1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
14 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
17 * Support for HEIF format
18 * Support for DASH WebM
19 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
22 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
24 * Remove iomx support for Android
26 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
27 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
28 * Support IMM4 decoder
31 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
36 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
37 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
38 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
41 * Remove Growl notification support
45 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
46 --------------------------------
49 * Update subtitles display while paused
52 * Enable srt support on binary builds
55 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
56 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
57 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
58 * Fix subsdec wide character support
59 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
62 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
63 * Fix forced tracks selection
65 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
66 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
69 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
70 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
71 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
74 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
77 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
78 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
79 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
83 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
84 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
86 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
87 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
90 * Update of most languages
93 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
94 --------------------------------
97 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
98 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
101 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
102 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
103 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
104 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
105 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
106 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
107 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
108 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
111 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
112 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
113 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
114 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
115 * Fix TTML inside MP4
116 * Improve MP4 read of color information
117 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
118 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
119 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
120 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
121 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
122 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
123 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
126 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
129 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
130 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
131 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
132 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
133 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
134 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
137 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
138 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
141 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
142 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
143 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
144 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
145 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
146 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
147 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
148 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
149 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
150 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
151 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
152 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
153 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
154 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
155 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
158 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
159 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
160 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
162 * Fix remember playback position
163 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
164 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
165 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
166 * Fix localization issues
169 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
170 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
171 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
172 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
173 * Fix jump size not being configurable
174 * Fix missing time labels updates
175 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
177 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
180 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
181 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
182 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
183 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
184 * Improve support for NetBSD
185 * Fix MSI script for Windows
186 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
187 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
188 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
189 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
190 * Various VLSub improvements
191 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
192 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
195 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
196 --------------------------------
199 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
200 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
203 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
204 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
205 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
206 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
207 * Fix pink screen on Windows
210 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
211 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
214 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
215 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
216 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
217 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
220 * Improve MKV seeking speed
221 * Fix xspf base URL handling
222 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
223 * Fix adaptive http redirections
224 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
225 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
226 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
227 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
228 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
229 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
232 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
235 * Improve chromecast loading speed
236 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
237 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
238 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
239 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
243 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
244 * Auto-layout improvements
245 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
246 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
247 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
248 * Fix MKV files association
249 * Fix chromecast audio detection
252 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
255 * Improve interface look and feel.
258 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
259 --------------------------------
261 Platform support changes:
262 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
263 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
265 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
266 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
267 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
268 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
269 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
271 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
272 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
273 it should work, but not without limitations.
274 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
275 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
276 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
277 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
278 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
279 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
282 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
283 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
284 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
285 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
286 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
287 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
288 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
289 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
290 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
291 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
292 * Support wayland surface type
293 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
294 * Refactor preparsing input
295 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
296 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
297 es category single only or multiple es behavior
298 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
299 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
300 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
303 * New NFS access module using libnfs
304 * New SMB access module using libdsm
305 * Adaptive streaming:
306 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
307 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
308 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
309 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
310 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
311 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
312 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
313 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
314 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
315 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
316 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
317 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
318 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
319 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
320 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
321 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
322 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
323 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
324 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
325 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
326 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
327 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
328 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
329 * Improvements on DVB scanning
330 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
331 * Support for DVD ISO over network
332 * New SRT access module using libsrt
335 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
336 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
337 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
338 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
339 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
340 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
341 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
342 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
343 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
344 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
345 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
346 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
347 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
348 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
349 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
352 * Support for experimental AV1 video
353 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
354 * Support for experimental Daala video
355 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
356 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
357 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
358 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
359 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
360 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
361 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
362 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
363 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
364 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
365 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
366 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
367 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
368 can now decode up to 8 channels
369 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
370 * Support VPX high bit depth support
371 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
372 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
373 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
375 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
376 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
379 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
380 * Support for fragmented MP4
381 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
382 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
383 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
384 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
385 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
386 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
387 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
388 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
389 * Add new metadata fields
390 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
391 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
392 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
393 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
394 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
395 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
396 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
397 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
398 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
399 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
400 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
401 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
403 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
404 * Partial support of PSMF
405 * Fix broken SCR samples
406 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
407 * Improvements on MKV:
408 * Rewrite MKV seeking
409 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
410 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
411 * Improve DVD-menus support
412 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
413 * Support Daala in Ogg
414 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
415 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
416 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
417 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
418 * Support WMV extended content metadata
419 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
420 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
421 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
422 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
423 * Support SBV subtitles
424 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
425 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
426 * Support for isofLaC
427 * Improve fLaC seeking
428 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
429 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
432 * Add an ADF stream filter
433 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
434 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
435 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
436 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
437 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
438 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
441 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
442 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
445 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
446 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
447 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
448 * Add Tizen audio module
449 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
450 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
451 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
452 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
455 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
456 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
457 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
458 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
459 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
460 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
461 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
463 * Add a pitch shifting module
466 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
468 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
469 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
470 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
471 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
472 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
473 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
474 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
475 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
476 * Wayland shell surface window provider
477 * Wayland shared memory video output
478 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
479 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
480 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
481 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
482 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
483 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
484 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
485 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
488 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
489 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
490 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
491 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
492 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
493 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
494 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
497 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
498 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
499 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
500 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
503 * Chromecast output module
504 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
507 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
508 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
511 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
512 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
513 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
517 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
518 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
519 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
520 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
523 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
524 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
525 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
526 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
527 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
528 * Improve and simplify preferences window
529 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
530 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
531 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
532 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
533 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
536 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
539 * Batch convert support
540 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
543 * Support key accelerators
546 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
547 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
548 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
549 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
550 This allows to attach media events between create and start
551 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
552 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
553 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
554 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
555 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
556 identifier (if there is one available)
557 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
558 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
559 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
560 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
561 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
562 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
563 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
564 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
565 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
566 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
567 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
568 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
569 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
570 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
572 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
573 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
574 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
575 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
576 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
579 * Support for the SystemD Journal
580 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
581 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
582 * New Android module for logging
585 * remove langfromtelx
586 * remove ZPL playlist format
587 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
588 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
589 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
590 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
591 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
592 * Add a memory keystore
593 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
594 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
598 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
599 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
600 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
601 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
602 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
603 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
604 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
605 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
606 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
607 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
608 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
609 * BD access module (use libbluray)
610 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
611 * EyeTV access module
612 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
613 * VDA decoder: use VT
614 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
615 * SDL video output module
616 * DirectFB video output module
617 * RAOP stream output module
620 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
621 --------------------------------
624 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
629 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
630 --------------------------------
633 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
634 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
635 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
636 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
639 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
640 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
643 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
644 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
645 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
646 update to the newest version.
649 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
653 * Support libupnp 1.8
658 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
659 ----------------------------------
662 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
663 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
666 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
668 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
669 ----------------------------------
671 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
676 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
677 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
678 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
679 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
680 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
681 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
682 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
685 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
686 --------------------------------
689 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
690 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
691 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
692 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
693 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
694 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
698 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
699 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
700 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
701 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
702 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
703 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
704 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
707 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
708 * Fix screenshots size
711 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
712 * Fix FTP scan string injection
713 * Fix HTTP size handling
719 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
723 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
726 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
727 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
728 * Fix uninstaller path handling
729 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
732 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
733 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
737 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
738 --------------------------------
741 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
742 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
743 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
746 * Fix resizing issues
749 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
752 * Build fixes for Hurd
755 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
756 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
757 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
760 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
761 --------------------------------
764 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
765 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
769 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
770 * Fix crashes with libvpx
771 * Use libass without caching dialog
774 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
777 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
780 * Fix resume where you left off
781 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
782 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
783 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
786 * Fix crashes in media information panel
787 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
790 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
793 * Update of most translations
796 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
797 --------------------------------
800 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
801 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
802 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
803 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
804 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
807 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
808 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
809 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
810 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
811 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
812 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
813 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
816 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
817 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
818 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
819 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
820 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
821 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
824 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
825 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
826 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
827 be set manually by the user)
828 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
829 * Fix alsa default device selection
832 * Fix video control that fails to show up
833 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
834 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
835 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
836 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
839 * Support for OS X El Capitan
840 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
841 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
842 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
845 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
846 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
847 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
848 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
849 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
853 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
854 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
855 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
858 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
859 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
860 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
861 * Improve PNG encoding time
862 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
863 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
864 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
865 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
866 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
867 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
868 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
869 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
870 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
871 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
872 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
873 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
874 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
877 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
878 * Update of most translations
881 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
882 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
883 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
884 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
887 * Update of most translations
890 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
891 --------------------------------
894 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
895 * Fix some VP9 decoding
897 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
898 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
899 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
900 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
905 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
906 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
907 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
908 * Revert to older ASX code
909 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
912 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
913 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
914 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
917 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
918 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
919 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
922 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
923 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
924 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
927 * Fix recent items behaviour
928 * Fix rotation filter activation
929 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
932 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
933 * Fix extensions registration during install
934 * Fix extensions dialog crash
935 * Default to no DxVA decoding
938 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
941 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
942 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
943 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
944 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
945 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
946 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
949 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
950 --------------------------------
953 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
954 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
957 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
958 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
959 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
960 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
963 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
964 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
965 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
966 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
968 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
969 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
970 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
973 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
974 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
975 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
976 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
977 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
978 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
979 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
980 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
981 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
982 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
983 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
984 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
985 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
986 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
987 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
988 * New jpeg image decoder
989 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
990 * New SVG image decoder
991 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
992 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
993 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
996 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
997 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
998 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
999 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1000 * New png image encoder using libpng
1003 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1004 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1005 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1006 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1007 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1008 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1009 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1010 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1011 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1012 * Support Opus in MKV
1013 * Support VP8 in OGG
1014 * Basic support for WebVTT
1015 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1016 * Support HDPR TS files
1017 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1018 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1019 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1020 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1021 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1022 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1023 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1024 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1025 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1026 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1027 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1028 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1031 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1032 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1033 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1034 * New Android native window provider module
1035 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1036 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1037 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1040 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1041 * New VHS effect filter
1042 * New Freeze effect filter
1043 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1044 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1045 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1048 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1049 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1050 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1051 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1052 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1053 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1056 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1057 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1058 * Support VP8 in OGG
1059 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1062 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1063 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1064 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1065 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1066 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1067 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1068 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1069 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1070 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1072 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1073 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1074 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1077 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1078 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1081 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1082 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1085 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1086 * Add record button in Qt menus
1087 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1088 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1089 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1092 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1093 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1094 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1095 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1096 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1097 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1098 * Option to increase playlist font size
1099 * Improved crash log reporting
1102 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1103 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1104 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1105 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1108 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1111 * iOS video output: use ios2
1112 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1113 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1116 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1117 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1118 * Update of all translations:
1119 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1120 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1121 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1122 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1123 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1124 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1125 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1128 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1129 --------------------------------
1132 * Fix OSS stuttering
1135 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1136 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1137 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1138 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1139 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1140 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1141 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1142 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1143 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1146 * Update translations and greek encoding
1149 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1150 --------------------------------
1153 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1156 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1158 Mac OS X audio output:
1159 * Fix channel ordering
1160 * Increase the buffersize
1163 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1164 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1165 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1168 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1171 * Correctly support video-on-top
1172 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1173 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1176 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1179 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1180 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1183 * Update British English
1186 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1187 --------------------------------
1190 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1193 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1196 * Fix DVD playback regression
1197 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1198 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1201 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1202 --------------------------------
1205 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1206 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1209 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1210 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1211 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1214 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1215 by updating codec libraries
1216 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1217 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1218 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1221 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1222 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1223 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1224 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1227 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1228 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1231 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1232 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1233 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1234 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1235 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1238 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1239 * Fix record file names
1242 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1243 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1244 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1245 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1246 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1249 * Fix album art display on Windows
1252 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1253 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1254 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1255 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1256 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1257 and Simplified Chinese translations
1258 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1261 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1262 --------------------------------
1265 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1266 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1267 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1268 audio devices on OS X
1269 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1270 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1273 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1274 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1277 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1278 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1281 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1284 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1285 * Improve A-B loop control
1286 * Fix album art update when changing media
1289 * Add a language option in the interface
1290 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1291 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1292 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1293 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1294 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1295 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1296 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1299 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1302 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1303 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1304 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1305 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1308 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1309 --------------------------------
1312 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1314 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1317 * VP9 support in WebM
1318 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1319 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1322 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1323 * Support Speex in ogg files
1324 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1325 * Support Alac in mkv
1326 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1327 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1330 * Fix DVB options parsing
1331 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1332 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1335 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1336 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1339 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1340 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1343 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1344 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1345 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1346 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1347 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1350 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1351 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1354 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1355 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1358 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1359 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1360 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1361 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1362 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1363 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1364 * Improves interface resizings
1367 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1368 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1369 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1370 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1371 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1375 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1376 --------------------------------
1379 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1380 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1381 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1382 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1383 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1385 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1386 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1389 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1390 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1391 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1392 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1393 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1396 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1397 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1398 * Remove SQL support
1401 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1402 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1403 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1404 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1405 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1406 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1407 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1408 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1409 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1410 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1411 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1412 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1413 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1416 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1417 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1418 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1421 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1422 remove support for previous OS X releases
1423 * Major improvements in DASH support
1424 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1425 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1426 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1427 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1428 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1429 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1430 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1431 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1432 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1433 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1434 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1437 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1438 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1439 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1440 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1441 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1442 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1443 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1444 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1445 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1446 * Add support for liveleak streams
1447 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1448 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1449 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1452 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1453 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1454 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1455 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1456 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1457 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1458 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1459 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1460 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1461 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1462 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1465 * New remapping channel filter
1466 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1467 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1468 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1469 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1470 * New gain audio filter
1473 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1474 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1475 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1476 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1477 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1478 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1479 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1480 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1481 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1484 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1485 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1486 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1487 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1488 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1489 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1490 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1493 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1494 * Options support for AVIO output module
1495 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1496 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1497 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1498 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1499 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1502 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1505 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1506 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1507 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1508 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1509 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1510 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1511 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1512 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1515 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1516 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1519 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1520 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1522 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1523 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1524 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1525 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1526 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1527 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1528 VLC's internal volume level
1529 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1531 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1532 selection and to manage the list of presets
1533 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1534 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1535 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1536 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1537 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1538 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1539 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1540 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1541 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1542 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1544 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1545 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1546 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1547 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1548 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1549 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1550 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1551 3rd party applications
1552 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1553 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1554 (system-wide settings)
1555 * Add support for the Video Title option
1556 * Add support for the Boss Key
1557 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1558 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1561 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1562 * Menus modifications and improvements
1563 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1564 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1565 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1566 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1567 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1568 * Add SD pixmap sources
1569 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1570 * Display playlist total duration
1571 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1572 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1573 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1578 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1579 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1580 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1581 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1584 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1585 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1586 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1587 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1588 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1589 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1590 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1591 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1592 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1593 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1596 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1597 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1598 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1599 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1600 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1601 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1603 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1604 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1605 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1606 * Broken crop video filter
1608 * OSD parser and menu
1609 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1610 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1611 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1612 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1616 * Update of all translations
1619 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1620 --------------------------------
1623 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1624 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1627 * Fix modplug security issues
1630 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1631 --------------------------------
1635 * Fix crash in QTsound
1636 * Fix screen mouse file location
1637 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1640 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1641 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1644 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1647 * Fix interface crashes
1648 * Fix autostart playback option
1649 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1652 * update Welsh translation
1653 * New Kannada translation
1656 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1657 --------------------------------
1660 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1661 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1665 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1668 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1671 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1674 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1677 * Minor improvements
1678 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1681 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1684 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1685 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1686 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1689 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1690 --------------------------------
1693 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1696 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1699 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1700 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1701 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1702 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1703 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1704 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1707 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1708 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1709 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1710 * 3rd party codecs updates
1713 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1714 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1715 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1716 in the advanced preferences panel
1717 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1718 * Fix crash within the video output code
1719 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1720 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1721 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1722 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1723 lua extensions, ...)
1724 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1727 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1730 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1731 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1734 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1737 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1738 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1739 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1740 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1741 Dutch, Danish, translations
1742 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1745 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1746 --------------------------------
1749 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1752 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1753 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1754 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1757 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1758 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1759 * Fix koreus lua parser
1760 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1761 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1762 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1763 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1766 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1767 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1770 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1773 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1774 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1775 * Fix Time counter UI look
1776 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1779 * Fix https streaming
1782 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1783 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1784 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1787 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1788 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1789 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1790 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1791 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1794 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1795 --------------------------------
1798 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1799 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1800 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1801 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1802 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1803 during playback on Mac OS X
1806 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1807 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1808 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1811 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1812 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1813 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1814 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1815 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1818 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1819 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1820 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1821 * Support Youtube live streams
1824 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1827 * Fix media info dialog update
1828 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1829 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1830 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1831 * Fix album art display at start
1834 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1835 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1836 * Fix menus display and behavior
1837 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1838 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1839 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1840 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1841 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1842 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1843 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1846 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1847 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1848 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1849 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1850 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1851 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1852 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1853 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1854 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1857 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1858 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1859 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1860 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1861 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1864 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1865 --------------------------------
1868 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1871 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1872 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1875 * Add GateKeeper support
1876 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1877 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1878 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1881 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1884 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1885 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1886 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1887 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1888 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1891 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1892 --------------------------------
1895 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1896 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1897 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1898 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1899 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1900 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1901 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1902 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1903 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1904 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1905 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1909 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1910 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1911 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1912 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1913 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1914 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1915 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1916 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1917 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1918 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1919 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1920 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1923 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1924 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1926 * Fix MP3 free format support
1929 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1930 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1931 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1932 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1933 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1936 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1937 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1939 Audio filters and output:
1940 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1941 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1942 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1943 * Do not apply volume in file output
1944 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1945 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1948 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1949 the persistant media library
1950 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1951 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1952 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1953 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1954 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1955 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1956 press on the Play/Pause button
1957 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1958 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1959 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1960 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1961 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1962 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1963 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1964 Synchronization panel
1965 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1966 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1967 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1968 * Fix crashes on exit
1969 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1971 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1972 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1973 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1974 automatically reset on the first launch.
1975 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1976 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1977 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1980 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1981 * Fixes for icecast SD
1984 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1985 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1986 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1987 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1988 * Fix tags and file names display
1989 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1992 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1993 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1996 * Fix display of some buttons
1997 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1998 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2001 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2002 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2003 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2006 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2007 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2008 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2009 Thai translations update
2010 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2013 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2014 --------------------------------
2017 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2018 * fix the samba module compilation
2019 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2020 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2021 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2022 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2025 * Support for MXPEG files
2026 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2027 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2030 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2031 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2032 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2035 * Fix ogm header creation
2038 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2039 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2042 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2043 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2044 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2045 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2048 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2051 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2052 * allow to hide the sidebar
2053 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2054 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2055 * noticebly faster launch time
2056 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2057 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2058 * improve track synchronization panel
2059 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2060 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2063 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2064 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2065 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2066 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2069 * fix for menus display
2070 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2071 * documentation update
2074 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2075 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2078 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2079 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2080 * Update Jamendo selections
2084 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2085 * fix a crash on VLM close
2088 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2089 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2090 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2091 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2094 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2097 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2098 ---------------------------------
2101 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2102 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2103 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2104 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2105 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2106 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2107 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2108 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2109 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2110 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2111 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2112 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2113 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2114 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2115 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2116 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2117 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2118 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2119 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2120 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2121 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2122 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2123 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2124 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2125 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2126 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2128 Important changes for packagers:
2129 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2130 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2131 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2132 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2133 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2134 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2135 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2136 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2137 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2138 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2141 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2142 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2143 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2144 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2145 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2146 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2147 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2150 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2151 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2152 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2153 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2154 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2155 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2156 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2157 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2158 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2159 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2160 * PulseAudio audio input support
2161 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2162 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2163 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2164 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2165 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2166 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2167 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2168 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2171 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2172 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2173 are notably concerned.
2174 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2175 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2176 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2177 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2178 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2179 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2180 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2181 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2182 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2183 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2184 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2185 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2186 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2187 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2188 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2191 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2192 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2193 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2194 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2195 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2196 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2197 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2198 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2199 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2200 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2201 * Improved support of tracker files
2202 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2205 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2206 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2207 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2208 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2209 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2210 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2211 and important cleanups and optimisations
2212 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2213 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2214 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2215 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2216 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2217 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2218 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2219 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2220 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2221 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2222 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2223 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2224 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2225 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2226 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2227 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2228 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2229 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2230 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2231 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2232 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2235 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2236 * New video output for iOS platform
2237 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2238 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2239 * Various vmem improvements
2240 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2241 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2242 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2243 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2244 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2245 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2247 Audio Output and Filters:
2248 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2249 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2250 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2251 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2252 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2253 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2254 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2255 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2256 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2257 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2260 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2261 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2262 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2263 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2264 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2265 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2266 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2267 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2268 * New anti-flickering filter
2269 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2270 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2271 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2272 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2273 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2274 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2275 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2278 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2279 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2280 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2281 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2282 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2283 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2284 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2285 * Major rework of VoD support
2286 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2287 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2288 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2289 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2290 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2291 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2292 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2293 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2294 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2295 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2298 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2299 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2302 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2303 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2304 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2305 list of available audio and video filters
2306 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2307 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2308 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2311 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2312 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2313 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2314 * id3tag: use taglib
2315 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2316 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2317 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2318 * removal of the noise filter
2319 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2320 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2321 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2322 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2325 * Update of translations for most languages.
2326 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2329 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2330 ----------------------------------
2333 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2334 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2337 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2338 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2341 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2342 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2343 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2346 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2349 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2350 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2353 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2356 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2357 ----------------------------------
2360 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2361 including support for OS X Lion
2362 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2363 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2366 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2369 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2370 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2371 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2374 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2377 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2378 ----------------------------------
2381 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2382 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2385 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2386 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2387 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2388 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2389 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2391 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2392 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2393 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2395 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2396 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2399 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2402 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2405 * Fix quitting on Linux
2406 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2410 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2413 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2416 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2417 ---------------------------------
2419 Windows and Mac OS X:
2420 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2423 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2424 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2427 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2430 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2433 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2435 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2436 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2438 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2439 * RTP output and XML export
2440 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2444 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2445 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2446 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2447 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2450 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2451 --------------------------------
2453 Windows and Mac OS X:
2454 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2457 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2460 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2461 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2462 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2463 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2464 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2465 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2468 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2469 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2473 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2474 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2475 * New Luganda Translation
2478 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2479 --------------------------------
2482 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2485 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2486 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2487 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2488 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2491 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2493 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2494 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2495 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2496 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2497 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2498 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2499 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2500 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2502 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2503 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2504 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2505 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2506 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2507 * Configure and build system improvements
2508 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2511 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2512 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2513 * New icelandic translation
2516 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2517 --------------------------------
2520 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2521 #234484 and #260719.
2524 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2525 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2526 and stability reasons
2529 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2533 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2536 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2537 ----------------------------------
2540 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2543 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2544 ---------------------------------
2547 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2548 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2549 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2550 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2553 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2556 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2557 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2558 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2559 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2562 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2563 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2564 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2566 Subtitles and renderer:
2567 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2568 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2569 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2570 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2571 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2574 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2575 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2576 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2577 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2580 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2581 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2583 Miscellaneous fixes:
2584 * KDE device solid actions
2586 * Transcode integer overflow
2587 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2588 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2591 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2592 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2593 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2596 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2597 ----------------------------------
2600 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2604 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2607 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2610 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2611 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2612 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2613 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2616 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2620 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2623 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2626 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2627 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2629 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2633 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2634 * Miscellaneous fixes
2637 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2638 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2639 French and Ukrainian
2640 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2641 * New Asturian translation
2644 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2645 ----------------------------------
2648 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2650 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2653 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2656 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2657 * Various fixes for Windows
2660 * New Armenian translation
2661 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2662 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2665 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2666 --------------------------------
2669 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2670 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2671 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2674 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2675 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2678 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2679 --------------------------------
2681 Access and demuxers:
2682 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2683 * fix for podcasts parsing
2684 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2687 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2688 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2691 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2692 * fix m3u playlists exports
2695 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2698 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2701 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2704 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2707 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2710 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2711 --------------------------------
2714 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2715 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2718 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2719 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2722 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2723 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2724 * fix console output encoding
2726 Interface and extensions:
2727 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2728 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2731 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2732 --------------------------------
2735 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2736 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2737 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2738 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2739 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2740 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2741 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2742 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2743 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2744 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2745 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2746 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2747 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2748 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2749 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2750 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2754 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2755 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2756 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2757 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2758 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2761 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2764 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2765 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2766 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2770 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2773 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2774 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2775 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2778 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2779 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2780 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2781 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2784 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2785 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2788 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2789 --------------------------------
2791 Important changes for users:
2792 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2793 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2795 Important changes for packagers:
2796 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2797 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2798 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2799 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2800 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2802 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2804 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2805 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2806 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2807 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2808 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2811 * Support for the sftp protocol
2812 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2813 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2814 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2815 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2816 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2819 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2820 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2821 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2823 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2824 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2825 * Invmem module improvements
2826 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2827 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2828 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2829 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2830 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2831 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2832 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2833 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2834 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2835 * Support for VP8 codec
2836 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2839 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2840 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2841 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2842 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2843 * Various EGP improvements
2844 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2845 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2848 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2849 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2850 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2851 * Podcast images are now displayed
2854 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2855 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2856 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2857 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2858 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2859 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2860 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2861 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2862 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2863 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2864 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2867 * New content extensions lua framework
2870 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2871 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2872 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2873 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2874 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2875 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2876 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2879 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2880 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2881 * Service discovery based on libudev
2882 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2885 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2886 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2887 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2888 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2889 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2890 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2891 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2894 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2895 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2896 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2899 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2901 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2902 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2905 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2908 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2909 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2910 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2911 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2912 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2913 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2914 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2917 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2918 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2921 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2922 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2923 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2927 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2928 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2929 * Improved Solaris port
2932 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2933 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2936 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2937 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2938 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2939 * transrate: broken since too long
2940 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2941 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2942 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2943 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2944 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2945 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2946 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2947 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2948 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2949 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2950 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2951 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2952 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2953 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2956 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2957 --------------------------------
2960 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2962 Decoders/Packetizers:
2963 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2966 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2967 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2968 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2969 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2970 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2973 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2974 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2977 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2978 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2981 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2982 and Walloon translations updated
2983 * Sinhala translation started
2986 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2987 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2990 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2991 --------------------------------
2994 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2995 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2998 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3001 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3002 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3005 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3006 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3007 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3008 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3011 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3012 --------------------------------
3015 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3016 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3019 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3020 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3023 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3024 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3027 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3030 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3031 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3034 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3035 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3038 * New Walloon translation
3039 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3042 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3043 --------------------------------
3046 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3047 regressions in most popular drivers
3048 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3051 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3052 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3053 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3056 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3057 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3060 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3061 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3062 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3063 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3064 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3067 * New udev module for linux
3070 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3073 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3076 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3077 --------------------------------
3080 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3081 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3082 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3085 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3086 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3089 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3090 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3093 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3096 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3097 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3098 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3099 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3102 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3103 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3104 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3105 - no support for Goom and SDL
3106 - limited text rendering support
3107 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3110 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3111 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3112 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3113 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3114 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3115 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3116 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3117 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3118 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3122 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3125 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3128 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3129 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3130 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3131 Arabic and French translation updates
3134 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3135 --------------------------------
3138 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3139 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3140 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3141 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3142 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3143 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3146 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3147 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3148 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3151 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3152 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3153 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3156 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3159 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3160 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3163 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3164 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3165 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3166 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3167 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3168 * Fix various crashes
3171 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3173 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3177 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3178 ---------------------------------
3182 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3183 See 'Access:' for more info.
3184 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3187 * Instantaneous pausing
3188 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3189 * Finer speed control
3190 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3191 * Timeshift for most medias
3192 * RTSP trickplay support
3193 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3196 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3197 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3198 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3199 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3200 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3201 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3202 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3203 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3204 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3205 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3208 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3209 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3210 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3211 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3212 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3213 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3214 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3217 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3218 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3221 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3222 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3223 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3224 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3225 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3226 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3227 * DVB scanning on linux
3228 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3229 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3230 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3231 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3232 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3233 * MTP device access on Unix
3234 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3235 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3238 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3239 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3240 Windows and Mac OS X.
3243 * Export the playlist in HTML
3244 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3245 * Better metadata handling and reading
3247 Linux/Windows interface:
3248 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3249 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3250 * Recently played items list
3251 * Interface toolbar customizations
3252 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3253 - More menus actions
3254 - Finer speed slider
3255 - Improvements on many dialogs
3256 - New dialog for plugins listing
3257 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3258 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3259 * Better integration in GTK environments
3262 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3263 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3264 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3265 * Additional usability improvements
3268 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3269 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3270 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3271 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3272 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3275 * New Maemo port with:
3276 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3277 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3280 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3283 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3284 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3285 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3286 * Support for latest iSight models
3289 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3290 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3293 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3294 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3295 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3296 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3297 The old image video output has been removed.
3298 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3299 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3302 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3310 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3311 --------------------------------------
3317 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3318 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3319 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3320 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3321 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3322 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3323 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3325 Various fixes to the following modules:
3328 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3329 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3330 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3332 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3337 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3338 ---------------------------------
3341 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3342 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3345 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3346 ---------------------------------
3349 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3352 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3355 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3356 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3357 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3358 main controller window.
3359 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3362 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3367 * Updates of other localizations
3370 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3371 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3372 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3373 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3374 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3377 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3378 ---------------------------------
3381 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3383 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3386 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3387 --------------------------------
3392 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3393 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3396 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3397 --------------------------------
3399 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3400 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3403 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3406 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3407 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3410 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3411 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3414 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3415 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3416 * Various fixed in playlist
3419 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3422 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3425 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3426 ------------------------------------
3428 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3429 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3432 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3433 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3434 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3437 * Stability fix for the video output.
3440 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3441 --------------------------------
3444 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3445 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3446 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3447 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3448 * Fixed update system bugs
3449 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3452 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3453 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3454 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3455 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3456 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3457 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3458 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3459 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3460 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3461 modern Mac OS X versions
3464 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3465 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3467 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3468 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3471 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3472 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3473 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3474 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3475 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3476 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3479 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3480 --------------------------------
3482 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3483 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3484 * Multiple bugfixes.
3487 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3488 --------------------------------
3490 * Multiple bug fixes.
3493 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3494 ---------------------------------
3498 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3499 recent to work correctly
3500 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3501 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3502 edit the ".hosts" file.
3503 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3504 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3505 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3506 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3507 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3508 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3509 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3510 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3511 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3512 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3513 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3514 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3515 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3516 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3517 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3518 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3519 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3520 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3521 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3522 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3523 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3524 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3525 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3526 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3527 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3528 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3529 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3530 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3531 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3532 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3533 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3534 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3535 and postproc modules.
3536 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3537 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3538 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3539 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3541 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3542 filter. For example:
3543 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3544 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3546 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3547 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3553 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3555 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3556 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3559 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3560 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3562 * Shoutcast TV listings
3563 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3565 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3566 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3568 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3571 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3572 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3573 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3574 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3575 * JACK audio input support
3576 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3577 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3578 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3579 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3580 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3581 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3582 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3583 (available as a separate download).
3584 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3585 * RTMP input support
3586 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3587 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3588 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3590 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3591 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3594 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3595 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3596 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3597 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3599 * APEv1/2 tags support
3600 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3601 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3603 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3604 * TiVo Series 2 support
3605 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3610 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3611 * Flash Screen Video support
3612 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3613 * DosBox Capture support
3614 * Karl Morton's Video support
3615 * limited atrac3 support
3617 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3618 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3619 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3620 * H.264 PAFF support
3621 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3622 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3623 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3624 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3625 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3628 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3629 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3630 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3631 * AQTitle subtitles support
3632 * MKV USF subtitles support
3633 * HTML-based subtitles support
3634 * MPSub subtitles support
3635 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3636 * MPL2 subtitles support
3637 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3638 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3639 * Realtext subtitle support
3640 * DKS subtitle support
3641 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3642 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3645 * Flash Screen Video support
3646 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3648 Video outputs and filters:
3649 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3650 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3651 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3652 * New puzzle video output filter
3653 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3654 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3656 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3657 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3658 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3659 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3660 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3661 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3662 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3663 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3664 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3665 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3666 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3667 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3668 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3669 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3671 Audio outputs and filters:
3672 * Replay gain support
3673 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3674 new scaletempo audio filter)
3675 * New spatializer audio filter
3676 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3679 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3680 * New RTP payload formats:
3681 * Speex voice audio codec
3682 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3683 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3684 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3685 * DCCP transport for RTP
3686 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3691 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3692 end-user suitable way.
3693 * Improved user interaction
3694 * Improved mouse gestures
3695 * Vastly improved Update checker
3696 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3698 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3699 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3701 * Improved video output features
3702 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3703 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3704 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3705 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3706 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3708 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3709 if libncursesw is available.
3710 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3711 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3712 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3714 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3715 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3716 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3717 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3718 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3719 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3720 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3721 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3724 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3725 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3726 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3729 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3730 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3731 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3732 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3733 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3734 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3737 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3738 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3748 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3749 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3750 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3753 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3754 ----------------------------------
3757 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3760 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3761 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3762 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3763 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3764 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3765 * Updated Polish translation
3768 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3769 ----------------------------------
3772 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3773 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3774 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3777 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3778 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3779 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3780 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3781 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3782 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3783 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3784 to an unexpected application termination
3785 * New Serbian translation
3786 * Updated Romanian translation
3789 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3790 ----------------------------------
3793 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3794 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3795 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3796 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3797 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3798 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3799 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3800 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3803 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3804 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3805 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3806 * Fixed AAC resampling
3807 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3808 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3811 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3812 ----------------------------------
3815 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3816 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3817 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3818 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3819 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3822 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3823 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3824 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3825 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3826 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3829 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3830 ----------------------------------
3833 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3834 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3837 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3838 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3839 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3840 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3842 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3846 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3849 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3852 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3855 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3858 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3859 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3860 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3861 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3862 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3864 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3865 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3866 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3867 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3870 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3873 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3874 ----------------------------------
3877 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3878 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3879 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3881 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3882 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3884 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3885 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3888 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3890 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3891 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3892 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3893 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3894 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3895 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3896 two different movies
3897 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3898 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3899 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3902 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3905 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3906 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3907 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3908 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3911 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3912 ----------------------------------
3914 Various bugfixes, notably:
3915 * Windows Vista compatibility
3916 * Cropping in Direct3D
3917 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3918 * RSS filter string overflow
3920 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3922 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3923 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3926 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3927 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3930 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3933 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3936 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3939 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3940 ----------------------------------
3942 Various bugfixes, notably:
3943 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3944 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3945 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3946 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3947 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3948 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3951 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3952 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3955 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3957 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3958 * Diverse usability improvements
3959 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3960 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3961 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3964 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3965 ---------------------------------
3967 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3968 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3971 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3974 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3975 --------------------------------
3978 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3981 * Support for RTSP authentication
3982 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3983 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3984 * ATSC support for DVB input
3985 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3986 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3987 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3990 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3991 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3992 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3993 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3994 * Matroska WavPack support
3995 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3996 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3997 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4000 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4001 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4002 * Improved libcaca support
4006 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4007 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4009 * Systray support in skins
4011 * Support for Apple Remote control
4012 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4013 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4014 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4015 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4017 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4020 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4021 Windows 9x/ME users:
4022 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4023 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4024 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4025 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4026 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4028 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4029 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4038 * Updates to the libvlc API
4039 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4042 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4043 --------------------------------
4046 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4047 * Support for downloading updates
4051 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4052 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4053 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4054 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4056 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4057 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4058 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4061 * Cook (Real audio) support
4063 Playlist / Services discovery:
4064 * XSPF playlist support
4066 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4069 * New JACK audio output
4072 * New video filters:
4073 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4074 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4075 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4076 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4077 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4078 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4081 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4084 * System to inform the user and request information
4085 - HTTP authentication
4089 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4090 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4091 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4094 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4095 - Improved playlist handling
4096 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4098 - Embedded Video output
4099 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4100 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4101 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4102 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4103 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4105 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4106 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4109 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4112 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4113 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4114 * Growl "Now playing" support
4117 * Ability to log to syslog
4118 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4121 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4123 * A bit more automatic testing
4126 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4127 ---------------------------------
4130 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4131 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4134 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4135 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4138 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4141 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4142 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4148 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4151 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4152 --------------------------------
4155 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4159 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4160 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4161 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4164 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4165 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4166 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4167 * GnomeVFS input module
4168 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4169 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4172 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4173 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4174 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4177 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4178 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4184 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4185 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4188 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4189 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4190 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4193 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4195 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4196 - New extended controls panel
4197 - New bookmarks window
4198 - Fixed playlist sorting
4199 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4201 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4202 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4203 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4204 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4208 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4209 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4211 - Include macro to include other files
4215 * Should now work outside IE as well
4218 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4221 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4222 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4225 The following languages were added:
4229 * Simplified Chinese
4230 The following languages were re-added:
4234 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4235 --------------------------------
4238 * Rewrite of the playlist
4240 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4241 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4242 * Preferences improvements:
4243 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4244 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4246 * Core image manipulation support
4247 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4248 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4249 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4250 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4251 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4252 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4253 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4254 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4255 * Access filter architecture
4256 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4257 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4261 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4262 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4263 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4264 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4265 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4266 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4267 * Massive Matroska improvements
4268 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4270 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4271 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4272 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4273 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4274 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4276 Decoders / Encoders:
4277 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4278 * PNG decoder/encoder
4279 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4280 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4283 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4286 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4287 * Brand new SAP module
4288 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4289 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4290 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4291 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4292 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4293 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4297 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4300 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4301 * Image file video output (png)
4302 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4303 * Improvements to wall video filter
4304 * Support for font color and opacity
4310 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4311 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4312 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4316 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4317 - Improved preferences
4318 - Improvements to the wizard
4319 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4321 - Redesigned playlist
4322 - Improved preferences
4324 - Support for multiple actions
4327 - Support for the new playlist system
4329 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4332 * Screensaver disabling fix
4333 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4334 * Support for no-decoration windows
4337 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4338 * The OpenGL video output is back
4339 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4340 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4341 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4342 is not yet available in the new module
4343 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4346 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4355 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4358 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4361 The following languages were added:
4367 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4368 --------------------------------
4371 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4372 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4375 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4376 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4377 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4380 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4383 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4386 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4389 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4390 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4391 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4395 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4397 * Support of playlist group announcement
4400 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4401 --------------------------------
4404 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4405 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4406 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4407 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4408 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4409 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4412 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4413 (Stream your desktop)
4414 * Improved DVD support:
4415 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4416 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4417 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4418 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4419 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4420 (selection of titles/chapters).
4423 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4424 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4425 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4426 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4427 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4428 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4429 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4430 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4431 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4432 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4435 * G.726 audio support
4436 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4437 * MPEG-4 text support
4438 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4439 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4440 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4444 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4445 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4446 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4447 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4448 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4449 * DVB subtitles encoder
4450 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4451 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4453 * Text track muxing for mp4
4454 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4455 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4456 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4457 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4458 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4459 * Improved ASF muxer
4461 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4462 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4463 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4466 * New audio equalizer filter
4467 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4468 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4469 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4470 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4473 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4474 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4475 with support for effects.
4476 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4477 - New filters can be streamed.
4478 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4479 - Centralized scaling and blending
4481 - "time", to display current time
4482 - "marq", to display a marquee
4485 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4486 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4487 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4488 * A few skins2 improvements
4489 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4490 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4491 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4492 * Improved CORBA control module
4495 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4496 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4497 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4500 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4501 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4502 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4505 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4506 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4507 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4508 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4509 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4512 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4515 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4516 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4519 * Server/client network synchronization module
4520 * VBrick streams fully supported
4521 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4525 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4526 --------------------------------
4529 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4530 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4531 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4532 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4535 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4536 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4537 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4538 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4539 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4540 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4541 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4544 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4545 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4546 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4547 * Improved directory access module.
4548 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4549 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4550 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4551 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4552 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4555 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4556 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4557 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4560 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4561 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4562 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4565 * Improved session announcement system.
4566 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4567 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4568 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4569 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4570 * Improved transrater.
4571 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4572 * New configuration system.
4573 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4576 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4577 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4578 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4579 * Supports scheduling.
4580 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4581 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4584 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4585 - Ability to embed video output.
4586 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4587 - Lots of improvements.
4588 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4589 - New design and set of icons.
4590 - Ability to embed video output.
4591 - Support for hotkeys.
4592 - Support for bookmarks.
4594 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4595 - Better hotkeys handling.
4598 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4599 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4600 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4601 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4604 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4605 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4606 * Improved Windows installer.
4612 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4613 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4616 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4617 ---------------------------------
4620 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4621 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4624 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4625 --------------------------------
4628 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4629 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4632 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4633 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4634 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4635 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4638 * Internal improvments
4639 * Improved import/export
4642 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4644 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4645 small and strange formats.
4647 * New MOD audio demux.
4648 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4649 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4650 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4651 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4654 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4655 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4656 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4662 * New opengl video output plugin.
4665 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4666 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4669 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4670 --------------------------------
4673 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4674 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4675 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4676 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4677 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4678 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4679 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4680 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4683 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4688 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4689 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4690 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4691 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4692 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4693 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4694 * Better Icecast support.
4695 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4696 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4699 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4700 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4701 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4702 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4703 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4704 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4705 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4708 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4709 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4710 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4711 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4712 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4713 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4714 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4715 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4716 * Preliminary RTP support.
4717 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4722 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4723 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4725 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4726 - Improvements and help in preferences
4727 - New streaming wizard
4728 - Revised Disc Open menu
4730 - Improvements of the standard pages
4731 - Support for new commands
4732 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4735 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4736 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4739 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4740 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4741 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4742 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4743 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4744 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4745 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4746 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4747 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4750 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4752 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4753 * Support for Panther.
4754 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4755 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4758 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4759 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4760 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4761 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4762 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4763 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4764 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4765 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4768 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4769 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4770 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4773 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4776 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4777 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4778 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4779 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4782 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4783 --------------------------------
4786 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4789 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4790 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4793 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4794 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4797 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4800 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4801 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4804 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4807 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4810 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4811 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4815 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4816 --------------------------------
4819 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4820 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4824 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4825 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4826 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4828 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4829 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4832 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4835 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4838 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4839 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4843 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4844 --------------------------------
4847 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4848 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4852 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4853 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4854 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4855 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4856 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4859 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4860 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4861 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4864 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4865 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4866 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4869 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4870 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4871 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4872 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4873 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4876 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4877 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4878 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4881 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4884 * Improved build system.
4885 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4886 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4887 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4888 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4891 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4892 --------------------------------
4895 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4898 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4899 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4900 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4901 * Video 4 Linux support
4902 * CD Digital Audio support
4903 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4906 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4907 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4908 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4909 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4912 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4913 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4914 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4915 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4916 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4917 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4918 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4921 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4922 * New HTTP remote control interface
4925 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4926 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4927 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4928 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4929 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4932 * New reset option for the preferences
4933 * You can set your language in the prefences
4934 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4935 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4936 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4937 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4940 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4941 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4942 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4945 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4946 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4947 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4948 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4949 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4950 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4951 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4952 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4953 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4954 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4957 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4958 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4959 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4960 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4961 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4962 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4963 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4966 * Interface localization
4967 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4968 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4969 * New full-featured Preferences window
4972 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4973 --------------------------------
4976 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4977 * support for skins at the interface level
4978 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4979 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4980 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4981 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4982 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4985 * fixed HTTP redirects
4986 * support for opening an entire directory
4987 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4988 * new video4linux access plug-in
4989 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4992 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4993 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4994 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4997 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4998 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4999 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5000 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5001 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5002 * new codec for raw I420 video
5003 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5006 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5007 (although it still misses some important features)
5008 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5011 * new HTTP output support
5012 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5013 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5016 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5019 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5022 * reorderable playlist
5023 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5024 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5025 * support for mono audio output devices
5026 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5027 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5028 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5029 * the messages window remembers more lines
5030 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5031 * http and ogg stream output options
5032 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5035 * new skinnable interface
5036 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5038 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5039 * support for FLAC audio format
5040 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5042 * network tab in the interface
5043 * "apply" handling in preferences
5046 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5047 ---------------------------------
5050 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5051 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5052 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5053 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5055 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5056 * DTS S/PDIF support
5059 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5060 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5061 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5062 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5065 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5066 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5069 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5072 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5075 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5077 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5078 * rc interface is now fully useable
5079 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5082 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5083 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5084 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5085 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5086 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5088 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5089 * support for mouse gestures
5090 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5093 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5094 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5097 * improved ID3 tag detection
5098 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5099 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5100 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5102 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5105 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5106 ---------------------------------
5109 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5110 English was set as the preferred language
5113 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5114 --------------------------------
5117 * new mouse gesture interface
5118 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5122 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5123 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5124 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5127 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5128 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5132 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5135 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5136 without the user consent
5139 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5141 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5142 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5143 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5146 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5147 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5148 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5149 * playlist enhancements
5150 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5151 * new step forward/step backward commands
5152 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5153 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5154 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5157 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5158 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5159 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5162 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5163 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5166 * native video output is working again
5167 * only commandline interface support
5168 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5171 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5172 --------------------------------
5175 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5176 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5177 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5178 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5179 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5180 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5181 and A/52 streams are supported)
5182 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5187 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5188 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5189 * VCD entry points support
5190 * VCD image file support
5193 * support for *.asf format
5194 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5195 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5196 * support for ogg encapsulation
5197 * support for raw DV format
5198 * support for *.wav format
5199 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5202 Stream discovery & playlists:
5203 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5204 * support for .m3u file format
5205 * support for .asx file format
5206 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5209 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5210 (only available with the .avi demux)
5211 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5212 * support for raw PCM data
5213 * support for Cinepak video codec
5214 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5215 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5216 * support for Xvid codec
5217 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5218 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5219 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5221 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5223 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5226 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5229 * new WxWindows interface
5230 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5231 device and the channels configuration
5232 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5233 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5234 format that VLC can play
5235 * new swedish translation
5236 * enhancements of the playlist window
5237 * new messages window to see debug info
5238 * fixed a few crashes
5241 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5242 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5243 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5244 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working