1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
7 * Support portable version of Windows build
8 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
9 and rewrite the parsing of those files
10 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
13 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
14 * New SMB access module using libdsm
15 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
16 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
17 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
18 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
19 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
20 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
21 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
22 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
23 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
24 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
25 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
26 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
27 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
28 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
31 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
32 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
33 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
34 * Support for Daala video
35 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
36 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
37 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
38 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
39 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
40 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
41 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
42 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
43 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
44 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
45 * Basic TTML subtitles support
46 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
47 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
48 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
49 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
50 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
54 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
55 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
56 * Support Daala in Ogg
57 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
58 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
59 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
60 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
61 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
62 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
63 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
64 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
65 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
66 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
67 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
68 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
69 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
70 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
71 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, using the same core
75 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
76 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
79 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
80 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
83 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
84 * Wayland shell surface window provider
85 * Wayland shared memory video output
86 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
87 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
88 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
89 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
90 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
91 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
94 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
97 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
98 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
99 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
102 * Chromecast output module
103 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
106 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
109 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
110 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
114 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
115 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
118 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
119 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
120 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
121 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
122 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
125 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
128 * Batch convert support
131 * Support key accelerators
134 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
135 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
136 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
137 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
138 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
139 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
140 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
141 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
142 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
143 identifier (if there is one available)
144 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
145 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
146 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
147 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description
150 * Support for the SystemD Journal
151 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
152 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
153 * New Android module for logging
156 * remove langfromtelx
157 * remove ZPL playlist format
158 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
161 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
162 --------------------------------
165 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
166 * Fix some VP9 decoding
168 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
169 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
170 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
171 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
176 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
177 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
178 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
179 * Revert to older ASX code
180 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
183 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
184 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
185 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
188 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
189 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
190 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
193 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
194 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
195 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
198 * Fix recent items behaviour
199 * Fix rotation filter activation
200 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
203 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
204 * Fix extensions registration during install
205 * Fix extensions dialog crash
206 * Default to no DxVA decoding
209 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
212 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
213 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
214 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
215 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
216 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
217 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
220 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
221 --------------------------------
224 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
225 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
228 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
229 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
230 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
231 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
234 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
235 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
236 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
237 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
239 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
240 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
241 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
244 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
245 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
246 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
247 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
248 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
249 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
250 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
251 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
252 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
253 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
254 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
255 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
256 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
257 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
258 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
259 * New jpeg image decoder
260 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
261 * New SVG image decoder
262 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
263 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
264 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
267 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
268 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
269 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
270 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
271 * New png image encoder using libpng
274 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
275 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
276 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
277 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
278 synchronization and tracks exclusion
279 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
280 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
281 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
282 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
283 * Support Opus in MKV
285 * Basic support for WebVTT
286 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
287 * Support HDPR TS files
288 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
289 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
290 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
291 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
292 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
293 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
294 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
295 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
296 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
297 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
298 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
299 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
302 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
303 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
304 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
305 * New Android native window provider module
306 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
307 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
308 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
311 * New Oldmovie effect filter
312 * New VHS effect filter
313 * New Freeze effect filter
314 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
315 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
316 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
319 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
320 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
321 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
322 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
323 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
324 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
327 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
328 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
330 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
333 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
334 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
335 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
336 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
337 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
338 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
339 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
340 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
341 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
343 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
344 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
345 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
348 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
349 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
352 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
353 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
356 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
357 * Add record button in Qt menus
358 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
359 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
360 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
363 * Support for OS X Yosemite
364 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
365 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
366 * Fixes for advanced preferences
367 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
368 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
369 * Option to increase playlist font size
370 * Improved crash log reporting
373 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
374 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
375 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
376 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
379 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
382 * iOS video output: use ios2
383 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
384 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
387 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
388 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
389 * Update of all translations:
390 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
391 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
392 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
393 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
394 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
395 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
396 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
399 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
400 --------------------------------
406 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
407 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
408 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
409 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
410 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
411 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
412 * Fix potential crash in zip access
413 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
414 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
417 * Update translations and greek encoding
420 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
421 --------------------------------
424 * Fix compilation on OS/2
427 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
429 Mac OS X audio output:
430 * Fix channel ordering
431 * Increase the buffersize
434 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
435 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
436 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
439 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
442 * Correctly support video-on-top
443 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
444 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
447 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
450 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
451 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
454 * Update British English
457 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
458 --------------------------------
461 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
464 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
467 * Fix DVD playback regression
468 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
469 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
472 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
473 --------------------------------
476 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
477 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
480 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
481 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
482 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
485 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
486 by updating codec libraries
487 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
488 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
489 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
492 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
493 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
494 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
495 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
498 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
499 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
502 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
503 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
504 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
505 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
506 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
509 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
510 * Fix record file names
513 * Fix minimal size possible on start
514 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
515 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
516 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
517 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
520 * Fix album art display on Windows
523 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
524 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
525 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
526 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
527 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
528 and Simplified Chinese translations
529 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
532 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
533 --------------------------------
536 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
537 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
538 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
539 audio devices on OS X
540 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
541 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
544 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
545 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
548 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
549 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
552 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
555 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
556 * Improve A-B loop control
557 * Fix album art update when changing media
560 * Add a language option in the interface
561 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
562 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
563 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
564 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
565 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
566 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
567 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
570 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
573 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
574 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
575 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
576 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
579 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
580 --------------------------------
583 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
585 * Fix some subtitles track selection
588 * VP9 support in WebM
589 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
590 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
593 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
594 * Support Speex in ogg files
595 * Fix some .mov playlists support
596 * Support Alac in mkv
597 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
598 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
601 * Fix DVB options parsing
602 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
603 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
606 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
607 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
610 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
611 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
614 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
615 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
616 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
617 * Fix play after drag'n drop
618 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
621 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
622 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
625 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
626 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
629 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
630 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
631 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
632 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
633 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
634 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
635 * Improves interface resizings
638 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
639 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
640 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
641 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
642 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
646 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
647 --------------------------------
650 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
651 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
652 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
653 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
654 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
656 3rd party libraries (contrib):
657 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
660 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
661 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
662 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
663 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
664 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
667 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
668 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
672 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
673 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
674 * Support for Ulead DV audio
675 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
676 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
677 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
678 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
679 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
680 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
681 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
682 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
683 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
684 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
687 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
688 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
689 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
692 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
693 remove support for previous OS X releases
694 * Major improvements in DASH support
695 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
696 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
697 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
698 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
699 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
700 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
701 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
702 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
703 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
704 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
705 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
708 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
709 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
710 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
711 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
712 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
713 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
714 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
715 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
716 * Support for more MJPEG streams
717 * Add support for liveleak streams
718 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
719 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
720 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
723 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
724 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
725 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
726 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
727 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
728 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
729 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
730 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
731 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
732 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
733 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
736 * New remapping channel filter
737 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
738 * New VSXu visualization plugin
739 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
740 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
741 * New gain audio filter
744 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
745 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
746 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
747 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
748 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
749 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
750 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
751 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
752 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
755 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
756 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
757 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
758 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
759 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
760 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
761 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
764 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
765 * Options support for AVIO output module
766 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
767 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
768 * Livehttp stream encryption support
769 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
770 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
773 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
776 * configurable password for the HTTP server
777 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
778 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
779 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
780 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
781 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
782 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
783 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
787 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
790 * Add support for multiple video outputs
791 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
793 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
794 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
795 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
796 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
797 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
798 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
799 VLC's internal volume level
800 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
802 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
803 selection and to manage the list of presets
804 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
805 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
806 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
807 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
808 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
809 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
810 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
811 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
812 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
813 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
815 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
816 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
817 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
818 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
819 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
820 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
821 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
822 3rd party applications
823 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
824 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
825 (system-wide settings)
826 * Add support for the Video Title option
827 * Add support for the Boss Key
828 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
829 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
832 * Partial support for Qt5.0
833 * Menus modifications and improvements
834 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
835 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
836 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
837 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
838 * EPG display fixes and improvements
839 * Add SD pixmap sources
840 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
841 * Display playlist total duration
842 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
843 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
844 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
849 * Extend sliders, offsets options
850 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
851 * Numerous fixes and improvements
852 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
855 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
856 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
857 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
858 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
859 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
860 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
861 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
862 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
863 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
864 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
867 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
868 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
869 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
870 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
871 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
872 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
874 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
875 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
876 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
877 * Broken crop video filter
879 * OSD parser and menu
880 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
881 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
882 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
883 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
887 * Update of all translations
890 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
891 --------------------------------
894 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
895 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
898 * Fix modplug security issues
901 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
902 --------------------------------
906 * Fix crash in QTsound
907 * Fix screen mouse file location
908 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
911 * Fix use after free in sgimb
912 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
915 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
918 * Fix interface crashes
919 * Fix autostart playback option
920 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
923 * update Welsh translation
924 * New Kannada translation
927 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
928 --------------------------------
931 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
932 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
936 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
939 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
942 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
945 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
949 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
952 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
955 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
956 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
957 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
960 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
961 --------------------------------
964 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
967 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
970 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
971 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
972 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
973 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
974 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
975 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
978 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
979 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
980 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
981 * 3rd party codecs updates
984 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
985 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
986 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
987 in the advanced preferences panel
988 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
989 * Fix crash within the video output code
990 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
991 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
992 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
993 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
995 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
998 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1001 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1002 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1005 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1008 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1009 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1010 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1011 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1012 Dutch, Danish, translations
1013 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1016 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1017 --------------------------------
1020 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1023 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1024 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1025 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1028 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1029 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1030 * Fix koreus lua parser
1031 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1032 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1033 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1034 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1037 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1038 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1041 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1044 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1045 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1046 * Fix Time counter UI look
1047 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1050 * Fix https streaming
1053 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1054 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1055 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1058 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1059 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1060 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1061 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1062 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1065 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1066 --------------------------------
1069 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1070 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1071 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1072 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1073 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1074 during playback on Mac OS X
1077 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1078 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1079 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1082 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1083 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1084 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1085 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1086 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1089 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1090 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1091 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1092 * Support Youtube live streams
1095 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1098 * Fix media info dialog update
1099 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1100 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1101 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1102 * Fix album art display at start
1105 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1106 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1107 * Fix menus display and behavior
1108 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1109 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1110 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1111 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1112 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1113 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1114 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1117 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1118 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1119 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1120 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1121 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1122 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1123 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1124 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1125 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1128 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1129 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1130 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1131 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1132 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1135 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1136 --------------------------------
1139 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1142 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1143 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1146 * Add GateKeeper support
1147 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1148 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1149 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1152 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1155 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1156 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1157 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1158 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1159 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1162 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1163 --------------------------------
1166 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1167 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1168 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1169 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1170 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1171 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1172 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1173 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1174 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1175 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1176 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1180 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1181 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1182 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1183 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1184 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1185 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1186 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1187 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1188 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1189 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1190 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1191 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1194 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1195 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1197 * Fix MP3 free format support
1200 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1201 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1202 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1203 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1204 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1207 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1208 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1210 Audio filters and output:
1211 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1212 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1213 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1214 * Do not apply volume in file output
1215 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1216 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1219 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1220 the persistant media library
1221 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1222 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1223 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1224 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1225 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1226 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1227 press on the Play/Pause button
1228 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1229 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1230 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1231 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1232 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1233 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1234 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1235 Synchronization panel
1236 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1237 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1238 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1239 * Fix crashes on exit
1240 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1242 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1243 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1244 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1245 automatically reset on the first launch.
1246 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1247 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1248 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1251 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1252 * Fixes for icecast SD
1255 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1256 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1257 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1258 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1259 * Fix tags and file names display
1260 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1263 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1264 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1267 * Fix display of some buttons
1268 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1269 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1272 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1273 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1274 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1277 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1278 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1279 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1280 Thai translations update
1281 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1284 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1285 --------------------------------
1288 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1289 * fix the samba module compilation
1290 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1291 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1292 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1293 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1296 * Support for MXPEG files
1297 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1298 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1301 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1302 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1303 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1306 * Fix ogm header creation
1309 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1310 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1313 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1314 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1315 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1316 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1319 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1322 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1323 * allow to hide the sidebar
1324 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1325 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1326 * noticebly faster launch time
1327 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1328 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1329 * improve track synchronization panel
1330 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1331 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1334 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1335 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1336 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1337 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1340 * fix for menus display
1341 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1342 * documentation update
1345 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1346 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1349 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1350 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1351 * Update Jamendo selections
1355 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1356 * fix a crash on VLM close
1359 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1360 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1361 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1362 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1365 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1368 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1369 ---------------------------------
1372 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1373 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1374 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1375 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1376 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1377 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1378 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1379 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1380 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1381 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1382 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1383 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1384 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1385 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1386 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1387 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1388 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1389 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1390 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1391 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1392 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1393 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1394 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1395 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1396 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1397 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1399 Important changes for packagers:
1400 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1401 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1402 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1403 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1404 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1405 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1406 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1407 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1408 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1409 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1412 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1413 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1414 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1415 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1416 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1417 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1418 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1421 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1422 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1423 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1424 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1425 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1426 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1427 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1428 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1429 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1430 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1431 * PulseAudio audio input support
1432 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1433 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1434 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1435 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1436 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1437 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1438 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1439 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1442 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1443 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1444 are notably concerned.
1445 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1446 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1447 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1448 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1449 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1450 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1451 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1452 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1453 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1454 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1455 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1456 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1457 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1458 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1459 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1462 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1463 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1464 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1465 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1466 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1467 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1468 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1469 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1470 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1471 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1472 * Improved support of tracker files
1473 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1476 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1477 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1478 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1479 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1480 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1481 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1482 and important cleanups and optimisations
1483 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1484 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1485 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1486 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1487 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1488 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1489 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1490 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1491 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1492 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1493 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1494 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1495 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1496 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1497 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1498 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1499 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1500 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1501 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1502 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1503 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1506 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1507 * New video output for iOS platform
1508 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1509 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1510 * Various vmem improvements
1511 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1512 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1513 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1514 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1515 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1516 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1518 Audio Output and Filters:
1519 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1520 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1521 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1522 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1523 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1524 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1525 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1526 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1527 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1528 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1531 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1532 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1533 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1534 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1535 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1536 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1537 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1538 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1539 * New anti-flickering filter
1540 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1541 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1542 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1543 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1544 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1545 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1546 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1549 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1550 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1551 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1552 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1553 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1554 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1555 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1556 * Major rework of VoD support
1557 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1558 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1559 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1560 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1561 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1562 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1563 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1564 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1565 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1566 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1569 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1570 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1573 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1574 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1575 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1576 list of available audio and video filters
1577 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1578 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1579 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1582 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1583 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1584 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1585 * id3tag: use taglib
1586 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1587 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1588 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1589 * removal of the noise filter
1590 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1591 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1592 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1593 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1596 * Update of translations for most languages.
1597 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1600 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1601 ----------------------------------
1604 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1605 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1608 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1609 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1612 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1613 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1614 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1617 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1620 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1621 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1624 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1627 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1628 ----------------------------------
1631 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1632 including support for OS X Lion
1633 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1634 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1637 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1640 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1641 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1642 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1645 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1648 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1649 ----------------------------------
1652 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1653 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1656 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1657 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1658 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1659 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1660 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1662 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1663 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1664 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1666 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1667 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1670 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1673 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1676 * Fix quitting on Linux
1677 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1681 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1684 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1687 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1688 ---------------------------------
1690 Windows and Mac OS X:
1691 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1694 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1695 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1698 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1701 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1704 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1706 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1707 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1709 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1710 * RTP output and XML export
1711 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1715 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1716 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1717 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1718 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1721 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1722 --------------------------------
1724 Windows and Mac OS X:
1725 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1728 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1731 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1732 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1733 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1734 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1735 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1736 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1739 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1740 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1744 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1745 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1746 * New Luganda Translation
1749 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1750 --------------------------------
1753 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1756 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1757 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1758 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1759 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1762 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1764 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1765 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1766 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1767 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1768 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1769 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1770 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1771 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1773 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1774 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1775 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1776 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1777 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1778 * Configure and build system improvements
1779 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1782 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1783 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1784 * New icelandic translation
1787 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1788 --------------------------------
1791 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1792 #234484 and #260719.
1795 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1796 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1797 and stability reasons
1800 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1804 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1807 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1808 ----------------------------------
1811 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1814 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1815 ---------------------------------
1818 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1819 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1820 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1821 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1824 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1827 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1828 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1829 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1830 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1833 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1834 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1835 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1837 Subtitles and renderer:
1838 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1839 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1840 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1841 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1842 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1845 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1846 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1847 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1848 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1851 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1852 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1854 Miscellaneous fixes:
1855 * KDE device solid actions
1857 * Transcode integer overflow
1858 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1859 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1862 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1863 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1864 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1867 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1868 ----------------------------------
1871 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1875 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1878 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1881 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1882 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1883 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1884 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1887 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1891 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1894 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1897 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1898 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1900 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1904 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1905 * Miscellaneous fixes
1908 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1909 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1910 French and Ukrainian
1911 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1912 * New Asturian translation
1915 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1916 ----------------------------------
1919 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1921 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1924 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1927 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1928 * Various fixes for Windows
1931 * New Armenian translation
1932 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1933 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1936 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1937 --------------------------------
1940 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1941 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1942 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1945 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1946 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1949 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1950 --------------------------------
1952 Access and demuxers:
1953 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1954 * fix for podcasts parsing
1955 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1958 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1959 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1962 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1963 * fix m3u playlists exports
1966 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1969 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1972 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1975 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1978 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1981 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1982 --------------------------------
1985 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1986 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1989 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1990 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1993 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1994 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1995 * fix console output encoding
1997 Interface and extensions:
1998 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1999 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2002 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2003 --------------------------------
2006 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2007 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2008 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2009 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2010 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2011 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2012 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2013 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2014 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2015 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2016 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2017 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2018 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2019 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2020 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2021 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2025 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2026 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2027 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2028 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2029 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2032 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2035 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2036 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2037 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2041 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2044 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2045 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2046 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2049 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2050 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2051 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2052 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2055 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2056 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2059 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2060 --------------------------------
2062 Important changes for users:
2063 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2064 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2066 Important changes for packagers:
2067 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2068 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2069 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2070 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2071 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2073 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2075 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2076 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2077 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2078 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2079 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2082 * Support for the sftp protocol
2083 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2084 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2085 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2086 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2087 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2090 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2091 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2092 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2094 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2095 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2096 * Invmem module improvements
2097 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2098 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2099 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2100 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2101 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2102 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2103 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2104 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2105 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2106 * Support for VP8 codec
2107 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2110 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2111 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2112 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2113 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2114 * Various EGP improvements
2115 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2116 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2119 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2120 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2121 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2122 * Podcast images are now displayed
2125 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2126 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2127 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2128 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2129 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2130 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2131 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2132 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2133 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2134 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2135 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2138 * New content extensions lua framework
2141 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2142 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2143 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2144 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2145 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2146 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2147 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2150 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2151 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2152 * Service discovery based on libudev
2153 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2156 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2157 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2158 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2159 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2160 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2161 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2162 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2165 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2166 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2167 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2170 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2172 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2173 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2176 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2179 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2180 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2181 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2182 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2183 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2184 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2185 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2188 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2189 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2192 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2193 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2194 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2198 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2199 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2200 * Improved Solaris port
2203 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2204 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2207 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2208 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2209 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2210 * transrate: broken since too long
2211 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2212 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2213 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2214 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2215 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2216 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2217 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2218 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2219 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2220 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2221 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2222 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2223 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2224 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2227 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2228 --------------------------------
2231 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2233 Decoders/Packetizers:
2234 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2237 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2238 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2239 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2240 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2241 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2244 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2245 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2248 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2249 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2252 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2253 and Walloon translations updated
2254 * Sinhala translation started
2257 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2258 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2261 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2262 --------------------------------
2265 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2266 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2269 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2272 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2273 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2276 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2277 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2278 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2279 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2282 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2283 --------------------------------
2286 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2287 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2290 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2291 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2294 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2295 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2298 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2301 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2302 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2305 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2306 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2309 * New Walloon translation
2310 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2313 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2314 --------------------------------
2317 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2318 regressions in most popular drivers
2319 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2322 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2323 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2324 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2327 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2328 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2331 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2332 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2333 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2334 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2335 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2338 * New udev module for linux
2341 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2344 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2347 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2348 --------------------------------
2351 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2352 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2353 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2356 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2357 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2360 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2361 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2364 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2367 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2368 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2369 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2370 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2373 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2374 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2375 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2376 - no support for Goom and SDL
2377 - limited text rendering support
2378 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2381 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2382 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2383 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2384 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2385 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2386 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2387 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2388 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2389 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2393 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2396 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2399 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2400 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2401 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2402 Arabic and French translation updates
2405 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2406 --------------------------------
2409 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2410 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2411 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2412 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2413 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2414 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2417 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2418 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2419 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2422 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2423 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2424 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2427 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2430 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2431 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2434 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2435 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2436 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2437 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2438 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2439 * Fix various crashes
2442 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2444 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2448 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2449 ---------------------------------
2453 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2454 See 'Access:' for more info.
2455 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2458 * Instantaneous pausing
2459 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2460 * Finer speed control
2461 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2462 * Timeshift for most medias
2463 * RTSP trickplay support
2464 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2467 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2468 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2469 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2470 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2471 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2472 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2473 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2474 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2475 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2476 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2479 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2480 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2481 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2482 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2483 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2484 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2485 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2488 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2489 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2492 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2493 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2494 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2495 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2496 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2497 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2498 * DVB scanning on linux
2499 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2500 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2501 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2502 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2503 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2504 * MTP device access on Unix
2505 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2506 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2509 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2510 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2511 Windows and Mac OS X.
2514 * Export the playlist in HTML
2515 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2516 * Better metadata handling and reading
2518 Linux/Windows interface:
2519 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2520 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2521 * Recently played items list
2522 * Interface toolbar customizations
2523 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2524 - More menus actions
2525 - Finer speed slider
2526 - Improvements on many dialogs
2527 - New dialog for plugins listing
2528 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2529 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2530 * Better integration in GTK environments
2533 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2534 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2535 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2536 * Additional usability improvements
2539 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2540 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2541 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2542 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2543 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2546 * New Maemo port with:
2547 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2548 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2551 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2554 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2555 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2556 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2557 * Support for latest iSight models
2560 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2561 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2564 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2565 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2566 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2567 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2568 The old image video output has been removed.
2569 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2570 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2573 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2581 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2582 --------------------------------------
2588 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2589 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2590 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2591 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2592 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2593 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2594 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2596 Various fixes to the following modules:
2599 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2600 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2601 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2603 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2608 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2609 ---------------------------------
2612 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2613 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2616 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2617 ---------------------------------
2620 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2623 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2626 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2627 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2628 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2629 main controller window.
2630 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2633 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2638 * Updates of other localizations
2641 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2642 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2643 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2644 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2645 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2648 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2649 ---------------------------------
2652 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2654 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2657 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2658 --------------------------------
2663 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2664 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2667 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2668 --------------------------------
2670 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2671 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2674 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2677 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2678 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2681 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2682 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2685 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2686 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2687 * Various fixed in playlist
2690 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2693 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2696 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2697 ------------------------------------
2699 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2700 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2703 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2704 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2705 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2708 * Stability fix for the video output.
2711 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2712 --------------------------------
2715 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2716 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2717 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2718 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2719 * Fixed update system bugs
2720 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2723 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2724 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2725 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2726 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2727 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2728 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2729 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2730 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2731 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2732 modern Mac OS X versions
2735 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2736 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2738 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2739 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2742 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2743 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2744 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2745 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2746 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2747 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2750 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2751 --------------------------------
2753 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2754 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2755 * Multiple bugfixes.
2758 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2759 --------------------------------
2761 * Multiple bug fixes.
2764 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2765 ---------------------------------
2769 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2770 recent to work correctly
2771 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2772 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2773 edit the ".hosts" file.
2774 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2775 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2776 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2777 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2778 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2779 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2780 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2781 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2782 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2783 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2784 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2785 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2786 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2787 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2788 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2789 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2790 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2791 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2792 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2793 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2794 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2795 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2796 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2797 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2798 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2799 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2800 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2801 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2802 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2803 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2804 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2805 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2806 and postproc modules.
2807 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2808 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2809 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2810 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2812 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2813 filter. For example:
2814 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2815 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2817 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2818 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2824 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2826 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2827 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2830 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2831 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2833 * Shoutcast TV listings
2834 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2836 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2837 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2839 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2842 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2843 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2844 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2845 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2846 * JACK audio input support
2847 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2848 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2849 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2850 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2851 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2852 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2853 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2854 (available as a separate download).
2855 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2856 * RTMP input support
2857 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2858 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2859 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2861 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2862 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2865 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2866 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2867 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2868 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2870 * APEv1/2 tags support
2871 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2872 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2874 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2875 * TiVo Series 2 support
2876 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2881 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2882 * Flash Screen Video support
2883 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2884 * DosBox Capture support
2885 * Karl Morton's Video support
2886 * limited atrac3 support
2888 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2889 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2890 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2891 * H.264 PAFF support
2892 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2893 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2894 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2895 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2896 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2899 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2900 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2901 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2902 * AQTitle subtitles support
2903 * MKV USF subtitles support
2904 * HTML-based subtitles support
2905 * MPSub subtitles support
2906 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2907 * MPL2 subtitles support
2908 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2909 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2910 * Realtext subtitle support
2911 * DKS subtitle support
2912 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2913 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2916 * Flash Screen Video support
2917 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2919 Video outputs and filters:
2920 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2921 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2922 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2923 * New puzzle video output filter
2924 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2925 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2927 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2928 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2929 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2930 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2931 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2932 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2933 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2934 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2935 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2936 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2937 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2938 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2939 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2940 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2942 Audio outputs and filters:
2943 * Replay gain support
2944 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2945 new scaletempo audio filter)
2946 * New spatializer audio filter
2947 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2950 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2951 * New RTP payload formats:
2952 * Speex voice audio codec
2953 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2954 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2955 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2956 * DCCP transport for RTP
2957 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2962 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2963 end-user suitable way.
2964 * Improved user interaction
2965 * Improved mouse gestures
2966 * Vastly improved Update checker
2967 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2969 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2970 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2972 * Improved video output features
2973 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2974 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2975 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2976 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2977 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2979 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2980 if libncursesw is available.
2981 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2982 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2983 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2985 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2986 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2987 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2988 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2989 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2990 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2991 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2992 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2995 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2996 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2997 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3000 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3001 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3002 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3003 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3004 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3005 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3008 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3009 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3019 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3020 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3021 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3024 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3025 ----------------------------------
3028 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3031 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3032 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3033 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3034 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3035 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3036 * Updated Polish translation
3039 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3040 ----------------------------------
3043 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3044 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3045 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3048 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3049 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3050 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3051 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3052 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3053 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3054 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3055 to an unexpected application termination
3056 * New Serbian translation
3057 * Updated Romanian translation
3060 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3061 ----------------------------------
3064 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3065 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3066 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3067 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3068 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3069 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3070 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3071 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3074 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3075 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3076 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3077 * Fixed AAC resampling
3078 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3079 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3082 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3083 ----------------------------------
3086 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3087 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3088 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3089 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3090 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3093 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3094 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3095 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3096 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3097 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3100 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3101 ----------------------------------
3104 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3105 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3108 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3109 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3110 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3111 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3113 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3117 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3120 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3123 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3126 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3129 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3130 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3131 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3132 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3133 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3135 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3136 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3137 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3138 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3141 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3144 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3145 ----------------------------------
3148 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3149 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3150 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3152 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3153 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3155 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3156 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3159 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3161 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3162 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3163 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3164 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3165 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3166 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3167 two different movies
3168 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3169 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3170 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3173 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3176 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3177 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3178 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3179 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3182 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3183 ----------------------------------
3185 Various bugfixes, notably:
3186 * Windows Vista compatibility
3187 * Cropping in Direct3D
3188 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3189 * RSS filter string overflow
3191 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3193 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3194 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3197 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3198 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3201 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3204 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3207 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3210 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3211 ----------------------------------
3213 Various bugfixes, notably:
3214 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3215 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3216 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3217 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3218 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3219 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3222 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3223 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3226 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3228 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3229 * Diverse usability improvements
3230 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3231 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3232 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3235 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3236 ---------------------------------
3238 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3239 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3242 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3245 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3246 --------------------------------
3249 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3252 * Support for RTSP authentication
3253 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3254 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3255 * ATSC support for DVB input
3256 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3257 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3258 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3261 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3262 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3263 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3264 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3265 * Matroska WavPack support
3266 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3267 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3268 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3271 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3272 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3273 * Improved libcaca support
3277 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3278 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3280 * Systray support in skins
3282 * Support for Apple Remote control
3283 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3284 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3285 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3286 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3288 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3291 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3292 Windows 9x/ME users:
3293 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3294 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3295 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3296 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3297 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3299 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3300 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3309 * Updates to the libvlc API
3310 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3313 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3314 --------------------------------
3317 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3318 * Support for downloading updates
3322 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3323 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3324 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3325 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3327 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3328 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3329 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3332 * Cook (Real audio) support
3334 Playlist / Services discovery:
3335 * XSPF playlist support
3337 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3340 * New JACK audio output
3343 * New video filters:
3344 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3345 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3346 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3347 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3348 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3349 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3352 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3355 * System to inform the user and request information
3356 - HTTP authentication
3360 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3361 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3362 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3365 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3366 - Improved playlist handling
3367 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3369 - Embedded Video output
3370 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3371 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3372 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3373 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3374 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3376 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3377 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3380 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3383 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3384 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3385 * Growl "Now playing" support
3388 * Ability to log to syslog
3389 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3392 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3394 * A bit more automatic testing
3397 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3398 ---------------------------------
3401 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3402 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3405 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3406 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3409 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3412 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3413 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3419 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3422 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3423 --------------------------------
3426 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3430 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3431 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3432 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3435 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3436 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3437 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3438 * GnomeVFS input module
3439 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3440 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3443 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3444 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3445 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3448 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3449 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3455 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3456 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3459 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3460 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3461 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3464 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3466 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3467 - New extended controls panel
3468 - New bookmarks window
3469 - Fixed playlist sorting
3470 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3472 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3473 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3474 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3475 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3479 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3480 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3482 - Include macro to include other files
3486 * Should now work outside IE as well
3489 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3492 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3493 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3496 The following languages were added:
3500 * Simplified Chinese
3501 The following languages were re-added:
3505 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3506 --------------------------------
3509 * Rewrite of the playlist
3511 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3512 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3513 * Preferences improvements:
3514 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3515 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3517 * Core image manipulation support
3518 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3519 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3520 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3521 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3522 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3523 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3524 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3525 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3526 * Access filter architecture
3527 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3528 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3532 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3533 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3534 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3535 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3536 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3537 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3538 * Massive Matroska improvements
3539 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3541 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3542 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3543 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3544 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3545 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3547 Decoders / Encoders:
3548 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3549 * PNG decoder/encoder
3550 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3551 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3554 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3557 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3558 * Brand new SAP module
3559 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3560 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3561 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3562 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3563 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3564 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3568 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3571 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3572 * Image file video output (png)
3573 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3574 * Improvements to wall video filter
3575 * Support for font color and opacity
3581 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3582 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3583 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3587 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3588 - Improved preferences
3589 - Improvements to the wizard
3590 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3592 - Redesigned playlist
3593 - Improved preferences
3595 - Support for multiple actions
3598 - Support for the new playlist system
3600 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3603 * Screensaver disabling fix
3604 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3605 * Support for no-decoration windows
3608 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3609 * The OpenGL video output is back
3610 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3611 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3612 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3613 is not yet available in the new module
3614 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3617 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3626 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3629 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3632 The following languages were added:
3638 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3639 --------------------------------
3642 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3643 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3646 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3647 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3648 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3651 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3654 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3657 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3660 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3661 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3662 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3666 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3668 * Support of playlist group announcement
3671 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3672 --------------------------------
3675 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3676 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3677 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3678 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3679 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3680 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3683 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3684 (Stream your desktop)
3685 * Improved DVD support:
3686 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3687 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3688 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3689 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3690 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3691 (selection of titles/chapters).
3694 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3695 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3696 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3697 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3698 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3699 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3700 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3701 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3702 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3703 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3706 * G.726 audio support
3707 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3708 * MPEG-4 text support
3709 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3710 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3711 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3715 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3716 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3717 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3718 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3719 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3720 * DVB subtitles encoder
3721 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3722 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3724 * Text track muxing for mp4
3725 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3726 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3727 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3728 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3729 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3730 * Improved ASF muxer
3732 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3733 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3734 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3737 * New audio equalizer filter
3738 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3739 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3740 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3741 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3744 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3745 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3746 with support for effects.
3747 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3748 - New filters can be streamed.
3749 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3750 - Centralized scaling and blending
3752 - "time", to display current time
3753 - "marq", to display a marquee
3756 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3757 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3758 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3759 * A few skins2 improvements
3760 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3761 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3762 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3763 * Improved CORBA control module
3766 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3767 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3768 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3771 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3772 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3773 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3776 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3777 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3778 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3779 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3780 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3783 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3786 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3787 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3790 * Server/client network synchronization module
3791 * VBrick streams fully supported
3792 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3796 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3797 --------------------------------
3800 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3801 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3802 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3803 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3806 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3807 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3808 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3809 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3810 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3811 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3812 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3815 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3816 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3817 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3818 * Improved directory access module.
3819 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3820 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3821 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3822 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3823 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3826 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3827 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3828 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3831 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3832 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3833 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3836 * Improved session announcement system.
3837 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3838 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3839 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3840 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3841 * Improved transrater.
3842 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3843 * New configuration system.
3844 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3847 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3848 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3849 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3850 * Supports scheduling.
3851 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3852 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3855 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3856 - Ability to embed video output.
3857 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3858 - Lots of improvements.
3859 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3860 - New design and set of icons.
3861 - Ability to embed video output.
3862 - Support for hotkeys.
3863 - Support for bookmarks.
3865 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3866 - Better hotkeys handling.
3869 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3870 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3871 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3872 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3875 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3876 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3877 * Improved Windows installer.
3883 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3884 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3887 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3888 ---------------------------------
3891 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3892 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3895 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3896 --------------------------------
3899 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3900 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3903 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3904 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3905 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3906 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3909 * Internal improvments
3910 * Improved import/export
3913 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3915 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3916 small and strange formats.
3918 * New MOD audio demux.
3919 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3920 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3921 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3922 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3925 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3926 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3927 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3933 * New opengl video output plugin.
3936 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3937 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3940 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3941 --------------------------------
3944 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3945 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3946 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3947 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3948 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3949 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3950 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3951 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3954 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3959 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3960 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3961 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3962 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3963 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3964 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3965 * Better Icecast support.
3966 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3967 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3970 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3971 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3972 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3973 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3974 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3975 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3976 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3979 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3980 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3981 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3982 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3983 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3984 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3985 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3986 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3987 * Preliminary RTP support.
3988 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3993 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3994 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3996 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3997 - Improvements and help in preferences
3998 - New streaming wizard
3999 - Revised Disc Open menu
4001 - Improvements of the standard pages
4002 - Support for new commands
4003 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4006 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4007 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4010 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4011 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4012 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4013 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4014 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4015 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4016 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4017 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4018 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4021 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4023 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4024 * Support for Panther.
4025 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4026 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4029 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4030 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4031 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4032 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4033 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4034 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4035 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4036 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4039 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4040 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4041 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4044 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4047 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4048 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4049 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4050 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4053 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4054 --------------------------------
4057 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4060 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4061 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4064 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4065 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4068 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4071 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4072 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4075 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4078 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4081 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4082 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4086 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4087 --------------------------------
4090 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4091 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4095 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4096 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4097 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4099 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4100 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4103 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4106 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4109 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4110 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4114 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4115 --------------------------------
4118 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4119 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4123 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4124 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4125 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4126 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4127 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4130 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4131 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4132 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4135 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4136 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4137 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4140 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4141 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4142 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4143 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4144 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4147 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4148 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4149 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4152 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4155 * Improved build system.
4156 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4157 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4158 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4159 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4162 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4163 --------------------------------
4166 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4169 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4170 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4171 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4172 * Video 4 Linux support
4173 * CD Digital Audio support
4174 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4177 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4178 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4179 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4180 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4183 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4184 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4185 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4186 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4187 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4188 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4189 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4192 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4193 * New HTTP remote control interface
4196 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4197 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4198 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4199 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4200 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4203 * New reset option for the preferences
4204 * You can set your language in the prefences
4205 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4206 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4207 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4208 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4211 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4212 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4213 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4216 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4217 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4218 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4219 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4220 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4221 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4222 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4223 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4224 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4225 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4228 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4229 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4230 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4231 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4232 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4233 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4234 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4237 * Interface localization
4238 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4239 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4240 * New full-featured Preferences window
4243 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4244 --------------------------------
4247 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4248 * support for skins at the interface level
4249 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4250 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4251 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4252 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4253 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4256 * fixed HTTP redirects
4257 * support for opening an entire directory
4258 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4259 * new video4linux access plug-in
4260 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4263 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4264 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4265 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4268 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4269 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4270 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4271 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4272 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4273 * new codec for raw I420 video
4274 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4277 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4278 (although it still misses some important features)
4279 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4282 * new HTTP output support
4283 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4284 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4287 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4290 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4293 * reorderable playlist
4294 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4295 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4296 * support for mono audio output devices
4297 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4298 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4299 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4300 * the messages window remembers more lines
4301 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4302 * http and ogg stream output options
4303 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4306 * new skinnable interface
4307 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4309 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4310 * support for FLAC audio format
4311 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4313 * network tab in the interface
4314 * "apply" handling in preferences
4317 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4318 ---------------------------------
4321 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4322 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4323 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4324 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4326 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4327 * DTS S/PDIF support
4330 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4331 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4332 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4333 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4336 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4337 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4340 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4343 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4346 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4348 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4349 * rc interface is now fully useable
4350 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4353 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4354 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4355 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4356 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4357 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4359 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4360 * support for mouse gestures
4361 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4364 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4365 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4368 * improved ID3 tag detection
4369 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4370 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4371 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4373 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4376 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4377 ---------------------------------
4380 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4381 English was set as the preferred language
4384 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4385 --------------------------------
4388 * new mouse gesture interface
4389 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4393 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4394 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4395 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4398 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4399 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4403 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4406 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4407 without the user consent
4410 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4412 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4413 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4414 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4417 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4418 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4419 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4420 * playlist enhancements
4421 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4422 * new step forward/step backward commands
4423 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4424 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4425 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4428 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4429 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4430 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4433 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4434 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4437 * native video output is working again
4438 * only commandline interface support
4439 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4442 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4443 --------------------------------
4446 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4447 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4448 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4449 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4450 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4451 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4452 and A/52 streams are supported)
4453 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4458 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4459 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4460 * VCD entry points support
4461 * VCD image file support
4464 * support for *.asf format
4465 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4466 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4467 * support for ogg encapsulation
4468 * support for raw DV format
4469 * support for *.wav format
4470 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4473 Stream discovery & playlists:
4474 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4475 * support for .m3u file format
4476 * support for .asx file format
4477 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4480 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4481 (only available with the .avi demux)
4482 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4483 * support for raw PCM data
4484 * support for Cinepak video codec
4485 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4486 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4487 * support for Xvid codec
4488 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4489 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4490 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4492 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4494 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4497 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4500 * new WxWindows interface
4501 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4502 device and the channels configuration
4503 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4504 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4505 format that VLC can play
4506 * new swedish translation
4507 * enhancements of the playlist window
4508 * new messages window to see debug info
4509 * fixed a few crashes
4512 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4513 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4514 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4515 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working