1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
21 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
22 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
23 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
24 * Support for Ulead DV audio
25 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
26 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
27 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
28 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
29 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
30 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
31 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
32 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
35 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
38 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
39 remove support for previous OS X releases
40 * Major improvements in DASH support
41 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
42 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
43 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
44 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
45 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
46 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
47 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
48 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
49 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
52 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
53 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
54 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
55 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
56 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
57 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
58 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
59 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
60 * Support for more MJPEG streams
61 * Add support for liveleak streams
64 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
65 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
66 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
67 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
68 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
69 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
70 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
71 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
72 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
73 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
76 * New remapping channel filter
77 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
78 * New VSXu visualization plugin
79 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
82 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
83 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
84 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
85 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
86 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
87 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
88 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
91 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
92 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
93 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
94 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
95 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
96 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
97 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
100 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
101 * Options support for AVIO output module
102 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
103 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
104 * Livehttp stream encryption support
107 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
108 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
109 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
110 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
111 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
112 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
116 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
119 * add support for multiple video outputs
120 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
122 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
123 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
124 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
125 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
126 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
127 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
128 VLC's internal volume level
129 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
130 selection and to manage the list of presets
131 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
132 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
133 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
134 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
135 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
136 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
137 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
138 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
139 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
141 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
142 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
143 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
144 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
145 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
146 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
147 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
148 3rd party applications
149 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
150 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
151 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
155 * Partial support for Qt5.0
156 * Menus modifications and improvements
157 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
158 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
159 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
160 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
161 * EPG display fixes and improvements
162 * Add SD pixmap sources
163 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
164 * Display playlist total duration
165 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
169 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
170 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
171 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
172 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
173 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
174 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
175 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
178 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
179 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
180 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
181 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
182 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
183 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
185 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
186 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
187 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
188 * Broken crop video filter
190 * OSD parser and menu
191 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
194 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
195 --------------------------------
198 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
201 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
202 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
203 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
206 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
207 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
208 * Fix koreus lua parser
209 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
210 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
211 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
212 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
215 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
216 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
219 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
222 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
223 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
224 * Fix Time counter UI look
225 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
228 * Fix https streaming
231 * Fix audio and video track selection:
232 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
233 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
236 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
237 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
238 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
239 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
240 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
243 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
244 --------------------------------
247 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
248 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
249 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
250 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
251 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
252 during playback on Mac OS X
255 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
256 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
257 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
260 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
261 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
262 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
263 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
264 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
267 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
268 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
269 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
270 * Support Youtube live streams
273 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
276 * Fix media info dialog update
277 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
278 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
279 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
280 * Fix album art display at start
283 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
284 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
285 * Fix menus display and behavior
286 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
287 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
288 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
289 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
290 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
291 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
292 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
295 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
296 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
297 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
298 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
299 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
300 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
301 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
302 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
303 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
306 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
307 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
308 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
309 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
310 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
313 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
320 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
321 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
324 * Add GateKeeper support
325 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
326 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
327 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
330 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
333 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
334 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
335 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
336 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
337 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
340 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
341 --------------------------------
344 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
345 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
346 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
347 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
348 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
349 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
350 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
351 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
352 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
353 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
354 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
358 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
359 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
360 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
361 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
362 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
363 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
364 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
365 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
366 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
367 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
368 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
369 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
372 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
373 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
375 * Fix MP3 free format support
378 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
379 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
380 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
381 * Fix for DVB channels file support
382 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
385 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
386 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
388 Audio filters and output:
389 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
390 * Fix DirectSound device selection
391 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
392 * Do not apply volume in file output
393 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
394 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
397 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
398 the persistant media library
399 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
400 to the media library or the temporary playlist
401 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
402 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
403 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
404 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
405 press on the Play/Pause button
406 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
407 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
408 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
409 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
410 * Many Fullscreen fixes
411 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
412 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
413 Synchronization panel
414 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
415 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
416 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
417 * Fix crashes on exit
418 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
420 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
421 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
422 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
423 automatically reset on the first launch.
424 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
425 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
426 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
429 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
430 * Fixes for icecast SD
433 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
434 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
435 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
436 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
437 * Fix tags and file names display
438 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
441 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
442 * Fix for key events and focus loss
445 * Fix display of some buttons
446 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
447 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
450 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
451 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
452 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
455 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
456 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
457 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
458 Thai translations update
459 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
462 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
463 --------------------------------
466 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
467 * fix the samba module compilation
468 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
469 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
470 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
471 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
474 * Support for MXPEG files
475 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
476 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
479 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
480 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
481 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
484 * Fix ogm header creation
487 * limit spatializer filter distortions
488 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
491 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
492 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
493 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
494 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
497 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
500 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
501 * allow to hide the sidebar
502 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
503 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
504 * noticebly faster launch time
505 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
506 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
507 * improve track synchronization panel
508 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
509 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
512 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
513 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
514 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
515 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
518 * fix for menus display
519 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
520 * documentation update
523 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
524 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
527 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
528 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
529 * Update Jamendo selections
533 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
534 * fix a crash on VLM close
537 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
538 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
539 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
540 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
543 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
546 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
547 ---------------------------------
550 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
551 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
552 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
553 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
554 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
555 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
556 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
557 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
558 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
559 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
560 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
561 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
562 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
563 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
564 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
565 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
566 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
567 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
568 --http-crl (optional CRL).
569 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
570 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
571 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
572 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
573 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
574 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
575 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
577 Important changes for packagers:
578 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
579 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
580 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
581 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
582 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
583 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
584 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
585 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
586 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
587 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
590 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
591 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
592 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
593 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
594 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
595 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
596 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
599 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
600 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
601 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
602 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
603 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
604 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
605 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
606 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
607 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
608 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
609 * PulseAudio audio input support
610 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
611 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
612 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
613 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
614 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
615 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
616 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
617 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
620 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
621 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
622 are notably concerned.
623 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
624 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
625 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
626 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
627 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
628 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
629 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
630 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
631 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
632 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
633 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
634 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
635 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
636 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
637 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
640 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
641 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
642 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
643 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
644 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
645 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
646 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
647 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
648 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
649 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
650 * Improved support of tracker files
651 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
654 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
655 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
656 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
657 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
658 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
659 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
660 and important cleanups and optimisations
661 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
662 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
663 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
664 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
665 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
666 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
667 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
668 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
669 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
670 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
671 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
672 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
673 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
674 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
675 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
676 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
677 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
678 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
679 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
680 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
681 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
684 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
685 * New video output for iOS platform
686 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
687 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
688 * Various vmem improvements
689 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
690 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
691 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
692 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
693 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
694 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
696 Audio Output and Filters:
697 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
698 * New audio output in memory (amem)
699 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
700 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
701 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
702 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
703 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
704 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
705 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
706 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
709 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
710 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
711 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
712 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
713 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
714 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
715 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
716 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
717 * New anti-flickering filter
718 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
719 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
720 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
721 blackbox and customizable shadow.
722 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
723 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
724 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
727 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
728 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
729 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
730 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
731 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
732 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
733 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
734 * Major rework of VoD support
735 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
736 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
737 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
738 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
739 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
740 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
741 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
742 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
743 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
744 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
747 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
748 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
751 * New capabilities for libVLC:
752 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
753 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
754 list of available audio and video filters
755 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
756 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
757 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
760 * asademux, subsass: use libass
761 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
762 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
764 * upnp: use upnp_intel
765 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
766 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
767 * removal of the noise filter
768 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
769 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
770 removed in Growl's next release, too.
771 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
774 * Update of translations for most languages.
775 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
778 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
779 ----------------------------------
782 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
783 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
786 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
787 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
790 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
791 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
792 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
795 * Camtasia decoding fix.
798 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
799 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
802 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
805 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
806 ----------------------------------
809 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
810 including support for OS X Lion
811 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
812 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
815 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
818 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
819 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
820 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
823 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
826 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
827 ----------------------------------
830 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
831 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
834 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
835 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
836 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
837 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
838 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
840 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
841 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
842 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
844 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
845 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
848 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
851 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
854 * Fix quitting on Linux
855 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
859 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
862 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
865 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
866 ---------------------------------
868 Windows and Mac OS X:
869 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
872 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
873 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
876 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
879 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
882 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
884 Miscellaneous fixes in:
885 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
887 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
888 * RTP output and XML export
889 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
893 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
894 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
895 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
896 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
899 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
900 --------------------------------
902 Windows and Mac OS X:
903 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
906 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
909 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
910 * Improve Apple Remote handling
911 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
912 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
913 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
914 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
917 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
918 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
922 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
923 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
924 * New Luganda Translation
927 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
928 --------------------------------
931 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
934 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
935 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
936 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
937 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
940 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
942 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
943 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
944 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
945 * mp4 demuxer improvements
946 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
947 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
948 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
949 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
951 Miscellaneous fixes in:
952 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
953 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
954 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
955 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
956 * Configure and build system improvements
957 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
960 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
961 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
962 * New icelandic translation
965 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
966 --------------------------------
969 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
973 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
974 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
975 and stability reasons
978 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
982 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
985 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
986 ----------------------------------
989 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
992 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
993 ---------------------------------
996 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
997 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
998 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
999 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1002 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1005 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1006 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1007 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1008 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1011 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1012 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1013 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1015 Subtitles and renderer:
1016 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1017 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1018 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1019 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1020 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1023 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1024 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1025 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1026 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1029 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1030 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1032 Miscellaneous fixes:
1033 * KDE device solid actions
1035 * Transcode integer overflow
1036 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1037 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1040 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1041 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1042 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1045 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1046 ----------------------------------
1049 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1053 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1056 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1059 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1060 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1061 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1062 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1065 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1069 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1072 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1075 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1076 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1078 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1082 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1083 * Miscellaneous fixes
1086 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1087 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1088 French and Ukrainian
1089 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1090 * New Asturian translation
1093 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1094 ----------------------------------
1097 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1099 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1102 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1105 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1106 * Various fixes for Windows
1109 * New Armenian translation
1110 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1111 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1114 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1119 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1120 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1123 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1124 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1127 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1128 --------------------------------
1130 Access and demuxers:
1131 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1132 * fix for podcasts parsing
1133 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1136 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1137 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1140 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1141 * fix m3u playlists exports
1144 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1147 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1150 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1153 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1156 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1159 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1160 --------------------------------
1163 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1164 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1167 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1168 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1171 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1172 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1173 * fix console output encoding
1175 Interface and extensions:
1176 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1177 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1180 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1181 --------------------------------
1184 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1185 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1186 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1187 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1188 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1189 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1190 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1191 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1192 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1193 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1194 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1195 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1196 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1197 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1198 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1199 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1203 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1204 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1205 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1206 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1207 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1210 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1213 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1214 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1215 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1219 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1222 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1223 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1224 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1227 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1228 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1229 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1230 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1233 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1234 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1237 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1238 --------------------------------
1240 Important changes for users:
1241 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1242 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1244 Important changes for packagers:
1245 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1246 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1247 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1248 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1249 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1251 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1253 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1254 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1255 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1256 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1257 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1260 * Support for the sftp protocol
1261 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1262 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1263 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1264 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1265 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1268 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1269 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1270 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1272 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1273 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1274 * Invmem module improvements
1275 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1276 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1277 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1278 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1279 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1280 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1281 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1282 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1283 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1284 * Support for VP8 codec
1285 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1288 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1289 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1290 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1291 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1292 * Various EGP improvements
1293 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1294 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1297 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1298 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1299 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1300 * Podcast images are now displayed
1303 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1304 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1305 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1306 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1307 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1308 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1309 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1310 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1311 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1312 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1313 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1316 * New content extensions lua framework
1319 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1320 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1321 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1322 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1323 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1324 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1325 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1328 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1329 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1330 * Service discovery based on libudev
1331 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1334 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1335 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1336 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1337 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1338 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1339 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1340 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1343 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1344 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1345 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1348 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1350 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1351 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1354 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1357 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1358 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1359 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1360 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1361 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1362 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1363 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1366 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1367 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1370 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1371 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1372 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1376 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1377 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1378 * Improved Solaris port
1381 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1382 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1385 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1386 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1387 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1388 * transrate: broken since too long
1389 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1390 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1391 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1392 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1393 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1394 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1395 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1396 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1397 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1398 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1399 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1400 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1401 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1402 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1405 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1406 --------------------------------
1409 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1411 Decoders/Packetizers:
1412 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1415 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1416 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1417 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1418 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1419 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1422 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1423 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1426 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1427 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1430 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1431 and Walloon translations updated
1432 * Sinhala translation started
1435 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1436 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1439 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1440 --------------------------------
1443 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1444 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1447 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1450 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1451 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1454 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1455 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1456 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1457 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1460 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1461 --------------------------------
1464 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1465 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1468 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1469 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1472 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1473 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1476 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1479 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1480 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1483 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1484 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1487 * New Walloon translation
1488 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1491 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1492 --------------------------------
1495 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1496 regressions in most popular drivers
1497 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1500 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1501 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1502 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1505 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1506 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1509 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1510 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1511 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1512 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1513 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1516 * New udev module for linux
1519 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1522 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1525 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1526 --------------------------------
1529 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1530 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1531 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1534 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1535 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1538 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1539 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1542 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1545 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1546 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1547 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1548 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1551 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1552 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1553 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1554 - no support for Goom and SDL
1555 - limited text rendering support
1556 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1559 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1560 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1561 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1562 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1563 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1564 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1565 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1566 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1567 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1571 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1574 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1577 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1578 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1579 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1580 Arabic and French translation updates
1583 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1584 --------------------------------
1587 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1588 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1589 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1590 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1591 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1592 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1595 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1596 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1597 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1600 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1601 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1602 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1605 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1608 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1609 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1612 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1613 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1614 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1615 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1616 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1617 * Fix various crashes
1620 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1622 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1626 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1627 ---------------------------------
1631 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1632 See 'Access:' for more info.
1633 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1636 * Instantaneous pausing
1637 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1638 * Finer speed control
1639 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1640 * Timeshift for most medias
1641 * RTSP trickplay support
1642 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1645 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1646 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1647 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1648 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1649 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1650 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1651 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1652 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1653 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1654 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1657 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1658 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1659 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1660 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1661 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1662 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1663 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1666 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1667 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1670 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1671 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1672 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1673 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1674 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1675 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1676 * DVB scanning on linux
1677 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1678 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1679 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1680 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1681 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1682 * MTP device access on Unix
1683 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1684 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1687 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1688 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1689 Windows and Mac OS X.
1692 * Export the playlist in HTML
1693 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1694 * Better metadata handling and reading
1696 Linux/Windows interface:
1697 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1698 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1699 * Recently played items list
1700 * Interface toolbar customizations
1701 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1702 - More menus actions
1703 - Finer speed slider
1704 - Improvements on many dialogs
1705 - New dialog for plugins listing
1706 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1707 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1708 * Better integration in GTK environments
1711 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1712 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1713 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1714 * Additional usability improvements
1717 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1718 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1719 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1720 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1721 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1724 * New Maemo port with:
1725 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1726 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1729 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1732 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1733 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1734 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1735 * Support for latest iSight models
1738 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1739 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1742 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1743 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1744 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1745 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1746 The old image video output has been removed.
1747 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1748 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1751 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1759 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1760 --------------------------------------
1766 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1767 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1768 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1769 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1770 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1771 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1772 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1774 Various fixes to the following modules:
1777 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1778 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1779 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1781 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1786 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1787 ---------------------------------
1790 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1791 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1794 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1795 ---------------------------------
1798 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1801 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1804 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1805 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1806 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1807 main controller window.
1808 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1811 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1816 * Updates of other localizations
1819 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1820 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1821 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1822 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1823 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1826 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1827 ---------------------------------
1830 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1832 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1835 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1836 --------------------------------
1841 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1842 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1845 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1846 --------------------------------
1848 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1849 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1852 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1855 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1856 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1859 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1860 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1863 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1864 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1865 * Various fixed in playlist
1868 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1871 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1874 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1875 ------------------------------------
1877 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1878 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1881 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1882 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1883 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1886 * Stability fix for the video output.
1889 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1890 --------------------------------
1893 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1894 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1895 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1896 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1897 * Fixed update system bugs
1898 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1901 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1902 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1903 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1904 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1905 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1906 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1907 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1908 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1909 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1910 modern Mac OS X versions
1913 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1914 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1916 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1917 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1920 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1921 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1922 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1923 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1924 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1925 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1928 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1929 --------------------------------
1931 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1932 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1933 * Multiple bugfixes.
1936 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1937 --------------------------------
1939 * Multiple bug fixes.
1942 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1943 ---------------------------------
1947 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1948 recent to work correctly
1949 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1950 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1951 edit the ".hosts" file.
1952 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1953 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1954 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1955 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1956 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1957 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1958 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1959 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1960 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1961 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1962 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1963 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1964 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1965 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1966 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1967 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1968 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1969 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1970 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1971 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1972 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1973 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1974 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
1975 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
1976 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
1977 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
1978 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
1979 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
1980 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
1981 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
1982 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
1983 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
1984 and postproc modules.
1985 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
1986 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
1987 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
1988 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
1990 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
1991 filter. For example:
1992 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
1993 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
1995 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
1996 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2002 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2004 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2005 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2008 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2009 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2011 * Shoutcast TV listings
2012 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2014 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2015 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2017 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2020 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2021 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2022 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2023 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2024 * JACK audio input support
2025 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2026 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2027 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2028 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2029 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2030 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2031 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2032 (available as a separate download).
2033 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2034 * RTMP input support
2035 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2036 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2037 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2039 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2040 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2043 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2044 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2045 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2046 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2048 * APEv1/2 tags support
2049 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2050 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2052 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2053 * TiVo Series 2 support
2054 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2059 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2060 * Flash Screen Video support
2061 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2062 * DosBox Capture support
2063 * Karl Morton's Video support
2064 * limited atrac3 support
2066 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2067 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2068 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2069 * H.264 PAFF support
2070 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2071 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2072 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2073 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2074 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2077 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2078 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2079 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2080 * AQTitle subtitles support
2081 * MKV USF subtitles support
2082 * HTML-based subtitles support
2083 * MPSub subtitles support
2084 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2085 * MPL2 subtitles support
2086 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2087 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2088 * Realtext subtitle support
2089 * DKS subtitle support
2090 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2091 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2094 * Flash Screen Video support
2095 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2097 Video outputs and filters:
2098 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2099 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2100 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2101 * New puzzle video output filter
2102 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2103 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2105 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2106 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2107 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2108 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2109 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2110 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2111 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2112 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2113 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2114 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2115 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2116 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2117 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2118 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2120 Audio outputs and filters:
2121 * Replay gain support
2122 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2123 new scaletempo audio filter)
2124 * New spatializer audio filter
2125 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2128 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2129 * New RTP payload formats:
2130 * Speex voice audio codec
2131 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2132 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2133 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2134 * DCCP transport for RTP
2135 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2140 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2141 end-user suitable way.
2142 * Improved user interaction
2143 * Improved mouse gestures
2144 * Vastly improved Update checker
2145 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2147 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2148 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2150 * Improved video output features
2151 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2152 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2153 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2154 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2155 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2157 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2158 if libncursesw is available.
2159 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2160 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2161 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2163 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2164 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2165 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2166 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2167 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2168 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2169 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2170 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2173 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2174 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2175 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2178 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2179 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2180 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2181 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2182 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2183 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2186 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2187 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2197 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2198 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2199 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2202 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2203 ----------------------------------
2206 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2209 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2210 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2211 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2212 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2213 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2214 * Updated Polish translation
2217 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2218 ----------------------------------
2221 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2222 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2223 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2226 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2227 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2228 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2229 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2230 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2231 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2232 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2233 to an unexpected application termination
2234 * New Serbian translation
2235 * Updated Romanian translation
2238 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2239 ----------------------------------
2242 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2243 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2244 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2245 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2246 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2247 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2248 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2249 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2252 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2253 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2254 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2255 * Fixed AAC resampling
2256 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2257 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2260 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2261 ----------------------------------
2264 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2265 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2266 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2267 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2268 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2271 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2272 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2273 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2274 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2275 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2278 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2279 ----------------------------------
2282 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2283 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2286 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2287 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2288 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2289 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2291 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2295 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2298 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2301 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2304 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2307 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2308 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2309 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2310 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2311 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2313 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2314 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2315 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2316 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2319 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2322 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2323 ----------------------------------
2326 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2327 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2328 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2330 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2331 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2333 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2334 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2337 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2339 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2340 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2341 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2342 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2343 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2344 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2345 two different movies
2346 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2347 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2348 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2351 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2354 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2355 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2356 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2357 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2360 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2361 ----------------------------------
2363 Various bugfixes, notably:
2364 * Windows Vista compatibility
2365 * Cropping in Direct3D
2366 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2367 * RSS filter string overflow
2369 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2371 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2372 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2375 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2376 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2379 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2382 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2385 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2388 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2389 ----------------------------------
2391 Various bugfixes, notably:
2392 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2393 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2394 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2395 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2396 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2397 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2400 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2401 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2404 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2406 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2407 * Diverse usability improvements
2408 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2409 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2410 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2413 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2414 ---------------------------------
2416 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2417 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2420 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2423 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2424 --------------------------------
2427 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2430 * Support for RTSP authentication
2431 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2432 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2433 * ATSC support for DVB input
2434 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2435 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2436 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2439 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2440 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2441 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2442 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2443 * Matroska WavPack support
2444 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2445 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2446 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2449 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2450 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2451 * Improved libcaca support
2455 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2456 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2458 * Systray support in skins
2460 * Support for Apple Remote control
2461 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2462 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2463 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2464 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2466 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2469 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2470 Windows 9x/ME users:
2471 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2472 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2473 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2474 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2475 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2477 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2478 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2487 * Updates to the libvlc API
2488 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2491 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2492 --------------------------------
2495 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2496 * Support for downloading updates
2500 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2501 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2502 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2503 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2505 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2506 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2507 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2510 * Cook (Real audio) support
2512 Playlist / Services discovery:
2513 * XSPF playlist support
2515 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2518 * New JACK audio output
2521 * New video filters:
2522 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2523 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2524 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2525 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2526 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2527 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2530 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2533 * System to inform the user and request information
2534 - HTTP authentication
2538 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2539 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2540 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2543 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2544 - Improved playlist handling
2545 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2547 - Embedded Video output
2548 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2549 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2550 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2551 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2552 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2554 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2555 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2558 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2561 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2562 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2563 * Growl "Now playing" support
2566 * Ability to log to syslog
2567 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2570 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2572 * A bit more automatic testing
2575 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2576 ---------------------------------
2579 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2580 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2583 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2584 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2587 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2590 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2591 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2597 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2600 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2601 --------------------------------
2604 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2608 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2609 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2610 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2613 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2614 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2615 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2616 * GnomeVFS input module
2617 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2618 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2621 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2622 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2623 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2626 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2627 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2633 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2634 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2637 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2638 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2639 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2642 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2644 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2645 - New extended controls panel
2646 - New bookmarks window
2647 - Fixed playlist sorting
2648 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2650 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2651 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2652 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2653 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2657 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2658 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2660 - Include macro to include other files
2664 * Should now work outside IE as well
2667 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2670 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2671 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2674 The following languages were added:
2678 * Simplified Chinese
2679 The following languages were re-added:
2683 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2684 --------------------------------
2687 * Rewrite of the playlist
2689 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2690 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2691 * Preferences improvements:
2692 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2693 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2695 * Core image manipulation support
2696 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2697 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2698 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2699 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2700 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2701 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2702 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2703 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2704 * Access filter architecture
2705 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2706 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2710 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2711 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2712 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2713 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2714 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2715 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2716 * Massive Matroska improvements
2717 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2719 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2720 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2721 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2722 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2723 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2725 Decoders / Encoders:
2726 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2727 * PNG decoder/encoder
2728 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2729 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2732 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2735 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2736 * Brand new SAP module
2737 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2738 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2739 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2740 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2741 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2742 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2746 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2749 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2750 * Image file video output (png)
2751 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2752 * Improvements to wall video filter
2753 * Support for font color and opacity
2759 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2760 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2761 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2765 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2766 - Improved preferences
2767 - Improvements to the wizard
2768 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2770 - Redesigned playlist
2771 - Improved preferences
2773 - Support for multiple actions
2776 - Support for the new playlist system
2778 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2781 * Screensaver disabling fix
2782 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2783 * Support for no-decoration windows
2786 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2787 * The OpenGL video output is back
2788 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2789 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2790 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2791 is not yet available in the new module
2792 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2795 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2804 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2807 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2810 The following languages were added:
2816 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2817 --------------------------------
2820 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2821 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2824 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2825 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2826 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2829 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2832 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2835 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2838 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2839 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2840 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2844 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2846 * Support of playlist group announcement
2849 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2850 --------------------------------
2853 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2854 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2855 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2856 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2857 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2858 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2861 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2862 (Stream your desktop)
2863 * Improved DVD support:
2864 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2865 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2866 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2867 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2868 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2869 (selection of titles/chapters).
2872 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2873 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2874 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2875 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2876 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2877 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2878 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2879 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2880 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2881 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2884 * G.726 audio support
2885 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2886 * MPEG-4 text support
2887 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2888 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2889 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2893 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2894 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2895 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2896 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2897 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2898 * DVB subtitles encoder
2899 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2900 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2902 * Text track muxing for mp4
2903 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2904 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2905 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2906 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2907 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2908 * Improved ASF muxer
2910 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2911 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2912 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2915 * New audio equalizer filter
2916 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2917 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2918 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2919 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2922 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2923 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2924 with support for effects.
2925 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2926 - New filters can be streamed.
2927 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2928 - Centralized scaling and blending
2930 - "time", to display current time
2931 - "marq", to display a marquee
2934 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2935 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2936 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2937 * A few skins2 improvements
2938 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2939 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2940 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2941 * Improved CORBA control module
2944 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2945 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2946 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2949 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2950 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2951 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2954 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2955 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2956 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2957 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2958 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2961 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2964 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2965 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2968 * Server/client network synchronization module
2969 * VBrick streams fully supported
2970 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2974 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
2975 --------------------------------
2978 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
2979 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
2980 * Improved HTTP daemon.
2981 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
2984 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
2985 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
2986 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
2987 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
2988 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
2989 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
2990 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
2993 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
2994 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
2995 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
2996 * Improved directory access module.
2997 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
2998 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
2999 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3000 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3001 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3004 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3005 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3006 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3009 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3010 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3011 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3014 * Improved session announcement system.
3015 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3016 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3017 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3018 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3019 * Improved transrater.
3020 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3021 * New configuration system.
3022 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3025 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3026 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3027 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3028 * Supports scheduling.
3029 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3030 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3033 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3034 - Ability to embed video output.
3035 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3036 - Lots of improvements.
3037 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3038 - New design and set of icons.
3039 - Ability to embed video output.
3040 - Support for hotkeys.
3041 - Support for bookmarks.
3043 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3044 - Better hotkeys handling.
3047 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3048 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3049 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3050 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3053 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3054 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3055 * Improved Windows installer.
3061 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3062 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3065 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3066 ---------------------------------
3069 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3070 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3073 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3074 --------------------------------
3077 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3078 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3081 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3082 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3083 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3084 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3087 * Internal improvments
3088 * Improved import/export
3091 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3093 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3094 small and strange formats.
3096 * New MOD audio demux.
3097 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3098 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3099 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3100 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3103 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3104 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3105 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3111 * New opengl video output plugin.
3114 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3115 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3118 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3119 --------------------------------
3122 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3123 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3124 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3125 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3126 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3127 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3128 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3129 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3132 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3137 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3138 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3139 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3140 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3141 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3142 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3143 * Better Icecast support.
3144 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3145 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3148 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3149 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3150 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3151 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3152 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3153 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3154 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3157 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3158 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3159 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3160 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3161 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3162 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3163 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3164 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3165 * Preliminary RTP support.
3166 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3171 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3172 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3174 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3175 - Improvements and help in preferences
3176 - New streaming wizard
3177 - Revised Disc Open menu
3179 - Improvements of the standard pages
3180 - Support for new commands
3181 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3184 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3185 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3188 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3189 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3190 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3191 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3192 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3193 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3194 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3195 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3196 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3199 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3201 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3202 * Support for Panther.
3203 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3204 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3207 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3208 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3209 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3210 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3211 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3212 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3213 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3214 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3217 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3218 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3219 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3222 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3225 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3226 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3227 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3228 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3231 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3232 --------------------------------
3235 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3238 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3239 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3242 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3243 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3246 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3249 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3250 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3253 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3256 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3259 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3260 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3264 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3265 --------------------------------
3268 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3269 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3273 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3274 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3275 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3277 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3278 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3281 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3284 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3287 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3288 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3292 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3293 --------------------------------
3296 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3297 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3301 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3302 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3303 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3304 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3305 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3308 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3309 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3310 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3313 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3314 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3315 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3318 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3319 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3320 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3321 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3322 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3325 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3326 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3327 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3330 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3333 * Improved build system.
3334 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3335 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3336 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3337 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3340 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3341 --------------------------------
3344 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3347 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3348 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3349 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3350 * Video 4 Linux support
3351 * CD Digital Audio support
3352 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3355 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3356 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3357 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3358 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3361 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3362 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3363 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3364 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3365 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3366 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3367 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3370 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3371 * New HTTP remote control interface
3374 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3375 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3376 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3377 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3378 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3381 * New reset option for the preferences
3382 * You can set your language in the prefences
3383 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3384 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3385 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3386 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3389 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3390 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3391 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3394 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3395 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3396 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3397 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3398 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3399 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3400 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3401 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3402 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3403 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3406 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3407 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3408 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3409 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3410 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3411 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3412 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3415 * Interface localization
3416 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3417 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3418 * New full-featured Preferences window
3421 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3422 --------------------------------
3425 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3426 * support for skins at the interface level
3427 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3428 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3429 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3430 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3431 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3434 * fixed HTTP redirects
3435 * support for opening an entire directory
3436 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3437 * new video4linux access plug-in
3438 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3441 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3442 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3443 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3446 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3447 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3448 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3449 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3450 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3451 * new codec for raw I420 video
3452 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3455 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3456 (although it still misses some important features)
3457 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3460 * new HTTP output support
3461 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3462 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3465 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3468 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3471 * reorderable playlist
3472 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3473 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3474 * support for mono audio output devices
3475 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3476 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3477 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3478 * the messages window remembers more lines
3479 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3480 * http and ogg stream output options
3481 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3484 * new skinnable interface
3485 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3487 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3488 * support for FLAC audio format
3489 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3491 * network tab in the interface
3492 * "apply" handling in preferences
3495 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3496 ---------------------------------
3499 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3500 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3501 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3502 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3504 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3505 * DTS S/PDIF support
3508 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3509 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3510 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3511 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3514 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3515 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3518 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3521 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3524 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3526 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3527 * rc interface is now fully useable
3528 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3531 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3532 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3533 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3534 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3535 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3537 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3538 * support for mouse gestures
3539 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3542 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3543 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3546 * improved ID3 tag detection
3547 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3548 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3549 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3551 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3554 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3555 ---------------------------------
3558 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3559 English was set as the preferred language
3562 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3563 --------------------------------
3566 * new mouse gesture interface
3567 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3571 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3572 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3573 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3576 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3577 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3581 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3584 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3585 without the user consent
3588 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3590 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3591 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3592 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3595 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3596 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3597 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3598 * playlist enhancements
3599 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3600 * new step forward/step backward commands
3601 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3602 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3603 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3606 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3607 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3608 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3611 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3612 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3615 * native video output is working again
3616 * only commandline interface support
3617 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3620 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3621 --------------------------------
3624 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3625 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3626 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3627 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3628 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3629 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3630 and A/52 streams are supported)
3631 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3636 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3637 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3638 * VCD entry points support
3639 * VCD image file support
3642 * support for *.asf format
3643 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3644 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3645 * support for ogg encapsulation
3646 * support for raw DV format
3647 * support for *.wav format
3648 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3651 Stream discovery & playlists:
3652 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3653 * support for .m3u file format
3654 * support for .asx file format
3655 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3658 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3659 (only available with the .avi demux)
3660 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3661 * support for raw PCM data
3662 * support for Cinepak video codec
3663 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3664 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3665 * support for Xvid codec
3666 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3667 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3668 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3670 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3672 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3675 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3678 * new WxWindows interface
3679 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3680 device and the channels configuration
3681 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3682 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3683 format that VLC can play
3684 * new swedish translation
3685 * enhancements of the playlist window
3686 * new messages window to see debug info
3687 * fixed a few crashes
3690 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3691 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3692 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3693 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working