1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
29 * New NFS access module using libnfs
30 * New SMB access module using libdsm
31 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
32 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
33 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
34 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
35 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
36 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
37 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
38 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
39 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
40 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
41 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
42 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
43 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
44 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
45 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
46 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
47 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
48 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
49 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
50 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
51 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
52 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
53 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
54 * Improvements on DVB scanning
55 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
58 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
59 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
60 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
61 * Support for experimental Daala video
62 * Support for experimental AV1 video
63 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
64 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
65 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
66 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
67 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
68 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
69 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
70 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
71 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
72 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
73 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
74 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
75 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet codecs
76 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
77 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
78 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
79 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
81 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
82 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
83 * Support VPX high bit depth support
84 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
87 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
88 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
89 * Support Daala in Ogg
90 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
91 * Support for fragmented MP4
92 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
93 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
94 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
95 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
96 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
97 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
98 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
99 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
100 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
101 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
102 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
103 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
104 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
105 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
106 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
107 * Support WMV extended content metadata
108 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
109 * Support SBV subtitles
110 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
111 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
112 * Support raw h265/hevc files
113 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
114 * Rewrite MKV seeking
115 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
118 * Added ADF stream filter
119 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
120 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
121 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
122 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
125 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
128 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
129 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
130 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
131 * Added Tizen audio module
132 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/EAC3/TRUEHD)
133 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
136 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
137 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
138 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
141 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
142 * Wayland shell surface window provider
143 * Wayland shared memory video output
144 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
145 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
146 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
147 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
148 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
149 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
150 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
151 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
152 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
153 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
156 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
159 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
160 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
161 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
162 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
165 * Chromecast output module
166 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
169 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
170 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
173 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
174 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
175 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
179 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
180 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
181 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
182 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
185 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
186 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
187 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
188 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
189 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
190 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
191 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
192 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
195 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
198 * Batch convert support
199 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
202 * Support key accelerators
205 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
206 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
207 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
208 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
209 This allows to attach media events between create and start
210 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
211 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
212 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
213 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
214 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
215 identifier (if there is one available)
216 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
217 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
218 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
219 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
220 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
221 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
222 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
223 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
224 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
225 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
226 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
227 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
228 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
229 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
230 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
232 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
233 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
234 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
237 * Support for the SystemD Journal
238 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
239 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
240 * New Android module for logging
243 * remove langfromtelx
244 * remove ZPL playlist format
245 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
246 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
247 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
248 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
249 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
250 * Add a memory keystore
251 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
252 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
256 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
257 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
258 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
259 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
260 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
261 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
262 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
263 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
264 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
265 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
266 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
267 * BD access module (use libbluray)
268 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
269 * EyeTV access module
272 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
273 --------------------------------
276 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
277 * Fix some VP9 decoding
279 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
280 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
281 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
282 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
287 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
288 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
289 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
290 * Revert to older ASX code
291 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
294 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
295 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
296 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
299 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
300 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
301 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
304 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
305 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
306 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
309 * Fix recent items behaviour
310 * Fix rotation filter activation
311 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
314 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
315 * Fix extensions registration during install
316 * Fix extensions dialog crash
317 * Default to no DxVA decoding
320 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
323 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
324 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
325 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
326 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
327 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
328 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
331 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
332 --------------------------------
335 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
336 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
339 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
340 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
341 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
342 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
345 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
346 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
347 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
348 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
350 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
351 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
352 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
355 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
356 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
357 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
358 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
359 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
360 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
361 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
362 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
363 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
364 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
365 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
366 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
367 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
368 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
369 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
370 * New jpeg image decoder
371 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
372 * New SVG image decoder
373 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
374 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
375 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
378 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
379 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
380 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
381 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
382 * New png image encoder using libpng
385 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
386 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
387 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
388 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
389 synchronization and tracks exclusion
390 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
391 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
392 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
393 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
394 * Support Opus in MKV
396 * Basic support for WebVTT
397 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
398 * Support HDPR TS files
399 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
400 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
401 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
402 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
403 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
404 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
405 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
406 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
407 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
408 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
409 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
410 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
413 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
414 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
415 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
416 * New Android native window provider module
417 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
418 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
419 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
422 * New Oldmovie effect filter
423 * New VHS effect filter
424 * New Freeze effect filter
425 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
426 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
427 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
430 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
431 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
432 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
433 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
434 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
435 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
438 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
439 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
441 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
444 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
445 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
446 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
447 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
448 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
449 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
450 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
451 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
452 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
454 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
455 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
456 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
459 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
460 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
463 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
464 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
467 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
468 * Add record button in Qt menus
469 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
470 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
471 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
474 * Support for OS X Yosemite
475 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
476 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
477 * Fixes for advanced preferences
478 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
479 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
480 * Option to increase playlist font size
481 * Improved crash log reporting
484 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
485 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
486 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
487 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
490 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
493 * iOS video output: use ios2
494 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
495 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
498 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
499 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
500 * Update of all translations:
501 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
502 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
503 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
504 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
505 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
506 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
507 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
510 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
511 --------------------------------
517 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
518 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
519 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
520 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
521 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
522 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
523 * Fix potential crash in zip access
524 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
525 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
528 * Update translations and greek encoding
531 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
532 --------------------------------
535 * Fix compilation on OS/2
538 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
540 Mac OS X audio output:
541 * Fix channel ordering
542 * Increase the buffersize
545 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
546 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
547 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
550 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
553 * Correctly support video-on-top
554 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
555 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
558 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
561 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
562 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
565 * Update British English
568 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
569 --------------------------------
572 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
575 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
578 * Fix DVD playback regression
579 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
580 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
583 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
584 --------------------------------
587 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
588 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
591 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
592 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
593 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
596 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
597 by updating codec libraries
598 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
599 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
600 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
603 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
604 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
605 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
606 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
609 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
610 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
613 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
614 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
615 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
616 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
617 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
620 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
621 * Fix record file names
624 * Fix minimal size possible on start
625 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
626 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
627 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
628 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
631 * Fix album art display on Windows
634 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
635 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
636 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
637 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
638 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
639 and Simplified Chinese translations
640 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
643 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
644 --------------------------------
647 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
648 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
649 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
650 audio devices on OS X
651 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
652 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
655 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
656 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
659 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
660 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
663 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
666 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
667 * Improve A-B loop control
668 * Fix album art update when changing media
671 * Add a language option in the interface
672 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
673 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
674 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
675 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
676 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
677 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
678 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
681 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
684 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
685 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
686 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
687 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
690 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
691 --------------------------------
694 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
696 * Fix some subtitles track selection
699 * VP9 support in WebM
700 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
701 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
704 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
705 * Support Speex in ogg files
706 * Fix some .mov playlists support
707 * Support Alac in mkv
708 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
709 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
712 * Fix DVB options parsing
713 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
714 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
717 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
718 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
721 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
722 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
725 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
726 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
727 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
728 * Fix play after drag'n drop
729 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
732 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
733 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
736 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
737 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
740 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
741 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
742 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
743 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
744 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
745 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
746 * Improves interface resizings
749 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
750 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
751 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
752 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
753 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
757 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
758 --------------------------------
761 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
762 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
763 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
764 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
765 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
767 3rd party libraries (contrib):
768 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
771 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
772 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
773 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
774 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
775 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
778 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
779 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
783 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
784 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
785 * Support for Ulead DV audio
786 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
787 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
788 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
789 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
790 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
791 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
792 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
793 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
794 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
795 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
798 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
799 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
800 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
803 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
804 remove support for previous OS X releases
805 * Major improvements in DASH support
806 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
807 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
808 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
809 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
810 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
811 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
812 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
813 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
814 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
815 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
816 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
819 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
820 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
821 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
822 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
823 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
824 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
825 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
826 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
827 * Support for more MJPEG streams
828 * Add support for liveleak streams
829 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
830 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
831 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
834 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
835 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
836 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
837 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
838 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
839 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
840 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
841 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
842 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
843 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
844 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
847 * New remapping channel filter
848 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
849 * New VSXu visualization plugin
850 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
851 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
852 * New gain audio filter
855 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
856 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
857 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
858 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
859 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
860 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
861 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
862 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
863 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
866 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
867 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
868 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
869 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
870 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
871 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
872 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
875 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
876 * Options support for AVIO output module
877 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
878 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
879 * Livehttp stream encryption support
880 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
881 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
884 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
887 * configurable password for the HTTP server
888 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
889 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
890 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
891 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
892 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
893 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
894 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
898 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
901 * Add support for multiple video outputs
902 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
904 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
905 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
906 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
907 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
908 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
909 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
910 VLC's internal volume level
911 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
913 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
914 selection and to manage the list of presets
915 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
916 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
917 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
918 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
919 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
920 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
921 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
922 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
923 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
924 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
926 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
927 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
928 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
929 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
930 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
931 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
932 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
933 3rd party applications
934 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
935 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
936 (system-wide settings)
937 * Add support for the Video Title option
938 * Add support for the Boss Key
939 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
940 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
943 * Partial support for Qt5.0
944 * Menus modifications and improvements
945 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
946 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
947 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
948 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
949 * EPG display fixes and improvements
950 * Add SD pixmap sources
951 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
952 * Display playlist total duration
953 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
954 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
955 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
960 * Extend sliders, offsets options
961 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
962 * Numerous fixes and improvements
963 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
966 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
967 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
968 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
969 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
970 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
971 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
972 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
973 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
974 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
975 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
978 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
979 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
980 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
981 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
982 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
983 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
985 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
986 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
987 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
988 * Broken crop video filter
990 * OSD parser and menu
991 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
992 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
993 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
994 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
998 * Update of all translations
1001 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1002 --------------------------------
1005 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1006 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1009 * Fix modplug security issues
1012 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1013 --------------------------------
1017 * Fix crash in QTsound
1018 * Fix screen mouse file location
1019 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1022 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1023 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1026 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1029 * Fix interface crashes
1030 * Fix autostart playback option
1031 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1034 * update Welsh translation
1035 * New Kannada translation
1038 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1039 --------------------------------
1042 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1043 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1047 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1050 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1053 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1056 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1059 * Minor improvements
1060 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1063 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1066 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1067 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1068 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1071 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1072 --------------------------------
1075 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1078 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1081 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1082 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1083 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1084 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1085 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1086 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1089 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1090 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1091 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1092 * 3rd party codecs updates
1095 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1096 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1097 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1098 in the advanced preferences panel
1099 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1100 * Fix crash within the video output code
1101 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1102 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1103 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1104 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1105 lua extensions, ...)
1106 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1109 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1112 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1113 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1116 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1119 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1120 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1121 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1122 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1123 Dutch, Danish, translations
1124 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1127 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1128 --------------------------------
1131 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1134 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1135 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1136 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1139 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1140 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1141 * Fix koreus lua parser
1142 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1143 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1144 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1145 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1148 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1149 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1152 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1155 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1156 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1157 * Fix Time counter UI look
1158 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1161 * Fix https streaming
1164 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1165 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1166 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1169 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1170 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1171 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1172 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1173 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1176 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1177 --------------------------------
1180 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1181 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1182 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1183 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1184 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1185 during playback on Mac OS X
1188 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1189 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1190 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1193 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1194 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1195 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1196 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1197 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1200 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1201 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1202 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1203 * Support Youtube live streams
1206 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1209 * Fix media info dialog update
1210 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1211 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1212 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1213 * Fix album art display at start
1216 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1217 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1218 * Fix menus display and behavior
1219 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1220 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1221 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1222 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1223 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1224 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1225 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1228 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1229 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1230 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1231 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1232 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1233 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1234 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1235 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1236 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1239 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1240 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1241 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1242 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1243 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1246 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1247 --------------------------------
1250 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1253 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1254 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1257 * Add GateKeeper support
1258 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1259 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1260 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1263 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1266 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1267 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1268 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1269 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1270 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1273 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1274 --------------------------------
1277 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1278 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1279 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1280 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1281 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1282 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1283 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1284 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1285 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1286 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1287 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1291 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1292 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1293 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1294 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1295 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1296 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1297 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1298 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1299 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1300 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1301 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1302 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1305 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1306 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1308 * Fix MP3 free format support
1311 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1312 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1313 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1314 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1315 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1318 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1319 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1321 Audio filters and output:
1322 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1323 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1324 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1325 * Do not apply volume in file output
1326 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1327 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1330 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1331 the persistant media library
1332 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1333 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1334 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1335 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1336 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1337 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1338 press on the Play/Pause button
1339 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1340 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1341 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1342 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1343 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1344 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1345 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1346 Synchronization panel
1347 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1348 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1349 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1350 * Fix crashes on exit
1351 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1353 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1354 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1355 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1356 automatically reset on the first launch.
1357 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1358 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1359 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1362 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1363 * Fixes for icecast SD
1366 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1367 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1368 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1369 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1370 * Fix tags and file names display
1371 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1374 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1375 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1378 * Fix display of some buttons
1379 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1380 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1383 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1384 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1385 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1388 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1389 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1390 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1391 Thai translations update
1392 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1395 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1396 --------------------------------
1399 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1400 * fix the samba module compilation
1401 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1402 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1403 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1404 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1407 * Support for MXPEG files
1408 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1409 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1412 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1413 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1414 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1417 * Fix ogm header creation
1420 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1421 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1424 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1425 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1426 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1427 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1430 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1433 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1434 * allow to hide the sidebar
1435 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1436 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1437 * noticebly faster launch time
1438 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1439 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1440 * improve track synchronization panel
1441 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1442 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1445 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1446 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1447 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1448 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1451 * fix for menus display
1452 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1453 * documentation update
1456 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1457 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1460 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1461 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1462 * Update Jamendo selections
1466 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1467 * fix a crash on VLM close
1470 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1471 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1472 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1473 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1476 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1479 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1480 ---------------------------------
1483 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1484 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1485 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1486 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1487 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1488 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1489 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1490 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1491 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1492 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1493 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1494 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1495 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1496 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1497 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1498 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1499 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1500 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1501 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1502 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1503 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1504 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1505 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1506 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1507 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1508 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1510 Important changes for packagers:
1511 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1512 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1513 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1514 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1515 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1516 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1517 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1518 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1519 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1520 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1523 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1524 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1525 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1526 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1527 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1528 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1529 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1532 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1533 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1534 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1535 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1536 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1537 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1538 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1539 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1540 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1541 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1542 * PulseAudio audio input support
1543 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1544 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1545 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1546 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1547 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1548 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1549 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1550 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1553 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1554 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1555 are notably concerned.
1556 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1557 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1558 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1559 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1560 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1561 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1562 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1563 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1564 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1565 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1566 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1567 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1568 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1569 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1570 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1573 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1574 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1575 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1576 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1577 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1578 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1579 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1580 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1581 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1582 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1583 * Improved support of tracker files
1584 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1587 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1588 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1589 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1590 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1591 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1592 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1593 and important cleanups and optimisations
1594 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1595 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1596 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1597 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1598 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1599 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1600 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1601 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1602 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1603 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1604 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1605 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1606 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1607 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1608 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1609 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1610 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1611 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1612 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1613 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1614 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1617 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1618 * New video output for iOS platform
1619 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1620 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1621 * Various vmem improvements
1622 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1623 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1624 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1625 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1626 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1627 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1629 Audio Output and Filters:
1630 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1631 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1632 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1633 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1634 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1635 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1636 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1637 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1638 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1639 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1642 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1643 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1644 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1645 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1646 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1647 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1648 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1649 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1650 * New anti-flickering filter
1651 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1652 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1653 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1654 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1655 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1656 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1657 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1660 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1661 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1662 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1663 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1664 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1665 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1666 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1667 * Major rework of VoD support
1668 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1669 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1670 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1671 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1672 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1673 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1674 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1675 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1676 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1677 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1680 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1681 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1684 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1685 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1686 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1687 list of available audio and video filters
1688 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1689 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1690 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1693 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1694 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1695 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1696 * id3tag: use taglib
1697 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1698 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1699 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1700 * removal of the noise filter
1701 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1702 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1703 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1704 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1707 * Update of translations for most languages.
1708 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1711 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1712 ----------------------------------
1715 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1716 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1719 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1720 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1723 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1724 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1725 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1728 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1731 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1732 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1735 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1738 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1739 ----------------------------------
1742 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1743 including support for OS X Lion
1744 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1745 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1748 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1751 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1752 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1753 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1756 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1759 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1760 ----------------------------------
1763 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1764 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1767 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1768 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1769 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1770 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1771 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1773 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1774 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1775 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1777 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1778 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1781 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1784 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1787 * Fix quitting on Linux
1788 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1792 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1795 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1798 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1799 ---------------------------------
1801 Windows and Mac OS X:
1802 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1805 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1806 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1809 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1812 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1815 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1817 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1818 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1820 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1821 * RTP output and XML export
1822 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1826 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1827 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1828 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1829 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1832 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1833 --------------------------------
1835 Windows and Mac OS X:
1836 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1839 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1842 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1843 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1844 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1845 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1846 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1847 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1850 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1851 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1855 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1856 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1857 * New Luganda Translation
1860 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1861 --------------------------------
1864 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1867 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1868 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1869 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1870 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1873 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1875 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1876 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1877 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1878 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1879 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1880 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1881 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1882 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1884 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1885 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1886 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1887 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1888 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1889 * Configure and build system improvements
1890 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1893 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1894 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1895 * New icelandic translation
1898 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1899 --------------------------------
1902 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1903 #234484 and #260719.
1906 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1907 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1908 and stability reasons
1911 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1915 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1918 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1919 ----------------------------------
1922 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1925 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1926 ---------------------------------
1929 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1930 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1931 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1932 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1935 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1938 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1939 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1940 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1941 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1944 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1945 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1946 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1948 Subtitles and renderer:
1949 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1950 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1951 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1952 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1953 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1956 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1957 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1958 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1959 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1962 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1963 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1965 Miscellaneous fixes:
1966 * KDE device solid actions
1968 * Transcode integer overflow
1969 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1970 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1973 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1974 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1975 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1978 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1979 ----------------------------------
1982 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1986 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1989 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1992 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1993 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1994 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1995 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1998 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2002 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2005 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2008 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2009 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2011 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2015 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2016 * Miscellaneous fixes
2019 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2020 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2021 French and Ukrainian
2022 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2023 * New Asturian translation
2026 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2027 ----------------------------------
2030 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2032 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2035 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2038 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2039 * Various fixes for Windows
2042 * New Armenian translation
2043 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2044 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2047 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2048 --------------------------------
2051 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2052 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2053 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2056 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2057 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2060 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2061 --------------------------------
2063 Access and demuxers:
2064 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2065 * fix for podcasts parsing
2066 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2069 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2070 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2073 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2074 * fix m3u playlists exports
2077 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2080 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2083 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2086 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2089 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2092 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2093 --------------------------------
2096 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2097 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2100 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2101 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2104 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2105 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2106 * fix console output encoding
2108 Interface and extensions:
2109 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2110 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2113 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2114 --------------------------------
2117 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2118 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2119 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2120 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2121 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2122 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2123 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2124 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2125 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2126 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2127 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2128 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2129 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2130 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2131 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2132 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2136 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2137 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2138 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2139 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2140 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2143 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2146 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2147 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2148 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2152 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2155 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2156 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2157 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2160 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2161 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2162 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2163 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2166 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2167 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2170 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2171 --------------------------------
2173 Important changes for users:
2174 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2175 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2177 Important changes for packagers:
2178 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2179 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2180 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2181 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2182 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2184 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2186 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2187 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2188 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2189 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2190 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2193 * Support for the sftp protocol
2194 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2195 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2196 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2197 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2198 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2201 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2202 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2203 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2205 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2206 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2207 * Invmem module improvements
2208 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2209 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2210 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2211 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2212 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2213 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2214 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2215 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2216 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2217 * Support for VP8 codec
2218 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2221 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2222 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2223 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2224 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2225 * Various EGP improvements
2226 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2227 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2230 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2231 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2232 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2233 * Podcast images are now displayed
2236 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2237 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2238 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2239 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2240 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2241 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2242 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2243 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2244 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2245 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2246 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2249 * New content extensions lua framework
2252 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2253 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2254 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2255 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2256 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2257 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2258 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2261 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2262 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2263 * Service discovery based on libudev
2264 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2267 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2268 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2269 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2270 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2271 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2272 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2273 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2276 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2277 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2278 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2281 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2283 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2284 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2287 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2290 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2291 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2292 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2293 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2294 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2295 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2296 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2299 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2300 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2303 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2304 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2305 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2309 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2310 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2311 * Improved Solaris port
2314 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2315 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2318 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2319 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2320 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2321 * transrate: broken since too long
2322 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2323 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2324 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2325 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2326 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2327 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2328 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2329 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2330 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2331 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2332 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2333 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2334 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2335 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2338 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2339 --------------------------------
2342 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2344 Decoders/Packetizers:
2345 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2348 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2349 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2350 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2351 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2352 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2355 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2356 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2359 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2360 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2363 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2364 and Walloon translations updated
2365 * Sinhala translation started
2368 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2369 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2372 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2373 --------------------------------
2376 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2377 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2380 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2383 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2384 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2387 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2388 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2389 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2390 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2393 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2394 --------------------------------
2397 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2398 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2401 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2402 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2405 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2406 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2409 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2412 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2413 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2416 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2417 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2420 * New Walloon translation
2421 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2424 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2425 --------------------------------
2428 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2429 regressions in most popular drivers
2430 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2433 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2434 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2435 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2438 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2439 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2442 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2443 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2444 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2445 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2446 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2449 * New udev module for linux
2452 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2455 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2458 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2459 --------------------------------
2462 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2463 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2464 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2467 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2468 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2471 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2472 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2475 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2478 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2479 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2480 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2481 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2484 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2485 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2486 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2487 - no support for Goom and SDL
2488 - limited text rendering support
2489 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2492 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2493 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2494 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2495 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2496 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2497 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2498 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2499 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2500 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2504 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2507 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2510 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2511 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2512 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2513 Arabic and French translation updates
2516 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2517 --------------------------------
2520 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2521 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2522 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2523 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2524 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2525 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2528 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2529 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2530 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2533 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2534 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2535 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2538 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2541 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2542 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2545 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2546 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2547 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2548 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2549 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2550 * Fix various crashes
2553 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2555 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2559 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2560 ---------------------------------
2564 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2565 See 'Access:' for more info.
2566 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2569 * Instantaneous pausing
2570 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2571 * Finer speed control
2572 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2573 * Timeshift for most medias
2574 * RTSP trickplay support
2575 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2578 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2579 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2580 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2581 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2582 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2583 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2584 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2585 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2586 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2587 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2590 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2591 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2592 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2593 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2594 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2595 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2596 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2599 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2600 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2603 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2604 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2605 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2606 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2607 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2608 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2609 * DVB scanning on linux
2610 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2611 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2612 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2613 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2614 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2615 * MTP device access on Unix
2616 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2617 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2620 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2621 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2622 Windows and Mac OS X.
2625 * Export the playlist in HTML
2626 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2627 * Better metadata handling and reading
2629 Linux/Windows interface:
2630 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2631 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2632 * Recently played items list
2633 * Interface toolbar customizations
2634 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2635 - More menus actions
2636 - Finer speed slider
2637 - Improvements on many dialogs
2638 - New dialog for plugins listing
2639 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2640 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2641 * Better integration in GTK environments
2644 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2645 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2646 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2647 * Additional usability improvements
2650 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2651 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2652 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2653 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2654 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2657 * New Maemo port with:
2658 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2659 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2662 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2665 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2666 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2667 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2668 * Support for latest iSight models
2671 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2672 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2675 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2676 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2677 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2678 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2679 The old image video output has been removed.
2680 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2681 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2684 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2692 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2693 --------------------------------------
2699 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2700 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2701 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2702 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2703 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2704 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2705 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2707 Various fixes to the following modules:
2710 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2711 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2712 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2714 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2719 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2720 ---------------------------------
2723 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2724 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2727 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2728 ---------------------------------
2731 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2734 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2737 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2738 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2739 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2740 main controller window.
2741 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2744 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2749 * Updates of other localizations
2752 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2753 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2754 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2755 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2756 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2759 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2760 ---------------------------------
2763 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2765 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2768 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2769 --------------------------------
2774 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2775 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2778 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2779 --------------------------------
2781 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2782 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2785 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2788 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2789 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2792 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2793 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2796 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2797 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2798 * Various fixed in playlist
2801 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2804 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2807 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2808 ------------------------------------
2810 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2811 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2814 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2815 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2816 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2819 * Stability fix for the video output.
2822 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2823 --------------------------------
2826 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2827 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2828 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2829 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2830 * Fixed update system bugs
2831 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2834 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2835 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2836 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2837 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2838 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2839 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2840 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2841 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2842 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2843 modern Mac OS X versions
2846 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2847 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2849 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2850 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2853 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2854 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2855 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2856 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2857 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2858 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2861 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2862 --------------------------------
2864 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2865 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2866 * Multiple bugfixes.
2869 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2870 --------------------------------
2872 * Multiple bug fixes.
2875 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2876 ---------------------------------
2880 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2881 recent to work correctly
2882 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2883 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2884 edit the ".hosts" file.
2885 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2886 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2887 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2888 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2889 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2890 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2891 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2892 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2893 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2894 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2895 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2896 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2897 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2898 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2899 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2900 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2901 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2902 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2903 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2904 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2905 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2906 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2907 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2908 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2909 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2910 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2911 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2912 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2913 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2914 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2915 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2916 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2917 and postproc modules.
2918 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2919 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2920 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2921 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2923 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2924 filter. For example:
2925 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2926 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2928 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2929 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2935 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2937 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2938 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2941 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2942 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2944 * Shoutcast TV listings
2945 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2947 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2948 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2950 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2953 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2954 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2955 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2956 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2957 * JACK audio input support
2958 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2959 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2960 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2961 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2962 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2963 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2964 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2965 (available as a separate download).
2966 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2967 * RTMP input support
2968 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2969 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2970 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2972 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2973 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2976 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2977 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2978 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2979 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2981 * APEv1/2 tags support
2982 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2983 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2985 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2986 * TiVo Series 2 support
2987 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2992 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2993 * Flash Screen Video support
2994 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2995 * DosBox Capture support
2996 * Karl Morton's Video support
2997 * limited atrac3 support
2999 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3000 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3001 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3002 * H.264 PAFF support
3003 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3004 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3005 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3006 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3007 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3010 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3011 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3012 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3013 * AQTitle subtitles support
3014 * MKV USF subtitles support
3015 * HTML-based subtitles support
3016 * MPSub subtitles support
3017 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3018 * MPL2 subtitles support
3019 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3020 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3021 * Realtext subtitle support
3022 * DKS subtitle support
3023 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3024 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3027 * Flash Screen Video support
3028 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3030 Video outputs and filters:
3031 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3032 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3033 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3034 * New puzzle video output filter
3035 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3036 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3038 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3039 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3040 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3041 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3042 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3043 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3044 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3045 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3046 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3047 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3048 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3049 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3050 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3051 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3053 Audio outputs and filters:
3054 * Replay gain support
3055 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3056 new scaletempo audio filter)
3057 * New spatializer audio filter
3058 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3061 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3062 * New RTP payload formats:
3063 * Speex voice audio codec
3064 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3065 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3066 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3067 * DCCP transport for RTP
3068 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3073 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3074 end-user suitable way.
3075 * Improved user interaction
3076 * Improved mouse gestures
3077 * Vastly improved Update checker
3078 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3080 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3081 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3083 * Improved video output features
3084 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3085 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3086 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3087 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3088 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3090 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3091 if libncursesw is available.
3092 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3093 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3094 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3096 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3097 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3098 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3099 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3100 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3101 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3102 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3103 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3106 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3107 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3108 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3111 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3112 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3113 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3114 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3115 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3116 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3119 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3120 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3130 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3131 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3132 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3135 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3136 ----------------------------------
3139 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3142 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3143 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3144 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3145 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3146 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3147 * Updated Polish translation
3150 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3151 ----------------------------------
3154 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3155 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3156 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3159 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3160 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3161 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3162 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3163 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3164 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3165 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3166 to an unexpected application termination
3167 * New Serbian translation
3168 * Updated Romanian translation
3171 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3172 ----------------------------------
3175 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3176 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3177 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3178 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3179 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3180 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3181 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3182 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3185 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3186 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3187 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3188 * Fixed AAC resampling
3189 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3190 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3193 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3194 ----------------------------------
3197 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3198 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3199 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3200 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3201 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3204 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3205 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3206 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3207 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3208 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3211 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3212 ----------------------------------
3215 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3216 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3219 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3220 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3221 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3222 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3224 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3228 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3231 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3234 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3237 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3240 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3241 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3242 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3243 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3244 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3246 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3247 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3248 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3249 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3252 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3255 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3256 ----------------------------------
3259 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3260 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3261 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3263 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3264 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3266 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3267 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3270 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3272 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3273 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3274 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3275 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3276 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3277 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3278 two different movies
3279 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3280 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3281 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3284 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3287 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3288 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3289 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3290 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3293 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3294 ----------------------------------
3296 Various bugfixes, notably:
3297 * Windows Vista compatibility
3298 * Cropping in Direct3D
3299 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3300 * RSS filter string overflow
3302 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3304 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3305 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3308 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3309 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3312 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3315 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3318 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3321 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3322 ----------------------------------
3324 Various bugfixes, notably:
3325 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3326 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3327 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3328 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3329 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3330 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3333 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3334 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3337 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3339 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3340 * Diverse usability improvements
3341 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3342 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3343 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3346 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3347 ---------------------------------
3349 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3350 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3353 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3356 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3357 --------------------------------
3360 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3363 * Support for RTSP authentication
3364 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3365 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3366 * ATSC support for DVB input
3367 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3368 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3369 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3372 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3373 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3374 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3375 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3376 * Matroska WavPack support
3377 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3378 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3379 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3382 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3383 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3384 * Improved libcaca support
3388 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3389 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3391 * Systray support in skins
3393 * Support for Apple Remote control
3394 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3395 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3396 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3397 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3399 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3402 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3403 Windows 9x/ME users:
3404 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3405 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3406 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3407 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3408 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3410 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3411 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3420 * Updates to the libvlc API
3421 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3424 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3425 --------------------------------
3428 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3429 * Support for downloading updates
3433 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3434 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3435 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3436 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3438 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3439 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3440 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3443 * Cook (Real audio) support
3445 Playlist / Services discovery:
3446 * XSPF playlist support
3448 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3451 * New JACK audio output
3454 * New video filters:
3455 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3456 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3457 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3458 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3459 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3460 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3463 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3466 * System to inform the user and request information
3467 - HTTP authentication
3471 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3472 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3473 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3476 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3477 - Improved playlist handling
3478 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3480 - Embedded Video output
3481 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3482 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3483 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3484 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3485 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3487 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3488 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3491 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3494 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3495 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3496 * Growl "Now playing" support
3499 * Ability to log to syslog
3500 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3503 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3505 * A bit more automatic testing
3508 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3509 ---------------------------------
3512 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3513 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3516 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3517 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3520 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3523 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3524 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3530 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3533 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3534 --------------------------------
3537 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3541 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3542 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3543 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3546 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3547 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3548 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3549 * GnomeVFS input module
3550 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3551 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3554 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3555 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3556 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3559 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3560 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3566 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3567 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3570 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3571 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3572 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3575 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3577 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3578 - New extended controls panel
3579 - New bookmarks window
3580 - Fixed playlist sorting
3581 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3583 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3584 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3585 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3586 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3590 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3591 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3593 - Include macro to include other files
3597 * Should now work outside IE as well
3600 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3603 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3604 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3607 The following languages were added:
3611 * Simplified Chinese
3612 The following languages were re-added:
3616 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3617 --------------------------------
3620 * Rewrite of the playlist
3622 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3623 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3624 * Preferences improvements:
3625 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3626 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3628 * Core image manipulation support
3629 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3630 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3631 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3632 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3633 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3634 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3635 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3636 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3637 * Access filter architecture
3638 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3639 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3643 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3644 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3645 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3646 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3647 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3648 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3649 * Massive Matroska improvements
3650 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3652 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3653 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3654 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3655 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3656 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3658 Decoders / Encoders:
3659 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3660 * PNG decoder/encoder
3661 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3662 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3665 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3668 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3669 * Brand new SAP module
3670 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3671 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3672 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3673 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3674 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3675 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3679 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3682 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3683 * Image file video output (png)
3684 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3685 * Improvements to wall video filter
3686 * Support for font color and opacity
3692 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3693 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3694 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3698 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3699 - Improved preferences
3700 - Improvements to the wizard
3701 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3703 - Redesigned playlist
3704 - Improved preferences
3706 - Support for multiple actions
3709 - Support for the new playlist system
3711 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3714 * Screensaver disabling fix
3715 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3716 * Support for no-decoration windows
3719 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3720 * The OpenGL video output is back
3721 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3722 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3723 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3724 is not yet available in the new module
3725 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3728 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3737 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3740 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3743 The following languages were added:
3749 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3750 --------------------------------
3753 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3754 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3757 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3758 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3759 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3762 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3765 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3768 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3771 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3772 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3773 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3777 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3779 * Support of playlist group announcement
3782 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3783 --------------------------------
3786 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3787 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3788 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3789 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3790 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3791 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3794 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3795 (Stream your desktop)
3796 * Improved DVD support:
3797 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3798 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3799 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3800 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3801 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3802 (selection of titles/chapters).
3805 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3806 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3807 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3808 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3809 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3810 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3811 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3812 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3813 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3814 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3817 * G.726 audio support
3818 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3819 * MPEG-4 text support
3820 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3821 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3822 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3826 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3827 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3828 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3829 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3830 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3831 * DVB subtitles encoder
3832 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3833 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3835 * Text track muxing for mp4
3836 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3837 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3838 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3839 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3840 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3841 * Improved ASF muxer
3843 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3844 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3845 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3848 * New audio equalizer filter
3849 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3850 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3851 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3852 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3855 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3856 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3857 with support for effects.
3858 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3859 - New filters can be streamed.
3860 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3861 - Centralized scaling and blending
3863 - "time", to display current time
3864 - "marq", to display a marquee
3867 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3868 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3869 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3870 * A few skins2 improvements
3871 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3872 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3873 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3874 * Improved CORBA control module
3877 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3878 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3879 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3882 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3883 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3884 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3887 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3888 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3889 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3890 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3891 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3894 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3897 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3898 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3901 * Server/client network synchronization module
3902 * VBrick streams fully supported
3903 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3907 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3908 --------------------------------
3911 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3912 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3913 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3914 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3917 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3918 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3919 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3920 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3921 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3922 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3923 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3926 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3927 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3928 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3929 * Improved directory access module.
3930 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3931 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3932 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3933 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3934 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3937 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3938 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3939 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3942 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3943 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3944 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3947 * Improved session announcement system.
3948 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3949 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3950 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3951 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3952 * Improved transrater.
3953 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3954 * New configuration system.
3955 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3958 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3959 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3960 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3961 * Supports scheduling.
3962 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3963 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3966 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3967 - Ability to embed video output.
3968 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3969 - Lots of improvements.
3970 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3971 - New design and set of icons.
3972 - Ability to embed video output.
3973 - Support for hotkeys.
3974 - Support for bookmarks.
3976 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3977 - Better hotkeys handling.
3980 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3981 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3982 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3983 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3986 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3987 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3988 * Improved Windows installer.
3994 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3995 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3998 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3999 ---------------------------------
4002 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4003 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4006 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4007 --------------------------------
4010 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4011 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4014 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4015 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4016 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4017 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4020 * Internal improvments
4021 * Improved import/export
4024 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4026 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4027 small and strange formats.
4029 * New MOD audio demux.
4030 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4031 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4032 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4033 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4036 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4037 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4038 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4044 * New opengl video output plugin.
4047 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4048 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4051 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4052 --------------------------------
4055 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4056 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4057 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4058 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4059 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4060 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4061 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4062 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4065 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4070 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4071 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4072 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4073 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4074 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4075 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4076 * Better Icecast support.
4077 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4078 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4081 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4082 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4083 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4084 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4085 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4086 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4087 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4090 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4091 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4092 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4093 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4094 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4095 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4096 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4097 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4098 * Preliminary RTP support.
4099 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4104 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4105 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4107 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4108 - Improvements and help in preferences
4109 - New streaming wizard
4110 - Revised Disc Open menu
4112 - Improvements of the standard pages
4113 - Support for new commands
4114 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4117 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4118 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4121 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4122 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4123 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4124 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4125 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4126 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4127 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4128 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4129 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4132 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4134 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4135 * Support for Panther.
4136 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4137 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4140 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4141 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4142 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4143 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4144 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4145 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4146 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4147 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4150 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4151 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4152 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4155 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4158 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4159 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4160 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4161 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4164 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4165 --------------------------------
4168 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4171 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4172 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4175 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4176 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4179 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4182 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4183 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4186 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4189 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4192 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4193 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4197 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4198 --------------------------------
4201 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4202 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4206 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4207 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4208 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4210 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4211 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4214 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4217 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4220 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4221 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4225 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4226 --------------------------------
4229 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4230 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4234 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4235 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4236 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4237 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4238 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4241 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4242 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4243 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4246 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4247 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4248 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4251 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4252 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4253 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4254 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4255 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4258 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4259 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4260 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4263 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4266 * Improved build system.
4267 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4268 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4269 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4270 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4273 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4274 --------------------------------
4277 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4280 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4281 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4282 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4283 * Video 4 Linux support
4284 * CD Digital Audio support
4285 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4288 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4289 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4290 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4291 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4294 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4295 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4296 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4297 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4298 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4299 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4300 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4303 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4304 * New HTTP remote control interface
4307 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4308 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4309 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4310 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4311 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4314 * New reset option for the preferences
4315 * You can set your language in the prefences
4316 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4317 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4318 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4319 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4322 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4323 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4324 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4327 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4328 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4329 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4330 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4331 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4332 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4333 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4334 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4335 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4336 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4339 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4340 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4341 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4342 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4343 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4344 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4345 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4348 * Interface localization
4349 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4350 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4351 * New full-featured Preferences window
4354 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4355 --------------------------------
4358 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4359 * support for skins at the interface level
4360 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4361 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4362 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4363 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4364 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4367 * fixed HTTP redirects
4368 * support for opening an entire directory
4369 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4370 * new video4linux access plug-in
4371 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4374 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4375 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4376 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4379 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4380 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4381 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4382 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4383 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4384 * new codec for raw I420 video
4385 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4388 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4389 (although it still misses some important features)
4390 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4393 * new HTTP output support
4394 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4395 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4398 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4401 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4404 * reorderable playlist
4405 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4406 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4407 * support for mono audio output devices
4408 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4409 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4410 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4411 * the messages window remembers more lines
4412 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4413 * http and ogg stream output options
4414 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4417 * new skinnable interface
4418 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4420 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4421 * support for FLAC audio format
4422 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4424 * network tab in the interface
4425 * "apply" handling in preferences
4428 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4429 ---------------------------------
4432 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4433 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4434 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4435 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4437 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4438 * DTS S/PDIF support
4441 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4442 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4443 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4444 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4447 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4448 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4451 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4454 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4457 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4459 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4460 * rc interface is now fully useable
4461 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4464 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4465 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4466 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4467 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4468 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4470 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4471 * support for mouse gestures
4472 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4475 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4476 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4479 * improved ID3 tag detection
4480 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4481 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4482 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4484 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4487 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4488 ---------------------------------
4491 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4492 English was set as the preferred language
4495 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4496 --------------------------------
4499 * new mouse gesture interface
4500 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4504 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4505 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4506 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4509 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4510 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4514 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4517 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4518 without the user consent
4521 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4523 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4524 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4525 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4528 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4529 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4530 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4531 * playlist enhancements
4532 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4533 * new step forward/step backward commands
4534 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4535 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4536 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4539 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4540 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4541 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4544 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4545 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4548 * native video output is working again
4549 * only commandline interface support
4550 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4553 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4554 --------------------------------
4557 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4558 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4559 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4560 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4561 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4562 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4563 and A/52 streams are supported)
4564 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4569 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4570 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4571 * VCD entry points support
4572 * VCD image file support
4575 * support for *.asf format
4576 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4577 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4578 * support for ogg encapsulation
4579 * support for raw DV format
4580 * support for *.wav format
4581 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4584 Stream discovery & playlists:
4585 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4586 * support for .m3u file format
4587 * support for .asx file format
4588 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4591 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4592 (only available with the .avi demux)
4593 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4594 * support for raw PCM data
4595 * support for Cinepak video codec
4596 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4597 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4598 * support for Xvid codec
4599 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4600 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4601 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4603 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4605 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4608 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4611 * new WxWindows interface
4612 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4613 device and the channels configuration
4614 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4615 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4616 format that VLC can play
4617 * new swedish translation
4618 * enhancements of the playlist window
4619 * new messages window to see debug info
4620 * fixed a few crashes
4623 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4624 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4625 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4626 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working