058 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3059 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3060 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3061 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3064 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3065 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3066 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3067 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3068 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3071 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3072 ----------------------------------
3075 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3076 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3079 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3080 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3081 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3082 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3084 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3088 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3091 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3094 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3097 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3100 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3101 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3102 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3103 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3104 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3106 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3107 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3108 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3109 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3112 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3115 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3116 ----------------------------------
3119 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3120 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3121 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3123 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3124 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3126 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3127 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3130 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3132 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3133 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3134 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3135 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3136 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3137 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3138 two different movies
3139 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3140 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3141 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3144 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3147 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3148 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3149 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3150 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3153 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3154 ----------------------------------
3156 Various bugfixes, notably:
3157 * Windows Vista compatibility
3158 * Cropping in Direct3D
3159 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3160 * RSS filter string overflow
3162 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3164 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3165 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3168 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3169 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3172 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3175 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3178 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3181 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3182 ----------------------------------
3184 Various bugfixes, notably:
3185 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3186 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3187 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3188 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3189 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3190 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3193 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3194 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3197 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3199 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3200 * Diverse usability improvements
3201 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3202 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3203 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3206 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3207 ---------------------------------
3209 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3210 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3213 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3216 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3217 --------------------------------
3220 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3223 * Support for RTSP authentication
3224 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3225 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3226 * ATSC support for DVB input
3227 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3228 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3229 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3232 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3233 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3234 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3235 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3236 * Matroska WavPack support
3237 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3238 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3239 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3242 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3243 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3244 * Improved libcaca support
3248 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3249 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3251 * Systray support in skins
3253 * Support for Apple Remote control
3254 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3255 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3256 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3257 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3259 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3262 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3263 Windows 9x/ME users:
3264 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3265 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3266 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3267 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3268 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3270 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3271 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3280 * Updates to the libvlc API
3281 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3284 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3285 --------------------------------
3288 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3289 * Support for downloading updates
3293 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3294 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3295 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3296 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3298 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3299 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3300 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3303 * Cook (Real audio) support
3305 Playlist / Services discovery:
3306 * XSPF playlist support
3308 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3311 * New JACK audio output
3314 * New video filters:
3315 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3316 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3317 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3318 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3319 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3320 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3323 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3326 * System to inform the user and request information
3327 - HTTP authentication
3331 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3332 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3333 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3336 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3337 - Improved playlist handling
3338 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3340 - Embedded Video output
3341 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3342 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3343 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3344 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3345 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3347 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3348 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3351 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3354 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3355 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3356 * Growl "Now playing" support
3359 * Ability to log to syslog
3360 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3363 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3365 * A bit more automatic testing
3368 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3369 ---------------------------------
3372 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3373 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3376 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3377 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3380 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3383 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3384 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3390 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3393 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3394 --------------------------------
3397 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3401 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3402 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3403 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3406 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3407 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3408 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3409 * GnomeVFS input module
3410 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3411 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3414 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3415 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3416 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3419 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3420 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3426 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3427 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3430 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3431 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3432 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3435 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3437 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3438 - New extended controls panel
3439 - New bookmarks window
3440 - Fixed playlist sorting
3441 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3443 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3444 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3445 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3446 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3450 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3451 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3453 - Include macro to include other files
3457 * Should now work outside IE as well
3460 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3463 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3464 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3467 The following languages were added:
3471 * Simplified Chinese
3472 The following languages were re-added:
3476 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3477 --------------------------------
3480 * Rewrite of the playlist
3482 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3483 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3484 * Preferences improvements:
3485 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3486 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3488 * Core image manipulation support
3489 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3490 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3491 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3492 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3493 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3494 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3495 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3496 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3497 * Access filter architecture
3498 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3499 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3503 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3504 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3505 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3506 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3507 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3508 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3509 * Massive Matroska improvements
3510 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3512 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3513 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3514 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3515 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3516 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3518 Decoders / Encoders:
3519 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3520 * PNG decoder/encoder
3521 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3522 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3525 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3528 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3529 * Brand new SAP module
3530 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3531 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3532 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3533 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3534 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3535 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3539 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3542 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3543 * Image file video output (png)
3544 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3545 * Improvements to wall video filter
3546 * Support for font color and opacity
3552 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3553 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3554 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3558 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3559 - Improved preferences
3560 - Improvements to the wizard
3561 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3563 - Redesigned playlist
3564 - Improved preferences
3566 - Support for multiple actions
3569 - Support for the new playlist system
3571 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3574 * Screensaver disabling fix
3575 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3576 * Support for no-decoration windows
3579 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3580 * The OpenGL video output is back
3581 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3582 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3583 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3584 is not yet available in the new module
3585 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3588 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3597 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3600 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3603 The following languages were added:
3609 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3610 --------------------------------
3613 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3614 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3617 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3618 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3619 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3622 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3625 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3628 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3631 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3632 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3633 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3637 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3639 * Support of playlist group announcement
3642 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3643 --------------------------------
3646 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3647 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3648 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3649 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3650 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3651 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3654 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3655 (Stream your desktop)
3656 * Improved DVD support:
3657 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3658 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3659 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3660 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3661 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3662 (selection of titles/chapters).
3665 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3666 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3667 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3668 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3669 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3670 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3671 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3672 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3673 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3674 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3677 * G.726 audio support
3678 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3679 * MPEG-4 text support
3680 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3681 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3682 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3686 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3687 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3688 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3689 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3690 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3691 * DVB subtitles encoder
3692 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3693 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3695 * Text track muxing for mp4
3696 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3697 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3698 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3699 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3700 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3701 * Improved ASF muxer
3703 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3704 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3705 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3708 * New audio equalizer filter
3709 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3710 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3711 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3712 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3715 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3716 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3717 with support for effects.
3718 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3719 - New filters can be streamed.
3720 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3721 - Centralized scaling and blending
3723 - "time", to display current time
3724 - "marq", to display a marquee
3727 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3728 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3729 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3730 * A few skins2 improvements
3731 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3732 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3733 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3734 * Improved CORBA control module
3737 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3738 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3739 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3742 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3743 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3744 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3747 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3748 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3749 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3750 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3751 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3754 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3757 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3758 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3761 * Server/client network synchronization module
3762 * VBrick streams fully supported
3763 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3767 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3768 --------------------------------
3771 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3772 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3773 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3774 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3777 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3778 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3779 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3780 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3781 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3782 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3783 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3786 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3787 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3788 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3789 * Improved directory access module.
3790 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3791 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3792 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3793 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3794 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3797 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3798 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3799 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3802 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3803 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3804 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3807 * Improved session announcement system.
3808 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3809 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3810 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3811 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3812 * Improved transrater.
3813 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3814 * New configuration system.
3815 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3818 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3819 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3820 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3821 * Supports scheduling.
3822 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3823 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3826 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3827 - Ability to embed video output.
3828 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3829 - Lots of improvements.
3830 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3831 - New design and set of icons.
3832 - Ability to embed video output.
3833 - Support for hotkeys.
3834 - Support for bookmarks.
3836 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3837 - Better hotkeys handling.
3840 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3841 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3842 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3843 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3846 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3847 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3848 * Improved Windows installer.
3854 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3855 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3858 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3859 ---------------------------------
3862 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3863 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3866 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3867 --------------------------------
3870 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3871 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3874 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3875 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3876 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3877 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3880 * Internal improvments
3881 * Improved import/export
3884 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3886 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3887 small and strange formats.
3889 * New MOD audio demux.
3890 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3891 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3892 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3893 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3896 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3897 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3898 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3904 * New opengl video output plugin.
3907 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3908 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3911 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3912 --------------------------------
3915 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3916 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3917 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3918 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3919 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3920 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3921 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3922 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3925 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3930 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3931 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3932 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3933 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3934 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3935 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3936 * Better Icecast support.
3937 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3938 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3941 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3942 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3943 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3944 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3945 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3946 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3947 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3950 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3951 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3952 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3953 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3954 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3955 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3956 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3957 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3958 * Preliminary RTP support.
3959 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3964 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3965 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3967 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3968 - Improvements and help in preferences
3969 - New streaming wizard
3970 - Revised Disc Open menu
3972 - Improvements of the standard pages
3973 - Support for new commands
3974 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3977 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3978 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3981 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3982 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3983 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3984 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3985 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3986 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3987 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3988 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3989 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3992 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3994 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3995 * Support for Panther.
3996 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3997 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4000 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4001 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4002 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4003 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4004 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4005 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4006 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4007 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4010 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4011 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4012 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4015 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4018 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4019 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4020 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4021 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4024 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4025 --------------------------------
4028 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4031 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4032 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4035 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4036 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4039 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4042 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4043 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4046 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4049 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4052 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4053 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4057 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4058 --------------------------------
4061 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4062 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4066 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4067 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4068 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4070 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4071 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4074 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4077 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4080 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4081 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4085 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4086 --------------------------------
4089 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4090 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4094 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4095 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4096 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4097 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4098 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4101 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4102 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4103 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4106 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4107 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4108 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4111 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4112 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4113 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4114 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4115 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4118 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4119 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4120 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4123 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4126 * Improved build system.
4127 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4128 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4129 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4130 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4133 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4134 --------------------------------
4137 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4140 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4141 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4142 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4143 * Video 4 Linux support
4144 * CD Digital Audio support
4145 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4148 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4149 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4150 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4151 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4154 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4155 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4156 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4157 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4158 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4159 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4160 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4163 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4164 * New HTTP remote control interface
4167 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4168 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4169 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4170 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4171 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4174 * New reset option for the preferences
4175 * You can set your language in the prefences
4176 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4177 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4178 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4179 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4182 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4183 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4184 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4187 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4188 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4189 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4190 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4191 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4192 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4193 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4194 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4195 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4196 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4199 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4200 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4201 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4202 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4203 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4204 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4205 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4208 * Interface localization
4209 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4210 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4211 * New full-featured Preferences window
4214 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4215 --------------------------------
4218 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4219 * support for skins at the interface level
4220 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4221 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4222 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4223 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4224 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4227 * fixed HTTP redirects
4228 * support for opening an entire directory
4229 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4230 * new video4linux access plug-in
4231 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4234 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4235 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4236 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4239 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4240 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4241 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4242 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4243 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4244 * new codec for raw I420 video
4245 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4248 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4249 (although it still misses some important features)
4250 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4253 * new HTTP output support
4254 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4255 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4258 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4261 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4264 * reorderable playlist
4265 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4266 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4267 * support for mono audio output devices
4268 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4269 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4270 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4271 * the messages window remembers more lines
4272 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4273 * http and ogg stream output options
4274 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4277 * new skinnable interface
4278 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4280 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4281 * support for FLAC audio format
4282 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4284 * network tab in the interface
4285 * "apply" handling in preferences
4288 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4289 ---------------------------------
4292 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4293 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4294 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4295 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4297 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4298 * DTS S/PDIF support
4301 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4302 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4303 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4304 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4307 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4308 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4311 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4314 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4317 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4319 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4320 * rc interface is now fully useable
4321 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4324 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4325 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4326 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4327 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4328 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4330 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4331 * support for mouse gestures
4332 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4335 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4336 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4339 * improved ID3 tag detection
4340 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4341 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4342 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4344 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4347 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4348 ---------------------------------
4351 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4352 English was set as the preferred language
4355 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4356 --------------------------------
4359 * new mouse gesture interface
4360 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4364 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4365 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4366 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4369 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4370 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4374 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4377 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4378 without the user consent
4381 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4383 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4384 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4385 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4388 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4389 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4390 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4391 * playlist enhancements
4392 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4393 * new step forward/step backward commands
4394 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4395 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4396 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4399 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4400 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4401 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4404 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4405 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4408 * native video output is working again
4409 * only commandline interface support
4410 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4413 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4414 --------------------------------
4417 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4418 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4419 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4420 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4421 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4422 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4423 and A/52 streams are supported)
4424 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4429 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4430 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4431 * VCD entry points support
4432 * VCD image file support
4435 * support for *.asf format
4436 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4437 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4438 * support for ogg encapsulation
4439 * support for raw DV format
4440 * support for *.wav format
4441 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4444 Stream discovery & playlists:
4445 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4446 * support for .m3u file format
4447 * support for .asx file format
4448 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4451 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4452 (only available with the .avi demux)
4453 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4454 * support for raw PCM data
4455 * support for Cinepak video codec
4456 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4457 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4458 * support for Xvid codec
4459 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4460 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4461 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4463 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4465 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4468 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4471 * new WxWindows interface
4472 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4473 device and the channels configuration
4474 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4475 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4476 format that VLC can play
4477 * new swedish translation
4478 * enhancements of the playlist window
4479 * new messages window to see debug info
4480 * fixed a few crashes
4483 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4484 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4485 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4486 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working