1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
4 Important changes for packagers:
5 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
6 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
7 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
9 3rd party libraries (contrib):
10 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a better system in /contrib
14 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
18 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
19 * Numerous improvements in OpenMAX IL codec
20 * Support for Ulead DV audio
21 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
22 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1)
23 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
24 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
25 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
26 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
27 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
30 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
33 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
34 remove support for previous OS X releases
35 * Major improvements in DASH support
36 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
37 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
38 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
39 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
40 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
41 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
44 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
45 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
46 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
47 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
48 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
49 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
50 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
51 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
52 * Support for more MJPEG streams
53 * Add support for liveleak streams
56 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
57 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
58 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
59 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
60 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
61 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
62 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
63 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
64 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
65 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
68 * new remapping channel filter
69 * new filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
70 * new VSXu visualization plugin
73 * DecklinkOutput: New module using Blackmagic cards
74 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
75 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
76 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
79 * new anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
80 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
81 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
82 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
83 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
84 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
87 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
88 * Options support for AVIO output module
89 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
90 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
91 * Livehttp stream encryption support
92 * Unmaintained switcher has been removed
95 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
96 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
97 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
98 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
99 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
100 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
104 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
107 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
108 * VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now
111 * add support for multiple video outputs
112 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
114 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
115 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
116 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
117 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
118 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
119 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
120 VLC's internal volume level
121 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
122 selection and to manage the list of presets
123 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
124 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
125 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
126 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
127 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
128 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
129 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
130 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
131 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
133 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
134 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
135 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
136 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
137 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
138 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
139 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
140 3rd party applications
141 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
142 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
143 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
147 * Partial support for Qt5.0
148 * Menus modifications and improvements
149 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
150 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
154 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
155 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
156 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
157 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
158 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
159 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
160 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
163 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
164 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
165 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
166 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
167 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
168 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
170 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
171 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
172 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
175 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
176 --------------------------------
179 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
182 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
183 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
184 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
187 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
188 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
189 * Fix koreus lua parser
190 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
191 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
192 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
193 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
196 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
197 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
200 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
203 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
204 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
205 * Fix Time counter UI look
206 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
209 * Fix https streaming
212 * Fix audio and video track selection:
213 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
214 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
217 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
218 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
219 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
220 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
221 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
224 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
225 --------------------------------
228 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
229 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
230 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
231 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
232 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
233 during playback on Mac OS X
236 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
237 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
238 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
241 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
242 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
243 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
244 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
245 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
248 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
249 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
250 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
251 * Support Youtube live streams
254 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
257 * Fix media info dialog update
258 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
259 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
260 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
261 * Fix album art display at start
264 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
265 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
266 * Fix menus display and behavior
267 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
268 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
269 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
270 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
271 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
272 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
273 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
276 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
277 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
278 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
279 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
280 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
281 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
282 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
283 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
284 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
287 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
288 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
289 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
290 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
291 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
294 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
295 --------------------------------
298 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
301 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
302 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
305 * Add GateKeeper support
306 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
307 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
308 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
311 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
314 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
315 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
316 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
317 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
318 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
321 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
322 --------------------------------
325 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
326 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
327 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
328 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
329 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
330 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
331 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
332 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
333 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
334 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
335 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
339 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
340 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
341 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
342 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
343 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
344 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
345 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
346 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
347 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
348 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
349 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
350 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
353 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
354 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
356 * Fix MP3 free format support
359 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
360 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
361 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
362 * Fix for DVB channels file support
363 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
366 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
367 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
369 Audio filters and output:
370 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
371 * Fix DirectSound device selection
372 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
373 * Do not apply volume in file output
374 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
375 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
378 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
379 the persistant media library
380 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
381 to the media library or the temporary playlist
382 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
383 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
384 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
385 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
386 press on the Play/Pause button
387 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
388 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
389 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
390 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
391 * Many Fullscreen fixes
392 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
393 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
394 Synchronization panel
395 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
396 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
397 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
398 * Fix crashes on exit
399 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
401 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
402 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
403 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
404 automatically reset on the first launch.
405 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
406 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
407 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
410 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
411 * Fixes for icecast SD
414 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
415 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
416 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
417 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
418 * Fix tags and file names display
419 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
422 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
423 * Fix for key events and focus loss
426 * Fix display of some buttons
427 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
428 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
431 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
432 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
433 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
436 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
437 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
438 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
439 Thai translations update
440 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
443 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
444 --------------------------------
447 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
448 * fix the samba module compilation
449 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
450 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
451 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
452 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
455 * Support for MXPEG files
456 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
457 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
460 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
461 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
462 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
465 * Fix ogm header creation
468 * limit spatializer filter distortions
469 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
472 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
473 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
474 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
475 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
478 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
481 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
482 * allow to hide the sidebar
483 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
484 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
485 * noticebly faster launch time
486 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
487 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
488 * improve track synchronization panel
489 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
490 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
493 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
494 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
495 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
496 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
499 * fix for menus display
500 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
501 * documentation update
504 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
505 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
508 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
509 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
510 * Update Jamendo selections
514 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
515 * fix a crash on VLM close
518 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
519 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
520 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
521 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
524 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
527 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
528 ---------------------------------
531 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
532 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
533 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
534 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
535 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
536 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
537 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
538 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
539 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
540 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
541 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
542 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
543 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
544 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
545 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
546 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
547 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
548 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
549 --http-crl (optional CRL).
550 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
551 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
552 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
553 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
554 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
555 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
556 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
558 Important changes for packagers:
559 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
560 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
561 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
562 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
563 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
564 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
565 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
566 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
567 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
568 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
571 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
572 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
573 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
574 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
575 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
576 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
577 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
580 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
581 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
582 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
583 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
584 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
585 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
586 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
587 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
588 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
589 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
590 * PulseAudio audio input support
591 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
592 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
593 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
594 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
595 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
596 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
597 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
598 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
601 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
602 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
603 are notably concerned.
604 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
605 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
606 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
607 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
608 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
609 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
610 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
611 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
612 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
613 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
614 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
615 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
616 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
617 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
618 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
621 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
622 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
623 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
624 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
625 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
626 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
627 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
628 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
629 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
630 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
631 * Improved support of tracker files
632 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
635 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
636 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
637 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
638 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
639 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
640 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
641 and important cleanups and optimisations
642 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
643 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
644 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
645 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
646 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
647 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
648 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
649 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
650 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
651 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
652 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
653 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
654 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
655 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
656 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
657 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
658 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
659 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
660 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
661 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
662 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
665 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
666 * New video output for iOS platform
667 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
668 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
669 * Various vmem improvements
670 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
671 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
672 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
673 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
674 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
675 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
677 Audio Output and Filters:
678 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
679 * New audio output in memory (amem)
680 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
681 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
682 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
683 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
684 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
685 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
686 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
687 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
690 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
691 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
692 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
693 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
694 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
695 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
696 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
697 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
698 * New anti-flickering filter
699 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
700 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
701 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
702 blackbox and customizable shadow.
703 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
704 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
705 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
708 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
709 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
710 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
711 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
712 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
713 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
714 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
715 * Major rework of VoD support
716 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
717 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
718 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
719 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
720 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
721 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
722 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
723 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
724 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
725 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
728 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
729 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
732 * New capabilities for libVLC:
733 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
734 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
735 list of available audio and video filters
736 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
737 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
738 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
741 * asademux, subsass: use libass
742 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
743 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
745 * upnp: use upnp_intel
746 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
747 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
748 * removal of the noise filter
749 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
750 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
751 removed in Growl's next release, too.
752 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
755 * Update of translations for most languages.
756 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
759 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
760 ----------------------------------
763 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
764 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
767 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
768 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
771 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
772 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
773 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
776 * Camtasia decoding fix.
779 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
780 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
783 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
786 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
787 ----------------------------------
790 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
791 including support for OS X Lion
792 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
793 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
796 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
799 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
800 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
801 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
804 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
807 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
808 ----------------------------------
811 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
812 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
815 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
816 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
817 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
818 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
819 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
821 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
822 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
823 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
825 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
826 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
829 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
832 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
835 * Fix quitting on Linux
836 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
840 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
843 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
846 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
847 ---------------------------------
849 Windows and Mac OS X:
850 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
853 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
854 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
857 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
860 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
863 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
865 Miscellaneous fixes in:
866 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
868 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
869 * RTP output and XML export
870 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
874 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
875 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
876 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
877 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
880 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
881 --------------------------------
883 Windows and Mac OS X:
884 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
887 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
890 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
891 * Improve Apple Remote handling
892 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
893 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
894 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
895 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
898 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
899 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
903 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
904 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
905 * New Luganda Translation
908 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
909 --------------------------------
912 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
915 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
916 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
917 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
918 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
921 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
923 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
924 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
925 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
926 * mp4 demuxer improvements
927 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
928 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
929 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
930 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
932 Miscellaneous fixes in:
933 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
934 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
935 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
936 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
937 * Configure and build system improvements
938 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
941 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
942 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
943 * New icelandic translation
946 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
947 --------------------------------
950 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
954 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
955 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
956 and stability reasons
959 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
963 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
966 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
967 ----------------------------------
970 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
973 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
974 ---------------------------------
977 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
978 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
979 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
980 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
983 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
986 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
987 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
988 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
989 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
992 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
993 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
994 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
996 Subtitles and renderer:
997 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
998 * Mark more freetype options as safe
999 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1000 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1001 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1004 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1005 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1006 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1007 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1010 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1011 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1013 Miscellaneous fixes:
1014 * KDE device solid actions
1016 * Transcode integer overflow
1017 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1018 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1021 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1022 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1023 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1026 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1027 ----------------------------------
1030 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1034 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1037 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1040 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1041 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1042 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1043 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1046 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1050 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1053 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1056 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1057 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1059 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1063 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1064 * Miscellaneous fixes
1067 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1068 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1069 French and Ukrainian
1070 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1071 * New Asturian translation
1074 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1075 ----------------------------------
1078 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1080 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1083 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1086 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1087 * Various fixes for Windows
1090 * New Armenian translation
1091 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1092 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1095 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1096 --------------------------------
1099 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1100 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1101 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1104 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1105 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1108 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1109 --------------------------------
1111 Access and demuxers:
1112 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1113 * fix for podcasts parsing
1114 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1117 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1118 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1121 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1122 * fix m3u playlists exports
1125 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1128 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1131 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1134 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1137 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1140 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1141 --------------------------------
1144 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1145 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1148 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1149 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1152 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1153 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1154 * fix console output encoding
1156 Interface and extensions:
1157 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1158 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1161 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1162 --------------------------------
1165 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1166 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1167 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1168 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1169 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1170 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1171 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1172 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1173 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1174 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1175 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1176 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1177 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1178 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1179 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1180 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1184 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1185 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1186 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1187 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1188 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1191 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1194 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1195 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1196 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1200 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1203 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1204 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1205 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1208 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1209 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1210 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1211 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1214 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1215 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1218 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1219 --------------------------------
1221 Important changes for users:
1222 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1223 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1225 Important changes for packagers:
1226 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1227 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1228 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1229 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1230 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1232 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1234 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1235 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1236 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1237 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1238 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1241 * Support for the sftp protocol
1242 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1243 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1244 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1245 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1246 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1249 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1250 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1251 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1253 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1254 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1255 * Invmem module improvements
1256 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1257 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1258 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1259 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1260 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1261 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1262 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1263 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1264 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1265 * Support for VP8 codec
1266 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1269 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1270 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1271 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1272 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1273 * Various EGP improvements
1274 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1275 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1278 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1279 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1280 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1281 * Podcast images are now displayed
1284 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1285 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1286 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1287 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1288 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1289 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1290 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1291 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1292 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1293 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1294 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1297 * New content extensions lua framework
1300 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1301 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1302 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1303 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1304 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1305 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1306 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1309 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1310 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1311 * Service discovery based on libudev
1312 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1315 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1316 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1317 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1318 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1319 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1320 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1321 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1324 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1325 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1326 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1329 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1331 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1332 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1335 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1338 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1339 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1340 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1341 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1342 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1343 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1344 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1347 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1348 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1351 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1352 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1353 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1357 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1358 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1359 * Improved Solaris port
1362 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1363 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1366 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1367 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1368 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1369 * transrate: broken since too long
1370 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1371 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1372 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1373 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1374 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1375 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1376 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1377 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1378 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1379 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1380 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1381 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1382 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1383 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1386 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1387 --------------------------------
1390 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1392 Decoders/Packetizers:
1393 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1396 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1397 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1398 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1399 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1400 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1403 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1404 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1407 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1408 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1411 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1412 and Walloon translations updated
1413 * Sinhala translation started
1416 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1417 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1420 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1421 --------------------------------
1424 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1425 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1428 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1431 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1432 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1435 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1436 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1437 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1438 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1441 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1442 --------------------------------
1445 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1446 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1449 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1450 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1453 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1454 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1457 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1460 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1461 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1464 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1465 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1468 * New Walloon translation
1469 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1472 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1473 --------------------------------
1476 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1477 regressions in most popular drivers
1478 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1481 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1482 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1483 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1486 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1487 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1490 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1491 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1492 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1493 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1494 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1497 * New udev module for linux
1500 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1503 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1506 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1507 --------------------------------
1510 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1511 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1512 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1515 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1516 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1519 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1520 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1523 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1526 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1527 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1528 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1529 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1532 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1533 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1534 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1535 - no support for Goom and SDL
1536 - limited text rendering support
1537 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1540 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1541 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1542 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1543 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1544 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1545 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1546 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1547 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1548 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1552 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1555 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1558 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1559 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1560 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1561 Arabic and French translation updates
1564 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1565 --------------------------------
1568 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1569 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1570 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1571 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1572 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1573 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1576 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1577 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1578 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1581 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1582 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1583 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1586 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1589 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1590 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1593 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1594 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1595 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1596 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1597 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1598 * Fix various crashes
1601 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1603 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1607 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1608 ---------------------------------
1612 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1613 See 'Access:' for more info.
1614 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1617 * Instantaneous pausing
1618 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1619 * Finer speed control
1620 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1621 * Timeshift for most medias
1622 * RTSP trickplay support
1623 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1626 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1627 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1628 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1629 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1630 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1631 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1632 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1633 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1634 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1635 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1638 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1639 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1640 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1641 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1642 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1643 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1644 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1647 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1648 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1651 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1652 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1653 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1654 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1655 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1656 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1657 * DVB scanning on linux
1658 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1659 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1660 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1661 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1662 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1663 * MTP device access on Unix
1664 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1665 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1668 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1669 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1670 Windows and Mac OS X.
1673 * Export the playlist in HTML
1674 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1675 * Better metadata handling and reading
1677 Linux/Windows interface:
1678 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1679 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1680 * Recently played items list
1681 * Interface toolbar customizations
1682 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1683 - More menus actions
1684 - Finer speed slider
1685 - Improvements on many dialogs
1686 - New dialog for plugins listing
1687 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1688 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1689 * Better integration in GTK environments
1692 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1693 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1694 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1695 * Additional usability improvements
1698 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1699 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1700 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1701 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1702 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1705 * New Maemo port with:
1706 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1707 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1710 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1713 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1714 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1715 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1716 * Support for latest iSight models
1719 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1720 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1723 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1724 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1725 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1726 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1727 The old image video output has been removed.
1728 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1729 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1732 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1740 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1741 --------------------------------------
1747 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1748 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1749 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1750 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1751 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1752 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1753 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1755 Various fixes to the following modules:
1758 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1759 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1760 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1762 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1767 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1768 ---------------------------------
1771 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1772 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1775 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1776 ---------------------------------
1779 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1782 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1785 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1786 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1787 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1788 main controller window.
1789 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1792 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1797 * Updates of other localizations
1800 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1801 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1802 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1803 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1804 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1807 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1808 ---------------------------------
1811 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1813 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1816 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1817 --------------------------------
1822 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1823 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1826 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1827 --------------------------------
1829 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1830 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1833 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1836 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1837 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1840 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1841 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1844 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1845 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1846 * Various fixed in playlist
1849 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1852 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1855 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1856 ------------------------------------
1858 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1859 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1862 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1863 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1864 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1867 * Stability fix for the video output.
1870 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1871 --------------------------------
1874 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1875 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1876 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1877 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1878 * Fixed update system bugs
1879 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1882 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1883 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1884 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1885 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1886 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1887 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1888 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1889 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1890 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1891 modern Mac OS X versions
1894 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1895 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1897 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1898 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1901 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1902 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1903 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1904 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1905 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1906 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1909 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1910 --------------------------------
1912 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1913 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1914 * Multiple bugfixes.
1917 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1918 --------------------------------
1920 * Multiple bug fixes.
1923 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1924 ---------------------------------
1928 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1929 recent to work correctly
1930 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1931 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1932 edit the ".hosts" file.
1933 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1934 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1935 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1936 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1937 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1938 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1939 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1940 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1941 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1942 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1943 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1944 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1945 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1946 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1947 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1948 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1949 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1950 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1951 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1952 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1953 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1954 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1955 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1956 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1957 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1958 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1959 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1960 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1961 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1962 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1963 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1964 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1965 and postproc modules.
1966 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1967 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1968 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1969 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1971 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1972 filter. For example:
1973 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1974 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1976 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1977 * Glide video output module has been removed.
1983 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
1985 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
1986 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
1989 * Vastly improved playlist support:
1990 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
1992 * Shoutcast TV listings
1993 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
1995 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
1996 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
1998 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2001 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2002 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2003 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2004 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2005 * JACK audio input support
2006 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2007 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2008 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2009 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2010 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2011 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2012 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2013 (available as a separate download).
2014 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2015 * RTMP input support
2016 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2017 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2018 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2020 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2021 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2024 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2025 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2026 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2027 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2029 * APEv1/2 tags support
2030 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2031 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2033 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2034 * TiVo Series 2 support
2035 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2040 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2041 * Flash Screen Video support
2042 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2043 * DosBox Capture support
2044 * Karl Morton's Video support
2045 * limited atrac3 support
2047 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2048 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2049 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2050 * H.264 PAFF support
2051 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2052 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2053 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2054 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2055 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2058 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2059 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2060 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2061 * AQTitle subtitles support
2062 * MKV USF subtitles support
2063 * HTML-based subtitles support
2064 * MPSub subtitles support
2065 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2066 * MPL2 subtitles support
2067 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2068 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2069 * Realtext subtitle support
2070 * DKS subtitle support
2071 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2072 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2075 * Flash Screen Video support
2076 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2078 Video outputs and filters:
2079 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2080 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2081 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2082 * New puzzle video output filter
2083 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2084 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2086 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2087 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2088 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2089 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2090 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2091 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2092 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2093 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2094 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2095 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2096 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2097 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2098 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2099 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2101 Audio outputs and filters:
2102 * Replay gain support
2103 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2104 new scaletempo audio filter)
2105 * New spatializer audio filter
2106 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2109 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2110 * New RTP payload formats:
2111 * Speex voice audio codec
2112 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2113 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2114 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2115 * DCCP transport for RTP
2116 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2121 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2122 end-user suitable way.
2123 * Improved user interaction
2124 * Improved mouse gestures
2125 * Vastly improved Update checker
2126 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2128 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2129 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2131 * Improved video output features
2132 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2133 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2134 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2135 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2136 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2138 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2139 if libncursesw is available.
2140 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2141 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2142 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2144 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2145 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2146 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2147 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2148 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2149 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2150 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2151 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2154 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2155 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2156 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2159 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2160 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2161 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2162 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2163 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2164 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2167 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2168 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2178 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2179 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2180 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2183 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2184 ----------------------------------
2187 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2190 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2191 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2192 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2193 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2194 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2195 * Updated Polish translation
2198 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2199 ----------------------------------
2202 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2203 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2204 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2207 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2208 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2209 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2210 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2211 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2212 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2213 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2214 to an unexpected application termination
2215 * New Serbian translation
2216 * Updated Romanian translation
2219 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2220 ----------------------------------
2223 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2224 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2225 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2226 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2227 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2228 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2229 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2230 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2233 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2234 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2235 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2236 * Fixed AAC resampling
2237 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2238 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2241 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2242 ----------------------------------
2245 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2246 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2247 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2248 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2249 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2252 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2253 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2254 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2255 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2256 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2259 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2260 ----------------------------------
2263 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2264 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2267 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2268 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2269 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2270 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2272 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2276 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2279 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2282 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2285 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2288 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2289 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2290 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2291 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2292 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2294 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2295 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2296 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2297 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2300 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2303 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2304 ----------------------------------
2307 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2308 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2309 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2311 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2312 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2314 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2315 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2318 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2320 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2321 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2322 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2323 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2324 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2325 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2326 two different movies
2327 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2328 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2329 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2332 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2335 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2336 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2337 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2338 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2341 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2342 ----------------------------------
2344 Various bugfixes, notably:
2345 * Windows Vista compatibility
2346 * Cropping in Direct3D
2347 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2348 * RSS filter string overflow
2350 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2352 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2353 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2356 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2357 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2360 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2363 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2366 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2369 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2370 ----------------------------------
2372 Various bugfixes, notably:
2373 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2374 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2375 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2376 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2377 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2378 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2381 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2382 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2385 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2387 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2388 * Diverse usability improvements
2389 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2390 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2391 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2394 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2395 ---------------------------------
2397 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2398 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2401 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2404 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2405 --------------------------------
2408 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2411 * Support for RTSP authentication
2412 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2413 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2414 * ATSC support for DVB input
2415 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2416 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2417 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2420 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2421 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2422 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2423 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2424 * Matroska WavPack support
2425 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2426 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2427 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2430 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2431 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2432 * Improved libcaca support
2436 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2437 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2439 * Systray support in skins
2441 * Support for Apple Remote control
2442 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2443 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2444 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2445 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2447 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2450 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2451 Windows 9x/ME users:
2452 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2453 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2454 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2455 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2456 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2458 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2459 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2468 * Updates to the libvlc API
2469 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2472 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2473 --------------------------------
2476 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2477 * Support for downloading updates
2481 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2482 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2483 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2484 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2486 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2487 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2488 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2491 * Cook (Real audio) support
2493 Playlist / Services discovery:
2494 * XSPF playlist support
2496 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2499 * New JACK audio output
2502 * New video filters:
2503 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2504 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2505 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2506 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2507 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2508 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2511 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2514 * System to inform the user and request information
2515 - HTTP authentication
2519 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2520 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2521 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2524 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2525 - Improved playlist handling
2526 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2528 - Embedded Video output
2529 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2530 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2531 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2532 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2533 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2535 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2536 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2539 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2542 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2543 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2544 * Growl "Now playing" support
2547 * Ability to log to syslog
2548 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2551 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2553 * A bit more automatic testing
2556 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2557 ---------------------------------
2560 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2561 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2564 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2565 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2568 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2571 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2572 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2578 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2581 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2582 --------------------------------
2585 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2589 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2590 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2591 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2594 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2595 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2596 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2597 * GnomeVFS input module
2598 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2599 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2602 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2603 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2604 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2607 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2608 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2614 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2615 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2618 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2619 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2620 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2623 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2625 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2626 - New extended controls panel
2627 - New bookmarks window
2628 - Fixed playlist sorting
2629 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2631 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2632 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2633 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2634 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2638 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2639 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2641 - Include macro to include other files
2645 * Should now work outside IE as well
2648 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2651 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2652 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2655 The following languages were added:
2659 * Simplified Chinese
2660 The following languages were re-added:
2664 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2665 --------------------------------
2668 * Rewrite of the playlist
2670 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2671 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2672 * Preferences improvements:
2673 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2674 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2676 * Core image manipulation support
2677 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2678 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2679 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2680 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2681 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2682 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2683 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2684 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2685 * Access filter architecture
2686 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2687 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2691 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2692 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2693 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2694 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2695 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2696 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2697 * Massive Matroska improvements
2698 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2700 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2701 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2702 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2703 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2704 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2706 Decoders / Encoders:
2707 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2708 * PNG decoder/encoder
2709 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2710 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2713 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2716 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2717 * Brand new SAP module
2718 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2719 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2720 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2721 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2722 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2723 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2727 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2730 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2731 * Image file video output (png)
2732 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2733 * Improvements to wall video filter
2734 * Support for font color and opacity
2740 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2741 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2742 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2746 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2747 - Improved preferences
2748 - Improvements to the wizard
2749 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2751 - Redesigned playlist
2752 - Improved preferences
2754 - Support for multiple actions
2757 - Support for the new playlist system
2759 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2762 * Screensaver disabling fix
2763 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2764 * Support for no-decoration windows
2767 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2768 * The OpenGL video output is back
2769 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2770 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2771 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2772 is not yet available in the new module
2773 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2776 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2785 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2788 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2791 The following languages were added:
2797 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2798 --------------------------------
2801 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2802 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2805 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2806 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2807 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2810 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2813 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2816 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2819 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2820 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2821 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2825 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2827 * Support of playlist group announcement
2830 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2831 --------------------------------
2834 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2835 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2836 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2837 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2838 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2839 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2842 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2843 (Stream your desktop)
2844 * Improved DVD support:
2845 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2846 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2847 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2848 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2849 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2850 (selection of titles/chapters).
2853 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2854 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2855 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2856 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2857 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2858 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2859 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2860 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2861 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2862 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2865 * G.726 audio support
2866 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2867 * MPEG-4 text support
2868 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2869 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2870 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2874 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2875 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2876 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2877 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2878 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2879 * DVB subtitles encoder
2880 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2881 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2883 * Text track muxing for mp4
2884 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2885 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2886 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2887 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2888 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2889 * Improved ASF muxer
2891 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2892 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2893 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2896 * New audio equalizer filter
2897 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2898 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2899 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2900 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2903 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2904 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2905 with support for effects.
2906 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2907 - New filters can be streamed.
2908 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2909 - Centralized scaling and blending
2911 - "time", to display current time
2912 - "marq", to display a marquee
2915 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2916 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2917 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2918 * A few skins2 improvements
2919 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2920 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2921 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2922 * Improved CORBA control module
2925 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2926 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2927 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2930 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2931 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2932 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2935 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2936 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2937 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2938 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2939 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2942 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2945 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2946 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2949 * Server/client network synchronization module
2950 * VBrick streams fully supported
2951 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2955 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2956 --------------------------------
2959 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2960 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2961 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2962 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2965 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2966 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2967 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2968 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2969 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2970 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2971 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2974 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2975 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2976 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2977 * Improved directory access module.
2978 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2979 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2980 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
2981 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
2982 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
2985 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
2986 * mmsh streaming fixes.
2987 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
2990 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
2991 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
2992 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
2995 * Improved session announcement system.
2996 * Minimize threads usage by default.
2997 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
2998 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
2999 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3000 * Improved transrater.
3001 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3002 * New configuration system.
3003 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3006 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3007 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3008 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3009 * Supports scheduling.
3010 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3011 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3014 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3015 - Ability to embed video output.
3016 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3017 - Lots of improvements.
3018 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3019 - New design and set of icons.
3020 - Ability to embed video output.
3021 - Support for hotkeys.
3022 - Support for bookmarks.
3024 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3025 - Better hotkeys handling.
3028 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3029 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3030 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3031 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3034 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3035 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3036 * Improved Windows installer.
3042 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3043 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3046 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3047 ---------------------------------
3050 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3051 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3054 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3055 --------------------------------
3058 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3059 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3062 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3063 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3064 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3065 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3068 * Internal improvments
3069 * Improved import/export
3072 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3074 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3075 small and strange formats.
3077 * New MOD audio demux.
3078 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3079 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3080 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3081 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3084 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3085 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3086 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3092 * New opengl video output plugin.
3095 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3096 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3099 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3100 --------------------------------
3103 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3104 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3105 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3106 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3107 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3108 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3109 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3110 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3113 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3118 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3119 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3120 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3121 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3122 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3123 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3124 * Better Icecast support.
3125 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3126 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3129 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3130 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3131 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3132 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3133 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3134 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3135 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3138 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3139 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3140 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3141 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3142 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3143 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3144 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3145 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3146 * Preliminary RTP support.
3147 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3152 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3153 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3155 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3156 - Improvements and help in preferences
3157 - New streaming wizard
3158 - Revised Disc Open menu
3160 - Improvements of the standard pages
3161 - Support for new commands
3162 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3165 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3166 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3169 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3170 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3171 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3172 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3173 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3174 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3175 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3176 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3177 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3180 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3182 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3183 * Support for Panther.
3184 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3185 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3188 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3189 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3190 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3191 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3192 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3193 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3194 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3195 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3198 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3199 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3200 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3203 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3206 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3207 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3208 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3209 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3212 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3213 --------------------------------
3216 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3219 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3220 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3223 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3224 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3227 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3230 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3231 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3234 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3237 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3240 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3241 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3245 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3246 --------------------------------
3249 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3250 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3254 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3255 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3256 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3258 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3259 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3262 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3265 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3268 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3269 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3273 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3274 --------------------------------
3277 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3278 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3282 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3283 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3284 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3285 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3286 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3289 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3290 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3291 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3294 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3295 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3296 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3299 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3300 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3301 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3302 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3303 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3306 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3307 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3308 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3311 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3314 * Improved build system.
3315 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3316 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3317 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3318 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3321 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3322 --------------------------------
3325 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3328 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3329 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3330 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3331 * Video 4 Linux support
3332 * CD Digital Audio support
3333 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3336 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3337 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3338 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3339 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3342 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3343 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3344 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3345 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3346 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3347 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3348 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3351 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3352 * New HTTP remote control interface
3355 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3356 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3357 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3358 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3359 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3362 * New reset option for the preferences
3363 * You can set your language in the prefences
3364 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3365 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3366 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3367 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3370 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3371 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3372 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3375 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3376 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3377 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3378 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3379 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3380 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3381 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3382 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3383 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3384 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3387 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3388 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3389 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3390 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3391 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3392 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3393 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3396 * Interface localization
3397 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3398 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3399 * New full-featured Preferences window
3402 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3403 --------------------------------
3406 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3407 * support for skins at the interface level
3408 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3409 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3410 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3411 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3412 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3415 * fixed HTTP redirects
3416 * support for opening an entire directory
3417 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3418 * new video4linux access plug-in
3419 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3422 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3423 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3424 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3427 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3428 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3429 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3430 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3431 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3432 * new codec for raw I420 video
3433 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3436 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3437 (although it still misses some important features)
3438 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3441 * new HTTP output support
3442 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3443 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3446 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3449 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3452 * reorderable playlist
3453 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3454 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3455 * support for mono audio output devices
3456 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3457 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3458 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3459 * the messages window remembers more lines
3460 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3461 * http and ogg stream output options
3462 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3465 * new skinnable interface
3466 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3468 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3469 * support for FLAC audio format
3470 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3472 * network tab in the interface
3473 * "apply" handling in preferences
3476 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3477 ---------------------------------
3480 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3481 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3482 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3483 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3485 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3486 * DTS S/PDIF support
3489 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3490 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3491 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3492 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3495 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3496 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3499 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3502 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3505 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3507 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3508 * rc interface is now fully useable
3509 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3512 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3513 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3514 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3515 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3516 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3518 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3519 * support for mouse gestures
3520 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3523 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3524 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3527 * improved ID3 tag detection
3528 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3529 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3530 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3532 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3535 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3536 ---------------------------------
3539 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3540 English was set as the preferred language
3543 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3544 --------------------------------
3547 * new mouse gesture interface
3548 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3552 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3553 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3554 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3557 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3558 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3562 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3565 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3566 without the user consent
3569 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3571 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3572 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3573 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3576 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3577 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3578 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3579 * playlist enhancements
3580 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3581 * new step forward/step backward commands
3582 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3583 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3584 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3587 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3588 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3589 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3592 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3593 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3596 * native video output is working again
3597 * only commandline interface support
3598 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3601 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3602 --------------------------------
3605 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3606 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3607 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3608 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3609 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3610 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3611 and A/52 streams are supported)
3612 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3617 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3618 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3619 * VCD entry points support
3620 * VCD image file support
3623 * support for *.asf format
3624 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3625 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3626 * support for ogg encapsulation
3627 * support for raw DV format
3628 * support for *.wav format
3629 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3632 Stream discovery & playlists:
3633 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3634 * support for .m3u file format
3635 * support for .asx file format
3636 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3639 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3640 (only available with the .avi demux)
3641 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3642 * support for raw PCM data
3643 * support for Cinepak video codec
3644 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3645 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3646 * support for Xvid codec
3647 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3648 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3649 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3651 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3653 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3656 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3659 * new WxWindows interface
3660 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3661 device and the channels configuration
3662 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3663 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3664 format that VLC can play
3665 * new swedish translation
3666 * enhancements of the playlist window
3667 * new messages window to see debug info
3668 * fixed a few crashes
3671 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3672 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3673 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3674 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working