1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
11 * Windows on ARM is now supported
14 * New output clock (internal):
15 - The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
16 - By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
17 resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
18 * New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
19 * New player (vlc_player.h):
20 - Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
21 - One instance is used to play subsequent medias
22 - Allow multiple track selection
23 - Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
24 * New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
25 - Browse local network and service discoveries
26 * New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
27 - Replace the previous one
28 - Flat, new random implementation
29 - Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
30 * Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
33 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
34 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
37 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
38 * Support for DASH WebM
39 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
40 * Support for DAV video files
41 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
42 * Support chapters in mp3 files
43 * Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
46 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
48 * Remove iomx support for Android
50 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
51 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
52 * Support IMM4 decoder
56 * Add NVDEC hardware decoder
59 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
60 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
61 * Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol
62 * Added support for the Gopher Protocol
63 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
64 * Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
65 * Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
66 * Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
69 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
72 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
75 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
76 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
77 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
78 * Fix washed out black on NVIDIA cards with Direct3D9
82 * Remove remote OSD plugin
85 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
86 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
87 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
90 * MP4 files are no longer faststart by default
93 * Support Renderer discovery with avahi
96 * Remove Growl notification support
97 * Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
100 * Improved proxy configuration handling
103 Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:
104 ----------------------------------
107 * Update Twitch & VLSub scripts
110 Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
111 ----------------------------------
114 * Properly bump the version in configure.ac
117 Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
118 ----------------------------------
121 * Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request
124 Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
125 ----------------------------------
128 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
131 * Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
132 * Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
133 * Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
135 * Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
136 * Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
139 * Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
140 * Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
141 * Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
142 * Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
143 * Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
144 * Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
145 * Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
146 * Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
147 * Enabled Live seeking for HLS
148 * Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
149 * Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
150 * Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
151 * Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
154 * Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
155 * packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
156 * Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
158 * Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
161 * avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
162 * spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
164 * Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
165 * Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
166 * Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
167 * Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
168 * Update libfaad to 2.9.1
169 * Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
170 * Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
173 * Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
174 * Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
177 * Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
178 * Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
179 * YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
180 * Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
183 * Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
184 * Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
187 * Fixed some YUV mappings
190 * Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should
191 fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between
192 a wrong size and the correct size.
193 Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a
194 dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole
195 OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option
197 * Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
198 * Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
199 * Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
200 * Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
201 * Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
202 * Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
203 * Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
204 * Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration
208 * Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
211 * Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
212 playback of YouTube URLs.
213 * Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
214 * Improved chromecast audio quality
217 Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:
218 ----------------------------------
221 * Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
224 * Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
225 * Fix glitches in TS over HLS
226 * Add real probing of HLS streams
227 * Fix HLS MIME type fallback
230 * Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
233 * Improve network buffering
236 * Update Youtube script
239 * macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
240 external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
241 * macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices
244 * Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers
247 * Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma
250 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
251 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
252 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
253 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
254 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
255 * Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
256 * Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
257 * Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
258 * Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
259 * Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
260 * Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
261 * Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
262 * Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)
265 * Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)
268 Changes between 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1:
269 ----------------------------------
272 * Update libbluray to 1.1.2
275 * Fix bluray java menu playback regression in 3.0.7
278 * Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers
279 * Improve direct3d11 HDR support
282 Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
283 --------------------------------
286 * Improve Blu-ray support
287 * Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1
290 * Fix pass-through on Android-23
291 * Fix DirectSound drain
294 * Improve MP4 support
297 * Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
299 * Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
300 * Fix HLG display with Direct3D11
303 * Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
306 * Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
307 active network interface now
308 * Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave
311 * Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
312 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled
315 * Update of most translations
318 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
319 * Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
320 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
321 * Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
322 * Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
323 * Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
324 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
325 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
326 * Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
327 * Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
328 * Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
329 * Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
330 * Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
331 * Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
332 * Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
333 * Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
334 * Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
335 * Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
336 * Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
337 * Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
338 * Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
339 * Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
340 * Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
341 * Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer
344 Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
345 --------------------------------
348 * Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures
351 * Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
352 * Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata
355 Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
356 --------------------------------
359 * Improve RTSP playback
360 * BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
361 * Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
364 * Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
365 * Enable libaom decoder by default
366 * Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
369 * MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
370 * Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
371 * Fix CAF integer-underflow
372 * Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
375 * Add an AV1 packetizer
378 * Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
379 enabled on macOS Mojave.
380 All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
381 to continue working with the official VLC package.
382 * Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
383 * Fix convert & save panel stream option
386 * Fix corking when the playback state is paused
387 * Improve corking on Android
390 * Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
391 * More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
392 * Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
393 * Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
394 * Misc Direct3D11 fixes
398 * Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
399 * Update Youtube support
400 * Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
403 Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
404 --------------------------------
407 * Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
409 * Fix playback of low-fps files
410 * Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
411 * Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
412 * Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
413 * Fix crashes with LPCM streams
414 * Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
415 * Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
418 * Improve FLV fps detection
420 * Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
421 * Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
422 * Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
423 * Fixes for MKV seeking
424 * Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
425 * Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
428 * Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
429 * Improve macOS audio performance
430 * Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
431 * Fix crashes on DirectSound output
434 * Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
435 * Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
436 * Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
437 * Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
438 * Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
439 * Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
442 * Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
443 * Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
444 * Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
445 * Fix some RTL rendering
448 * Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
449 * Change the extension registration names on Windows
451 * Fixes on the HTTPD server
452 * Fix on the NTservice registration
453 * Fix --stop-time option
454 * Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
455 * Fix subtitles alignment
456 * Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
457 * Fix detection SAT>IP servers
460 * Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
463 * macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
464 * Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
465 * Modernized and improved support for media keys
466 * Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
467 * Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
468 * Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
471 * Update of most translations
474 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
475 --------------------------------
478 * Update subtitles display while paused
481 * Enable srt support on binary builds
484 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
485 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
486 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
487 * Fix subsdec wide character support
488 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
491 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
492 * Fix forced tracks selection
494 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
495 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
498 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
499 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
500 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
503 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
506 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
507 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
508 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
512 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
513 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
514 * Fix audioscrobbling
515 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
516 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
519 * Update of most languages
522 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
523 --------------------------------
526 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
527 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
530 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
531 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
532 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
533 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
534 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
535 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
536 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
537 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
540 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
541 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
542 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
543 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
544 * Fix TTML inside MP4
545 * Improve MP4 read of color information
546 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
547 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
548 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
549 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
550 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
551 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
552 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
555 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
558 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
559 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
560 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
561 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
562 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
563 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
566 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
567 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
570 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
571 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
572 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
573 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
574 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
575 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
576 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
577 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
578 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
579 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
580 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
581 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
582 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
583 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
584 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
587 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
588 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
589 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
591 * Fix remember playback position
592 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
593 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
594 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
595 * Fix localization issues
598 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
599 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
600 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
601 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
602 * Fix jump size not being configurable
603 * Fix missing time labels updates
604 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
606 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
609 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
610 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
611 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
612 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
613 * Improve support for NetBSD
614 * Fix MSI script for Windows
615 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
616 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
617 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
618 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
619 * Various VLSub improvements
620 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
621 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
624 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
625 --------------------------------
628 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
629 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
632 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
633 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
634 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
635 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
636 * Fix pink screen on Windows
639 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
640 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
643 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
644 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
645 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
646 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
649 * Improve MKV seeking speed
650 * Fix xspf base URL handling
651 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
652 * Fix adaptive http redirections
653 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
654 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
655 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
656 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
657 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
658 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
661 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
664 * Improve chromecast loading speed
665 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
666 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
667 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
668 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
672 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
673 * Auto-layout improvements
674 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
675 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
676 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
677 * Fix MKV files association
678 * Fix chromecast audio detection
681 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
684 * Improve interface look and feel.
687 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
688 --------------------------------
690 Platform support changes:
691 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
692 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
694 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
695 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
696 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
697 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
698 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
700 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
701 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
702 it should work, but not without limitations.
703 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
704 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
705 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
706 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
707 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
708 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
711 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
712 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
713 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
714 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
715 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
716 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
717 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
718 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
719 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
720 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
721 * Support wayland surface type
722 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
723 * Refactor preparsing input
724 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
725 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
726 es category single only or multiple es behavior
727 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
728 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
729 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
732 * New NFS access module using libnfs
733 * New SMB access module using libdsm
734 * Adaptive streaming:
735 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
736 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
737 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
738 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
739 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
740 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
741 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
742 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
743 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
744 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
745 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
746 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
747 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
748 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
749 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
750 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
751 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
752 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
753 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
754 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
755 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
756 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
757 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
758 * Improvements on DVB scanning
759 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
760 * Support for DVD ISO over network
761 * New SRT access module using libsrt
764 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
765 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
766 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
767 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
768 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
769 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
770 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
771 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
772 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
773 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
774 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
775 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
776 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
777 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
778 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
781 * Support for experimental AV1 video
782 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
783 * Support for experimental Daala video
784 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
785 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
786 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
787 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
788 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
789 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
790 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
791 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
792 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
793 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
794 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
795 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
796 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
797 can now decode up to 8 channels
798 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
799 * Support VPX high bit depth support
800 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
801 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
802 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
804 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
805 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
808 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
809 * Support for fragmented MP4
810 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
811 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
812 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
813 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
814 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
815 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
816 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
817 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
818 * Add new metadata fields
819 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
820 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
821 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
822 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
823 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
824 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
825 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
826 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
827 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
828 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
829 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
830 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
832 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
833 * Partial support of PSMF
834 * Fix broken SCR samples
835 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
836 * Improvements on MKV:
837 * Rewrite MKV seeking
838 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
839 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
840 * Improve DVD-menus support
841 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
842 * Support Daala in Ogg
843 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
844 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
845 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
846 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
847 * Support WMV extended content metadata
848 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
849 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
850 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
851 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
852 * Support SBV subtitles
853 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
854 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
855 * Support for isofLaC
856 * Improve fLaC seeking
857 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
858 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
861 * Add an ADF stream filter
862 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
863 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
864 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
865 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
866 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
867 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
870 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
871 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
874 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
875 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
876 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
877 * Add Tizen audio module
878 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
879 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
880 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
881 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
884 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
885 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
886 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
887 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
888 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
889 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
890 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
892 * Add a pitch shifting module
895 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
897 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
898 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
899 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
900 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
901 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
902 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
903 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
904 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
905 * Wayland shell surface window provider
906 * Wayland shared memory video output
907 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
908 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
909 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
910 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
911 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
912 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
913 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
914 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
917 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
918 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
919 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
920 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
921 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
922 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
923 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
926 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
927 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
928 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
929 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
932 * Chromecast output module
933 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
936 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
937 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
940 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
941 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
942 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
946 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
947 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
948 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
949 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
952 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
953 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
954 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
955 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
956 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
957 * Improve and simplify preferences window
958 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
959 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
960 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
961 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
962 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
965 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
968 * Batch convert support
969 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
972 * Support key accelerators
975 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
976 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
977 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
978 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
979 This allows to attach media events between create and start
980 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
981 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
982 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
983 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
984 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
985 identifier (if there is one available)
986 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
987 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
988 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
989 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
990 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
991 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
992 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
993 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
994 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
995 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
996 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
997 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
998 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
999 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
1001 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
1002 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
1003 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
1004 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
1005 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
1008 * Support for the SystemD Journal
1009 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
1010 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
1011 * New Android module for logging
1014 * remove langfromtelx
1015 * remove ZPL playlist format
1016 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
1017 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
1018 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
1019 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
1020 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
1021 * Add a memory keystore
1022 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
1023 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
1027 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
1028 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
1029 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
1030 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
1031 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
1032 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
1033 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
1034 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
1035 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
1036 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
1037 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
1038 * BD access module (use libbluray)
1039 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
1040 * EyeTV access module
1041 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
1042 * VDA decoder: use VT
1043 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
1044 * SDL video output module
1045 * DirectFB video output module
1046 * RAOP stream output module
1049 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
1050 --------------------------------
1053 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
1055 Translations updates
1058 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
1059 --------------------------------
1062 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
1063 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
1064 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
1065 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
1068 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
1069 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
1072 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
1073 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
1074 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
1075 update to the newest version.
1078 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
1082 * Support libupnp 1.8
1084 Translations updates
1087 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
1088 ----------------------------------
1091 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
1092 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
1095 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
1097 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
1098 ----------------------------------
1100 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
1102 Translations updates
1105 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
1106 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
1107 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
1108 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
1109 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
1110 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
1111 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
1114 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
1115 --------------------------------
1118 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
1119 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
1120 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
1121 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
1122 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
1123 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
1124 * Fix SCTE-27 colors
1127 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
1128 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
1129 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
1130 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
1131 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
1132 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
1133 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
1136 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
1137 * Fix screenshots size
1140 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
1141 * Fix FTP scan string injection
1142 * Fix HTTP size handling
1148 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
1152 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
1155 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
1156 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
1157 * Fix uninstaller path handling
1158 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
1161 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
1162 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
1166 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
1167 --------------------------------
1170 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
1171 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
1172 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
1175 * Fix resizing issues
1178 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
1181 * Build fixes for Hurd
1184 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
1185 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
1186 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
1189 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
1194 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
1195 * Fix WMV regression
1198 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
1199 * Fix crashes with libvpx
1200 * Use libass without caching dialog
1203 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
1206 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
1209 * Fix resume where you left off
1210 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
1211 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
1212 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
1215 * Fix crashes in media information panel
1216 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
1219 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
1222 * Update of most translations
1225 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
1226 --------------------------------
1229 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
1230 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
1231 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
1232 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
1233 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
1236 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
1237 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
1238 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
1239 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
1240 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
1241 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
1242 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
1245 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
1246 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
1247 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
1248 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
1249 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
1250 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
1253 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
1254 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
1255 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
1256 be set manually by the user)
1257 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
1258 * Fix alsa default device selection
1261 * Fix video control that fails to show up
1262 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
1263 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
1264 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
1265 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
1268 * Support for OS X El Capitan
1269 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
1270 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
1271 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
1274 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
1275 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
1276 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
1277 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
1278 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
1282 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
1283 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
1284 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
1287 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
1288 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
1289 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
1290 * Improve PNG encoding time
1291 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
1292 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
1293 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
1294 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
1295 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
1296 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
1297 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
1298 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
1299 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
1300 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
1301 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
1302 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
1303 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
1306 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
1307 * Update of most translations
1310 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
1311 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
1312 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
1313 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
1316 * Update of most translations
1319 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
1320 --------------------------------
1323 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
1324 * Fix some VP9 decoding
1326 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
1327 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
1328 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
1329 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
1330 * Fix AAC samplerate
1334 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
1335 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
1336 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
1337 * Revert to older ASX code
1338 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
1341 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
1342 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
1343 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
1346 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
1347 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
1348 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
1351 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
1352 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
1353 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
1356 * Fix recent items behaviour
1357 * Fix rotation filter activation
1358 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
1361 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
1362 * Fix extensions registration during install
1363 * Fix extensions dialog crash
1364 * Default to no DxVA decoding
1367 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
1370 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
1371 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
1372 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
1373 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
1374 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
1375 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
1378 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
1379 --------------------------------
1382 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
1383 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
1386 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
1387 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
1388 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
1389 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
1392 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
1393 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
1394 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
1395 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
1397 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
1398 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
1399 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
1402 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1403 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1404 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
1405 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
1406 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
1407 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
1408 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
1409 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
1410 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
1411 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
1412 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
1413 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
1414 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
1415 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
1416 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
1417 * New jpeg image decoder
1418 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
1419 * New SVG image decoder
1420 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
1421 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1422 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1425 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1426 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1427 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1428 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1429 * New png image encoder using libpng
1432 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1433 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1434 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1435 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1436 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1437 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1438 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1439 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1440 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1441 * Support Opus in MKV
1442 * Support VP8 in OGG
1443 * Basic support for WebVTT
1444 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1445 * Support HDPR TS files
1446 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1447 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1448 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1449 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1450 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1451 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1452 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1453 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1454 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1455 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1456 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1457 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1460 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1461 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1462 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1463 * New Android native window provider module
1464 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1465 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1466 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1469 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1470 * New VHS effect filter
1471 * New Freeze effect filter
1472 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1473 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1474 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1477 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1478 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1479 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1480 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1481 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1482 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1485 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1486 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1487 * Support VP8 in OGG
1488 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1491 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1492 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1493 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1494 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1495 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1496 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1497 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1498 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1499 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1501 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1502 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1503 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1506 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1507 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1510 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1511 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1514 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1515 * Add record button in Qt menus
1516 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1517 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1518 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1521 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1522 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1523 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1524 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1525 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1526 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1527 * Option to increase playlist font size
1528 * Improved crash log reporting
1531 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1532 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1533 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1534 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1537 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1540 * iOS video output: use ios2
1541 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1542 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1545 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1546 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1547 * Update of all translations:
1548 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1549 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1550 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1551 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1552 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1553 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1554 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1557 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1558 --------------------------------
1561 * Fix OSS stuttering
1564 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1565 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1566 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1567 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1568 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1569 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1570 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1571 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1572 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1575 * Update translations and greek encoding
1578 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1579 --------------------------------
1582 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1585 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1587 Mac OS X audio output:
1588 * Fix channel ordering
1589 * Increase the buffersize
1592 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1593 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1594 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1597 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1600 * Correctly support video-on-top
1601 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1602 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1605 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1608 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1609 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1612 * Update British English
1615 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1616 --------------------------------
1619 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1622 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1625 * Fix DVD playback regression
1626 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1627 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1630 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1631 --------------------------------
1634 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1635 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1638 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1639 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1640 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1643 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1644 by updating codec libraries
1645 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1646 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1647 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1650 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1651 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1652 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1653 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1656 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1657 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1660 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1661 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1662 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1663 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1664 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1667 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1668 * Fix record file names
1671 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1672 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1673 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1674 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1675 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1678 * Fix album art display on Windows
1681 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1682 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1683 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1684 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1685 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1686 and Simplified Chinese translations
1687 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1690 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1691 --------------------------------
1694 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1695 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1696 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1697 audio devices on OS X
1698 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1699 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1702 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1703 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1706 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1707 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1710 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1713 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1714 * Improve A-B loop control
1715 * Fix album art update when changing media
1718 * Add a language option in the interface
1719 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1720 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1721 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1722 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1723 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1724 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1725 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1728 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1731 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1732 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1733 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1734 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1737 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1738 --------------------------------
1741 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1743 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1746 * VP9 support in WebM
1747 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1748 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1751 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1752 * Support Speex in ogg files
1753 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1754 * Support Alac in mkv
1755 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1756 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1759 * Fix DVB options parsing
1760 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1761 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1764 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1765 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1768 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1769 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1772 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1773 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1774 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1775 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1776 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1779 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1780 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1783 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1784 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1787 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1788 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1789 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1790 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1791 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1792 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1793 * Improves interface resizings
1796 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1797 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1798 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1799 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1800 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1804 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1805 --------------------------------
1808 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1809 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1810 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1811 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1812 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1814 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1815 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1818 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1819 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1820 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1821 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1822 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1825 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1826 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1827 * Remove SQL support
1830 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1831 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1832 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1833 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1834 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1835 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1836 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1837 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1838 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1839 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1840 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1841 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1842 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1845 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1846 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1847 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1850 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1851 remove support for previous OS X releases
1852 * Major improvements in DASH support
1853 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1854 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1855 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1856 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1857 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1858 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1859 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1860 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1861 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1862 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1863 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1866 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1867 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1868 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1869 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1870 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1871 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1872 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1873 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1874 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1875 * Add support for liveleak streams
1876 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1877 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1878 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1881 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1882 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1883 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1884 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1885 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1886 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1887 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1888 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1889 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1890 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1891 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1894 * New remapping channel filter
1895 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1896 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1897 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1898 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1899 * New gain audio filter
1902 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1903 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1904 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1905 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1906 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1907 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1908 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1909 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1910 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1913 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1914 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1915 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1916 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1917 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1918 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1919 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1922 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1923 * Options support for AVIO output module
1924 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1925 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1926 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1927 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1928 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1931 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1934 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1935 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1936 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1937 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1938 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1939 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1940 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1941 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1944 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1945 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1948 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1949 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1951 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1952 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1953 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1954 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1955 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1956 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1957 VLC's internal volume level
1958 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1960 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1961 selection and to manage the list of presets
1962 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1963 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1964 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1965 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1966 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1967 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1968 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1969 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1970 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1971 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1973 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1974 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1975 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1976 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1977 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1978 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1979 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1980 3rd party applications
1981 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1982 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1983 (system-wide settings)
1984 * Add support for the Video Title option
1985 * Add support for the Boss Key
1986 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1987 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1990 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1991 * Menus modifications and improvements
1992 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1993 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1994 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1995 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1996 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1997 * Add SD pixmap sources
1998 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1999 * Display playlist total duration
2000 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
2001 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
2002 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
2007 * Extend sliders, offsets options
2008 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
2009 * Numerous fixes and improvements
2010 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
2013 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
2014 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
2015 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
2016 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
2017 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
2018 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
2019 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
2020 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
2021 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
2022 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
2025 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
2026 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
2027 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
2028 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
2029 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
2030 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
2032 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
2033 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
2034 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
2035 * Broken crop video filter
2037 * OSD parser and menu
2038 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
2039 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
2040 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
2041 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
2045 * Update of all translations
2048 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
2049 --------------------------------
2052 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
2053 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
2056 * Fix modplug security issues
2059 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
2060 --------------------------------
2064 * Fix crash in QTsound
2065 * Fix screen mouse file location
2066 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
2069 * Fix use after free in sgimb
2070 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
2073 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
2076 * Fix interface crashes
2077 * Fix autostart playback option
2078 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
2081 * update Welsh translation
2082 * New Kannada translation
2085 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
2086 --------------------------------
2089 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
2090 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
2094 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
2097 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
2100 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
2103 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
2106 * Minor improvements
2107 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
2110 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
2113 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
2114 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
2115 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
2118 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
2119 --------------------------------
2122 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
2125 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
2128 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
2129 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
2130 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
2131 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
2132 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
2133 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
2136 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
2137 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
2138 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
2139 * 3rd party codecs updates
2142 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
2143 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
2144 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
2145 in the advanced preferences panel
2146 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
2147 * Fix crash within the video output code
2148 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
2149 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
2150 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
2151 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
2152 lua extensions, ...)
2153 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
2156 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
2159 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
2160 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
2163 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
2166 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
2167 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
2168 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
2169 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
2170 Dutch, Danish, translations
2171 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
2174 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
2175 --------------------------------
2178 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
2181 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
2182 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
2183 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
2186 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
2187 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
2188 * Fix koreus lua parser
2189 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
2190 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
2191 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
2192 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
2195 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
2196 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
2199 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
2202 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
2203 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
2204 * Fix Time counter UI look
2205 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
2208 * Fix https streaming
2211 * Fix audio and video track selection:
2212 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
2213 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
2216 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
2217 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
2218 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
2219 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
2220 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
2223 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
2224 --------------------------------
2227 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
2228 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
2229 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
2230 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
2231 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
2232 during playback on Mac OS X
2235 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
2236 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
2237 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
2240 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
2241 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
2242 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
2243 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
2244 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
2247 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
2248 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
2249 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
2250 * Support Youtube live streams
2253 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
2256 * Fix media info dialog update
2257 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
2258 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
2259 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
2260 * Fix album art display at start
2263 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
2264 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
2265 * Fix menus display and behavior
2266 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
2267 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
2268 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
2269 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
2270 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
2271 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
2272 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
2275 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
2276 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
2277 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
2278 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
2279 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
2280 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
2281 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
2282 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
2283 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
2286 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
2287 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
2288 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
2289 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
2290 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
2293 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
2294 --------------------------------
2297 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
2300 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
2301 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
2304 * Add GateKeeper support
2305 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
2306 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
2307 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
2310 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
2313 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
2314 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
2315 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
2316 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
2317 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
2320 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
2321 --------------------------------
2324 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
2325 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
2326 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
2327 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
2328 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
2329 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
2330 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
2331 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
2332 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
2333 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
2334 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
2338 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
2339 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
2340 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
2341 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
2342 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
2343 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
2344 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
2345 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
2346 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
2347 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
2348 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
2349 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
2352 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
2353 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
2355 * Fix MP3 free format support
2358 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
2359 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
2360 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
2361 * Fix for DVB channels file support
2362 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
2365 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
2366 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
2368 Audio filters and output:
2369 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
2370 * Fix DirectSound device selection
2371 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
2372 * Do not apply volume in file output
2373 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
2374 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
2377 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
2378 the persistant media library
2379 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
2380 to the media library or the temporary playlist
2381 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
2382 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
2383 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
2384 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
2385 press on the Play/Pause button
2386 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
2387 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
2388 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
2389 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
2390 * Many Fullscreen fixes
2391 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
2392 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
2393 Synchronization panel
2394 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
2395 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
2396 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
2397 * Fix crashes on exit
2398 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
2400 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
2401 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
2402 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
2403 automatically reset on the first launch.
2404 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
2405 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
2406 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
2409 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
2410 * Fixes for icecast SD
2413 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
2414 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
2415 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
2416 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
2417 * Fix tags and file names display
2418 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
2421 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2422 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2425 * Fix display of some buttons
2426 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2427 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2430 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2431 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2432 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2435 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2436 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2437 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2438 Thai translations update
2439 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2442 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2443 --------------------------------
2446 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2447 * fix the samba module compilation
2448 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2449 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2450 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2451 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2454 * Support for MXPEG files
2455 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2456 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2459 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2460 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2461 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2464 * Fix ogm header creation
2467 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2468 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2471 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2472 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2473 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2474 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2477 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2480 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2481 * allow to hide the sidebar
2482 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2483 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2484 * noticebly faster launch time
2485 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2486 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2487 * improve track synchronization panel
2488 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2489 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2492 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2493 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2494 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2495 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2498 * fix for menus display
2499 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2500 * documentation update
2503 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2504 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2507 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2508 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2509 * Update Jamendo selections
2513 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2514 * fix a crash on VLM close
2517 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2518 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2519 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2520 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2523 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2526 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2527 ---------------------------------
2530 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2531 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2532 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2533 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2534 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2535 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2536 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2537 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2538 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2539 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2540 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2541 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2542 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2543 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2544 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2545 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2546 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2547 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2548 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2549 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2550 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2551 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2552 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2553 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2554 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2555 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2557 Important changes for packagers:
2558 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2559 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2560 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2561 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2562 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2563 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2564 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2565 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2566 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2567 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2570 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2571 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2572 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2573 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2574 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2575 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2576 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2579 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2580 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2581 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2582 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2583 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2584 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2585 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2586 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2587 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2588 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2589 * PulseAudio audio input support
2590 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2591 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2592 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2593 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2594 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2595 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2596 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2597 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2600 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2601 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2602 are notably concerned.
2603 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2604 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2605 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2606 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2607 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2608 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2609 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2610 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2611 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2612 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2613 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2614 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2615 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2616 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2617 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2620 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2621 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2622 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2623 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2624 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2625 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2626 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2627 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2628 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2629 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2630 * Improved support of tracker files
2631 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2634 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2635 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2636 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2637 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2638 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2639 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2640 and important cleanups and optimisations
2641 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2642 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2643 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2644 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2645 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2646 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2647 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2648 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2649 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2650 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2651 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2652 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2653 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2654 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2655 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2656 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2657 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2658 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2659 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2660 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2661 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2664 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2665 * New video output for iOS platform
2666 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2667 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2668 * Various vmem improvements
2669 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2670 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2671 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2672 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2673 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2674 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2676 Audio Output and Filters:
2677 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2678 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2679 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2680 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2681 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2682 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2683 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2684 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2685 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2686 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2689 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2690 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2691 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2692 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2693 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2694 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2695 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2696 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2697 * New anti-flickering filter
2698 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2699 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2700 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2701 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2702 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2703 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2704 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2707 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2708 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2709 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2710 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2711 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2712 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2713 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2714 * Major rework of VoD support
2715 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2716 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2717 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2718 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2719 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2720 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2721 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2722 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2723 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2724 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2727 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2728 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2731 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2732 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2733 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2734 list of available audio and video filters
2735 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2736 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2737 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2740 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2741 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2742 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2743 * id3tag: use taglib
2744 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2745 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2746 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2747 * removal of the noise filter
2748 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2749 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2750 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2751 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2754 * Update of translations for most languages.
2755 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2758 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2759 ----------------------------------
2762 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2763 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2766 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2767 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2770 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2771 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2772 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2775 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2778 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2779 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2782 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2785 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2786 ----------------------------------
2789 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2790 including support for OS X Lion
2791 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2792 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2795 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2798 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2799 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2800 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2803 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2806 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2807 ----------------------------------
2810 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2811 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2814 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2815 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2816 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2817 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2818 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2820 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2821 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2822 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2824 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2825 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2828 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2831 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2834 * Fix quitting on Linux
2835 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2839 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2842 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2845 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2846 ---------------------------------
2848 Windows and Mac OS X:
2849 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2852 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2853 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2856 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2859 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2862 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2864 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2865 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2867 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2868 * RTP output and XML export
2869 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2873 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2874 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2875 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2876 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2879 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2880 --------------------------------
2882 Windows and Mac OS X:
2883 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2886 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2889 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2890 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2891 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2892 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2893 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2894 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2897 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2898 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2902 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2903 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2904 * New Luganda Translation
2907 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2908 --------------------------------
2911 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2914 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2915 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2916 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2917 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2920 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2922 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2923 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2924 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2925 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2926 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2927 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2928 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2929 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2931 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2932 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2933 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2934 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2935 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2936 * Configure and build system improvements
2937 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2940 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2941 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2942 * New icelandic translation
2945 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2946 --------------------------------
2949 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2950 #234484 and #260719.
2953 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2954 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2955 and stability reasons
2958 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2962 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2965 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2966 ----------------------------------
2969 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2972 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2973 ---------------------------------
2976 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2977 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2978 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2979 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2982 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2985 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2986 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2987 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2988 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2991 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2992 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2993 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2995 Subtitles and renderer:
2996 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2997 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2998 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2999 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
3000 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
3003 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
3004 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
3005 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
3006 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
3009 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
3010 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
3012 Miscellaneous fixes:
3013 * KDE device solid actions
3015 * Transcode integer overflow
3016 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
3017 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
3020 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
3021 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
3022 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
3025 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
3026 ----------------------------------
3029 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
3033 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
3036 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
3039 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
3040 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
3041 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
3042 * Taglib thread-safety fix
3045 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
3049 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
3052 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
3055 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
3056 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
3058 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
3062 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
3063 * Miscellaneous fixes
3066 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
3067 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
3068 French and Ukrainian
3069 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
3070 * New Asturian translation
3073 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
3074 ----------------------------------
3077 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
3079 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
3082 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
3085 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
3086 * Various fixes for Windows
3089 * New Armenian translation
3090 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
3091 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
3094 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
3095 --------------------------------
3098 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
3099 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
3100 * Fix folders opening from the interface
3103 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
3104 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
3107 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
3108 --------------------------------
3110 Access and demuxers:
3111 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
3112 * fix for podcasts parsing
3113 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
3116 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
3117 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
3120 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
3121 * fix m3u playlists exports
3124 * fix video autoresize behaviour
3127 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
3130 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
3133 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
3136 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
3139 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
3140 --------------------------------
3143 * Avformat fps displaying fix
3144 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
3147 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
3148 of mono streams, especially on Windows
3151 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
3152 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
3153 * fix console output encoding
3155 Interface and extensions:
3156 * Youtube and other scripts updates
3157 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
3160 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
3161 --------------------------------
3164 * New capabilities for libVLC:
3165 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
3166 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
3167 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
3168 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
3169 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
3170 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
3171 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
3172 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
3173 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
3174 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
3175 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
3176 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
3177 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
3178 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
3179 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
3183 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
3184 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
3185 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
3186 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
3187 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
3190 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
3193 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
3194 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
3195 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
3199 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
3202 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
3203 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
3204 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
3207 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
3208 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
3209 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
3210 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
3213 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
3214 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
3217 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
3218 --------------------------------
3220 Important changes for users:
3221 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
3222 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
3224 Important changes for packagers:
3225 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
3226 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
3227 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
3228 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
3229 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
3231 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
3233 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
3234 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
3235 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
3236 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
3237 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
3240 * Support for the sftp protocol
3241 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
3242 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
3243 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
3244 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
3245 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
3248 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
3249 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
3250 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
3252 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
3253 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
3254 * Invmem module improvements
3255 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
3256 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
3257 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
3258 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
3259 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
3260 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
3261 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
3262 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
3263 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
3264 * Support for VP8 codec
3265 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
3268 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
3269 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
3270 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
3271 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
3272 * Various EGP improvements
3273 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
3274 * Metadata and cover art improvements
3277 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
3278 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
3279 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
3280 * Podcast images are now displayed
3283 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
3284 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
3285 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
3286 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
3287 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
3288 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
3289 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
3290 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
3291 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
3292 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
3293 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
3296 * New content extensions lua framework
3299 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3300 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
3301 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
3302 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
3303 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
3304 * NEON assembly audio converter module
3305 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
3308 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
3309 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
3310 * Service discovery based on libudev
3311 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
3314 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
3315 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
3316 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
3317 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
3318 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
3319 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
3320 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
3323 * New smem module, streaming to memory
3324 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
3325 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
3328 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
3330 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
3331 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
3334 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
3337 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
3338 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
3339 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
3340 by Andy Matuschak et al.
3341 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
3342 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
3343 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
3346 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
3347 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
3350 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
3351 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
3352 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
3356 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
3357 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
3358 * Improved Solaris port
3361 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
3362 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
3365 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
3366 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
3367 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
3368 * transrate: broken since too long
3369 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
3370 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
3371 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
3372 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
3373 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
3374 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
3375 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
3376 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
3377 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
3378 * cddax: use cdda instead.
3379 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
3380 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
3381 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
3382 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
3385 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
3386 --------------------------------
3389 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
3391 Decoders/Packetizers:
3392 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
3395 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
3396 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
3397 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
3398 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
3399 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
3402 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
3403 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
3406 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
3407 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
3410 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
3411 and Walloon translations updated
3412 * Sinhala translation started
3415 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
3416 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
3419 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
3420 --------------------------------
3423 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3424 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3427 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3430 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3431 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3434 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3435 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3436 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3437 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3440 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3441 --------------------------------
3444 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3445 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3448 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3449 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3452 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3453 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3456 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3459 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3460 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3463 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3464 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3467 * New Walloon translation
3468 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3471 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3472 --------------------------------
3475 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3476 regressions in most popular drivers
3477 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3480 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3481 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3482 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3485 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3486 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3489 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3490 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3491 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3492 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3493 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3496 * New udev module for linux
3499 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3502 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3505 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3506 --------------------------------
3509 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3510 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3511 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3514 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3515 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3518 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3519 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3522 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3525 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3526 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3527 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3528 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3531 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3532 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3533 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3534 - no support for Goom and SDL
3535 - limited text rendering support
3536 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3539 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3540 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3541 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3542 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3543 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3544 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3545 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3546 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3547 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3551 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3554 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3557 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3558 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3559 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3560 Arabic and French translation updates
3563 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3564 --------------------------------
3567 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3568 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3569 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3570 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3571 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3572 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3575 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3576 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3577 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3580 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3581 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3582 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3585 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3588 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3589 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3592 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3593 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3594 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3595 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3596 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3597 * Fix various crashes
3600 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3602 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3606 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3607 ---------------------------------
3611 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3612 See 'Access:' for more info.
3613 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3616 * Instantaneous pausing
3617 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3618 * Finer speed control
3619 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3620 * Timeshift for most medias
3621 * RTSP trickplay support
3622 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3625 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3626 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3627 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3628 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3629 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3630 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3631 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3632 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3633 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3634 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3637 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3638 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3639 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3640 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3641 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3642 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3643 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3646 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3647 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3650 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3651 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3652 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3653 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3654 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3655 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3656 * DVB scanning on linux
3657 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3658 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3659 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3660 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3661 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3662 * MTP device access on Unix
3663 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3664 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3667 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3668 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3669 Windows and Mac OS X.
3672 * Export the playlist in HTML
3673 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3674 * Better metadata handling and reading
3676 Linux/Windows interface:
3677 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3678 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3679 * Recently played items list
3680 * Interface toolbar customizations
3681 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3682 - More menus actions
3683 - Finer speed slider
3684 - Improvements on many dialogs
3685 - New dialog for plugins listing
3686 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3687 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3688 * Better integration in GTK environments
3691 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3692 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3693 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3694 * Additional usability improvements
3697 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3698 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3699 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3700 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3701 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3704 * New Maemo port with:
3705 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3706 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3709 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3712 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3713 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3714 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3715 * Support for latest iSight models
3718 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3719 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3722 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3723 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3724 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3725 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3726 The old image video output has been removed.
3727 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3728 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3731 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3739 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3740 --------------------------------------
3746 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3747 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3748 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3749 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3750 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3751 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3752 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3754 Various fixes to the following modules:
3757 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3758 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3759 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3761 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3766 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3767 ---------------------------------
3770 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3771 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3774 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3775 ---------------------------------
3778 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3781 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3784 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3785 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3786 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3787 main controller window.
3788 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3791 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3796 * Updates of other localizations
3799 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3800 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3801 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3802 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3803 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3806 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3807 ---------------------------------
3810 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3812 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3815 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3816 --------------------------------
3821 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3822 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3825 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3826 --------------------------------
3828 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3829 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3832 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3835 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3836 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3839 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3840 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3843 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3844 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3845 * Various fixed in playlist
3848 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3851 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3854 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3855 ------------------------------------
3857 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3858 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3861 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3862 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3863 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3866 * Stability fix for the video output.
3869 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3870 --------------------------------
3873 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3874 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3875 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3876 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3877 * Fixed update system bugs
3878 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3881 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3882 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3883 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3884 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3885 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3886 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3887 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3888 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3889 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3890 modern Mac OS X versions
3893 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3894 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3896 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3897 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3900 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3901 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3902 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3903 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3904 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3905 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3908 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3909 --------------------------------
3911 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3912 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3913 * Multiple bugfixes.
3916 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3917 --------------------------------
3919 * Multiple bug fixes.
3922 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3923 ---------------------------------
3927 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3928 recent to work correctly
3929 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3930 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3931 edit the ".hosts" file.
3932 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3933 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3934 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3935 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3936 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3937 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3938 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3939 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3940 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3941 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3942 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3943 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3944 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3945 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3946 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3947 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3948 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3949 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3950 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3951 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3952 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3953 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3954 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3955 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3956 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3957 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3958 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3959 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3960 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3961 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3962 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3963 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3964 and postproc modules.
3965 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3966 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3967 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3968 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3970 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3971 filter. For example:
3972 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3973 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3975 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3976 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3982 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3984 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3985 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3988 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3989 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3991 * Shoutcast TV listings
3992 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3994 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3995 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3997 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
4000 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
4001 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
4002 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
4003 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
4004 * JACK audio input support
4005 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
4006 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
4007 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
4008 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
4009 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
4010 * Experimental EyeTV access module
4011 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
4012 (available as a separate download).
4013 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
4014 * RTMP input support
4015 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
4016 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
4017 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
4019 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
4020 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
4023 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
4024 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
4025 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
4026 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
4028 * APEv1/2 tags support
4029 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
4030 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
4032 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
4033 * TiVo Series 2 support
4034 * CD+G karaoke Files support
4039 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
4040 * Flash Screen Video support
4041 * CamStudio Screen Video support
4042 * DosBox Capture support
4043 * Karl Morton's Video support
4044 * limited atrac3 support
4046 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
4047 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
4048 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
4049 * H.264 PAFF support
4050 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
4051 * NellyMoser ASAO support
4052 * APE (Monkey audio) support
4053 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
4054 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
4057 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
4058 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
4059 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
4060 * AQTitle subtitles support
4061 * MKV USF subtitles support
4062 * HTML-based subtitles support
4063 * MPSub subtitles support
4064 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
4065 * MPL2 subtitles support
4066 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
4067 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
4068 * Realtext subtitle support
4069 * DKS subtitle support
4070 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
4071 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
4074 * Flash Screen Video support
4075 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
4077 Video outputs and filters:
4078 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
4079 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
4080 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
4081 * New puzzle video output filter
4082 * Re-written motion detection video filter
4083 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
4085 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
4086 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
4087 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
4088 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
4089 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
4090 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
4091 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
4092 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
4093 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
4094 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
4095 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
4096 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
4097 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
4098 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
4100 Audio outputs and filters:
4101 * Replay gain support
4102 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
4103 new scaletempo audio filter)
4104 * New spatializer audio filter
4105 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
4108 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
4109 * New RTP payload formats:
4110 * Speex voice audio codec
4111 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
4112 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
4113 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
4114 * DCCP transport for RTP
4115 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
4120 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
4121 end-user suitable way.
4122 * Improved user interaction
4123 * Improved mouse gestures
4124 * Vastly improved Update checker
4125 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
4127 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
4128 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
4130 * Improved video output features
4131 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
4132 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
4133 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
4134 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
4135 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
4137 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
4138 if libncursesw is available.
4139 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
4140 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
4141 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
4143 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
4144 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
4145 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
4146 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
4147 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
4148 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
4149 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
4150 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
4153 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
4154 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
4155 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
4158 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
4159 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
4160 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
4161 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4162 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
4163 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
4166 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
4167 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
4177 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
4178 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
4179 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
4182 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
4183 ----------------------------------
4186 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
4189 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
4190 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
4191 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
4192 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
4193 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
4194 * Updated Polish translation
4197 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
4198 ----------------------------------
4201 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
4202 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
4203 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
4206 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
4207 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
4208 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
4209 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
4210 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
4211 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
4212 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
4213 to an unexpected application termination
4214 * New Serbian translation
4215 * Updated Romanian translation
4218 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
4219 ----------------------------------
4222 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
4223 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
4224 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
4225 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
4226 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
4227 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
4228 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
4229 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
4232 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
4233 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
4234 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
4235 * Fixed AAC resampling
4236 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
4237 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
4240 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
4241 ----------------------------------
4244 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
4245 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
4246 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
4247 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
4248 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
4251 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
4252 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
4253 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
4254 * Close MMS access on network timeout
4255 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
4258 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
4259 ----------------------------------
4262 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
4263 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
4266 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
4267 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
4268 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
4269 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
4271 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
4275 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
4278 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
4281 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
4284 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
4287 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
4288 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
4289 encoding on multi-cpu systems
4290 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
4291 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
4293 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4294 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
4295 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
4296 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
4299 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
4302 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
4303 ----------------------------------
4306 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
4307 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
4308 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
4310 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
4311 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
4313 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
4314 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
4317 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
4319 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4320 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
4321 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4322 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
4323 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
4324 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
4325 two different movies
4326 * Support for current Ogg file formats
4327 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
4328 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
4331 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
4334 * The automatic updating facility was removed
4335 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
4336 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
4337 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
4340 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
4341 ----------------------------------
4343 Various bugfixes, notably:
4344 * Windows Vista compatibility
4345 * Cropping in Direct3D
4346 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
4347 * RSS filter string overflow
4349 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
4351 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
4352 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
4355 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
4356 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
4359 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
4362 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
4365 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
4368 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
4369 ----------------------------------
4371 Various bugfixes, notably:
4372 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
4373 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
4374 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
4375 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
4376 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
4377 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
4380 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
4381 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
4384 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
4386 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4387 * Diverse usability improvements
4388 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
4389 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
4390 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
4393 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
4394 ---------------------------------
4396 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
4397 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
4400 * Fullscreen controller improvements
4403 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
4404 --------------------------------
4407 * Shoutcast TV listings support
4410 * Support for RTSP authentication
4411 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
4412 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
4413 * ATSC support for DVB input
4414 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
4415 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
4416 * Improved support for Flash Video files
4419 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
4420 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
4421 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4422 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4423 * Matroska WavPack support
4424 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4425 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4426 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4429 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4430 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4431 * Improved libcaca support
4435 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4436 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4438 * Systray support in skins
4440 * Support for Apple Remote control
4441 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4442 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4443 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4444 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4446 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4449 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4450 Windows 9x/ME users:
4451 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4452 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4453 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4454 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4455 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4457 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4458 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4467 * Updates to the libvlc API
4468 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4471 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4472 --------------------------------
4475 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4476 * Support for downloading updates
4480 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4481 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4482 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4483 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4485 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4486 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4487 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4490 * Cook (Real audio) support
4492 Playlist / Services discovery:
4493 * XSPF playlist support
4495 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4498 * New JACK audio output
4501 * New video filters:
4502 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4503 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4504 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4505 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4506 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4507 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4510 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4513 * System to inform the user and request information
4514 - HTTP authentication
4518 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4519 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4520 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4523 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4524 - Improved playlist handling
4525 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4527 - Embedded Video output
4528 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4529 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4530 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4531 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4532 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4534 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4535 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4538 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4541 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4542 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4543 * Growl "Now playing" support
4546 * Ability to log to syslog
4547 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4550 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4552 * A bit more automatic testing
4555 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4556 ---------------------------------
4559 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4560 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4563 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4564 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4567 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4570 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4571 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4577 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4580 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4581 --------------------------------
4584 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4588 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4589 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4590 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4593 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4594 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4595 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4596 * GnomeVFS input module
4597 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4598 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4601 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4602 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4603 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4606 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4607 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4613 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4614 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4617 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4618 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4619 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4622 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4624 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4625 - New extended controls panel
4626 - New bookmarks window
4627 - Fixed playlist sorting
4628 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4630 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4631 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4632 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4633 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4637 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4638 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4640 - Include macro to include other files
4644 * Should now work outside IE as well
4647 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4650 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4651 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4654 The following languages were added:
4658 * Simplified Chinese
4659 The following languages were re-added:
4663 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4664 --------------------------------
4667 * Rewrite of the playlist
4669 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4670 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4671 * Preferences improvements:
4672 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4673 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4675 * Core image manipulation support
4676 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4677 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4678 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4679 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4680 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4681 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4682 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4683 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4684 * Access filter architecture
4685 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4686 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4690 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4691 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4692 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4693 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4694 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4695 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4696 * Massive Matroska improvements
4697 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4699 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4700 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4701 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4702 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4703 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4705 Decoders / Encoders:
4706 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4707 * PNG decoder/encoder
4708 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4709 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4712 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4715 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4716 * Brand new SAP module
4717 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4718 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4719 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4720 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4721 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4722 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4726 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4729 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4730 * Image file video output (png)
4731 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4732 * Improvements to wall video filter
4733 * Support for font color and opacity
4739 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4740 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4741 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4745 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4746 - Improved preferences
4747 - Improvements to the wizard
4748 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4750 - Redesigned playlist
4751 - Improved preferences
4753 - Support for multiple actions
4756 - Support for the new playlist system
4758 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4761 * Screensaver disabling fix
4762 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4763 * Support for no-decoration windows
4766 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4767 * The OpenGL video output is back
4768 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4769 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4770 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4771 is not yet available in the new module
4772 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4775 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4784 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4787 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4790 The following languages were added:
4796 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4797 --------------------------------
4800 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4801 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4804 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4805 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4806 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4809 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4812 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4815 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4818 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4819 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4820 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4824 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4826 * Support of playlist group announcement
4829 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4830 --------------------------------
4833 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4834 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4835 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4836 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4837 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4838 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4841 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4842 (Stream your desktop)
4843 * Improved DVD support:
4844 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4845 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4846 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4847 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4848 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4849 (selection of titles/chapters).
4852 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4853 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4854 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4855 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4856 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4857 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4858 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4859 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4860 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4861 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4864 * G.726 audio support
4865 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4866 * MPEG-4 text support
4867 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4868 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4869 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4873 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4874 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4875 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4876 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4877 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4878 * DVB subtitles encoder
4879 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4880 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4882 * Text track muxing for mp4
4883 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4884 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4885 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4886 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4887 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4888 * Improved ASF muxer
4890 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4891 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4892 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4895 * New audio equalizer filter
4896 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4897 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4898 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4899 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4902 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4903 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4904 with support for effects.
4905 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4906 - New filters can be streamed.
4907 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4908 - Centralized scaling and blending
4910 - "time", to display current time
4911 - "marq", to display a marquee
4914 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4915 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4916 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4917 * A few skins2 improvements
4918 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4919 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4920 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4921 * Improved CORBA control module
4924 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4925 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4926 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4929 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4930 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4931 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4934 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4935 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4936 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4937 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4938 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4941 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4944 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4945 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4948 * Server/client network synchronization module
4949 * VBrick streams fully supported
4950 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4954 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4955 --------------------------------
4958 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4959 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4960 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4961 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4964 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4965 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4966 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4967 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4968 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4969 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4970 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4973 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4974 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4975 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4976 * Improved directory access module.
4977 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4978 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4979 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4980 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4981 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4984 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4985 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4986 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4989 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4990 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4991 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4994 * Improved session announcement system.
4995 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4996 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4997 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4998 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4999 * Improved transrater.
5000 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
5001 * New configuration system.
5002 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
5005 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
5006 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
5007 * Supports live streams and VoD.
5008 * Supports scheduling.
5009 * Telnet interface for vlm.
5010 * HTTP interface for vlm.
5013 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
5014 - Ability to embed video output.
5015 - Support for bitmap fonts.
5016 - Lots of improvements.
5017 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
5018 - New design and set of icons.
5019 - Ability to embed video output.
5020 - Support for hotkeys.
5021 - Support for bookmarks.
5023 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
5024 - Better hotkeys handling.
5027 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
5028 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
5029 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
5030 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
5033 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
5034 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
5035 * Improved Windows installer.
5041 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
5042 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
5045 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
5046 ---------------------------------
5049 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
5050 * Playing MOD files is working now.
5053 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
5054 --------------------------------
5057 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
5058 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
5061 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
5062 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
5063 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
5064 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
5067 * Internal improvments
5068 * Improved import/export
5071 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
5073 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
5074 small and strange formats.
5076 * New MOD audio demux.
5077 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
5078 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
5079 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
5080 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
5083 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
5084 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
5085 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
5091 * New opengl video output plugin.
5094 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
5095 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
5098 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
5099 --------------------------------
5102 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
5103 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
5104 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
5105 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
5106 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
5107 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
5108 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
5109 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
5112 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
5117 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
5118 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
5119 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
5120 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
5121 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
5122 * Reworked DVB tuning.
5123 * Better Icecast support.
5124 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
5125 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
5128 * Support for Theora video encoding.
5129 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
5130 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
5131 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
5132 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
5133 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
5134 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
5137 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
5138 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
5139 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
5140 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
5141 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
5142 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
5143 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
5144 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
5145 * Preliminary RTP support.
5146 * Fixes to SAP announces.
5151 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
5152 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
5154 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
5155 - Improvements and help in preferences
5156 - New streaming wizard
5157 - Revised Disc Open menu
5159 - Improvements of the standard pages
5160 - Support for new commands
5161 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
5164 * Many fixes to the SAP module
5165 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
5168 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
5169 * Text subtitles autodetection.
5170 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
5171 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
5172 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
5173 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
5174 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
5175 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
5176 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
5179 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
5181 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
5182 * Support for Panther.
5183 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
5184 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
5187 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
5188 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
5189 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
5190 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
5191 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
5192 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
5193 * Multimonitor support (untested).
5194 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
5197 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
5198 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
5199 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
5202 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
5205 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
5206 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
5207 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
5208 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
5211 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
5212 --------------------------------
5215 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
5218 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
5219 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
5222 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
5223 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
5226 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
5229 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5230 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5233 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5236 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5239 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5240 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5244 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5245 --------------------------------
5248 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5249 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5253 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5254 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5255 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5257 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5258 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5261 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5264 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5267 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5268 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5272 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5273 --------------------------------
5276 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5277 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5281 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5282 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5283 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5284 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
5285 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
5288 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
5289 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
5290 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
5293 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
5294 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
5295 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
5298 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
5299 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
5300 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
5301 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
5302 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
5305 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
5306 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
5307 * A new CORBA control plugin.
5310 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
5313 * Improved build system.
5314 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
5315 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
5316 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
5317 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
5320 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
5321 --------------------------------
5324 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
5327 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
5328 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
5329 * Fixed large file support on Windows
5330 * Video 4 Linux support
5331 * CD Digital Audio support
5332 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
5335 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
5336 * Support for OpenDML avi files
5337 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
5338 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
5341 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
5342 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
5343 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
5344 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
5345 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
5346 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
5347 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
5350 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
5351 * New HTTP remote control interface
5354 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
5355 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
5356 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
5357 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
5358 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
5361 * New reset option for the preferences
5362 * You can set your language in the prefences
5363 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
5364 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
5365 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
5366 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
5369 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
5370 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
5371 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
5374 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
5375 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
5376 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
5377 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
5378 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
5379 * New icons by Davor Orel.
5380 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
5381 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
5382 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
5383 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
5386 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
5387 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
5388 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
5389 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
5390 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
5391 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
5392 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
5395 * Interface localization
5396 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
5397 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
5398 * New full-featured Preferences window
5401 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
5402 --------------------------------
5405 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
5406 * support for skins at the interface level
5407 * new OSD module using Freetype2
5408 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
5409 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
5410 input level before dropping out of date frames.
5411 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
5414 * fixed HTTP redirects
5415 * support for opening an entire directory
5416 * EOF should be detected more reliably
5417 * new video4linux access plug-in
5418 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
5421 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5422 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5423 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5426 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5427 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5428 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5429 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5430 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5431 * new codec for raw I420 video
5432 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5435 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5436 (although it still misses some important features)
5437 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5440 * new HTTP output support
5441 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5442 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5445 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5448 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5451 * reorderable playlist
5452 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5453 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5454 * support for mono audio output devices
5455 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5456 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5457 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5458 * the messages window remembers more lines
5459 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5460 * http and ogg stream output options
5461 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5464 * new skinnable interface
5465 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5467 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5468 * support for FLAC audio format
5469 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5471 * network tab in the interface
5472 * "apply" handling in preferences
5475 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5476 ---------------------------------
5479 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5480 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5481 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5482 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5484 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5485 * DTS S/PDIF support
5488 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5489 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5490 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5491 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5494 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5495 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5498 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5501 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5504 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5506 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5507 * rc interface is now fully useable
5508 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5511 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5512 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5513 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5514 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5515 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5517 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5518 * support for mouse gestures
5519 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5522 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5523 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5526 * improved ID3 tag detection
5527 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5528 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5529 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5531 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5534 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5535 ---------------------------------
5538 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5539 English was set as the preferred language
5542 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5543 --------------------------------
5546 * new mouse gesture interface
5547 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5551 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5552 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5553 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5556 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5557 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5561 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5564 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5565 without the user consent
5568 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5570 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5571 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5572 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5575 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5576 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5577 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5578 * playlist enhancements
5579 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5580 * new step forward/step backward commands
5581 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5582 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5583 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5586 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5587 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5588 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5591 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5592 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5595 * native video output is working again
5596 * only commandline interface support
5597 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5600 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5601 --------------------------------
5604 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5605 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5606 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5607 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5608 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5609 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5610 and A/52 streams are supported)
5611 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5616 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5617 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5618 * VCD entry points support
5619 * VCD image file support
5622 * support for *.asf format
5623 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5624 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5625 * support for ogg encapsulation
5626 * support for raw DV format
5627 * support for *.wav format
5628 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5631 Stream discovery & playlists:
5632 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5633 * support for .m3u file format
5634 * support for .asx file format
5635 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5638 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5639 (only available with the .avi demux)
5640 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5641 * support for raw PCM data
5642 * support for Cinepak video codec
5643 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5644 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5645 * support for Xvid codec
5646 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5647 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5648 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5650 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5652 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5655 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5658 * new WxWindows interface
5659 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5660 device and the channels configuration
5661 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5662 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5663 format that VLC can play
5664 * new swedish translation
5665 * enhancements of the playlist window
5666 * new messages window to see debug info
5667 * fixed a few crashes
5670 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5671 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5672 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5673 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working