1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
7 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
8 * Improvements of cookie handling (domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
11 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
12 * Support 4:4:4 chroma sampling with VDPAU hw acceleration
13 * Support for ARIB B24 subtitles
16 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
19 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
22 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
25 * Support key accelerators
28 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
29 --------------------------------
32 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
33 notably the streaming output, muxers and access output ones
36 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
37 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
38 * Add extensions download from external repositories
39 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
42 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
43 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
44 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
45 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
47 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
48 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
51 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
52 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
53 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
54 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
55 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
56 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
57 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
58 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
59 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
60 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
61 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
62 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
63 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
64 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
65 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
66 * New jpeg image decoder
67 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
68 * New SVG image decoder
69 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
70 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
71 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
74 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
75 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
76 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
77 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
78 * New png image encoder using libpng
81 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
82 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
83 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
84 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
85 synchronization and tracks exclusion
86 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
87 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
88 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
89 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
92 * Basic support for WebVTT
93 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
94 * Support HDPR TS files
95 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
96 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
97 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
98 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
99 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
100 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
101 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
102 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
103 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
104 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
105 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
106 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
109 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
110 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
111 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
112 * New Android native window provider module
113 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
114 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
115 * Add mmal based video output
118 * New Oldmovie effect filter
119 * New VHS effect filter
120 * New Freeze effect filter
121 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
122 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
123 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
126 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
127 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
128 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
129 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
130 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
131 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
134 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
135 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
137 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
140 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
141 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
142 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
143 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
144 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
145 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
146 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
147 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
148 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
150 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
151 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
152 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
155 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
156 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
159 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
160 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
163 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
164 * Add record button in Qt menus
165 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
166 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
167 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
170 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
171 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
172 * Fixes for advanced preferences
173 * Option to increase playlist font size
176 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
177 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
178 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
181 * ios video output: use ios2
182 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
183 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
186 * Update of all translations
189 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
190 --------------------------------
193 * Fix compilation on OS/2
196 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
198 Mac OS X audio output:
199 * Fix channel ordering
200 * Increase the buffersize
203 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
204 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
205 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
208 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
211 * Correctly support video-on-top
212 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
213 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
216 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
219 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
220 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
223 * Update British English
226 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
227 --------------------------------
230 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
233 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
236 * Fix DVD playback regression
237 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
238 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
241 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
242 --------------------------------
245 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
246 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
249 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
250 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
251 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
254 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
255 by updating codec libraries
256 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
257 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
258 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
261 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
262 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
263 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
264 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
267 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
268 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
271 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
272 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
273 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
274 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
275 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
278 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
279 * Fix record file names
282 * Fix minimal size possible on start
283 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
284 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
285 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
286 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
289 * Fix album art display on Windows
292 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
293 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
294 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
295 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
296 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
297 and Simplified Chinese translations
298 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
301 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
302 --------------------------------
305 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
306 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
307 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
308 audio devices on OS X
309 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
310 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
313 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
314 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
317 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
318 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
321 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
324 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
325 * Improve A-B loop control
326 * Fix album art update when changing media
329 * Add a language option in the interface
330 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
331 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
332 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
333 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
334 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
335 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
336 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
339 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
342 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
343 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
344 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
345 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
348 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
354 * Fix some subtitles track selection
357 * VP9 support in WebM
358 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
359 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
362 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
363 * Support Speex in ogg files
364 * Fix some .mov playlists support
365 * Support Alac in mkv
366 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
367 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
370 * Fix DVB options parsing
371 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
372 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
375 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
376 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
379 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
380 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
383 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
384 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
385 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
386 * Fix play after drag'n drop
387 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
390 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
391 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
394 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
395 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
398 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
399 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
400 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
401 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
402 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
403 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
404 * Improves interface resizings
407 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
408 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
409 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
410 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
411 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
415 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
416 --------------------------------
419 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
420 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
421 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
422 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
423 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
425 3rd party libraries (contrib):
426 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
429 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
430 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
431 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
432 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
433 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
436 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
437 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
441 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
442 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
443 * Support for Ulead DV audio
444 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
445 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
446 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
447 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
448 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
449 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
450 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
451 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
452 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
453 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
456 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
457 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
458 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
461 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
462 remove support for previous OS X releases
463 * Major improvements in DASH support
464 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
465 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
466 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
467 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
468 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
469 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
470 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
471 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
472 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
473 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
474 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
477 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
478 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
479 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
480 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
481 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
482 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
483 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
484 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
485 * Support for more MJPEG streams
486 * Add support for liveleak streams
487 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
488 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
489 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
492 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
493 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
494 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
495 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
496 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
497 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
498 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
499 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
500 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
501 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
502 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
505 * New remapping channel filter
506 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
507 * New VSXu visualization plugin
508 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
509 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
510 * New gain audio filter
513 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
514 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
515 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
516 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
517 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
518 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
519 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
520 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
521 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
524 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
525 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
526 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
527 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
528 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
529 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
530 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
533 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
534 * Options support for AVIO output module
535 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
536 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
537 * Livehttp stream encryption support
538 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
539 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
542 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
545 * configurable password for the HTTP server
546 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
547 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
548 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
549 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
550 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
551 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
552 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
556 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
559 * Add support for multiple video outputs
560 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
562 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
563 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
564 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
565 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
566 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
567 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
568 VLC's internal volume level
569 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
571 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
572 selection and to manage the list of presets
573 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
574 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
575 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
576 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
577 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
578 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
579 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
580 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
581 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
582 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
584 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
585 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
586 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
587 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
588 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
589 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
590 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
591 3rd party applications
592 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
593 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
594 (system-wide settings)
595 * Add support for the Video Title option
596 * Add support for the Boss Key
597 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
598 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
601 * Partial support for Qt5.0
602 * Menus modifications and improvements
603 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
604 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
605 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
606 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
607 * EPG display fixes and improvements
608 * Add SD pixmap sources
609 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
610 * Display playlist total duration
611 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
612 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
613 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
618 * Extend sliders, offsets options
619 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
620 * Numerous fixes and improvements
621 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
624 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
625 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
626 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
627 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
628 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
629 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
630 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
631 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
632 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
633 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
636 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
637 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
638 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
639 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
640 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
641 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
643 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
644 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
645 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
646 * Broken crop video filter
648 * OSD parser and menu
649 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
650 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
651 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
652 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
656 * Update of all translations
659 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
660 --------------------------------
663 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
664 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
667 * Fix modplug security issues
670 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
671 --------------------------------
675 * Fix crash in QTsound
676 * Fix screen mouse file location
677 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
680 * Fix use after free in sgimb
681 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
684 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
687 * Fix interface crashes
688 * Fix autostart playback option
689 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
692 * update Welsh translation
693 * New Kannada translation
696 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
697 --------------------------------
700 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
701 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
705 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
708 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
711 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
714 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
718 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
721 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
724 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
725 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
726 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
729 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
730 --------------------------------
733 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
736 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
739 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
740 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
741 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
742 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
743 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
744 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
747 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
748 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
749 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
750 * 3rd party codecs updates
753 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
754 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
755 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
756 in the advanced preferences panel
757 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
758 * Fix crash within the video output code
759 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
760 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
761 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
762 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
764 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
767 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
770 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
771 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
774 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
777 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
778 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
779 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
780 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
781 Dutch, Danish, translations
782 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
785 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
786 --------------------------------
789 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
792 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
793 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
794 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
797 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
798 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
799 * Fix koreus lua parser
800 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
801 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
802 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
803 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
806 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
807 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
810 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
813 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
814 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
815 * Fix Time counter UI look
816 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
819 * Fix https streaming
822 * Fix audio and video track selection:
823 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
824 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
827 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
828 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
829 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
830 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
831 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
834 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
835 --------------------------------
838 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
839 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
840 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
841 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
842 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
843 during playback on Mac OS X
846 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
847 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
848 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
851 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
852 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
853 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
854 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
855 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
858 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
859 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
860 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
861 * Support Youtube live streams
864 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
867 * Fix media info dialog update
868 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
869 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
870 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
871 * Fix album art display at start
874 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
875 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
876 * Fix menus display and behavior
877 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
878 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
879 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
880 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
881 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
882 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
883 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
886 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
887 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
888 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
889 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
890 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
891 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
892 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
893 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
894 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
897 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
898 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
899 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
900 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
901 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
904 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
905 --------------------------------
908 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
911 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
912 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
915 * Add GateKeeper support
916 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
917 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
918 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
921 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
924 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
925 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
926 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
927 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
928 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
931 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
932 --------------------------------
935 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
936 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
937 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
938 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
939 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
940 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
941 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
942 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
943 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
944 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
945 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
949 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
950 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
951 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
952 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
953 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
954 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
955 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
956 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
957 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
958 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
959 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
960 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
963 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
964 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
966 * Fix MP3 free format support
969 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
970 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
971 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
972 * Fix for DVB channels file support
973 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
976 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
977 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
979 Audio filters and output:
980 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
981 * Fix DirectSound device selection
982 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
983 * Do not apply volume in file output
984 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
985 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
988 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
989 the persistant media library
990 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
991 to the media library or the temporary playlist
992 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
993 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
994 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
995 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
996 press on the Play/Pause button
997 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
998 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
999 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1000 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1001 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1002 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1003 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1004 Synchronization panel
1005 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1006 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1007 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1008 * Fix crashes on exit
1009 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1011 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1012 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1013 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1014 automatically reset on the first launch.
1015 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1016 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1017 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1020 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1021 * Fixes for icecast SD
1024 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1025 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1026 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1027 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1028 * Fix tags and file names display
1029 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1032 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1033 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1036 * Fix display of some buttons
1037 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1038 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1041 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1042 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1043 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1046 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1047 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1048 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1049 Thai translations update
1050 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1053 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1058 * fix the samba module compilation
1059 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1060 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1061 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1062 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1065 * Support for MXPEG files
1066 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1067 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1070 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1071 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1072 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1075 * Fix ogm header creation
1078 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1079 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1082 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1083 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1084 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1085 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1088 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1091 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1092 * allow to hide the sidebar
1093 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1094 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1095 * noticebly faster launch time
1096 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1097 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1098 * improve track synchronization panel
1099 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1100 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1103 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1104 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1105 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1106 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1109 * fix for menus display
1110 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1111 * documentation update
1114 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1115 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1118 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1119 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1120 * Update Jamendo selections
1124 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1125 * fix a crash on VLM close
1128 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1129 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1130 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1131 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1134 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1137 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1138 ---------------------------------
1141 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1142 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1143 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1144 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1145 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1146 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1147 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1148 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1149 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1150 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1151 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1152 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1153 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1154 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1155 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1156 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1157 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1158 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1159 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1160 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1161 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1162 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1163 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1164 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1165 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1166 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1168 Important changes for packagers:
1169 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1170 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1171 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1172 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1173 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1174 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1175 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1176 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1177 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1178 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1181 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1182 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1183 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1184 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1185 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1186 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1187 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1190 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1191 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1192 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1193 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1194 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1195 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1196 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1197 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1198 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1199 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1200 * PulseAudio audio input support
1201 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1202 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1203 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1204 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1205 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1206 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1207 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1208 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1211 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1212 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1213 are notably concerned.
1214 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1215 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1216 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1217 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1218 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1219 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1220 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1221 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1222 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1223 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1224 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1225 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1226 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1227 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1228 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1231 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1232 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1233 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1234 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1235 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1236 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1237 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1238 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1239 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1240 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1241 * Improved support of tracker files
1242 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1245 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1246 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1247 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1248 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1249 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1250 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1251 and important cleanups and optimisations
1252 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1253 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1254 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1255 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1256 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1257 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1258 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1259 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1260 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1261 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1262 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1263 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1264 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1265 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1266 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1267 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1268 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1269 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1270 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1271 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1272 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1275 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1276 * New video output for iOS platform
1277 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1278 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1279 * Various vmem improvements
1280 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1281 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1282 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1283 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1284 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1285 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1287 Audio Output and Filters:
1288 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1289 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1290 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1291 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1292 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1293 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1294 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1295 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1296 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1297 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1300 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1301 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1302 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1303 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1304 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1305 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1306 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1307 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1308 * New anti-flickering filter
1309 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1310 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1311 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1312 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1313 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1314 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1315 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1318 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1319 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1320 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1321 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1322 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1323 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1324 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1325 * Major rework of VoD support
1326 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1327 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1328 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1329 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1330 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1331 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1332 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1333 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1334 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1335 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1338 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1339 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1342 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1343 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1344 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1345 list of available audio and video filters
1346 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1347 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1348 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1351 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1352 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1353 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1354 * id3tag: use taglib
1355 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1356 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1357 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1358 * removal of the noise filter
1359 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1360 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1361 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1362 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1365 * Update of translations for most languages.
1366 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1369 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1370 ----------------------------------
1373 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1374 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1377 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1378 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1381 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1382 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1383 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1386 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1389 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1390 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1393 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1396 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1397 ----------------------------------
1400 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1401 including support for OS X Lion
1402 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1403 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1406 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1409 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1410 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1411 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1414 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1417 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1418 ----------------------------------
1421 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1422 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1425 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1426 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1427 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1428 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1429 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1431 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1432 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1433 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1435 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1436 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1439 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1442 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1445 * Fix quitting on Linux
1446 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1450 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1453 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1456 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1457 ---------------------------------
1459 Windows and Mac OS X:
1460 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1463 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1464 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1467 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1470 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1473 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1475 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1476 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1478 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1479 * RTP output and XML export
1480 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1484 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1485 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1486 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1487 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1490 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1491 --------------------------------
1493 Windows and Mac OS X:
1494 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1497 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1500 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1501 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1502 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1503 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1504 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1505 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1508 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1509 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1513 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1514 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1515 * New Luganda Translation
1518 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1519 --------------------------------
1522 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1525 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1526 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1527 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1528 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1531 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1533 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1534 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1535 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1536 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1537 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1538 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1539 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1540 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1542 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1543 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1544 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1545 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1546 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1547 * Configure and build system improvements
1548 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1551 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1552 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1553 * New icelandic translation
1556 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1557 --------------------------------
1560 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1561 #234484 and #260719.
1564 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1565 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1566 and stability reasons
1569 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1573 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1576 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1577 ----------------------------------
1580 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1583 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1584 ---------------------------------
1587 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1588 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1589 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1590 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1593 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1596 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1597 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1598 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1599 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1602 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1603 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1604 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1606 Subtitles and renderer:
1607 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1608 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1609 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1610 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1611 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1614 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1615 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1616 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1617 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1620 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1621 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1623 Miscellaneous fixes:
1624 * KDE device solid actions
1626 * Transcode integer overflow
1627 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1628 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1631 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1632 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1633 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1636 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1637 ----------------------------------
1640 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1644 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1647 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1650 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1651 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1652 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1653 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1656 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1660 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1663 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1666 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1667 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1669 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1673 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1674 * Miscellaneous fixes
1677 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1678 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1679 French and Ukrainian
1680 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1681 * New Asturian translation
1684 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1685 ----------------------------------
1688 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1690 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1693 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1696 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1697 * Various fixes for Windows
1700 * New Armenian translation
1701 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1702 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1705 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1706 --------------------------------
1709 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1710 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1711 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1714 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1715 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1718 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1719 --------------------------------
1721 Access and demuxers:
1722 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1723 * fix for podcasts parsing
1724 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1727 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1728 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1731 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1732 * fix m3u playlists exports
1735 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1738 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1741 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1744 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1747 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1750 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1751 --------------------------------
1754 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1755 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1758 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1759 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1762 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1763 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1764 * fix console output encoding
1766 Interface and extensions:
1767 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1768 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1771 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1772 --------------------------------
1775 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1776 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1777 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1778 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1779 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1780 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1781 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1782 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1783 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1784 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1785 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1786 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1787 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1788 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1789 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1790 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1794 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1795 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1796 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1797 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1798 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1801 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1804 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1805 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1806 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1810 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1813 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1814 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1815 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1818 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1819 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1820 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1821 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1824 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1825 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1828 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1829 --------------------------------
1831 Important changes for users:
1832 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1833 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1835 Important changes for packagers:
1836 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1837 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1838 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1839 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1840 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1842 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1844 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1845 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1846 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1847 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1848 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1851 * Support for the sftp protocol
1852 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1853 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1854 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1855 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1856 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1859 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1860 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1861 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1863 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1864 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1865 * Invmem module improvements
1866 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1867 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1868 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1869 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1870 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1871 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1872 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1873 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1874 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1875 * Support for VP8 codec
1876 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1879 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1880 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1881 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1882 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1883 * Various EGP improvements
1884 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1885 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1888 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1889 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1890 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1891 * Podcast images are now displayed
1894 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1895 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1896 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1897 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1898 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1899 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1900 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1901 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1902 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1903 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1904 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1907 * New content extensions lua framework
1910 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1911 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1912 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1913 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1914 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1915 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1916 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1919 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1920 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1921 * Service discovery based on libudev
1922 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1925 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1926 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1927 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1928 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1929 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1930 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1931 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1934 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1935 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1936 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1939 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1941 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1942 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1945 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1948 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1949 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1950 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1951 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1952 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1953 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1954 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1957 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1958 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1961 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1962 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1963 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1967 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1968 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1969 * Improved Solaris port
1972 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1973 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1976 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1977 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1978 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1979 * transrate: broken since too long
1980 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1981 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1982 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1983 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1984 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1985 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1986 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1987 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1988 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1989 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1990 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1991 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1992 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1993 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1996 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1997 --------------------------------
2000 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2002 Decoders/Packetizers:
2003 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2006 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2007 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2008 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2009 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2010 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2013 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2014 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2017 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2018 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2021 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2022 and Walloon translations updated
2023 * Sinhala translation started
2026 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2027 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2030 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2031 --------------------------------
2034 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2035 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2038 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2041 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2042 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2045 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2046 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2047 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2048 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2051 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2052 --------------------------------
2055 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2056 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2059 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2060 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2063 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2064 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2067 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2070 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2071 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2074 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2075 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2078 * New Walloon translation
2079 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2082 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2083 --------------------------------
2086 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2087 regressions in most popular drivers
2088 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2091 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2092 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2093 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2096 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2097 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2100 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2101 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2102 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2103 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2104 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2107 * New udev module for linux
2110 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2113 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2116 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2117 --------------------------------
2120 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2121 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2122 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2125 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2126 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2129 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2130 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2133 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2136 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2137 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2138 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2139 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2142 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2143 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2144 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2145 - no support for Goom and SDL
2146 - limited text rendering support
2147 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2150 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2151 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2152 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2153 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2154 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2155 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2156 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2157 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2158 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2162 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2165 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2168 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2169 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2170 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2171 Arabic and French translation updates
2174 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2175 --------------------------------
2178 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2179 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2180 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2181 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2182 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2183 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2186 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2187 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2188 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2191 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2192 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2193 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2196 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2199 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2200 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2203 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2204 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2205 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2206 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2207 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2208 * Fix various crashes
2211 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2213 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2217 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2218 ---------------------------------
2222 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2223 See 'Access:' for more info.
2224 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2227 * Instantaneous pausing
2228 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2229 * Finer speed control
2230 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2231 * Timeshift for most medias
2232 * RTSP trickplay support
2233 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2236 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2237 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2238 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2239 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2240 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2241 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2242 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2243 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2244 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2245 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2248 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2249 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2250 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2251 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2252 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2253 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2254 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2257 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2258 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2261 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2262 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2263 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2264 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2265 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2266 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2267 * DVB scanning on linux
2268 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2269 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2270 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2271 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2272 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2273 * MTP device access on Unix
2274 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2275 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2278 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2279 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2280 Windows and Mac OS X.
2283 * Export the playlist in HTML
2284 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2285 * Better metadata handling and reading
2287 Linux/Windows interface:
2288 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2289 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2290 * Recently played items list
2291 * Interface toolbar customizations
2292 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2293 - More menus actions
2294 - Finer speed slider
2295 - Improvements on many dialogs
2296 - New dialog for plugins listing
2297 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2298 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2299 * Better integration in GTK environments
2302 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2303 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2304 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2305 * Additional usability improvements
2308 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2309 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2310 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2311 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2312 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2315 * New Maemo port with:
2316 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2317 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2320 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2323 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2324 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2325 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2326 * Support for latest iSight models
2329 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2330 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2333 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2334 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2335 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2336 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2337 The old image video output has been removed.
2338 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2339 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2342 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2350 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2351 --------------------------------------
2357 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2358 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2359 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2360 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2361 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2362 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2363 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2365 Various fixes to the following modules:
2368 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2369 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2370 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2372 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2377 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2378 ---------------------------------
2381 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2382 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2385 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2386 ---------------------------------
2389 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2392 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2395 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2396 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2397 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2398 main controller window.
2399 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2402 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2407 * Updates of other localizations
2410 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2411 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2412 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2413 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2414 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2417 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2418 ---------------------------------
2421 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2423 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2426 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2427 --------------------------------
2432 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2433 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2436 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2437 --------------------------------
2439 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2440 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2443 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2446 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2447 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2450 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2451 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2454 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2455 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2456 * Various fixed in playlist
2459 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2462 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2465 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2466 ------------------------------------
2468 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2469 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2472 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2473 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2474 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2477 * Stability fix for the video output.
2480 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2481 --------------------------------
2484 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2485 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2486 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2487 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2488 * Fixed update system bugs
2489 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2492 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2493 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2494 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2495 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2496 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2497 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2498 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2499 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2500 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2501 modern Mac OS X versions
2504 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2505 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2507 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2508 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2511 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2512 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2513 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2514 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2515 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2516 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2519 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2520 --------------------------------
2522 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2523 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2524 * Multiple bugfixes.
2527 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2528 --------------------------------
2530 * Multiple bug fixes.
2533 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2534 ---------------------------------
2538 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2539 recent to work correctly
2540 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2541 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2542 edit the ".hosts" file.
2543 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2544 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2545 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2546 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2547 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2548 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2549 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2550 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2551 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2552 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2553 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2554 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2555 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2556 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2557 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2558 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2559 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2560 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2561 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2562 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2563 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2564 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2565 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2566 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2567 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2568 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2569 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2570 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2571 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2572 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2573 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2574 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2575 and postproc modules.
2576 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2577 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2578 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2579 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2581 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2582 filter. For example:
2583 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2584 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2586 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2587 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2593 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2595 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2596 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2599 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2600 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2602 * Shoutcast TV listings
2603 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2605 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2606 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2608 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2611 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2612 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2613 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2614 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2615 * JACK audio input support
2616 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2617 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2618 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2619 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2620 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2621 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2622 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2623 (available as a separate download).
2624 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2625 * RTMP input support
2626 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2627 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2628 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2630 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2631 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2634 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2635 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2636 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2637 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2639 * APEv1/2 tags support
2640 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2641 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2643 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2644 * TiVo Series 2 support
2645 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2650 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2651 * Flash Screen Video support
2652 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2653 * DosBox Capture support
2654 * Karl Morton's Video support
2655 * limited atrac3 support
2657 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2658 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2659 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2660 * H.264 PAFF support
2661 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2662 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2663 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2664 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2665 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2668 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2669 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2670 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2671 * AQTitle subtitles support
2672 * MKV USF subtitles support
2673 * HTML-based subtitles support
2674 * MPSub subtitles support
2675 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2676 * MPL2 subtitles support
2677 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2678 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2679 * Realtext subtitle support
2680 * DKS subtitle support
2681 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2682 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2685 * Flash Screen Video support
2686 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2688 Video outputs and filters:
2689 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2690 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2691 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2692 * New puzzle video output filter
2693 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2694 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2696 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2697 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2698 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2699 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2700 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2701 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2702 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2703 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2704 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2705 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2706 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2707 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2708 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2709 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2711 Audio outputs and filters:
2712 * Replay gain support
2713 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2714 new scaletempo audio filter)
2715 * New spatializer audio filter
2716 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2719 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2720 * New RTP payload formats:
2721 * Speex voice audio codec
2722 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2723 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2724 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2725 * DCCP transport for RTP
2726 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2731 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2732 end-user suitable way.
2733 * Improved user interaction
2734 * Improved mouse gestures
2735 * Vastly improved Update checker
2736 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2738 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2739 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2741 * Improved video output features
2742 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2743 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2744 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2745 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2746 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2748 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2749 if libncursesw is available.
2750 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2751 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2752 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2754 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2755 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2756 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2757 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2758 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2759 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2760 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2761 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2764 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2765 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2766 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2769 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2770 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2771 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2772 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2773 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2774 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2777 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2778 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2788 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2789 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2790 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2793 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2794 ----------------------------------
2797 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2800 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2801 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2802 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2803 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2804 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2805 * Updated Polish translation
2808 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2809 ----------------------------------
2812 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2813 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2814 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2817 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2818 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2819 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2820 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2821 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2822 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2823 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2824 to an unexpected application termination
2825 * New Serbian translation
2826 * Updated Romanian translation
2829 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2830 ----------------------------------
2833 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2834 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2835 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2836 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2837 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2838 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2839 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2840 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2843 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2844 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2845 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2846 * Fixed AAC resampling
2847 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2848 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2851 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2852 ----------------------------------
2855 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2856 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2857 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2858 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2859 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2862 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2863 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2864 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2865 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2866 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2869 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2870 ----------------------------------
2873 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2874 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2877 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2878 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2879 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2880 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2882 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2886 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2889 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2892 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2895 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2898 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2899 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2900 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2901 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2902 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2904 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2905 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2906 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2907 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2910 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2913 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2914 ----------------------------------
2917 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2918 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2919 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2921 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2922 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2924 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2925 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2928 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2930 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2931 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2932 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2933 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2934 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2935 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2936 two different movies
2937 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2938 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2939 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2942 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2945 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2946 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2947 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2948 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2951 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2952 ----------------------------------
2954 Various bugfixes, notably:
2955 * Windows Vista compatibility
2956 * Cropping in Direct3D
2957 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2958 * RSS filter string overflow
2960 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2962 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2963 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2966 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2967 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2970 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2973 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2976 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2979 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2980 ----------------------------------
2982 Various bugfixes, notably:
2983 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2984 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2985 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2986 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2987 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2988 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2991 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2992 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2995 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2997 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2998 * Diverse usability improvements
2999 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3000 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3001 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3004 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3005 ---------------------------------
3007 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3008 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3011 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3014 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3015 --------------------------------
3018 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3021 * Support for RTSP authentication
3022 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3023 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3024 * ATSC support for DVB input
3025 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3026 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3027 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3030 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3031 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3032 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3033 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3034 * Matroska WavPack support
3035 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3036 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3037 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3040 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3041 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3042 * Improved libcaca support
3046 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3047 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3049 * Systray support in skins
3051 * Support for Apple Remote control
3052 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3053 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3054 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3055 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3057 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3060 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3061 Windows 9x/ME users:
3062 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3063 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3064 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3065 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3066 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3068 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3069 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3078 * Updates to the libvlc API
3079 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3082 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3083 --------------------------------
3086 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3087 * Support for downloading updates
3091 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3092 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3093 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3094 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3096 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3097 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3098 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3101 * Cook (Real audio) support
3103 Playlist / Services discovery:
3104 * XSPF playlist support
3106 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3109 * New JACK audio output
3112 * New video filters:
3113 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3114 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3115 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3116 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3117 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3118 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3121 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3124 * System to inform the user and request information
3125 - HTTP authentication
3129 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3130 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3131 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3134 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3135 - Improved playlist handling
3136 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3138 - Embedded Video output
3139 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3140 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3141 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3142 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3143 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3145 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3146 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3149 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3152 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3153 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3154 * Growl "Now playing" support
3157 * Ability to log to syslog
3158 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3161 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3163 * A bit more automatic testing
3166 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3167 ---------------------------------
3170 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3171 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3174 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3175 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3178 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3181 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3182 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3188 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3191 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3192 --------------------------------
3195 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3199 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3200 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3201 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3204 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3205 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3206 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3207 * GnomeVFS input module
3208 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3209 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3212 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3213 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3214 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3217 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3218 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3224 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3225 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3228 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3229 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3230 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3233 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3235 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3236 - New extended controls panel
3237 - New bookmarks window
3238 - Fixed playlist sorting
3239 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3241 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3242 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3243 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3244 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3248 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3249 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3251 - Include macro to include other files
3255 * Should now work outside IE as well
3258 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3261 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3262 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3265 The following languages were added:
3269 * Simplified Chinese
3270 The following languages were re-added:
3274 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3275 --------------------------------
3278 * Rewrite of the playlist
3280 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3281 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3282 * Preferences improvements:
3283 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3284 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3286 * Core image manipulation support
3287 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3288 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3289 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3290 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3291 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3292 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3293 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3294 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3295 * Access filter architecture
3296 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3297 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3301 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3302 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3303 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3304 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3305 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3306 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3307 * Massive Matroska improvements
3308 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3310 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3311 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3312 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3313 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3314 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3316 Decoders / Encoders:
3317 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3318 * PNG decoder/encoder
3319 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3320 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3323 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3326 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3327 * Brand new SAP module
3328 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3329 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3330 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3331 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3332 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3333 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3337 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3340 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3341 * Image file video output (png)
3342 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3343 * Improvements to wall video filter
3344 * Support for font color and opacity
3350 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3351 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3352 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3356 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3357 - Improved preferences
3358 - Improvements to the wizard
3359 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3361 - Redesigned playlist
3362 - Improved preferences
3364 - Support for multiple actions
3367 - Support for the new playlist system
3369 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3372 * Screensaver disabling fix
3373 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3374 * Support for no-decoration windows
3377 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3378 * The OpenGL video output is back
3379 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3380 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3381 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3382 is not yet available in the new module
3383 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3386 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3395 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3398 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3401 The following languages were added:
3407 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3408 --------------------------------
3411 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3412 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3415 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3416 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3417 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3420 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3423 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3426 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3429 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3430 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3431 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3435 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3437 * Support of playlist group announcement
3440 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3441 --------------------------------
3444 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3445 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3446 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3447 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3448 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3449 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3452 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3453 (Stream your desktop)
3454 * Improved DVD support:
3455 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3456 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3457 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3458 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3459 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3460 (selection of titles/chapters).
3463 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3464 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3465 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3466 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3467 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3468 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3469 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3470 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3471 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3472 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3475 * G.726 audio support
3476 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3477 * MPEG-4 text support
3478 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3479 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3480 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3484 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3485 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3486 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3487 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3488 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3489 * DVB subtitles encoder
3490 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3491 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3493 * Text track muxing for mp4
3494 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3495 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3496 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3497 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3498 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3499 * Improved ASF muxer
3501 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3502 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3503 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3506 * New audio equalizer filter
3507 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3508 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3509 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3510 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3513 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3514 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3515 with support for effects.
3516 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3517 - New filters can be streamed.
3518 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3519 - Centralized scaling and blending
3521 - "time", to display current time
3522 - "marq", to display a marquee
3525 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3526 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3527 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3528 * A few skins2 improvements
3529 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3530 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3531 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3532 * Improved CORBA control module
3535 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3536 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3537 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3540 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3541 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3542 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3545 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3546 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3547 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3548 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3549 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3552 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3555 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3556 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3559 * Server/client network synchronization module
3560 * VBrick streams fully supported
3561 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3565 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3566 --------------------------------
3569 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3570 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3571 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3572 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3575 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3576 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3577 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3578 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3579 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3580 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3581 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3584 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3585 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3586 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3587 * Improved directory access module.
3588 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3589 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3590 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3591 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3592 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3595 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3596 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3597 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3600 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3601 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3602 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3605 * Improved session announcement system.
3606 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3607 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3608 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3609 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3610 * Improved transrater.
3611 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3612 * New configuration system.
3613 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3616 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3617 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3618 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3619 * Supports scheduling.
3620 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3621 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3624 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3625 - Ability to embed video output.
3626 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3627 - Lots of improvements.
3628 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3629 - New design and set of icons.
3630 - Ability to embed video output.
3631 - Support for hotkeys.
3632 - Support for bookmarks.
3634 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3635 - Better hotkeys handling.
3638 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3639 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3640 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3641 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3644 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3645 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3646 * Improved Windows installer.
3652 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3653 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3656 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3657 ---------------------------------
3660 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3661 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3664 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3665 --------------------------------
3668 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3669 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3672 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3673 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3674 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3675 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3678 * Internal improvments
3679 * Improved import/export
3682 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3684 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3685 small and strange formats.
3687 * New MOD audio demux.
3688 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3689 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3690 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3691 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3694 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3695 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3696 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3702 * New opengl video output plugin.
3705 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3706 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3709 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3710 --------------------------------
3713 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3714 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3715 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3716 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3717 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3718 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3719 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3720 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3723 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3728 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3729 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3730 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3731 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3732 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3733 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3734 * Better Icecast support.
3735 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3736 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3739 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3740 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3741 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3742 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3743 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3744 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3745 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3748 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3749 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3750 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3751 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3752 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3753 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3754 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3755 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3756 * Preliminary RTP support.
3757 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3762 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3763 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3765 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3766 - Improvements and help in preferences
3767 - New streaming wizard
3768 - Revised Disc Open menu
3770 - Improvements of the standard pages
3771 - Support for new commands
3772 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3775 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3776 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3779 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3780 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3781 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3782 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3783 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3784 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3785 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3786 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3787 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3790 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3792 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3793 * Support for Panther.
3794 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3795 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3798 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3799 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3800 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3801 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3802 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3803 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3804 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3805 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3808 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3809 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3810 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3813 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3816 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3817 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3818 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3819 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3822 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3823 --------------------------------
3826 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3829 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3830 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3833 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3834 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3837 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3840 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3841 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3844 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3847 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3850 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3851 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3855 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3856 --------------------------------
3859 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3860 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3864 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3865 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3866 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3868 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3869 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3872 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3875 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3878 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3879 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3883 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3884 --------------------------------
3887 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3888 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3892 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3893 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3894 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3895 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3896 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3899 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3900 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3901 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3904 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3905 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3906 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3909 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3910 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3911 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3912 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3913 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3916 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3917 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3918 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3921 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3924 * Improved build system.
3925 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3926 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3927 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3928 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3931 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3932 --------------------------------
3935 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3938 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3939 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3940 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3941 * Video 4 Linux support
3942 * CD Digital Audio support
3943 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3946 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3947 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3948 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3949 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3952 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3953 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3954 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3955 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3956 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3957 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3958 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3961 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3962 * New HTTP remote control interface
3965 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3966 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3967 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3968 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3969 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3972 * New reset option for the preferences
3973 * You can set your language in the prefences
3974 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3975 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3976 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3977 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3980 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3981 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3982 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3985 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3986 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3987 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3988 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3989 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3990 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3991 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3992 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3993 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3994 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3997 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3998 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3999 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4000 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4001 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4002 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4003 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4006 * Interface localization
4007 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4008 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4009 * New full-featured Preferences window
4012 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4013 --------------------------------
4016 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4017 * support for skins at the interface level
4018 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4019 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4020 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4021 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4022 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4025 * fixed HTTP redirects
4026 * support for opening an entire directory
4027 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4028 * new video4linux access plug-in
4029 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4032 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4033 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4034 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4037 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4038 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4039 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4040 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4041 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4042 * new codec for raw I420 video
4043 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4046 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4047 (although it still misses some important features)
4048 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4051 * new HTTP output support
4052 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4053 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4056 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4059 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4062 * reorderable playlist
4063 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4064 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4065 * support for mono audio output devices
4066 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4067 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4068 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4069 * the messages window remembers more lines
4070 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4071 * http and ogg stream output options
4072 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4075 * new skinnable interface
4076 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4078 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4079 * support for FLAC audio format
4080 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4082 * network tab in the interface
4083 * "apply" handling in preferences
4086 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4087 ---------------------------------
4090 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4091 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4092 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4093 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4095 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4096 * DTS S/PDIF support
4099 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4100 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4101 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4102 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4105 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4106 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4109 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4112 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4115 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4117 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4118 * rc interface is now fully useable
4119 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4122 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4123 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4124 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4125 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4126 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4128 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4129 * support for mouse gestures
4130 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4133 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4134 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4137 * improved ID3 tag detection
4138 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4139 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4140 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4142 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4145 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4146 ---------------------------------
4149 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4150 English was set as the preferred language
4153 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4154 --------------------------------
4157 * new mouse gesture interface
4158 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4162 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4163 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4164 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4167 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4168 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4172 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4175 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4176 without the user consent
4179 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4181 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4182 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4183 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4186 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4187 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4188 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4189 * playlist enhancements
4190 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4191 * new step forward/step backward commands
4192 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4193 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4194 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4197 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4198 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4199 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4202 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4203 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4206 * native video output is working again
4207 * only commandline interface support
4208 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4211 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4212 --------------------------------
4215 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4216 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4217 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4218 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4219 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4220 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4221 and A/52 streams are supported)
4222 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4227 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4228 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4229 * VCD entry points support
4230 * VCD image file support
4233 * support for *.asf format
4234 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4235 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4236 * support for ogg encapsulation
4237 * support for raw DV format
4238 * support for *.wav format
4239 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4242 Stream discovery & playlists:
4243 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4244 * support for .m3u file format
4245 * support for .asx file format
4246 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4249 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4250 (only available with the .avi demux)
4251 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4252 * support for raw PCM data
4253 * support for Cinepak video codec
4254 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4255 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4256 * support for Xvid codec
4257 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4258 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4259 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4261 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4263 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4266 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4269 * new WxWindows interface
4270 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4271 device and the channels configuration
4272 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4273 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4274 format that VLC can play
4275 * new swedish translation
4276 * enhancements of the playlist window
4277 * new messages window to see debug info
4278 * fixed a few crashes
4281 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4282 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4283 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4284 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working