1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
20 * Added audio fingerprinter support
21 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
24 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
25 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
26 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
27 * Support for Ulead DV audio
28 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
29 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
30 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
31 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
32 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
33 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
34 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
35 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
38 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
41 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
42 remove support for previous OS X releases
43 * Major improvements in DASH support
44 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
45 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
46 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
47 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
48 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
49 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
50 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
51 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
52 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
53 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
56 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
57 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
58 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
59 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
60 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
61 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
62 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
63 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
64 * Support for more MJPEG streams
65 * Add support for liveleak streams
68 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
69 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
70 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
71 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
72 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
73 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
74 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
75 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
76 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
77 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
78 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
81 * New remapping channel filter
82 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
83 * New VSXu visualization plugin
84 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
87 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
88 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
89 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
90 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
91 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
92 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
93 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
94 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
97 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
98 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
99 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
100 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
101 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
102 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
103 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
106 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
107 * Options support for AVIO output module
108 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
109 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
110 * Livehttp stream encryption support
111 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
112 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
115 * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
118 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
119 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
120 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
121 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
122 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
123 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
127 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
130 * add support for multiple video outputs
131 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
133 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
134 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
135 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
136 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
137 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
138 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
139 VLC's internal volume level
140 * add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
142 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
143 selection and to manage the list of presets
144 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
145 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
146 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
147 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
148 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
149 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
150 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
151 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
152 * add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
153 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
155 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
156 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
157 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
158 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
159 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
160 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
161 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
162 3rd party applications
163 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
164 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
165 (system-wide settings)
166 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
167 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
170 * Partial support for Qt5.0
171 * Menus modifications and improvements
172 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
173 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
174 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
175 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
176 * EPG display fixes and improvements
177 * Add SD pixmap sources
178 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
179 * Display playlist total duration
180 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
182 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
183 * Removed language preference
184 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
188 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
189 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
190 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
191 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
192 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
193 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
194 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
195 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
198 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
199 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
200 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
201 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
202 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
203 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
205 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
206 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
207 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
208 * Broken crop video filter
210 * OSD parser and menu
211 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
212 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
213 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
214 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
217 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
218 --------------------------------
221 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
224 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
225 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
226 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
229 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
230 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
231 * Fix koreus lua parser
232 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
233 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
234 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
235 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
238 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
239 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
242 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
245 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
246 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
247 * Fix Time counter UI look
248 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
251 * Fix https streaming
254 * Fix audio and video track selection:
255 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
256 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
259 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
260 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
261 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
262 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
263 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
266 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
267 --------------------------------
270 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
271 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
272 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
273 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
274 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
275 during playback on Mac OS X
278 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
279 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
280 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
283 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
284 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
285 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
286 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
287 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
290 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
291 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
292 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
293 * Support Youtube live streams
296 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
299 * Fix media info dialog update
300 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
301 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
302 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
303 * Fix album art display at start
306 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
307 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
308 * Fix menus display and behavior
309 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
310 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
311 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
312 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
313 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
314 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
315 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
318 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
319 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
320 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
321 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
322 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
323 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
324 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
325 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
326 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
329 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
330 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
331 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
332 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
333 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
336 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
337 --------------------------------
340 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
343 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
344 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
347 * Add GateKeeper support
348 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
349 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
350 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
353 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
356 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
357 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
358 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
359 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
360 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
363 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
364 --------------------------------
367 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
368 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
369 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
370 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
371 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
372 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
373 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
374 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
375 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
376 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
377 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
381 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
382 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
383 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
384 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
385 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
386 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
387 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
388 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
389 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
390 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
391 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
392 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
395 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
396 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
398 * Fix MP3 free format support
401 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
402 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
403 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
404 * Fix for DVB channels file support
405 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
408 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
409 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
411 Audio filters and output:
412 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
413 * Fix DirectSound device selection
414 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
415 * Do not apply volume in file output
416 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
417 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
420 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
421 the persistant media library
422 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
423 to the media library or the temporary playlist
424 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
425 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
426 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
427 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
428 press on the Play/Pause button
429 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
430 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
431 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
432 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
433 * Many Fullscreen fixes
434 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
435 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
436 Synchronization panel
437 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
438 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
439 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
440 * Fix crashes on exit
441 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
443 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
444 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
445 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
446 automatically reset on the first launch.
447 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
448 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
449 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
452 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
453 * Fixes for icecast SD
456 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
457 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
458 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
459 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
460 * Fix tags and file names display
461 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
464 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
465 * Fix for key events and focus loss
468 * Fix display of some buttons
469 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
470 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
473 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
474 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
475 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
478 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
479 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
480 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
481 Thai translations update
482 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
485 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
486 --------------------------------
489 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
490 * fix the samba module compilation
491 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
492 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
493 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
494 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
497 * Support for MXPEG files
498 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
499 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
502 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
503 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
504 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
507 * Fix ogm header creation
510 * limit spatializer filter distortions
511 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
514 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
515 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
516 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
517 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
520 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
523 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
524 * allow to hide the sidebar
525 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
526 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
527 * noticebly faster launch time
528 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
529 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
530 * improve track synchronization panel
531 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
532 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
535 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
536 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
537 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
538 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
541 * fix for menus display
542 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
543 * documentation update
546 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
547 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
550 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
551 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
552 * Update Jamendo selections
556 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
557 * fix a crash on VLM close
560 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
561 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
562 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
563 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
566 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
569 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
570 ---------------------------------
573 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
574 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
575 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
576 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
577 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
578 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
579 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
580 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
581 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
582 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
583 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
584 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
585 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
586 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
587 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
588 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
589 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
590 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
591 --http-crl (optional CRL).
592 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
593 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
594 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
595 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
596 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
597 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
598 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
600 Important changes for packagers:
601 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
602 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
603 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
604 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
605 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
606 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
607 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
608 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
609 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
610 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
613 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
614 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
615 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
616 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
617 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
618 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
619 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
622 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
623 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
624 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
625 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
626 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
627 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
628 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
629 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
630 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
631 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
632 * PulseAudio audio input support
633 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
634 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
635 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
636 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
637 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
638 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
639 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
640 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
643 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
644 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
645 are notably concerned.
646 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
647 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
648 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
649 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
650 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
651 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
652 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
653 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
654 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
655 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
656 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
657 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
658 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
659 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
660 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
663 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
664 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
665 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
666 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
667 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
668 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
669 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
670 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
671 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
672 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
673 * Improved support of tracker files
674 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
677 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
678 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
679 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
680 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
681 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
682 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
683 and important cleanups and optimisations
684 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
685 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
686 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
687 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
688 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
689 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
690 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
691 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
692 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
693 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
694 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
695 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
696 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
697 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
698 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
699 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
700 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
701 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
702 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
703 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
704 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
707 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
708 * New video output for iOS platform
709 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
710 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
711 * Various vmem improvements
712 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
713 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
714 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
715 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
716 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
717 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
719 Audio Output and Filters:
720 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
721 * New audio output in memory (amem)
722 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
723 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
724 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
725 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
726 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
727 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
728 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
729 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
732 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
733 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
734 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
735 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
736 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
737 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
738 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
739 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
740 * New anti-flickering filter
741 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
742 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
743 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
744 blackbox and customizable shadow.
745 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
746 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
747 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
750 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
751 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
752 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
753 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
754 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
755 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
756 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
757 * Major rework of VoD support
758 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
759 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
760 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
761 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
762 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
763 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
764 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
765 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
766 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
767 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
770 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
771 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
774 * New capabilities for libVLC:
775 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
776 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
777 list of available audio and video filters
778 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
779 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
780 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
783 * asademux, subsass: use libass
784 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
785 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
787 * upnp: use upnp_intel
788 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
789 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
790 * removal of the noise filter
791 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
792 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
793 removed in Growl's next release, too.
794 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
797 * Update of translations for most languages.
798 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
801 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
802 ----------------------------------
805 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
806 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
809 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
810 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
813 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
814 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
815 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
818 * Camtasia decoding fix.
821 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
822 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
825 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
828 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
829 ----------------------------------
832 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
833 including support for OS X Lion
834 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
835 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
838 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
841 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
842 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
843 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
846 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
849 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
850 ----------------------------------
853 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
854 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
857 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
858 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
859 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
860 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
861 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
863 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
864 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
865 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
867 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
868 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
871 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
874 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
877 * Fix quitting on Linux
878 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
882 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
885 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
888 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
889 ---------------------------------
891 Windows and Mac OS X:
892 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
895 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
896 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
899 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
902 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
905 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
907 Miscellaneous fixes in:
908 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
910 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
911 * RTP output and XML export
912 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
916 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
917 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
918 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
919 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
922 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
923 --------------------------------
925 Windows and Mac OS X:
926 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
929 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
932 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
933 * Improve Apple Remote handling
934 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
935 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
936 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
937 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
940 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
941 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
945 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
946 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
947 * New Luganda Translation
950 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
951 --------------------------------
954 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
957 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
958 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
959 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
960 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
963 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
965 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
966 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
967 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
968 * mp4 demuxer improvements
969 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
970 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
971 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
972 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
974 Miscellaneous fixes in:
975 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
976 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
977 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
978 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
979 * Configure and build system improvements
980 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
983 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
984 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
985 * New icelandic translation
988 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
989 --------------------------------
992 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
996 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
997 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
998 and stability reasons
1001 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1005 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1008 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1009 ----------------------------------
1012 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1015 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1016 ---------------------------------
1019 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1020 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1021 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1022 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1025 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1028 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1029 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1030 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1031 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1034 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1035 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1036 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1038 Subtitles and renderer:
1039 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1040 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1041 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1042 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1043 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1046 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1047 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1048 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1049 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1052 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1053 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1055 Miscellaneous fixes:
1056 * KDE device solid actions
1058 * Transcode integer overflow
1059 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1060 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1063 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1064 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1065 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1068 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1069 ----------------------------------
1072 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1076 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1079 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1082 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1083 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1084 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1085 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1088 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1092 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1095 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1098 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1099 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1101 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1105 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1106 * Miscellaneous fixes
1109 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1110 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1111 French and Ukrainian
1112 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1113 * New Asturian translation
1116 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1117 ----------------------------------
1120 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1122 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1125 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1128 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1129 * Various fixes for Windows
1132 * New Armenian translation
1133 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1134 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1137 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1138 --------------------------------
1141 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1142 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1143 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1146 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1147 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1150 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1151 --------------------------------
1153 Access and demuxers:
1154 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1155 * fix for podcasts parsing
1156 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1159 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1160 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1163 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1164 * fix m3u playlists exports
1167 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1170 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1173 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1176 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1179 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1182 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1183 --------------------------------
1186 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1187 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1190 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1191 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1194 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1195 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1196 * fix console output encoding
1198 Interface and extensions:
1199 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1200 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1203 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1204 --------------------------------
1207 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1208 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1209 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1210 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1211 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1212 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1213 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1214 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1215 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1216 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1217 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1218 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1219 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1220 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1221 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1222 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1226 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1227 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1228 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1229 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1230 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1233 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1236 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1237 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1238 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1242 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1245 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1246 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1247 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1250 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1251 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1252 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1253 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1256 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1257 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1260 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1261 --------------------------------
1263 Important changes for users:
1264 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1265 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1267 Important changes for packagers:
1268 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1269 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1270 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1271 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1272 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1274 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1276 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1277 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1278 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1279 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1280 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1283 * Support for the sftp protocol
1284 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1285 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1286 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1287 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1288 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1291 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1292 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1293 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1295 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1296 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1297 * Invmem module improvements
1298 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1299 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1300 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1301 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1302 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1303 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1304 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1305 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1306 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1307 * Support for VP8 codec
1308 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1311 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1312 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1313 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1314 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1315 * Various EGP improvements
1316 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1317 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1320 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1321 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1322 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1323 * Podcast images are now displayed
1326 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1327 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1328 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1329 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1330 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1331 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1332 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1333 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1334 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1335 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1336 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1339 * New content extensions lua framework
1342 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1343 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1344 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1345 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1346 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1347 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1348 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1351 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1352 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1353 * Service discovery based on libudev
1354 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1357 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1358 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1359 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1360 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1361 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1362 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1363 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1366 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1367 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1368 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1371 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1373 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1374 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1377 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1380 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1381 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1382 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1383 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1384 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1385 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1386 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1389 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1390 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1393 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1394 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1395 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1399 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1400 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1401 * Improved Solaris port
1404 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1405 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1408 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1409 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1410 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1411 * transrate: broken since too long
1412 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1413 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1414 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1415 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1416 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1417 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1418 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1419 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1420 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1421 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1422 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1423 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1424 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1425 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1428 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1429 --------------------------------
1432 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1434 Decoders/Packetizers:
1435 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1438 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1439 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1440 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1441 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1442 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1445 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1446 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1449 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1450 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1453 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1454 and Walloon translations updated
1455 * Sinhala translation started
1458 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1459 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1462 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1463 --------------------------------
1466 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1467 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1470 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1473 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1474 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1477 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1478 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1479 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1480 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1483 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1484 --------------------------------
1487 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1488 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1491 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1492 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1495 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1496 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1499 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1502 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1503 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1506 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1507 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1510 * New Walloon translation
1511 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1514 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1515 --------------------------------
1518 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1519 regressions in most popular drivers
1520 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1523 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1524 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1525 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1528 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1529 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1532 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1533 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1534 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1535 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1536 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1539 * New udev module for linux
1542 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1545 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1548 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1549 --------------------------------
1552 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1553 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1554 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1557 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1558 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1561 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1562 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1565 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1568 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1569 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1570 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1571 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1574 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1575 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1576 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1577 - no support for Goom and SDL
1578 - limited text rendering support
1579 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1582 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1583 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1584 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1585 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1586 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1587 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1588 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1589 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1590 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1594 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1597 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1600 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1601 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1602 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1603 Arabic and French translation updates
1606 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1607 --------------------------------
1610 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1611 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1612 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1613 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1614 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1615 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1618 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1619 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1620 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1623 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1624 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1625 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1628 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1631 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1632 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1635 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1636 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1637 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1638 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1639 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1640 * Fix various crashes
1643 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1645 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1649 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1650 ---------------------------------
1654 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1655 See 'Access:' for more info.
1656 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1659 * Instantaneous pausing
1660 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1661 * Finer speed control
1662 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1663 * Timeshift for most medias
1664 * RTSP trickplay support
1665 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1668 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1669 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1670 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1671 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1672 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1673 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1674 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1675 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1676 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1677 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1680 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1681 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1682 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1683 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1684 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1685 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1686 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1689 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1690 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1693 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1694 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1695 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1696 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1697 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1698 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1699 * DVB scanning on linux
1700 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1701 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1702 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1703 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1704 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1705 * MTP device access on Unix
1706 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1707 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1710 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1711 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1712 Windows and Mac OS X.
1715 * Export the playlist in HTML
1716 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1717 * Better metadata handling and reading
1719 Linux/Windows interface:
1720 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1721 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1722 * Recently played items list
1723 * Interface toolbar customizations
1724 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1725 - More menus actions
1726 - Finer speed slider
1727 - Improvements on many dialogs
1728 - New dialog for plugins listing
1729 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1730 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1731 * Better integration in GTK environments
1734 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1735 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1736 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1737 * Additional usability improvements
1740 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1741 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1742 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1743 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1744 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1747 * New Maemo port with:
1748 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1749 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1752 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1755 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1756 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1757 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1758 * Support for latest iSight models
1761 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1762 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1765 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1766 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1767 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1768 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1769 The old image video output has been removed.
1770 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1771 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1774 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1782 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1783 --------------------------------------
1789 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1790 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1791 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1792 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1793 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1794 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1795 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1797 Various fixes to the following modules:
1800 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1801 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1802 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1804 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1809 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1810 ---------------------------------
1813 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1814 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1817 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1818 ---------------------------------
1821 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1824 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1827 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1828 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1829 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1830 main controller window.
1831 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1834 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1839 * Updates of other localizations
1842 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1843 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1844 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1845 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1846 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1849 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1850 ---------------------------------
1853 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1855 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1858 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1859 --------------------------------
1864 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1865 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1868 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1869 --------------------------------
1871 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1872 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1875 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1878 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1879 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1882 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1883 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1886 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1887 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1888 * Various fixed in playlist
1891 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1894 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1897 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1898 ------------------------------------
1900 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1901 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1904 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1905 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1906 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1909 * Stability fix for the video output.
1912 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1913 --------------------------------
1916 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1917 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1918 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1919 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1920 * Fixed update system bugs
1921 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1924 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1925 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1926 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1927 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1928 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1929 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1930 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1931 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1932 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1933 modern Mac OS X versions
1936 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1937 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1939 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1940 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1943 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1944 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1945 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1946 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1947 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1948 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1951 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1952 --------------------------------
1954 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1955 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1956 * Multiple bugfixes.
1959 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1960 --------------------------------
1962 * Multiple bug fixes.
1965 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1966 ---------------------------------
1970 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1971 recent to work correctly
1972 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1973 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1974 edit the ".hosts" file.
1975 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1976 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1977 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1978 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1979 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1980 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1981 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1982 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1983 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1984 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1985 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1986 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1987 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1988 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1989 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1990 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1991 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1992 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1993 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1994 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1995 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1996 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1997 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1998 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1999 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2000 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2001 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2002 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2003 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2004 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2005 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2006 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2007 and postproc modules.
2008 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2009 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2010 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2011 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2013 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2014 filter. For example:
2015 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2016 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2018 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2019 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2025 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2027 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2028 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2031 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2032 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2034 * Shoutcast TV listings
2035 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2037 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2038 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2040 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2043 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2044 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2045 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2046 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2047 * JACK audio input support
2048 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2049 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2050 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2051 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2052 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2053 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2054 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2055 (available as a separate download).
2056 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2057 * RTMP input support
2058 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2059 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2060 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2062 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2063 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2066 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2067 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2068 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2069 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2071 * APEv1/2 tags support
2072 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2073 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2075 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2076 * TiVo Series 2 support
2077 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2082 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2083 * Flash Screen Video support
2084 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2085 * DosBox Capture support
2086 * Karl Morton's Video support
2087 * limited atrac3 support
2089 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2090 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2091 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2092 * H.264 PAFF support
2093 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2094 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2095 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2096 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2097 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2100 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2101 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2102 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2103 * AQTitle subtitles support
2104 * MKV USF subtitles support
2105 * HTML-based subtitles support
2106 * MPSub subtitles support
2107 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2108 * MPL2 subtitles support
2109 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2110 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2111 * Realtext subtitle support
2112 * DKS subtitle support
2113 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2114 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2117 * Flash Screen Video support
2118 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2120 Video outputs and filters:
2121 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2122 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2123 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2124 * New puzzle video output filter
2125 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2126 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2128 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2129 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2130 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2131 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2132 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2133 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2134 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2135 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2136 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2137 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2138 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2139 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2140 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2141 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2143 Audio outputs and filters:
2144 * Replay gain support
2145 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2146 new scaletempo audio filter)
2147 * New spatializer audio filter
2148 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2151 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2152 * New RTP payload formats:
2153 * Speex voice audio codec
2154 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2155 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2156 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2157 * DCCP transport for RTP
2158 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2163 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2164 end-user suitable way.
2165 * Improved user interaction
2166 * Improved mouse gestures
2167 * Vastly improved Update checker
2168 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2170 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2171 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2173 * Improved video output features
2174 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2175 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2176 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2177 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2178 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2180 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2181 if libncursesw is available.
2182 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2183 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2184 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2186 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2187 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2188 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2189 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2190 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2191 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2192 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2193 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2196 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2197 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2198 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2201 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2202 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2203 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2204 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2205 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2206 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2209 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2210 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2220 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2221 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2222 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2225 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2226 ----------------------------------
2229 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2232 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2233 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2234 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2235 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2236 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2237 * Updated Polish translation
2240 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2241 ----------------------------------
2244 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2245 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2246 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2249 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2250 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2251 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2252 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2253 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2254 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2255 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2256 to an unexpected application termination
2257 * New Serbian translation
2258 * Updated Romanian translation
2261 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2262 ----------------------------------
2265 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2266 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2267 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2268 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2269 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2270 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2271 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2272 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2275 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2276 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2277 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2278 * Fixed AAC resampling
2279 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2280 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2283 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2284 ----------------------------------
2287 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2288 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2289 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2290 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2291 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2294 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2295 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2296 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2297 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2298 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2301 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2302 ----------------------------------
2305 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2306 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2309 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2310 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2311 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2312 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2314 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2318 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2321 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2324 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2327 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2330 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2331 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2332 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2333 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2334 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2336 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2337 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2338 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2339 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2342 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2345 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2346 ----------------------------------
2349 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2350 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2351 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2353 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2354 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2356 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2357 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2360 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2362 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2363 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2364 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2365 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2366 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2367 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2368 two different movies
2369 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2370 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2371 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2374 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2377 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2378 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2379 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2380 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2383 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2384 ----------------------------------
2386 Various bugfixes, notably:
2387 * Windows Vista compatibility
2388 * Cropping in Direct3D
2389 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2390 * RSS filter string overflow
2392 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2394 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2395 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2398 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2399 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2402 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2405 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2408 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2411 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2412 ----------------------------------
2414 Various bugfixes, notably:
2415 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2416 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2417 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2418 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2419 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2420 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2423 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2424 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2427 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2429 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2430 * Diverse usability improvements
2431 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2432 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2433 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2436 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2437 ---------------------------------
2439 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2440 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2443 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2446 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2447 --------------------------------
2450 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2453 * Support for RTSP authentication
2454 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2455 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2456 * ATSC support for DVB input
2457 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2458 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2459 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2462 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2463 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2464 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2465 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2466 * Matroska WavPack support
2467 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2468 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2469 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2472 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2473 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2474 * Improved libcaca support
2478 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2479 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2481 * Systray support in skins
2483 * Support for Apple Remote control
2484 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2485 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2486 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2487 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2489 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2492 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2493 Windows 9x/ME users:
2494 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2495 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2496 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2497 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2498 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2500 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2501 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2510 * Updates to the libvlc API
2511 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2514 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2515 --------------------------------
2518 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2519 * Support for downloading updates
2523 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2524 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2525 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2526 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2528 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2529 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2530 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2533 * Cook (Real audio) support
2535 Playlist / Services discovery:
2536 * XSPF playlist support
2538 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2541 * New JACK audio output
2544 * New video filters:
2545 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2546 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2547 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2548 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2549 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2550 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2553 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2556 * System to inform the user and request information
2557 - HTTP authentication
2561 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2562 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2563 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2566 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2567 - Improved playlist handling
2568 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2570 - Embedded Video output
2571 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2572 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2573 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2574 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2575 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2577 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2578 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2581 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2584 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2585 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2586 * Growl "Now playing" support
2589 * Ability to log to syslog
2590 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2593 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2595 * A bit more automatic testing
2598 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2599 ---------------------------------
2602 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2603 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2606 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2607 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2610 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2613 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2614 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2620 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2623 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2624 --------------------------------
2627 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2631 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2632 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2633 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2636 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2637 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2638 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2639 * GnomeVFS input module
2640 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2641 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2644 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2645 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2646 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2649 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2650 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2656 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2657 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2660 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2661 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2662 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2665 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2667 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2668 - New extended controls panel
2669 - New bookmarks window
2670 - Fixed playlist sorting
2671 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2673 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2674 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2675 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2676 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2680 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2681 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2683 - Include macro to include other files
2687 * Should now work outside IE as well
2690 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2693 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2694 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2697 The following languages were added:
2701 * Simplified Chinese
2702 The following languages were re-added:
2706 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2707 --------------------------------
2710 * Rewrite of the playlist
2712 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2713 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2714 * Preferences improvements:
2715 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2716 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2718 * Core image manipulation support
2719 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2720 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2721 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2722 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2723 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2724 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2725 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2726 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2727 * Access filter architecture
2728 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2729 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2733 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2734 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2735 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2736 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2737 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2738 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2739 * Massive Matroska improvements
2740 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2742 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2743 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2744 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2745 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2746 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2748 Decoders / Encoders:
2749 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2750 * PNG decoder/encoder
2751 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2752 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2755 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2758 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2759 * Brand new SAP module
2760 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2761 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2762 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2763 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2764 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2765 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2769 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2772 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2773 * Image file video output (png)
2774 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2775 * Improvements to wall video filter
2776 * Support for font color and opacity
2782 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2783 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2784 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2788 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2789 - Improved preferences
2790 - Improvements to the wizard
2791 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2793 - Redesigned playlist
2794 - Improved preferences
2796 - Support for multiple actions
2799 - Support for the new playlist system
2801 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2804 * Screensaver disabling fix
2805 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2806 * Support for no-decoration windows
2809 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2810 * The OpenGL video output is back
2811 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2812 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2813 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2814 is not yet available in the new module
2815 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2818 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2827 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2830 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2833 The following languages were added:
2839 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2840 --------------------------------
2843 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2844 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2847 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2848 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2849 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2852 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2855 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2858 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2861 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2862 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2863 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2867 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2869 * Support of playlist group announcement
2872 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2873 --------------------------------
2876 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2877 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2878 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2879 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2880 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2881 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2884 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2885 (Stream your desktop)
2886 * Improved DVD support:
2887 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2888 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2889 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2890 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2891 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2892 (selection of titles/chapters).
2895 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2896 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2897 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2898 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2899 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2900 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2901 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2902 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2903 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2904 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2907 * G.726 audio support
2908 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2909 * MPEG-4 text support
2910 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2911 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2912 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2916 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2917 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2918 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2919 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2920 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2921 * DVB subtitles encoder
2922 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2923 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2925 * Text track muxing for mp4
2926 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2927 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2928 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2929 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2930 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2931 * Improved ASF muxer
2933 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2934 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2935 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2938 * New audio equalizer filter
2939 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2940 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2941 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2942 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2945 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2946 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2947 with support for effects.
2948 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2949 - New filters can be streamed.
2950 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2951 - Centralized scaling and blending
2953 - "time", to display current time
2954 - "marq", to display a marquee
2957 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2958 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2959 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2960 * A few skins2 improvements
2961 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2962 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2963 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2964 * Improved CORBA control module
2967 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2968 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2969 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2972 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2973 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2974 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2977 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2978 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2979 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2980 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2981 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2984 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2987 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2988 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2991 * Server/client network synchronization module
2992 * VBrick streams fully supported
2993 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2997 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2998 --------------------------------
3001 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3002 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3003 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3004 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3007 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3008 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3009 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3010 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3011 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3012 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3013 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3016 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3017 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3018 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3019 * Improved directory access module.
3020 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3021 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3022 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3023 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3024 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3027 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3028 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3029 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3032 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3033 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3034 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3037 * Improved session announcement system.
3038 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3039 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3040 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3041 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3042 * Improved transrater.
3043 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3044 * New configuration system.
3045 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3048 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3049 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3050 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3051 * Supports scheduling.
3052 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3053 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3056 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3057 - Ability to embed video output.
3058 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3059 - Lots of improvements.
3060 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3061 - New design and set of icons.
3062 - Ability to embed video output.
3063 - Support for hotkeys.
3064 - Support for bookmarks.
3066 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3067 - Better hotkeys handling.
3070 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3071 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3072 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3073 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3076 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3077 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3078 * Improved Windows installer.
3084 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3085 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3088 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3089 ---------------------------------
3092 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3093 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3096 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3097 --------------------------------
3100 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3101 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3104 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3105 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3106 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3107 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3110 * Internal improvments
3111 * Improved import/export
3114 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3116 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3117 small and strange formats.
3119 * New MOD audio demux.
3120 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3121 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3122 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3123 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3126 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3127 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3128 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3134 * New opengl video output plugin.
3137 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3138 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3141 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3142 --------------------------------
3145 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3146 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3147 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3148 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3149 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3150 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3151 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3152 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3155 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3160 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3161 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3162 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3163 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3164 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3165 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3166 * Better Icecast support.
3167 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3168 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3171 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3172 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3173 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3174 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3175 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3176 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3177 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3180 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3181 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3182 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3183 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3184 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3185 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3186 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3187 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3188 * Preliminary RTP support.
3189 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3194 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3195 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3197 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3198 - Improvements and help in preferences
3199 - New streaming wizard
3200 - Revised Disc Open menu
3202 - Improvements of the standard pages
3203 - Support for new commands
3204 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3207 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3208 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3211 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3212 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3213 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3214 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3215 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3216 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3217 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3218 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3219 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3222 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3224 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3225 * Support for Panther.
3226 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3227 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3230 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3231 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3232 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3233 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3234 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3235 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3236 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3237 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3240 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3241 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3242 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3245 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3248 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3249 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3250 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3251 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3254 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3255 --------------------------------
3258 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3261 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3262 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3265 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3266 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3269 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3272 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3273 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3276 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3279 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3282 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3283 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3287 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3288 --------------------------------
3291 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3292 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3296 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3297 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3298 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3300 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3301 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3304 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3307 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3310 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3311 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3315 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3316 --------------------------------
3319 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3320 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3324 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3325 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3326 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3327 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3328 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3331 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3332 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3333 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3336 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3337 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3338 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3341 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3342 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3343 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3344 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3345 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3348 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3349 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3350 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3353 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3356 * Improved build system.
3357 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3358 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3359 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3360 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3363 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3364 --------------------------------
3367 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3370 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3371 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3372 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3373 * Video 4 Linux support
3374 * CD Digital Audio support
3375 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3378 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3379 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3380 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3381 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3384 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3385 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3386 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3387 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3388 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3389 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3390 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3393 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3394 * New HTTP remote control interface
3397 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3398 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3399 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3400 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3401 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3404 * New reset option for the preferences
3405 * You can set your language in the prefences
3406 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3407 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3408 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3409 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3412 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3413 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3414 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3417 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3418 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3419 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3420 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3421 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3422 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3423 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3424 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3425 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3426 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3429 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3430 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3431 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3432 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3433 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3434 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3435 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3438 * Interface localization
3439 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3440 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3441 * New full-featured Preferences window
3444 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3445 --------------------------------
3448 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3449 * support for skins at the interface level
3450 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3451 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3452 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3453 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3454 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3457 * fixed HTTP redirects
3458 * support for opening an entire directory
3459 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3460 * new video4linux access plug-in
3461 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3464 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3465 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3466 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3469 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3470 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3471 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3472 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3473 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3474 * new codec for raw I420 video
3475 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3478 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3479 (although it still misses some important features)
3480 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3483 * new HTTP output support
3484 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3485 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3488 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3491 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3494 * reorderable playlist
3495 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3496 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3497 * support for mono audio output devices
3498 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3499 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3500 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3501 * the messages window remembers more lines
3502 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3503 * http and ogg stream output options
3504 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3507 * new skinnable interface
3508 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3510 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3511 * support for FLAC audio format
3512 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3514 * network tab in the interface
3515 * "apply" handling in preferences
3518 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3519 ---------------------------------
3522 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3523 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3524 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3525 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3527 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3528 * DTS S/PDIF support
3531 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3532 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3533 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3534 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3537 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3538 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3541 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3544 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3547 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3549 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3550 * rc interface is now fully useable
3551 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3554 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3555 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3556 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3557 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3558 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3560 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3561 * support for mouse gestures
3562 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3565 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3566 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3569 * improved ID3 tag detection
3570 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3571 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3572 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3574 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3577 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3578 ---------------------------------
3581 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3582 English was set as the preferred language
3585 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3586 --------------------------------
3589 * new mouse gesture interface
3590 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3594 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3595 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3596 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3599 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3600 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3604 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3607 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3608 without the user consent
3611 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3613 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3614 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3615 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3618 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3619 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3620 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3621 * playlist enhancements
3622 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3623 * new step forward/step backward commands
3624 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3625 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3626 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3629 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3630 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3631 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3634 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3635 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3638 * native video output is working again
3639 * only commandline interface support
3640 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3643 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3644 --------------------------------
3647 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3648 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3649 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3650 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3651 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3652 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3653 and A/52 streams are supported)
3654 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3659 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3660 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3661 * VCD entry points support
3662 * VCD image file support
3665 * support for *.asf format
3666 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3667 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3668 * support for ogg encapsulation
3669 * support for raw DV format
3670 * support for *.wav format
3671 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3674 Stream discovery & playlists:
3675 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3676 * support for .m3u file format
3677 * support for .asx file format
3678 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3681 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3682 (only available with the .avi demux)
3683 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3684 * support for raw PCM data
3685 * support for Cinepak video codec
3686 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3687 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3688 * support for Xvid codec
3689 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3690 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3691 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3693 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3695 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3698 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3701 * new WxWindows interface
3702 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3703 device and the channels configuration
3704 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3705 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3706 format that VLC can play
3707 * new swedish translation
3708 * enhancements of the playlist window
3709 * new messages window to see debug info
3710 * fixed a few crashes
3713 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3714 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3715 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3716 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working