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 wayland surface type
15 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
16 * Support portable version of Windows build
17 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
18 and rewrite the parsing of those files
19 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
20 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
21 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
24 * New NFS access module using libnfs
25 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
26 * New SMB access module using libdsm
27 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
28 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
29 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
30 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
31 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
32 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
33 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
34 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
35 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
36 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
37 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
38 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
39 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
40 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
41 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
42 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
43 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
44 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
47 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
48 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
49 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
50 * Support for Daala video
51 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
52 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
53 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
54 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
55 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
56 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
57 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
58 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
59 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
60 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
61 * Basic TTML subtitles support
62 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
63 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
64 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
65 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
66 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
70 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
71 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
72 * Support Daala in Ogg
73 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
74 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
75 * Support SBV subtitles
76 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
77 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
78 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
79 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
80 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
81 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
82 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
83 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
84 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
85 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
86 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
87 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
88 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
89 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
90 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
91 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
94 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
95 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
96 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
97 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
100 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
101 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
102 * Added Tizen audio module.
104 Audio filters and output:
105 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
108 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
109 * Wayland shell surface window provider
110 * Wayland shared memory video output
111 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
112 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
113 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
114 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
115 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
116 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
117 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
120 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
123 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
124 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
125 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
126 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
129 * Chromecast output module
130 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
133 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
134 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
137 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
138 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
139 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
143 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
144 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
145 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
146 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
149 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
150 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
151 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
152 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
153 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
156 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
159 * Batch convert support
162 * Support key accelerators
165 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
166 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
167 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
168 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
169 This allows to attach media events between create and start
170 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
171 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
172 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
173 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
174 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
175 identifier (if there is one available)
176 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
177 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
178 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
179 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
180 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
181 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
182 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
183 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
184 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
185 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
186 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
187 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
188 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
191 * Support for the SystemD Journal
192 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
193 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
194 * New Android module for logging
197 * remove langfromtelx
198 * remove ZPL playlist format
199 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
200 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
201 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
202 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
203 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
204 * Add a memory keystore
205 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
206 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
210 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
211 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
212 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
213 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
214 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
215 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
216 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
217 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
218 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
219 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
222 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
223 --------------------------------
226 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
227 * Fix some VP9 decoding
229 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
230 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
231 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
232 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
237 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
238 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
239 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
240 * Revert to older ASX code
241 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
244 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
245 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
246 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
249 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
250 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
251 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
254 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
255 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
256 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
259 * Fix recent items behaviour
260 * Fix rotation filter activation
261 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
264 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
265 * Fix extensions registration during install
266 * Fix extensions dialog crash
267 * Default to no DxVA decoding
270 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
273 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
274 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
275 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
276 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
277 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
278 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
281 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
282 --------------------------------
285 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
286 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
289 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
290 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
291 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
292 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
295 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
296 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
297 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
298 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
300 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
301 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
302 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
305 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
306 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
307 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
308 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
309 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
310 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
311 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
312 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
313 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
314 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
315 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
316 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
317 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
318 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
319 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
320 * New jpeg image decoder
321 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
322 * New SVG image decoder
323 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
324 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
325 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
328 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
329 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
330 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
331 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
332 * New png image encoder using libpng
335 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
336 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
337 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
338 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
339 synchronization and tracks exclusion
340 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
341 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
342 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
343 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
344 * Support Opus in MKV
346 * Basic support for WebVTT
347 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
348 * Support HDPR TS files
349 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
350 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
351 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
352 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
353 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
354 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
355 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
356 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
357 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
358 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
359 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
360 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
363 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
364 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
365 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
366 * New Android native window provider module
367 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
368 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
369 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
372 * New Oldmovie effect filter
373 * New VHS effect filter
374 * New Freeze effect filter
375 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
376 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
377 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
380 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
381 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
382 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
383 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
384 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
385 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
388 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
389 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
391 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
394 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
395 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
396 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
397 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
398 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
399 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
400 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
401 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
402 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
404 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
405 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
406 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
409 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
410 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
413 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
414 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
417 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
418 * Add record button in Qt menus
419 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
420 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
421 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
424 * Support for OS X Yosemite
425 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
426 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
427 * Fixes for advanced preferences
428 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
429 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
430 * Option to increase playlist font size
431 * Improved crash log reporting
434 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
435 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
436 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
437 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
440 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
443 * iOS video output: use ios2
444 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
445 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
448 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
449 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
450 * Update of all translations:
451 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
452 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
453 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
454 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
455 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
456 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
457 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
460 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
461 --------------------------------
467 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
468 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
469 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
470 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
471 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
472 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
473 * Fix potential crash in zip access
474 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
475 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
478 * Update translations and greek encoding
481 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
482 --------------------------------
485 * Fix compilation on OS/2
488 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
490 Mac OS X audio output:
491 * Fix channel ordering
492 * Increase the buffersize
495 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
496 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
497 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
500 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
503 * Correctly support video-on-top
504 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
505 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
508 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
511 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
512 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
515 * Update British English
518 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
519 --------------------------------
522 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
525 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
528 * Fix DVD playback regression
529 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
530 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
533 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
534 --------------------------------
537 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
538 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
541 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
542 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
543 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
546 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
547 by updating codec libraries
548 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
549 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
550 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
553 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
554 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
555 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
556 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
559 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
560 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
563 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
564 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
565 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
566 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
567 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
570 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
571 * Fix record file names
574 * Fix minimal size possible on start
575 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
576 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
577 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
578 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
581 * Fix album art display on Windows
584 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
585 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
586 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
587 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
588 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
589 and Simplified Chinese translations
590 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
593 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
594 --------------------------------
597 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
598 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
599 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
600 audio devices on OS X
601 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
602 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
605 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
606 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
609 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
610 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
613 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
616 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
617 * Improve A-B loop control
618 * Fix album art update when changing media
621 * Add a language option in the interface
622 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
623 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
624 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
625 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
626 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
627 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
628 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
631 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
634 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
635 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
636 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
637 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
640 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
641 --------------------------------
644 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
646 * Fix some subtitles track selection
649 * VP9 support in WebM
650 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
651 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
654 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
655 * Support Speex in ogg files
656 * Fix some .mov playlists support
657 * Support Alac in mkv
658 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
659 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
662 * Fix DVB options parsing
663 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
664 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
667 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
668 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
671 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
672 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
675 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
676 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
677 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
678 * Fix play after drag'n drop
679 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
682 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
683 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
686 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
687 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
690 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
691 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
692 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
693 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
694 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
695 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
696 * Improves interface resizings
699 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
700 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
701 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
702 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
703 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
707 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
708 --------------------------------
711 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
712 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
713 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
714 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
715 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
717 3rd party libraries (contrib):
718 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
721 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
722 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
723 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
724 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
725 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
728 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
729 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
733 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
734 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
735 * Support for Ulead DV audio
736 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
737 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
738 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
739 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
740 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
741 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
742 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
743 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
744 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
745 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
748 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
749 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
750 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
753 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
754 remove support for previous OS X releases
755 * Major improvements in DASH support
756 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
757 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
758 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
759 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
760 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
761 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
762 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
763 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
764 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
765 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
766 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
769 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
770 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
771 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
772 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
773 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
774 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
775 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
776 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
777 * Support for more MJPEG streams
778 * Add support for liveleak streams
779 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
780 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
781 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
784 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
785 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
786 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
787 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
788 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
789 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
790 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
791 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
792 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
793 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
794 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
797 * New remapping channel filter
798 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
799 * New VSXu visualization plugin
800 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
801 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
802 * New gain audio filter
805 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
806 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
807 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
808 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
809 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
810 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
811 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
812 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
813 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
816 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
817 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
818 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
819 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
820 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
821 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
822 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
825 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
826 * Options support for AVIO output module
827 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
828 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
829 * Livehttp stream encryption support
830 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
831 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
834 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
837 * configurable password for the HTTP server
838 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
839 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
840 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
841 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
842 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
843 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
844 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
848 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
851 * Add support for multiple video outputs
852 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
854 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
855 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
856 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
857 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
858 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
859 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
860 VLC's internal volume level
861 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
863 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
864 selection and to manage the list of presets
865 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
866 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
867 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
868 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
869 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
870 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
871 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
872 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
873 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
874 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
876 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
877 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
878 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
879 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
880 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
881 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
882 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
883 3rd party applications
884 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
885 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
886 (system-wide settings)
887 * Add support for the Video Title option
888 * Add support for the Boss Key
889 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
890 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
893 * Partial support for Qt5.0
894 * Menus modifications and improvements
895 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
896 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
897 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
898 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
899 * EPG display fixes and improvements
900 * Add SD pixmap sources
901 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
902 * Display playlist total duration
903 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
904 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
905 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
910 * Extend sliders, offsets options
911 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
912 * Numerous fixes and improvements
913 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
916 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
917 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
918 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
919 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
920 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
921 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
922 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
923 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
924 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
925 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
928 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
929 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
930 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
931 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
932 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
933 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
935 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
936 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
937 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
938 * Broken crop video filter
940 * OSD parser and menu
941 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
942 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
943 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
944 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
948 * Update of all translations
951 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
952 --------------------------------
955 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
956 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
959 * Fix modplug security issues
962 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
963 --------------------------------
967 * Fix crash in QTsound
968 * Fix screen mouse file location
969 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
972 * Fix use after free in sgimb
973 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
976 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
979 * Fix interface crashes
980 * Fix autostart playback option
981 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
984 * update Welsh translation
985 * New Kannada translation
988 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
989 --------------------------------
992 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
993 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
997 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1000 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1003 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1006 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1009 * Minor improvements
1010 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1013 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1016 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1017 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1018 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1021 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1022 --------------------------------
1025 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1028 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1031 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1032 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1033 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1034 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1035 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1036 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1039 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1040 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1041 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1042 * 3rd party codecs updates
1045 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1046 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1047 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1048 in the advanced preferences panel
1049 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1050 * Fix crash within the video output code
1051 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1052 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1053 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1054 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1055 lua extensions, ...)
1056 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1059 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1062 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1063 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1066 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1069 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1070 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1071 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1072 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1073 Dutch, Danish, translations
1074 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1077 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1078 --------------------------------
1081 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1084 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1085 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1086 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1089 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1090 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1091 * Fix koreus lua parser
1092 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1093 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1094 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1095 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1098 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1099 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1102 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1105 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1106 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1107 * Fix Time counter UI look
1108 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1111 * Fix https streaming
1114 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1115 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1116 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1119 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1120 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1121 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1122 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1123 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1126 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1127 --------------------------------
1130 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1131 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1132 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1133 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1134 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1135 during playback on Mac OS X
1138 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1139 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1140 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1143 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1144 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1145 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1146 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1147 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1150 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1151 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1152 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1153 * Support Youtube live streams
1156 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1159 * Fix media info dialog update
1160 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1161 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1162 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1163 * Fix album art display at start
1166 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1167 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1168 * Fix menus display and behavior
1169 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1170 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1171 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1172 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1173 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1174 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1175 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1178 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1179 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1180 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1181 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1182 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1183 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1184 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1185 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1186 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1189 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1190 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1191 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1192 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1193 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1196 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1197 --------------------------------
1200 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1203 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1204 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1207 * Add GateKeeper support
1208 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1209 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1210 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1213 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1216 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1217 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1218 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1219 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1220 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1223 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1224 --------------------------------
1227 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1228 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1229 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1230 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1231 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1232 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1233 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1234 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1235 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1236 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1237 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1241 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1242 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1243 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1244 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1245 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1246 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1247 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1248 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1249 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1250 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1251 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1252 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1255 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1256 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1258 * Fix MP3 free format support
1261 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1262 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1263 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1264 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1265 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1268 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1269 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1271 Audio filters and output:
1272 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1273 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1274 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1275 * Do not apply volume in file output
1276 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1277 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1280 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1281 the persistant media library
1282 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1283 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1284 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1285 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1286 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1287 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1288 press on the Play/Pause button
1289 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1290 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1291 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1292 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1293 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1294 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1295 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1296 Synchronization panel
1297 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1298 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1299 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1300 * Fix crashes on exit
1301 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1303 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1304 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1305 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1306 automatically reset on the first launch.
1307 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1308 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1309 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1312 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1313 * Fixes for icecast SD
1316 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1317 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1318 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1319 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1320 * Fix tags and file names display
1321 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1324 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1325 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1328 * Fix display of some buttons
1329 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1330 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1333 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1334 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1335 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1338 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1339 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1340 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1341 Thai translations update
1342 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1345 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1346 --------------------------------
1349 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1350 * fix the samba module compilation
1351 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1352 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1353 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1354 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1357 * Support for MXPEG files
1358 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1359 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1362 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1363 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1364 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1367 * Fix ogm header creation
1370 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1371 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1374 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1375 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1376 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1377 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1380 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1383 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1384 * allow to hide the sidebar
1385 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1386 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1387 * noticebly faster launch time
1388 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1389 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1390 * improve track synchronization panel
1391 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1392 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1395 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1396 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1397 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1398 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1401 * fix for menus display
1402 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1403 * documentation update
1406 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1407 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1410 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1411 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1412 * Update Jamendo selections
1416 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1417 * fix a crash on VLM close
1420 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1421 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1422 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1423 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1426 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1429 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1430 ---------------------------------
1433 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1434 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1435 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1436 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1437 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1438 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1439 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1440 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1441 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1442 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1443 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1444 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1445 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1446 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1447 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1448 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1449 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1450 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1451 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1452 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1453 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1454 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1455 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1456 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1457 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1458 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1460 Important changes for packagers:
1461 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1462 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1463 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1464 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1465 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1466 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1467 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1468 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1469 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1470 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1473 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1474 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1475 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1476 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1477 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1478 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1479 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1482 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1483 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1484 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1485 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1486 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1487 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1488 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1489 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1490 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1491 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1492 * PulseAudio audio input support
1493 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1494 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1495 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1496 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1497 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1498 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1499 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1500 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1503 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1504 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1505 are notably concerned.
1506 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1507 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1508 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1509 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1510 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1511 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1512 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1513 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1514 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1515 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1516 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1517 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1518 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1519 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1520 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1523 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1524 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1525 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1526 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1527 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1528 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1529 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1530 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1531 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1532 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1533 * Improved support of tracker files
1534 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1537 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1538 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1539 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1540 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1541 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1542 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1543 and important cleanups and optimisations
1544 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1545 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1546 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1547 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1548 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1549 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1550 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1551 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1552 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1553 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1554 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1555 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1556 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1557 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1558 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1559 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1560 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1561 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1562 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1563 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1564 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1567 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1568 * New video output for iOS platform
1569 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1570 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1571 * Various vmem improvements
1572 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1573 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1574 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1575 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1576 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1577 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1579 Audio Output and Filters:
1580 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1581 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1582 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1583 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1584 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1585 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1586 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1587 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1588 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1589 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1592 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1593 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1594 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1595 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1596 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1597 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1598 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1599 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1600 * New anti-flickering filter
1601 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1602 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1603 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1604 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1605 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1606 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1607 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1610 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1611 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1612 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1613 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1614 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1615 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1616 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1617 * Major rework of VoD support
1618 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1619 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1620 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1621 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1622 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1623 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1624 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1625 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1626 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1627 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1630 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1631 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1634 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1635 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1636 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1637 list of available audio and video filters
1638 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1639 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1640 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1643 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1644 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1645 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1646 * id3tag: use taglib
1647 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1648 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1649 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1650 * removal of the noise filter
1651 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1652 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1653 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1654 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1657 * Update of translations for most languages.
1658 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1661 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1662 ----------------------------------
1665 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1666 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1669 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1670 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1673 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1674 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1675 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1678 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1681 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1682 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1685 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1688 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1689 ----------------------------------
1692 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1693 including support for OS X Lion
1694 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1695 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1698 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1701 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1702 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1703 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1706 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1709 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1710 ----------------------------------
1713 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1714 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1717 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1718 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1719 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1720 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1721 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1723 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1724 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1725 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1727 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1728 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1731 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1734 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1737 * Fix quitting on Linux
1738 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1742 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1745 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1748 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1749 ---------------------------------
1751 Windows and Mac OS X:
1752 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1755 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1756 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1759 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1762 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1765 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1767 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1768 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1770 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1771 * RTP output and XML export
1772 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1776 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1777 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1778 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1779 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1782 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1783 --------------------------------
1785 Windows and Mac OS X:
1786 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1789 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1792 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1793 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1794 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1795 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1796 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1797 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1800 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1801 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1805 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1806 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1807 * New Luganda Translation
1810 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1811 --------------------------------
1814 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1817 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1818 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1819 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1820 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1823 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1825 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1826 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1827 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1828 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1829 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1830 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1831 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1832 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1834 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1835 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1836 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1837 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1838 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1839 * Configure and build system improvements
1840 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1843 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1844 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1845 * New icelandic translation
1848 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1849 --------------------------------
1852 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1853 #234484 and #260719.
1856 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1857 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1858 and stability reasons
1861 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1865 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1868 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1869 ----------------------------------
1872 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1875 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1876 ---------------------------------
1879 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1880 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1881 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1882 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1885 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1888 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1889 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1890 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1891 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1894 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1895 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1896 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1898 Subtitles and renderer:
1899 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1900 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1901 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1902 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1903 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1906 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1907 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1908 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1909 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1912 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1913 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1915 Miscellaneous fixes:
1916 * KDE device solid actions
1918 * Transcode integer overflow
1919 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1920 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1923 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1924 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1925 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1928 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1929 ----------------------------------
1932 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1936 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1939 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1942 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1943 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1944 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1945 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1948 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1952 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1955 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1958 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1959 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1961 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1965 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1966 * Miscellaneous fixes
1969 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1970 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1971 French and Ukrainian
1972 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1973 * New Asturian translation
1976 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1977 ----------------------------------
1980 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1982 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1985 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1988 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1989 * Various fixes for Windows
1992 * New Armenian translation
1993 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1994 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1997 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1998 --------------------------------
2001 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2002 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2003 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2006 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2007 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2010 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2011 --------------------------------
2013 Access and demuxers:
2014 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2015 * fix for podcasts parsing
2016 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2019 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2020 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2023 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2024 * fix m3u playlists exports
2027 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2030 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2033 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2036 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2039 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2042 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2043 --------------------------------
2046 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2047 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2050 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2051 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2054 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2055 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2056 * fix console output encoding
2058 Interface and extensions:
2059 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2060 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2063 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2064 --------------------------------
2067 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2068 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2069 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2070 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2071 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2072 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2073 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2074 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2075 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2076 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2077 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2078 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2079 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2080 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2081 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2082 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2086 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2087 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2088 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2089 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2090 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2093 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2096 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2097 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2098 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2102 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2105 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2106 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2107 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2110 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2111 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2112 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2113 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2116 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2117 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2120 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2121 --------------------------------
2123 Important changes for users:
2124 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2125 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2127 Important changes for packagers:
2128 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2129 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2130 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2131 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2132 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2134 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2136 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2137 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2138 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2139 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2140 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2143 * Support for the sftp protocol
2144 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2145 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2146 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2147 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2148 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2151 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2152 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2153 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2155 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2156 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2157 * Invmem module improvements
2158 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2159 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2160 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2161 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2162 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2163 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2164 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2165 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2166 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2167 * Support for VP8 codec
2168 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2171 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2172 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2173 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2174 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2175 * Various EGP improvements
2176 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2177 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2180 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2181 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2182 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2183 * Podcast images are now displayed
2186 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2187 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2188 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2189 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2190 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2191 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2192 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2193 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2194 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2195 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2196 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2199 * New content extensions lua framework
2202 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2203 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2204 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2205 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2206 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2207 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2208 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2211 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2212 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2213 * Service discovery based on libudev
2214 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2217 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2218 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2219 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2220 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2221 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2222 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2223 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2226 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2227 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2228 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2231 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2233 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2234 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2237 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2240 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2241 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2242 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2243 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2244 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2245 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2246 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2249 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2250 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2253 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2254 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2255 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2259 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2260 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2261 * Improved Solaris port
2264 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2265 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2268 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2269 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2270 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2271 * transrate: broken since too long
2272 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2273 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2274 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2275 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2276 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2277 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2278 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2279 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2280 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2281 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2282 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2283 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2284 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2285 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2288 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2289 --------------------------------
2292 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2294 Decoders/Packetizers:
2295 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2298 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2299 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2300 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2301 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2302 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2305 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2306 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2309 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2310 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2313 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2314 and Walloon translations updated
2315 * Sinhala translation started
2318 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2319 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2322 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2323 --------------------------------
2326 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2327 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2330 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2333 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2334 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2337 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2338 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2339 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2340 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2343 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2344 --------------------------------
2347 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2348 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2351 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2352 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2355 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2356 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2359 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2362 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2363 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2366 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2367 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2370 * New Walloon translation
2371 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2374 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2375 --------------------------------
2378 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2379 regressions in most popular drivers
2380 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2383 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2384 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2385 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2388 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2389 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2392 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2393 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2394 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2395 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2396 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2399 * New udev module for linux
2402 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2405 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2408 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2409 --------------------------------
2412 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2413 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2414 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2417 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2418 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2421 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2422 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2425 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2428 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2429 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2430 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2431 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2434 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2435 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2436 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2437 - no support for Goom and SDL
2438 - limited text rendering support
2439 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2442 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2443 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2444 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2445 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2446 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2447 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2448 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2449 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2450 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2454 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2457 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2460 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2461 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2462 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2463 Arabic and French translation updates
2466 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2467 --------------------------------
2470 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2471 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2472 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2473 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2474 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2475 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2478 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2479 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2480 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2483 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2484 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2485 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2488 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2491 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2492 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2495 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2496 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2497 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2498 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2499 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2500 * Fix various crashes
2503 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2505 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2509 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2510 ---------------------------------
2514 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2515 See 'Access:' for more info.
2516 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2519 * Instantaneous pausing
2520 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2521 * Finer speed control
2522 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2523 * Timeshift for most medias
2524 * RTSP trickplay support
2525 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2528 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2529 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2530 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2531 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2532 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2533 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2534 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2535 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2536 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2537 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2540 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2541 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2542 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2543 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2544 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2545 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2546 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2549 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2550 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2553 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2554 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2555 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2556 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2557 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2558 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2559 * DVB scanning on linux
2560 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2561 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2562 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2563 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2564 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2565 * MTP device access on Unix
2566 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2567 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2570 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2571 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2572 Windows and Mac OS X.
2575 * Export the playlist in HTML
2576 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2577 * Better metadata handling and reading
2579 Linux/Windows interface:
2580 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2581 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2582 * Recently played items list
2583 * Interface toolbar customizations
2584 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2585 - More menus actions
2586 - Finer speed slider
2587 - Improvements on many dialogs
2588 - New dialog for plugins listing
2589 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2590 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2591 * Better integration in GTK environments
2594 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2595 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2596 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2597 * Additional usability improvements
2600 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2601 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2602 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2603 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2604 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2607 * New Maemo port with:
2608 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2609 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2612 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2615 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2616 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2617 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2618 * Support for latest iSight models
2621 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2622 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2625 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2626 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2627 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2628 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2629 The old image video output has been removed.
2630 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2631 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2634 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2642 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2643 --------------------------------------
2649 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2650 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2651 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2652 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2653 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2654 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2655 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2657 Various fixes to the following modules:
2660 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2661 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2662 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2664 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2669 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2670 ---------------------------------
2673 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2674 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2677 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2678 ---------------------------------
2681 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2684 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2687 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2688 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2689 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2690 main controller window.
2691 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2694 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2699 * Updates of other localizations
2702 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2703 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2704 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2705 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2706 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2709 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2710 ---------------------------------
2713 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2715 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2718 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2719 --------------------------------
2724 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2725 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2728 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2729 --------------------------------
2731 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2732 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2735 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2738 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2739 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2742 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2743 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2746 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2747 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2748 * Various fixed in playlist
2751 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2754 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2757 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2758 ------------------------------------
2760 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2761 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2764 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2765 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2766 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2769 * Stability fix for the video output.
2772 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2773 --------------------------------
2776 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2777 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2778 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2779 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2780 * Fixed update system bugs
2781 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2784 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2785 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2786 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2787 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2788 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2789 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2790 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2791 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2792 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2793 modern Mac OS X versions
2796 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2797 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2799 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2800 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2803 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2804 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2805 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2806 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2807 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2808 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2811 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2812 --------------------------------
2814 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2815 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2816 * Multiple bugfixes.
2819 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2820 --------------------------------
2822 * Multiple bug fixes.
2825 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2826 ---------------------------------
2830 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2831 recent to work correctly
2832 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2833 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2834 edit the ".hosts" file.
2835 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2836 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2837 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2838 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2839 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2840 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2841 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2842 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2843 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2844 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2845 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2846 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2847 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2848 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2849 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2850 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2851 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2852 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2853 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2854 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2855 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2856 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2857 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2858 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2859 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2860 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2861 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2862 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2863 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2864 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2865 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2866 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2867 and postproc modules.
2868 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2869 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2870 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2871 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2873 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2874 filter. For example:
2875 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2876 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2878 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2879 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2885 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2887 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2888 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2891 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2892 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2894 * Shoutcast TV listings
2895 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2897 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2898 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2900 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2903 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2904 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2905 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2906 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2907 * JACK audio input support
2908 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2909 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2910 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2911 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2912 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2913 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2914 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2915 (available as a separate download).
2916 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2917 * RTMP input support
2918 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2919 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2920 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2922 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2923 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2926 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2927 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2928 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2929 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2931 * APEv1/2 tags support
2932 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2933 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2935 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2936 * TiVo Series 2 support
2937 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2942 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2943 * Flash Screen Video support
2944 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2945 * DosBox Capture support
2946 * Karl Morton's Video support
2947 * limited atrac3 support
2949 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2950 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2951 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2952 * H.264 PAFF support
2953 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2954 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2955 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2956 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2957 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2960 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2961 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2962 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2963 * AQTitle subtitles support
2964 * MKV USF subtitles support
2965 * HTML-based subtitles support
2966 * MPSub subtitles support
2967 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2968 * MPL2 subtitles support
2969 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2970 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2971 * Realtext subtitle support
2972 * DKS subtitle support
2973 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2974 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2977 * Flash Screen Video support
2978 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2980 Video outputs and filters:
2981 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2982 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2983 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2984 * New puzzle video output filter
2985 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2986 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2988 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2989 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2990 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2991 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2992 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2993 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2994 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2995 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2996 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2997 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2998 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2999 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3000 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3001 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3003 Audio outputs and filters:
3004 * Replay gain support
3005 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3006 new scaletempo audio filter)
3007 * New spatializer audio filter
3008 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3011 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3012 * New RTP payload formats:
3013 * Speex voice audio codec
3014 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3015 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3016 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3017 * DCCP transport for RTP
3018 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3023 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3024 end-user suitable way.
3025 * Improved user interaction
3026 * Improved mouse gestures
3027 * Vastly improved Update checker
3028 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3030 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3031 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3033 * Improved video output features
3034 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3035 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3036 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3037 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3038 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3040 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3041 if libncursesw is available.
3042 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3043 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3044 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3046 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3047 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3048 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3049 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3050 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3051 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3052 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3053 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3056 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3057 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3058 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3061 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3062 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3063 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3064 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3065 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3066 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3069 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3070 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3080 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3081 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3082 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3085 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3086 ----------------------------------
3089 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3092 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3093 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3094 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3095 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3096 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3097 * Updated Polish translation
3100 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3101 ----------------------------------
3104 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3105 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3106 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3109 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3110 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3111 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3112 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3113 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3114 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3115 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3116 to an unexpected application termination
3117 * New Serbian translation
3118 * Updated Romanian translation
3121 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3122 ----------------------------------
3125 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3126 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3127 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3128 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3129 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3130 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3131 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3132 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3135 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3136 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3137 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3138 * Fixed AAC resampling
3139 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3140 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3143 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3144 ----------------------------------
3147 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3148 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3149 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3150 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3151 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3154 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3155 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3156 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3157 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3158 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3161 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3162 ----------------------------------
3165 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3166 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3169 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3170 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3171 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3172 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3174 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3178 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3181 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3184 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3187 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3190 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3191 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3192 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3193 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3194 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3196 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3197 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3198 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3199 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3202 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3205 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3206 ----------------------------------
3209 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3210 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3211 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3213 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3214 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3216 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3217 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3220 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3222 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3223 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3224 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3225 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3226 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3227 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3228 two different movies
3229 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3230 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3231 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3234 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3237 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3238 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3239 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3240 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3243 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3244 ----------------------------------
3246 Various bugfixes, notably:
3247 * Windows Vista compatibility
3248 * Cropping in Direct3D
3249 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3250 * RSS filter string overflow
3252 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3254 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3255 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3258 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3259 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3262 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3265 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3268 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3271 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3272 ----------------------------------
3274 Various bugfixes, notably:
3275 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3276 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3277 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3278 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3279 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3280 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3283 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3284 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3287 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3289 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3290 * Diverse usability improvements
3291 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3292 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3293 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3296 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3297 ---------------------------------
3299 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3300 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3303 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3306 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3307 --------------------------------
3310 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3313 * Support for RTSP authentication
3314 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3315 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3316 * ATSC support for DVB input
3317 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3318 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3319 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3322 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3323 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3324 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3325 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3326 * Matroska WavPack support
3327 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3328 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3329 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3332 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3333 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3334 * Improved libcaca support
3338 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3339 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3341 * Systray support in skins
3343 * Support for Apple Remote control
3344 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3345 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3346 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3347 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3349 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3352 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3353 Windows 9x/ME users:
3354 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3355 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3356 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3357 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3358 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3360 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3361 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3370 * Updates to the libvlc API
3371 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3374 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3375 --------------------------------
3378 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3379 * Support for downloading updates
3383 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3384 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3385 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3386 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3388 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3389 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3390 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3393 * Cook (Real audio) support
3395 Playlist / Services discovery:
3396 * XSPF playlist support
3398 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3401 * New JACK audio output
3404 * New video filters:
3405 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3406 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3407 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3408 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3409 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3410 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3413 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3416 * System to inform the user and request information
3417 - HTTP authentication
3421 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3422 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3423 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3426 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3427 - Improved playlist handling
3428 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3430 - Embedded Video output
3431 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3432 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3433 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3434 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3435 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3437 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3438 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3441 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3444 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3445 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3446 * Growl "Now playing" support
3449 * Ability to log to syslog
3450 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3453 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3455 * A bit more automatic testing
3458 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3459 ---------------------------------
3462 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3463 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3466 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3467 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3470 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3473 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3474 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3480 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3483 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3484 --------------------------------
3487 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3491 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3492 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3493 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3496 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3497 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3498 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3499 * GnomeVFS input module
3500 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3501 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3504 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3505 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3506 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3509 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3510 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3516 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3517 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3520 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3521 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3522 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3525 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3527 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3528 - New extended controls panel
3529 - New bookmarks window
3530 - Fixed playlist sorting
3531 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3533 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3534 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3535 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3536 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3540 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3541 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3543 - Include macro to include other files
3547 * Should now work outside IE as well
3550 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3553 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3554 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3557 The following languages were added:
3561 * Simplified Chinese
3562 The following languages were re-added:
3566 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3567 --------------------------------
3570 * Rewrite of the playlist
3572 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3573 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3574 * Preferences improvements:
3575 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3576 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3578 * Core image manipulation support
3579 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3580 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3581 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3582 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3583 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3584 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3585 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3586 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3587 * Access filter architecture
3588 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3589 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3593 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3594 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3595 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3596 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3597 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3598 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3599 * Massive Matroska improvements
3600 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3602 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3603 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3604 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3605 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3606 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3608 Decoders / Encoders:
3609 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3610 * PNG decoder/encoder
3611 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3612 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3615 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3618 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3619 * Brand new SAP module
3620 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3621 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3622 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3623 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3624 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3625 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3629 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3632 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3633 * Image file video output (png)
3634 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3635 * Improvements to wall video filter
3636 * Support for font color and opacity
3642 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3643 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3644 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3648 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3649 - Improved preferences
3650 - Improvements to the wizard
3651 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3653 - Redesigned playlist
3654 - Improved preferences
3656 - Support for multiple actions
3659 - Support for the new playlist system
3661 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3664 * Screensaver disabling fix
3665 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3666 * Support for no-decoration windows
3669 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3670 * The OpenGL video output is back
3671 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3672 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3673 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3674 is not yet available in the new module
3675 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3678 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3687 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3690 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3693 The following languages were added:
3699 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3700 --------------------------------
3703 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3704 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3707 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3708 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3709 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3712 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3715 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3718 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3721 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3722 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3723 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3727 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3729 * Support of playlist group announcement
3732 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3733 --------------------------------
3736 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3737 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3738 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3739 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3740 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3741 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3744 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3745 (Stream your desktop)
3746 * Improved DVD support:
3747 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3748 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3749 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3750 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3751 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3752 (selection of titles/chapters).
3755 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3756 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3757 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3758 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3759 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3760 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3761 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3762 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3763 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3764 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3767 * G.726 audio support
3768 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3769 * MPEG-4 text support
3770 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3771 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3772 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3776 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3777 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3778 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3779 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3780 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3781 * DVB subtitles encoder
3782 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3783 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3785 * Text track muxing for mp4
3786 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3787 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3788 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3789 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3790 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3791 * Improved ASF muxer
3793 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3794 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3795 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3798 * New audio equalizer filter
3799 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3800 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3801 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3802 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3805 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3806 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3807 with support for effects.
3808 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3809 - New filters can be streamed.
3810 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3811 - Centralized scaling and blending
3813 - "time", to display current time
3814 - "marq", to display a marquee
3817 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3818 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3819 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3820 * A few skins2 improvements
3821 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3822 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3823 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3824 * Improved CORBA control module
3827 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3828 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3829 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3832 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3833 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3834 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3837 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3838 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3839 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3840 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3841 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3844 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3847 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3848 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3851 * Server/client network synchronization module
3852 * VBrick streams fully supported
3853 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3857 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3858 --------------------------------
3861 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3862 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3863 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3864 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3867 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3868 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3869 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3870 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3871 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3872 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3873 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3876 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3877 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3878 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3879 * Improved directory access module.
3880 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3881 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3882 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3883 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3884 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3887 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3888 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3889 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3892 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3893 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3894 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3897 * Improved session announcement system.
3898 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3899 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3900 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3901 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3902 * Improved transrater.
3903 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3904 * New configuration system.
3905 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3908 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3909 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3910 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3911 * Supports scheduling.
3912 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3913 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3916 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3917 - Ability to embed video output.
3918 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3919 - Lots of improvements.
3920 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3921 - New design and set of icons.
3922 - Ability to embed video output.
3923 - Support for hotkeys.
3924 - Support for bookmarks.
3926 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3927 - Better hotkeys handling.
3930 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3931 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3932 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3933 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3936 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3937 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3938 * Improved Windows installer.
3944 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3945 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3948 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3949 ---------------------------------
3952 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3953 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3956 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3957 --------------------------------
3960 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3961 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3964 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3965 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3966 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3967 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3970 * Internal improvments
3971 * Improved import/export
3974 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3976 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3977 small and strange formats.
3979 * New MOD audio demux.
3980 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3981 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3982 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3983 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3986 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3987 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3988 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3994 * New opengl video output plugin.
3997 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3998 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4001 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4002 --------------------------------
4005 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4006 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4007 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4008 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4009 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4010 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4011 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4012 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4015 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4020 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4021 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4022 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4023 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4024 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4025 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4026 * Better Icecast support.
4027 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4028 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4031 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4032 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4033 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4034 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4035 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4036 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4037 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4040 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4041 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4042 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4043 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4044 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4045 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4046 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4047 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4048 * Preliminary RTP support.
4049 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4054 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4055 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4057 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4058 - Improvements and help in preferences
4059 - New streaming wizard
4060 - Revised Disc Open menu
4062 - Improvements of the standard pages
4063 - Support for new commands
4064 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4067 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4068 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4071 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4072 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4073 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4074 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4075 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4076 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4077 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4078 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4079 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4082 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4084 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4085 * Support for Panther.
4086 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4087 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4090 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4091 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4092 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4093 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4094 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4095 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4096 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4097 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4100 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4101 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4102 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4105 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4108 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4109 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4110 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4111 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4114 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4115 --------------------------------
4118 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4121 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4122 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4125 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4126 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4129 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4132 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4133 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4136 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4139 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4142 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4143 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4147 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4148 --------------------------------
4151 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4152 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4156 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4157 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4158 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4160 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4161 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4164 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4167 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4170 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4171 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4175 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4176 --------------------------------
4179 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4180 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4184 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4185 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4186 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4187 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4188 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4191 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4192 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4193 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4196 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4197 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4198 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4201 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4202 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4203 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4204 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4205 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4208 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4209 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4210 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4213 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4216 * Improved build system.
4217 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4218 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4219 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4220 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4223 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4224 --------------------------------
4227 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4230 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4231 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4232 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4233 * Video 4 Linux support
4234 * CD Digital Audio support
4235 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4238 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4239 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4240 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4241 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4244 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4245 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4246 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4247 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4248 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4249 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4250 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4253 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4254 * New HTTP remote control interface
4257 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4258 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4259 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4260 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4261 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4264 * New reset option for the preferences
4265 * You can set your language in the prefences
4266 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4267 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4268 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4269 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4272 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4273 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4274 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4277 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4278 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4279 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4280 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4281 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4282 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4283 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4284 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4285 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4286 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4289 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4290 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4291 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4292 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4293 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4294 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4295 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4298 * Interface localization
4299 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4300 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4301 * New full-featured Preferences window
4304 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4305 --------------------------------
4308 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4309 * support for skins at the interface level
4310 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4311 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4312 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4313 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4314 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4317 * fixed HTTP redirects
4318 * support for opening an entire directory
4319 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4320 * new video4linux access plug-in
4321 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4324 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4325 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4326 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4329 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4330 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4331 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4332 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4333 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4334 * new codec for raw I420 video
4335 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4338 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4339 (although it still misses some important features)
4340 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4343 * new HTTP output support
4344 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4345 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4348 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4351 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4354 * reorderable playlist
4355 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4356 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4357 * support for mono audio output devices
4358 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4359 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4360 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4361 * the messages window remembers more lines
4362 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4363 * http and ogg stream output options
4364 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4367 * new skinnable interface
4368 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4370 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4371 * support for FLAC audio format
4372 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4374 * network tab in the interface
4375 * "apply" handling in preferences
4378 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4379 ---------------------------------
4382 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4383 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4384 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4385 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4387 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4388 * DTS S/PDIF support
4391 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4392 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4393 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4394 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4397 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4398 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4401 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4404 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4407 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4409 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4410 * rc interface is now fully useable
4411 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4414 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4415 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4416 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4417 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4418 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4420 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4421 * support for mouse gestures
4422 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4425 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4426 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4429 * improved ID3 tag detection
4430 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4431 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4432 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4434 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4437 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4438 ---------------------------------
4441 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4442 English was set as the preferred language
4445 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4446 --------------------------------
4449 * new mouse gesture interface
4450 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4454 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4455 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4456 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4459 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4460 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4464 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4467 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4468 without the user consent
4471 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4473 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4474 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4475 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4478 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4479 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4480 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4481 * playlist enhancements
4482 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4483 * new step forward/step backward commands
4484 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4485 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4486 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4489 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4490 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4491 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4494 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4495 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4498 * native video output is working again
4499 * only commandline interface support
4500 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4503 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4504 --------------------------------
4507 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4508 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4509 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4510 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4511 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4512 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4513 and A/52 streams are supported)
4514 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4519 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4520 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4521 * VCD entry points support
4522 * VCD image file support
4525 * support for *.asf format
4526 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4527 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4528 * support for ogg encapsulation
4529 * support for raw DV format
4530 * support for *.wav format
4531 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4534 Stream discovery & playlists:
4535 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4536 * support for .m3u file format
4537 * support for .asx file format
4538 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4541 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4542 (only available with the .avi demux)
4543 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4544 * support for raw PCM data
4545 * support for Cinepak video codec
4546 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4547 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4548 * support for Xvid codec
4549 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4550 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4551 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4553 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4555 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4558 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4561 * new WxWindows interface
4562 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4563 device and the channels configuration
4564 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4565 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4566 format that VLC can play
4567 * new swedish translation
4568 * enhancements of the playlist window
4569 * new messages window to see debug info
4570 * fixed a few crashes
4573 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4574 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4575 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4576 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working