1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
15 * Remove iomx support for Android
20 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
22 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
23 --------------------------------
25 Platform support changes:
26 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
27 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
29 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
30 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
31 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
32 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
33 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
35 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
36 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
37 it should work, but not without limitations.
38 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
39 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
40 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
41 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
42 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
43 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
46 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
47 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
48 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
49 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
50 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
51 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
52 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
53 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
54 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
55 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
56 * Support wayland surface type
57 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
58 * Refactor preparsing input
59 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
60 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
61 es category single only or multiple es behavior
62 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
63 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
64 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
67 * New NFS access module using libnfs
68 * New SMB access module using libdsm
70 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
71 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
72 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
73 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
74 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
75 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
76 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
77 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
78 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
79 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
80 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
81 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
82 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
83 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
84 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
85 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
86 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
87 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
88 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
89 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
90 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
91 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
92 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
93 * Improvements on DVB scanning
94 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
95 * Support for DVD ISO over network
96 * New SRT access module using libsrt
99 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
100 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
101 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
102 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
103 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
104 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
105 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
106 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
107 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
108 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
109 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
110 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
111 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
112 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
113 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
116 * Support for experimental AV1 video
117 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
118 * Support for experimental Daala video
119 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
120 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
121 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
122 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
123 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
124 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
125 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
126 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
127 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
128 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
129 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
130 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
131 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
132 can now decode up to 8 channels
133 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
134 * Support VPX high bit depth support
135 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
136 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
137 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
139 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
140 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
143 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
144 * Support for fragmented MP4
145 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
146 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
147 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
148 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
149 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
150 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
151 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
152 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
153 * Add new metadata fields
154 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
155 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
156 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
157 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
158 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
159 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
160 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
161 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
162 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
163 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
164 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
165 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
167 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
168 * Partial support of PSMF
169 * Fix broken SCR samples
170 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
171 * Improvements on MKV:
172 * Rewrite MKV seeking
173 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
174 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
175 * Improve DVD-menus support
176 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
177 * Support Daala in Ogg
178 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
179 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
180 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
181 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
182 * Support WMV extended content metadata
183 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
184 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
185 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
186 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
187 * Support SBV subtitles
188 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
189 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
190 * Support for isofLaC
191 * Improve fLaC seeking
192 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
193 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
196 * Add an ADF stream filter
197 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
198 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
199 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
200 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
201 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
202 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
205 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
206 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
209 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
210 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
211 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
212 * Add Tizen audio module
213 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
214 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
215 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
216 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
219 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
220 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
221 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
222 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
223 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
224 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
225 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
227 * Add a pitch shifting module
230 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
232 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
233 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
234 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
235 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
236 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
237 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
238 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
239 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
240 * Wayland shell surface window provider
241 * Wayland shared memory video output
242 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
243 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
244 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
245 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
246 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
247 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
248 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
249 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
252 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
253 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
254 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
255 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
256 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
257 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
258 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
261 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
262 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
263 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
264 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
267 * Chromecast output module
268 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
271 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
272 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
275 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
276 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
277 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
281 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
282 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
283 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
284 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
287 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
288 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
289 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
290 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
291 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
292 * Improve and simplify preferences window
293 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
294 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
295 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
296 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
297 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
300 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
303 * Batch convert support
304 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
307 * Support key accelerators
310 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
311 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
312 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
313 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
314 This allows to attach media events between create and start
315 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
316 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
317 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
318 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
319 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
320 identifier (if there is one available)
321 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
322 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
323 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
324 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
325 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
326 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
327 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
328 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
329 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
330 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
331 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
332 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
333 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
334 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
336 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
337 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
338 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
339 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
340 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
343 * Support for the SystemD Journal
344 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
345 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
346 * New Android module for logging
349 * remove langfromtelx
350 * remove ZPL playlist format
351 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
352 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
353 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
354 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
355 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
356 * Add a memory keystore
357 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
358 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
362 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
363 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
364 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
365 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
366 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
367 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
368 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
369 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
370 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
371 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
372 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
373 * BD access module (use libbluray)
374 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
375 * EyeTV access module
376 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
377 * VDA decoder: use VT
378 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
379 * SDL video output module
380 * DirectFB video output module
381 * RAOP stream output module
384 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
385 --------------------------------
388 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
393 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
394 --------------------------------
397 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
398 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
399 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
400 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
403 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
404 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
407 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
408 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
409 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
410 update to the newest version.
413 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
417 * Support libupnp 1.8
422 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
423 ----------------------------------
426 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
427 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
430 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
432 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
433 ----------------------------------
435 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
440 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
441 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
442 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
443 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
444 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
445 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
446 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
449 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
450 --------------------------------
453 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
454 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
455 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
456 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
457 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
458 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
462 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
463 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
464 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
465 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
466 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
467 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
468 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
471 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
472 * Fix screenshots size
475 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
476 * Fix FTP scan string injection
477 * Fix HTTP size handling
483 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
487 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
490 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
491 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
492 * Fix uninstaller path handling
493 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
496 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
497 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
501 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
502 --------------------------------
505 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
506 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
507 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
510 * Fix resizing issues
513 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
516 * Build fixes for Hurd
519 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
520 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
521 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
524 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
525 --------------------------------
528 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
529 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
533 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
534 * Fix crashes with libvpx
535 * Use libass without caching dialog
538 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
541 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
544 * Fix resume where you left off
545 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
546 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
547 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
550 * Fix crashes in media information panel
551 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
554 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
557 * Update of most translations
560 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
561 --------------------------------
564 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
565 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
566 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
567 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
568 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
571 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
572 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
573 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
574 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
575 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
576 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
577 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
580 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
581 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
582 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
583 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
584 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
585 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
588 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
589 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
590 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
591 be set manually by the user)
592 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
593 * Fix alsa default device selection
596 * Fix video control that fails to show up
597 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
598 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
599 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
600 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
603 * Support for OS X El Capitan
604 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
605 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
606 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
609 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
610 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
611 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
612 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
613 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
617 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
618 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
619 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
622 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
623 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
624 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
625 * Improve PNG encoding time
626 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
627 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
628 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
629 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
630 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
631 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
632 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
633 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
634 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
635 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
636 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
637 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
638 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
641 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
642 * Update of most translations
645 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
646 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
647 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
648 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
651 * Update of most translations
654 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
655 --------------------------------
658 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
659 * Fix some VP9 decoding
661 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
662 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
663 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
664 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
669 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
670 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
671 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
672 * Revert to older ASX code
673 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
676 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
677 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
678 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
681 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
682 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
683 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
686 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
687 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
688 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
691 * Fix recent items behaviour
692 * Fix rotation filter activation
693 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
696 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
697 * Fix extensions registration during install
698 * Fix extensions dialog crash
699 * Default to no DxVA decoding
702 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
705 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
706 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
707 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
708 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
709 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
710 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
713 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
714 --------------------------------
717 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
718 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
721 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
722 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
723 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
724 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
727 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
728 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
729 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
730 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
732 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
733 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
734 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
737 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
738 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
739 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
740 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
741 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
742 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
743 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
744 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
745 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
746 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
747 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
748 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
749 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
750 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
751 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
752 * New jpeg image decoder
753 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
754 * New SVG image decoder
755 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
756 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
757 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
760 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
761 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
762 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
763 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
764 * New png image encoder using libpng
767 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
768 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
769 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
770 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
771 synchronization and tracks exclusion
772 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
773 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
774 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
775 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
776 * Support Opus in MKV
778 * Basic support for WebVTT
779 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
780 * Support HDPR TS files
781 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
782 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
783 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
784 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
785 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
786 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
787 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
788 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
789 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
790 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
791 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
792 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
795 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
796 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
797 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
798 * New Android native window provider module
799 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
800 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
801 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
804 * New Oldmovie effect filter
805 * New VHS effect filter
806 * New Freeze effect filter
807 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
808 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
809 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
812 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
813 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
814 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
815 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
816 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
817 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
820 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
821 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
823 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
826 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
827 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
828 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
829 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
830 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
831 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
832 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
833 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
834 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
836 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
837 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
838 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
841 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
842 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
845 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
846 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
849 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
850 * Add record button in Qt menus
851 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
852 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
853 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
856 * Support for OS X Yosemite
857 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
858 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
859 * Fixes for advanced preferences
860 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
861 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
862 * Option to increase playlist font size
863 * Improved crash log reporting
866 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
867 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
868 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
869 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
872 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
875 * iOS video output: use ios2
876 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
877 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
880 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
881 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
882 * Update of all translations:
883 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
884 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
885 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
886 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
887 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
888 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
889 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
892 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
893 --------------------------------
899 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
900 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
901 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
902 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
903 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
904 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
905 * Fix potential crash in zip access
906 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
907 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
910 * Update translations and greek encoding
913 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
914 --------------------------------
917 * Fix compilation on OS/2
920 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
922 Mac OS X audio output:
923 * Fix channel ordering
924 * Increase the buffersize
927 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
928 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
929 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
932 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
935 * Correctly support video-on-top
936 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
937 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
940 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
943 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
944 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
947 * Update British English
950 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
951 --------------------------------
954 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
957 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
960 * Fix DVD playback regression
961 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
962 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
965 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
966 --------------------------------
969 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
970 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
973 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
974 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
975 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
978 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
979 by updating codec libraries
980 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
981 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
982 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
985 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
986 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
987 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
988 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
991 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
992 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
995 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
996 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
997 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
998 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
999 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1002 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1003 * Fix record file names
1006 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1007 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1008 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1009 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1010 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1013 * Fix album art display on Windows
1016 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1017 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1018 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1019 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1020 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1021 and Simplified Chinese translations
1022 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1025 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1026 --------------------------------
1029 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1030 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1031 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1032 audio devices on OS X
1033 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1034 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1037 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1038 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1041 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1042 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1045 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1048 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1049 * Improve A-B loop control
1050 * Fix album art update when changing media
1053 * Add a language option in the interface
1054 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1055 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1056 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1057 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1058 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1059 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1060 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1063 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1066 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1067 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1068 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1069 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1072 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1073 --------------------------------
1076 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1078 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1081 * VP9 support in WebM
1082 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1083 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1086 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1087 * Support Speex in ogg files
1088 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1089 * Support Alac in mkv
1090 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1091 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1094 * Fix DVB options parsing
1095 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1096 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1099 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1100 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1103 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1104 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1107 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1108 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1109 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1110 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1111 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1114 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1115 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1118 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1119 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1122 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1123 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1124 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1125 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1126 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1127 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1128 * Improves interface resizings
1131 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1132 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1133 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1134 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1135 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1139 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1144 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1145 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1146 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1147 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1149 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1150 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1153 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1154 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1155 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1156 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1157 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1160 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1161 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1162 * Remove SQL support
1165 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1166 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1167 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1168 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1169 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1170 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1171 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1172 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1173 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1174 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1175 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1176 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1177 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1180 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1181 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1182 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1185 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1186 remove support for previous OS X releases
1187 * Major improvements in DASH support
1188 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1189 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1190 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1191 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1192 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1193 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1194 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1195 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1196 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1197 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1198 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1201 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1202 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1203 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1204 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1205 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1206 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1207 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1208 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1209 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1210 * Add support for liveleak streams
1211 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1212 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1213 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1216 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1217 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1218 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1219 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1220 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1221 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1222 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1223 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1224 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1225 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1226 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1229 * New remapping channel filter
1230 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1231 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1232 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1233 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1234 * New gain audio filter
1237 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1238 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1239 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1240 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1241 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1242 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1243 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1244 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1245 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1248 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1249 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1250 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1251 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1252 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1253 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1254 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1257 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1258 * Options support for AVIO output module
1259 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1260 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1261 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1262 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1263 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1266 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1269 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1270 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1271 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1272 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1273 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1274 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1275 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1276 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1279 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1280 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1283 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1284 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1286 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1287 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1288 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1289 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1290 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1291 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1292 VLC's internal volume level
1293 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1295 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1296 selection and to manage the list of presets
1297 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1298 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1299 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1300 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1301 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1302 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1303 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1304 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1305 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1306 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1308 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1309 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1310 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1311 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1312 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1313 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1314 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1315 3rd party applications
1316 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1317 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1318 (system-wide settings)
1319 * Add support for the Video Title option
1320 * Add support for the Boss Key
1321 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1322 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1325 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1326 * Menus modifications and improvements
1327 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1328 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1329 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1330 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1331 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1332 * Add SD pixmap sources
1333 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1334 * Display playlist total duration
1335 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1336 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1337 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1342 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1343 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1344 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1345 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1348 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1349 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1350 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1351 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1352 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1353 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1354 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1355 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1356 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1357 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1360 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1361 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1362 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1363 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1364 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1365 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1367 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1368 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1369 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1370 * Broken crop video filter
1372 * OSD parser and menu
1373 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1374 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1375 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1376 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1380 * Update of all translations
1383 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1384 --------------------------------
1387 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1388 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1391 * Fix modplug security issues
1394 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1395 --------------------------------
1399 * Fix crash in QTsound
1400 * Fix screen mouse file location
1401 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1404 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1405 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1408 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1411 * Fix interface crashes
1412 * Fix autostart playback option
1413 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1416 * update Welsh translation
1417 * New Kannada translation
1420 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1421 --------------------------------
1424 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1425 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1429 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1432 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1435 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1438 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1441 * Minor improvements
1442 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1445 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1448 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1449 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1450 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1453 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1454 --------------------------------
1457 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1460 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1463 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1464 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1465 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1466 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1467 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1468 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1471 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1472 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1473 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1474 * 3rd party codecs updates
1477 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1478 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1479 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1480 in the advanced preferences panel
1481 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1482 * Fix crash within the video output code
1483 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1484 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1485 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1486 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1487 lua extensions, ...)
1488 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1491 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1494 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1495 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1498 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1501 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1502 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1503 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1504 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1505 Dutch, Danish, translations
1506 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1509 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1510 --------------------------------
1513 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1516 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1517 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1518 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1521 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1522 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1523 * Fix koreus lua parser
1524 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1525 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1526 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1527 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1530 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1531 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1534 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1537 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1538 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1539 * Fix Time counter UI look
1540 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1543 * Fix https streaming
1546 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1547 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1548 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1551 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1552 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1553 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1554 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1555 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1558 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1559 --------------------------------
1562 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1563 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1564 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1565 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1566 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1567 during playback on Mac OS X
1570 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1571 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1572 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1575 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1576 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1577 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1578 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1579 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1582 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1583 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1584 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1585 * Support Youtube live streams
1588 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1591 * Fix media info dialog update
1592 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1593 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1594 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1595 * Fix album art display at start
1598 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1599 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1600 * Fix menus display and behavior
1601 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1602 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1603 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1604 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1605 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1606 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1607 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1610 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1611 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1612 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1613 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1614 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1615 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1616 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1617 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1618 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1621 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1622 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1623 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1624 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1625 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1628 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1629 --------------------------------
1632 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1635 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1636 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1639 * Add GateKeeper support
1640 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1641 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1642 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1645 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1648 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1649 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1650 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1651 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1652 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1655 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1656 --------------------------------
1659 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1660 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1661 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1662 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1663 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1664 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1665 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1666 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1667 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1668 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1669 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1673 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1674 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1675 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1676 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1677 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1678 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1679 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1680 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1681 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1682 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1683 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1684 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1687 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1688 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1690 * Fix MP3 free format support
1693 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1694 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1695 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1696 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1697 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1700 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1701 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1703 Audio filters and output:
1704 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1705 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1706 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1707 * Do not apply volume in file output
1708 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1709 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1712 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1713 the persistant media library
1714 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1715 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1716 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1717 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1718 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1719 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1720 press on the Play/Pause button
1721 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1722 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1723 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1724 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1725 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1726 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1727 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1728 Synchronization panel
1729 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1730 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1731 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1732 * Fix crashes on exit
1733 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1735 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1736 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1737 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1738 automatically reset on the first launch.
1739 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1740 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1741 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1744 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1745 * Fixes for icecast SD
1748 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1749 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1750 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1751 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1752 * Fix tags and file names display
1753 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1756 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1757 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1760 * Fix display of some buttons
1761 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1762 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1765 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1766 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1767 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1770 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1771 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1772 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1773 Thai translations update
1774 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1777 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1778 --------------------------------
1781 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1782 * fix the samba module compilation
1783 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1784 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1785 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1786 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1789 * Support for MXPEG files
1790 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1791 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1794 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1795 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1796 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1799 * Fix ogm header creation
1802 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1803 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1806 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1807 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1808 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1809 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1812 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1815 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1816 * allow to hide the sidebar
1817 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1818 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1819 * noticebly faster launch time
1820 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1821 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1822 * improve track synchronization panel
1823 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1824 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1827 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1828 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1829 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1830 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1833 * fix for menus display
1834 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1835 * documentation update
1838 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1839 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1842 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1843 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1844 * Update Jamendo selections
1848 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1849 * fix a crash on VLM close
1852 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1853 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1854 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1855 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1858 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1861 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1862 ---------------------------------
1865 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1866 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1867 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1868 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1869 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1870 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1871 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1872 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1873 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1874 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1875 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1876 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1877 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1878 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1879 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1880 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1881 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1882 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1883 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1884 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1885 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1886 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1887 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1888 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1889 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1890 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1892 Important changes for packagers:
1893 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1894 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1895 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1896 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1897 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1898 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1899 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1900 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1901 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1902 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1905 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1906 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1907 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1908 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1909 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1910 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1911 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1914 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1915 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1916 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1917 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1918 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1919 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1920 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1921 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1922 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1923 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1924 * PulseAudio audio input support
1925 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1926 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1927 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1928 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1929 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1930 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1931 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1932 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1935 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1936 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1937 are notably concerned.
1938 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1939 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1940 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1941 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1942 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1943 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1944 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1945 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1946 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1947 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1948 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1949 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1950 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1951 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1952 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1955 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1956 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1957 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1958 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1959 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1960 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1961 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1962 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1963 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1964 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1965 * Improved support of tracker files
1966 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1969 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1970 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1971 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1972 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1973 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1974 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1975 and important cleanups and optimisations
1976 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1977 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1978 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1979 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1980 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1981 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1982 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1983 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1984 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1985 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1986 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1987 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1988 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1989 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1990 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1991 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1992 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1993 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1994 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1995 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1996 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1999 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2000 * New video output for iOS platform
2001 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2002 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2003 * Various vmem improvements
2004 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2005 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2006 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2007 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2008 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2009 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2011 Audio Output and Filters:
2012 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2013 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2014 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2015 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2016 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2017 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2018 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2019 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2020 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2021 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2024 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2025 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2026 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2027 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2028 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2029 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2030 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2031 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2032 * New anti-flickering filter
2033 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2034 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2035 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2036 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2037 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2038 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2039 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2042 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2043 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2044 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2045 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2046 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2047 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2048 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2049 * Major rework of VoD support
2050 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2051 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2052 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2053 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2054 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2055 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2056 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2057 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2058 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2059 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2062 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2063 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2066 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2067 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2068 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2069 list of available audio and video filters
2070 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2071 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2072 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2075 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2076 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2077 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2078 * id3tag: use taglib
2079 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2080 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2081 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2082 * removal of the noise filter
2083 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2084 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2085 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2086 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2089 * Update of translations for most languages.
2090 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2093 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2094 ----------------------------------
2097 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2098 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2101 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2102 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2105 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2106 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2107 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2110 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2113 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2114 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2117 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2120 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2121 ----------------------------------
2124 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2125 including support for OS X Lion
2126 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2127 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2130 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2133 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2134 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2135 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2138 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2141 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2142 ----------------------------------
2145 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2146 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2149 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2150 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2151 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2152 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2153 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2155 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2156 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2157 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2159 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2160 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2163 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2166 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2169 * Fix quitting on Linux
2170 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2174 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2177 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2180 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2181 ---------------------------------
2183 Windows and Mac OS X:
2184 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2187 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2188 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2191 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2194 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2197 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2199 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2200 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2202 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2203 * RTP output and XML export
2204 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2208 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2209 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2210 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2211 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2214 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2215 --------------------------------
2217 Windows and Mac OS X:
2218 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2221 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2224 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2225 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2226 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2227 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2228 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2229 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2232 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2233 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2237 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2238 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2239 * New Luganda Translation
2242 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2243 --------------------------------
2246 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2249 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2250 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2251 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2252 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2255 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2257 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2258 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2259 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2260 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2261 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2262 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2263 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2264 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2266 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2267 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2268 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2269 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2270 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2271 * Configure and build system improvements
2272 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2275 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2276 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2277 * New icelandic translation
2280 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2281 --------------------------------
2284 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2285 #234484 and #260719.
2288 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2289 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2290 and stability reasons
2293 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2297 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2300 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2301 ----------------------------------
2304 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2307 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2308 ---------------------------------
2311 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2312 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2313 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2314 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2317 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2320 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2321 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2322 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2323 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2326 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2327 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2328 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2330 Subtitles and renderer:
2331 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2332 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2333 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2334 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2335 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2338 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2339 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2340 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2341 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2344 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2345 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2347 Miscellaneous fixes:
2348 * KDE device solid actions
2350 * Transcode integer overflow
2351 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2352 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2355 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2356 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2357 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2360 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2361 ----------------------------------
2364 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2368 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2371 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2374 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2375 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2376 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2377 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2380 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2384 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2387 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2390 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2391 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2393 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2397 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2398 * Miscellaneous fixes
2401 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2402 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2403 French and Ukrainian
2404 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2405 * New Asturian translation
2408 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2409 ----------------------------------
2412 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2414 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2417 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2420 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2421 * Various fixes for Windows
2424 * New Armenian translation
2425 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2426 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2429 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2430 --------------------------------
2433 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2434 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2435 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2438 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2439 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2442 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2443 --------------------------------
2445 Access and demuxers:
2446 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2447 * fix for podcasts parsing
2448 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2451 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2452 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2455 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2456 * fix m3u playlists exports
2459 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2462 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2465 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2468 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2471 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2474 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2475 --------------------------------
2478 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2479 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2482 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2483 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2486 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2487 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2488 * fix console output encoding
2490 Interface and extensions:
2491 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2492 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2495 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2496 --------------------------------
2499 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2500 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2501 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2502 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2503 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2504 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2505 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2506 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2507 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2508 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2509 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2510 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2511 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2512 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2513 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2514 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2518 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2519 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2520 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2521 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2522 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2525 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2528 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2529 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2530 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2534 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2537 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2538 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2539 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2542 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2543 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2544 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2545 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2548 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2549 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2552 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2553 --------------------------------
2555 Important changes for users:
2556 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2557 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2559 Important changes for packagers:
2560 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2561 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2562 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2563 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2564 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2566 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2568 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2569 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2570 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2571 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2572 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2575 * Support for the sftp protocol
2576 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2577 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2578 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2579 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2580 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2583 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2584 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2585 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2587 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2588 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2589 * Invmem module improvements
2590 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2591 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2592 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2593 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2594 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2595 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2596 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2597 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2598 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2599 * Support for VP8 codec
2600 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2603 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2604 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2605 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2606 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2607 * Various EGP improvements
2608 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2609 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2612 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2613 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2614 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2615 * Podcast images are now displayed
2618 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2619 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2620 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2621 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2622 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2623 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2624 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2625 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2626 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2627 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2628 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2631 * New content extensions lua framework
2634 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2635 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2636 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2637 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2638 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2639 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2640 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2643 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2644 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2645 * Service discovery based on libudev
2646 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2649 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2650 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2651 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2652 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2653 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2654 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2655 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2658 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2659 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2660 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2663 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2665 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2666 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2669 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2672 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2673 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2674 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2675 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2676 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2677 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2678 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2681 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2682 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2685 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2686 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2687 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2691 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2692 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2693 * Improved Solaris port
2696 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2697 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2700 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2701 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2702 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2703 * transrate: broken since too long
2704 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2705 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2706 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2707 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2708 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2709 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2710 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2711 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2712 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2713 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2714 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2715 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2716 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2717 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2720 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2721 --------------------------------
2724 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2726 Decoders/Packetizers:
2727 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2730 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2731 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2732 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2733 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2734 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2737 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2738 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2741 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2742 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2745 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2746 and Walloon translations updated
2747 * Sinhala translation started
2750 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2751 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2754 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2755 --------------------------------
2758 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2759 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2762 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2765 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2766 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2769 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2770 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2771 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2772 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2775 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2776 --------------------------------
2779 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2780 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2783 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2784 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2787 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2788 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2791 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2794 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2795 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2798 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2799 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2802 * New Walloon translation
2803 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2806 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2807 --------------------------------
2810 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2811 regressions in most popular drivers
2812 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2815 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2816 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2817 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2820 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2821 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2824 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2825 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2826 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2827 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2828 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2831 * New udev module for linux
2834 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2837 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2840 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2841 --------------------------------
2844 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2845 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2846 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2849 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2850 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2853 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2854 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2857 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2860 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2861 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2862 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2863 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2866 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2867 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2868 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2869 - no support for Goom and SDL
2870 - limited text rendering support
2871 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2874 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2875 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2876 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2877 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2878 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2879 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2880 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2881 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2882 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2886 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2889 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2892 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2893 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2894 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2895 Arabic and French translation updates
2898 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2899 --------------------------------
2902 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2903 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2904 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2905 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2906 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2907 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2910 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2911 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2912 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2915 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2916 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2917 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2920 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2923 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2924 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2927 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2928 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2929 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2930 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2931 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2932 * Fix various crashes
2935 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2937 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2941 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2942 ---------------------------------
2946 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2947 See 'Access:' for more info.
2948 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2951 * Instantaneous pausing
2952 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2953 * Finer speed control
2954 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2955 * Timeshift for most medias
2956 * RTSP trickplay support
2957 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2960 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2961 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2962 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2963 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2964 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2965 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2966 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2967 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2968 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2969 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2972 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2973 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2974 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2975 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2976 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2977 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2978 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2981 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2982 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2985 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2986 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2987 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2988 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2989 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2990 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2991 * DVB scanning on linux
2992 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2993 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2994 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2995 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2996 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2997 * MTP device access on Unix
2998 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2999 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3002 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3003 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3004 Windows and Mac OS X.
3007 * Export the playlist in HTML
3008 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3009 * Better metadata handling and reading
3011 Linux/Windows interface:
3012 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3013 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3014 * Recently played items list
3015 * Interface toolbar customizations
3016 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3017 - More menus actions
3018 - Finer speed slider
3019 - Improvements on many dialogs
3020 - New dialog for plugins listing
3021 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3022 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3023 * Better integration in GTK environments
3026 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3027 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3028 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3029 * Additional usability improvements
3032 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3033 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3034 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3035 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3036 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3039 * New Maemo port with:
3040 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3041 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3044 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3047 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3048 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3049 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3050 * Support for latest iSight models
3053 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3054 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3057 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3058 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3059 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3060 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3061 The old image video output has been removed.
3062 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3063 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3066 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3074 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3075 --------------------------------------
3081 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3082 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3083 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3084 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3085 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3086 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3087 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3089 Various fixes to the following modules:
3092 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3093 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3094 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3096 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3101 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3102 ---------------------------------
3105 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3106 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3109 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3110 ---------------------------------
3113 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3116 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3119 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3120 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3121 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3122 main controller window.
3123 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3126 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3131 * Updates of other localizations
3134 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3135 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3136 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3137 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3138 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3141 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3142 ---------------------------------
3145 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3147 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3150 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3151 --------------------------------
3156 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3157 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3160 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3161 --------------------------------
3163 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3164 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3167 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3170 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3171 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3174 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3175 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3178 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3179 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3180 * Various fixed in playlist
3183 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3186 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3189 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3190 ------------------------------------
3192 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3193 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3196 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3197 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3198 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3201 * Stability fix for the video output.
3204 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3205 --------------------------------
3208 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3209 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3210 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3211 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3212 * Fixed update system bugs
3213 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3216 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3217 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3218 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3219 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3220 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3221 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3222 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3223 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3224 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3225 modern Mac OS X versions
3228 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3229 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3231 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3232 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3235 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3236 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3237 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3238 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3239 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3240 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3243 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3244 --------------------------------
3246 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3247 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3248 * Multiple bugfixes.
3251 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3252 --------------------------------
3254 * Multiple bug fixes.
3257 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3258 ---------------------------------
3262 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3263 recent to work correctly
3264 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3265 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3266 edit the ".hosts" file.
3267 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3268 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3269 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3270 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3271 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3272 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3273 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3274 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3275 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3276 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3277 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3278 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3279 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3280 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3281 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3282 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3283 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3284 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3285 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3286 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3287 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3288 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3289 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3290 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3291 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3292 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3293 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3294 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3295 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3296 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3297 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3298 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3299 and postproc modules.
3300 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3301 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3302 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3303 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3305 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3306 filter. For example:
3307 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3308 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3310 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3311 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3317 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3319 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3320 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3323 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3324 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3326 * Shoutcast TV listings
3327 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3329 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3330 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3332 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3335 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3336 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3337 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3338 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3339 * JACK audio input support
3340 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3341 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3342 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3343 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3344 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3345 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3346 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3347 (available as a separate download).
3348 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3349 * RTMP input support
3350 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3351 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3352 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3354 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3355 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3358 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3359 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3360 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3361 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3363 * APEv1/2 tags support
3364 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3365 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3367 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3368 * TiVo Series 2 support
3369 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3374 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3375 * Flash Screen Video support
3376 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3377 * DosBox Capture support
3378 * Karl Morton's Video support
3379 * limited atrac3 support
3381 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3382 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3383 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3384 * H.264 PAFF support
3385 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3386 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3387 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3388 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3389 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3392 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3393 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3394 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3395 * AQTitle subtitles support
3396 * MKV USF subtitles support
3397 * HTML-based subtitles support
3398 * MPSub subtitles support
3399 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3400 * MPL2 subtitles support
3401 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3402 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3403 * Realtext subtitle support
3404 * DKS subtitle support
3405 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3406 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3409 * Flash Screen Video support
3410 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3412 Video outputs and filters:
3413 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3414 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3415 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3416 * New puzzle video output filter
3417 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3418 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3420 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3421 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3422 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3423 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3424 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3425 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3426 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3427 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3428 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3429 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3430 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3431 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3432 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3433 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3435 Audio outputs and filters:
3436 * Replay gain support
3437 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3438 new scaletempo audio filter)
3439 * New spatializer audio filter
3440 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3443 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3444 * New RTP payload formats:
3445 * Speex voice audio codec
3446 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3447 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3448 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3449 * DCCP transport for RTP
3450 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3455 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3456 end-user suitable way.
3457 * Improved user interaction
3458 * Improved mouse gestures
3459 * Vastly improved Update checker
3460 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3462 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3463 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3465 * Improved video output features
3466 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3467 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3468 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3469 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3470 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3472 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3473 if libncursesw is available.
3474 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3475 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3476 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3478 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3479 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3480 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3481 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3482 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3483 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3484 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3485 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3488 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3489 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3490 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3493 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3494 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3495 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3496 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3497 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3498 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3501 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3502 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3512 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3513 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3514 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3517 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3518 ----------------------------------
3521 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3524 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3525 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3526 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3527 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3528 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3529 * Updated Polish translation
3532 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3533 ----------------------------------
3536 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3537 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3538 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3541 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3542 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3543 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3544 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3545 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3546 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3547 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3548 to an unexpected application termination
3549 * New Serbian translation
3550 * Updated Romanian translation
3553 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3554 ----------------------------------
3557 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3558 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3559 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3560 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3561 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3562 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3563 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3564 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3567 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3568 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3569 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3570 * Fixed AAC resampling
3571 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3572 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3575 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3576 ----------------------------------
3579 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3580 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3581 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3582 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3583 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3586 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3587 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3588 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3589 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3590 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3593 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3594 ----------------------------------
3597 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3598 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3601 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3602 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3603 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3604 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3606 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3610 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3613 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3616 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3619 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3622 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3623 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3624 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3625 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3626 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3628 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3629 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3630 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3631 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3634 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3637 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3638 ----------------------------------
3641 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3642 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3643 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3645 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3646 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3648 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3649 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3652 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3654 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3655 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3656 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3657 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3658 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3659 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3660 two different movies
3661 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3662 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3663 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3666 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3669 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3670 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3671 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3672 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3675 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3676 ----------------------------------
3678 Various bugfixes, notably:
3679 * Windows Vista compatibility
3680 * Cropping in Direct3D
3681 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3682 * RSS filter string overflow
3684 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3686 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3687 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3690 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3691 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3694 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3697 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3700 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3703 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3704 ----------------------------------
3706 Various bugfixes, notably:
3707 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3708 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3709 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3710 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3711 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3712 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3715 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3716 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3719 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3721 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3722 * Diverse usability improvements
3723 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3724 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3725 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3728 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3729 ---------------------------------
3731 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3732 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3735 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3738 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3739 --------------------------------
3742 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3745 * Support for RTSP authentication
3746 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3747 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3748 * ATSC support for DVB input
3749 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3750 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3751 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3754 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3755 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3756 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3757 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3758 * Matroska WavPack support
3759 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3760 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3761 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3764 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3765 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3766 * Improved libcaca support
3770 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3771 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3773 * Systray support in skins
3775 * Support for Apple Remote control
3776 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3777 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3778 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3779 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3781 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3784 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3785 Windows 9x/ME users:
3786 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3787 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3788 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3789 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3790 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3792 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3793 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3802 * Updates to the libvlc API
3803 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3806 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3807 --------------------------------
3810 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3811 * Support for downloading updates
3815 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3816 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3817 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3818 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3820 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3821 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3822 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3825 * Cook (Real audio) support
3827 Playlist / Services discovery:
3828 * XSPF playlist support
3830 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3833 * New JACK audio output
3836 * New video filters:
3837 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3838 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3839 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3840 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3841 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3842 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3845 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3848 * System to inform the user and request information
3849 - HTTP authentication
3853 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3854 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3855 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3858 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3859 - Improved playlist handling
3860 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3862 - Embedded Video output
3863 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3864 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3865 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3866 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3867 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3869 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3870 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3873 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3876 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3877 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3878 * Growl "Now playing" support
3881 * Ability to log to syslog
3882 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3885 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3887 * A bit more automatic testing
3890 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3891 ---------------------------------
3894 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3895 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3898 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3899 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3902 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3905 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3906 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3912 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3915 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3916 --------------------------------
3919 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3923 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3924 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3925 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3928 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3929 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3930 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3931 * GnomeVFS input module
3932 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3933 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3936 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3937 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3938 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3941 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3942 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3948 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3949 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3952 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3953 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3954 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3957 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3959 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3960 - New extended controls panel
3961 - New bookmarks window
3962 - Fixed playlist sorting
3963 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3965 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3966 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3967 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3968 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3972 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3973 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3975 - Include macro to include other files
3979 * Should now work outside IE as well
3982 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3985 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3986 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3989 The following languages were added:
3993 * Simplified Chinese
3994 The following languages were re-added:
3998 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3999 --------------------------------
4002 * Rewrite of the playlist
4004 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4005 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4006 * Preferences improvements:
4007 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4008 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4010 * Core image manipulation support
4011 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4012 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4013 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4014 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4015 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4016 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4017 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4018 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4019 * Access filter architecture
4020 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4021 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4025 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4026 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4027 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4028 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4029 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4030 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4031 * Massive Matroska improvements
4032 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4034 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4035 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4036 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4037 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4038 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4040 Decoders / Encoders:
4041 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4042 * PNG decoder/encoder
4043 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4044 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4047 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4050 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4051 * Brand new SAP module
4052 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4053 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4054 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4055 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4056 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4057 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4061 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4064 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4065 * Image file video output (png)
4066 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4067 * Improvements to wall video filter
4068 * Support for font color and opacity
4074 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4075 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4076 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4080 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4081 - Improved preferences
4082 - Improvements to the wizard
4083 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4085 - Redesigned playlist
4086 - Improved preferences
4088 - Support for multiple actions
4091 - Support for the new playlist system
4093 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4096 * Screensaver disabling fix
4097 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4098 * Support for no-decoration windows
4101 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4102 * The OpenGL video output is back
4103 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4104 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4105 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4106 is not yet available in the new module
4107 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4110 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4119 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4122 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4125 The following languages were added:
4131 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4132 --------------------------------
4135 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4136 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4139 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4140 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4141 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4144 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4147 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4150 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4153 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4154 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4155 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4159 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4161 * Support of playlist group announcement
4164 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4165 --------------------------------
4168 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4169 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4170 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4171 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4172 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4173 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4176 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4177 (Stream your desktop)
4178 * Improved DVD support:
4179 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4180 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4181 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4182 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4183 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4184 (selection of titles/chapters).
4187 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4188 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4189 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4190 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4191 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4192 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4193 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4194 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4195 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4196 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4199 * G.726 audio support
4200 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4201 * MPEG-4 text support
4202 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4203 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4204 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4208 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4209 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4210 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4211 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4212 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4213 * DVB subtitles encoder
4214 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4215 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4217 * Text track muxing for mp4
4218 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4219 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4220 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4221 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4222 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4223 * Improved ASF muxer
4225 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4226 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4227 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4230 * New audio equalizer filter
4231 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4232 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4233 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4234 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4237 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4238 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4239 with support for effects.
4240 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4241 - New filters can be streamed.
4242 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4243 - Centralized scaling and blending
4245 - "time", to display current time
4246 - "marq", to display a marquee
4249 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4250 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4251 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4252 * A few skins2 improvements
4253 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4254 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4255 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4256 * Improved CORBA control module
4259 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4260 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4261 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4264 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4265 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4266 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4269 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4270 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4271 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4272 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4273 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4276 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4279 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4280 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4283 * Server/client network synchronization module
4284 * VBrick streams fully supported
4285 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4289 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4290 --------------------------------
4293 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4294 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4295 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4296 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4299 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4300 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4301 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4302 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4303 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4304 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4305 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4308 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4309 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4310 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4311 * Improved directory access module.
4312 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4313 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4314 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4315 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4316 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4319 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4320 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4321 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4324 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4325 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4326 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4329 * Improved session announcement system.
4330 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4331 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4332 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4333 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4334 * Improved transrater.
4335 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4336 * New configuration system.
4337 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4340 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4341 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4342 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4343 * Supports scheduling.
4344 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4345 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4348 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4349 - Ability to embed video output.
4350 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4351 - Lots of improvements.
4352 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4353 - New design and set of icons.
4354 - Ability to embed video output.
4355 - Support for hotkeys.
4356 - Support for bookmarks.
4358 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4359 - Better hotkeys handling.
4362 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4363 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4364 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4365 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4368 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4369 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4370 * Improved Windows installer.
4376 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4377 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4380 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4381 ---------------------------------
4384 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4385 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4388 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4389 --------------------------------
4392 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4393 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4396 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4397 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4398 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4399 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4402 * Internal improvments
4403 * Improved import/export
4406 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4408 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4409 small and strange formats.
4411 * New MOD audio demux.
4412 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4413 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4414 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4415 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4418 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4419 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4420 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4426 * New opengl video output plugin.
4429 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4430 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4433 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4434 --------------------------------
4437 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4438 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4439 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4440 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4441 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4442 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4443 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4444 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4447 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4452 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4453 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4454 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4455 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4456 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4457 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4458 * Better Icecast support.
4459 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4460 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4463 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4464 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4465 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4466 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4467 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4468 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4469 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4472 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4473 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4474 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4475 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4476 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4477 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4478 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4479 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4480 * Preliminary RTP support.
4481 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4486 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4487 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4489 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4490 - Improvements and help in preferences
4491 - New streaming wizard
4492 - Revised Disc Open menu
4494 - Improvements of the standard pages
4495 - Support for new commands
4496 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4499 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4500 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4503 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4504 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4505 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4506 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4507 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4508 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4509 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4510 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4511 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4514 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4516 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4517 * Support for Panther.
4518 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4519 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4522 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4523 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4524 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4525 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4526 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4527 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4528 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4529 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4532 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4533 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4534 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4537 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4540 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4541 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4542 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4543 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4546 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4547 --------------------------------
4550 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4553 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4554 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4557 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4558 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4561 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4564 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4565 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4568 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4571 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4574 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4575 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4579 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4580 --------------------------------
4583 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4584 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4588 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4589 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4590 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4592 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4593 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4596 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4599 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4602 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4603 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4607 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4608 --------------------------------
4611 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4612 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4616 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4617 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4618 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4619 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4620 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4623 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4624 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4625 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4628 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4629 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4630 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4633 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4634 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4635 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4636 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4637 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4640 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4641 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4642 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4645 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4648 * Improved build system.
4649 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4650 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4651 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4652 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4655 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4656 --------------------------------
4659 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4662 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4663 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4664 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4665 * Video 4 Linux support
4666 * CD Digital Audio support
4667 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4670 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4671 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4672 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4673 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4676 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4677 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4678 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4679 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4680 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4681 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4682 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4685 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4686 * New HTTP remote control interface
4689 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4690 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4691 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4692 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4693 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4696 * New reset option for the preferences
4697 * You can set your language in the prefences
4698 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4699 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4700 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4701 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4704 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4705 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4706 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4709 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4710 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4711 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4712 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4713 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4714 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4715 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4716 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4717 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4718 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4721 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4722 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4723 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4724 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4725 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4726 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4727 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4730 * Interface localization
4731 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4732 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4733 * New full-featured Preferences window
4736 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4737 --------------------------------
4740 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4741 * support for skins at the interface level
4742 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4743 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4744 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4745 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4746 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4749 * fixed HTTP redirects
4750 * support for opening an entire directory
4751 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4752 * new video4linux access plug-in
4753 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4756 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4757 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4758 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4761 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4762 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4763 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4764 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4765 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4766 * new codec for raw I420 video
4767 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4770 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4771 (although it still misses some important features)
4772 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4775 * new HTTP output support
4776 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4777 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4780 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4783 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4786 * reorderable playlist
4787 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4788 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4789 * support for mono audio output devices
4790 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4791 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4792 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4793 * the messages window remembers more lines
4794 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4795 * http and ogg stream output options
4796 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4799 * new skinnable interface
4800 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4802 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4803 * support for FLAC audio format
4804 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4806 * network tab in the interface
4807 * "apply" handling in preferences
4810 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4811 ---------------------------------
4814 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4815 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4816 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4817 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4819 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4820 * DTS S/PDIF support
4823 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4824 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4825 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4826 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4829 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4830 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4833 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4836 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4839 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4841 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4842 * rc interface is now fully useable
4843 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4846 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4847 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4848 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4849 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4850 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4852 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4853 * support for mouse gestures
4854 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4857 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4858 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4861 * improved ID3 tag detection
4862 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4863 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4864 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4866 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4869 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4870 ---------------------------------
4873 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4874 English was set as the preferred language
4877 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4878 --------------------------------
4881 * new mouse gesture interface
4882 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4886 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4887 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4888 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4891 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4892 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4896 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4899 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4900 without the user consent
4903 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4905 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4906 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4907 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4910 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4911 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4912 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4913 * playlist enhancements
4914 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4915 * new step forward/step backward commands
4916 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4917 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4918 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4921 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4922 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4923 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4926 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4927 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4930 * native video output is working again
4931 * only commandline interface support
4932 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4935 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4936 --------------------------------
4939 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4940 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4941 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4942 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4943 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4944 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4945 and A/52 streams are supported)
4946 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4951 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4952 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4953 * VCD entry points support
4954 * VCD image file support
4957 * support for *.asf format
4958 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4959 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4960 * support for ogg encapsulation
4961 * support for raw DV format
4962 * support for *.wav format
4963 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4966 Stream discovery & playlists:
4967 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4968 * support for .m3u file format
4969 * support for .asx file format
4970 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4973 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4974 (only available with the .avi demux)
4975 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4976 * support for raw PCM data
4977 * support for Cinepak video codec
4978 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4979 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4980 * support for Xvid codec
4981 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4982 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4983 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4985 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4987 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4990 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4993 * new WxWindows interface
4994 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4995 device and the channels configuration
4996 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4997 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4998 format that VLC can play
4999 * new swedish translation
5000 * enhancements of the playlist window
5001 * new messages window to see debug info
5002 * fixed a few crashes
5005 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5006 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5007 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5008 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working