3 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4 -----------------------------------------------------
7 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
8 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
9 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
10 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
11 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
12 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
15 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
17 * Improved DVD support:
18 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
19 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
20 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
21 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
22 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
23 (selection of titles/chapters).
26 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
27 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
28 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
29 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
30 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
31 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
32 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
33 * Improved Ogg demuxer
34 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
35 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
39 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
41 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
42 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
43 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
47 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
48 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
49 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
50 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
51 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
52 * DVB subtitles encoder
53 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
54 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
56 * Text track muxing for mp4
57 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
58 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
59 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
60 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
63 * H.263 RTP streaming support
64 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
65 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
68 * New audio equalizer filter
69 * Very trivial volume normalizer
70 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
71 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
74 * Roku HD1000 Video output
75 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
76 with support for effects.
77 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
78 - New filters can be streamed.
79 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
80 - Centralized scaling and blending
82 - "time", to display current time
83 - "marq", to display a marquee
86 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
87 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
88 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
89 * A few skins2 improvements
90 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
91 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
92 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
93 * Improved CORBA control module
96 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
97 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
98 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
101 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
102 * Experimental SVG rendering module
105 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
106 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
107 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
108 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
109 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
112 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
113 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
116 * Server/client network synchronization module
117 * VBrick streams fully supported
118 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
121 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
122 --------------------------------
125 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
126 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
127 * Improved HTTP daemon.
128 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
131 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
132 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
133 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
134 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
135 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
136 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
137 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
140 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
141 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
142 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
143 * Improved directory access module.
144 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
145 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
146 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
147 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
148 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
151 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
152 * mmsh streaming fixes.
153 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
156 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
157 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
158 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
161 * Improved session announcement system.
162 * Minimize threads usage by default.
163 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
164 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
165 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
166 * Improved transrater.
167 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
168 * New configuration system.
169 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
172 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
173 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
174 * Supports live streams and VoD.
175 * Supports scheduling.
176 * Telnet interface for vlm.
177 * HTTP interface for vlm.
180 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
181 - Ability to embed video output.
182 - Support for bitmap fonts.
183 - Lots of improvements.
184 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
185 - New design and set of icons.
186 - Ability to embed video output.
187 - Support for hotkeys.
188 - Support for bookmarks.
190 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
191 - Better hotkeys handling.
194 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
195 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
196 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
197 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
200 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
201 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
202 * Improved Windows installer.
208 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
209 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
211 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
212 ---------------------------------
215 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
216 * Playing MOD files is working now.
219 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
220 ---------------------------------
223 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
224 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
227 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
228 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
229 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
230 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
233 * Internal improvments
234 * Improved import/export
237 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
239 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
240 small and strange formats.
242 * New MOD audio demux.
243 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
244 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
245 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
246 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
249 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
250 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
251 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
257 * New opengl video output plugin.
260 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
261 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
263 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
264 ---------------------------------
267 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
268 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
269 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
270 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
271 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
272 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
273 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
274 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
277 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
282 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
283 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
284 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
285 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
286 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
287 * Reworked DVB tuning.
288 * Better Icecast support.
289 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
290 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
293 * Support for Theora video encoding.
294 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
295 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
296 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
297 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
298 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
299 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
302 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
303 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
304 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
305 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
306 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
307 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
308 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
309 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
310 * Preliminary RTP support.
311 * Fixes to SAP announces.
316 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
317 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
319 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
320 - Improvements and help in preferences
321 - New streaming wizard
322 - Revised Disc Open menu
324 - Improvements of the standard pages
325 - Support for new commands
326 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
329 * Many fixes to the SAP module
330 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
333 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
334 * Text subtitles autodetection.
335 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
336 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
337 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
338 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
339 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
340 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
341 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
344 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
346 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
347 * Support for Panther.
348 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
349 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
352 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
353 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
354 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
355 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
356 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
357 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
358 * Multimonitor support (untested).
359 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
362 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
363 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
364 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
367 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
370 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
371 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
372 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
373 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
375 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
376 ---------------------------------
379 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
382 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
383 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
386 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
387 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
390 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
393 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
394 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
397 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
400 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
403 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
404 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
407 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
408 ---------------------------------
411 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
412 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
416 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
417 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
418 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
420 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
421 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
424 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
427 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
430 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
431 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
434 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
435 ---------------------------------
438 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
439 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
443 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
444 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
445 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
446 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
447 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
450 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
451 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
452 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
455 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
456 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
457 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
460 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
461 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
462 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
463 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
464 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
467 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
468 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
469 * A new CORBA control plugin.
472 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
475 * Improved build system.
476 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
477 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
478 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
479 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
482 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
483 ---------------------------------
486 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
489 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
490 * Fixed large file support on Windows
491 * Video 4 Linux support
492 * CD Digital Audio support
493 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
496 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
497 * Support for OpenDML avi files
498 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
499 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
502 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
503 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
504 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
505 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
506 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
507 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
508 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
511 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
512 * New HTTP remote control interface
515 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
516 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
517 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
518 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
521 * New reset option for the preferences
522 * You can set your language in the prefences
523 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
524 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
525 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
526 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
529 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
530 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
531 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
534 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
535 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
536 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
537 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
538 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
539 * New icons by Davor Orel.
540 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
541 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
542 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
543 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
546 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
547 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
548 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
549 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
550 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
551 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
552 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
555 * Interface localization
556 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
557 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
558 * New full-featured Preferences window
560 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
561 ---------------------------------
564 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
565 * support for skins at the interface level
566 * new OSD module using Freetype2
567 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
568 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
569 input level before dropping out of date frames.
570 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
573 * fixed HTTP redirects
574 * support for opening an entire directory
575 * EOF should be detected more reliably
576 * new video4linux access plug-in
577 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
580 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
581 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
582 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
585 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
586 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
587 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
588 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
589 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
590 * new codec for raw I420 video
591 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
594 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
595 (although it still misses some important features)
596 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
599 * new HTTP output support
600 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
601 * fixed AV synchronization issues
604 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
607 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
610 * reorderable playlist
611 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
612 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
613 * support for mono audio output devices
614 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
615 * fixed several cosmetic issues
616 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
617 * the messages window remembers more lines
618 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
619 * http and ogg stream output options
620 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
623 * new skinnable interface
624 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
626 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
627 * support for FLAC audio format
628 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
630 * network tab in the interface
631 * "apply" handling in preferences
634 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
635 ---------------------------------
638 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
639 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
640 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
641 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
643 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
647 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
648 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
649 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
650 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
653 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
654 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
657 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
660 * fixed the GNU-pth support
663 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
665 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
666 * rc interface is now fully useable
667 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
670 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
671 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
672 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
673 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
674 * VLC now uses the default audio device
676 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
677 * support for mouse gestures
678 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
681 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
682 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
685 * improved ID3 tag detection
686 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
687 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
688 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
690 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
693 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
694 ---------------------------------
697 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
698 English was set as the preferred language
701 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
702 --------------------------------
705 * new mouse gesture interface
706 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
710 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
711 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
712 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
715 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
716 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
720 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
723 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
724 without the user consent
727 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
729 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
730 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
731 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
734 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
735 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
736 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
737 * playlist enhancements
738 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
739 * new step forward/step backward commands
740 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
741 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
742 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
745 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
746 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
747 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
750 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
751 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
754 * native video output is working again
755 * only commandline interface support
756 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
759 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
760 --------------------------------
763 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
764 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
765 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
766 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
767 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
768 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
769 and A/52 streams are supported)
770 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
775 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
776 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
777 * VCD entry points support
778 * VCD image file support
781 * support for *.asf format
782 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
783 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
784 * support for ogg encapsulation
785 * support for raw DV format
786 * support for *.wav format
787 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
790 Stream discovery & playlists:
791 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
792 * support for .m3u file format
793 * support for .asx file format
794 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
797 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
798 (only available with the .avi demux)
799 * support for ADPCM audio codec
800 * support for raw PCM data
801 * support for Cinepak video codec
802 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
803 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
804 * support for Xvid codec
805 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
806 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
807 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
809 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
811 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
814 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
817 * new WxWindows interface
818 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
819 device and the channels configuration
820 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
821 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
822 format that VLC can play
823 * new swedish translation
824 * enhancements of the playlist window
825 * new messages window to see debug info
826 * fixed a few crashes
829 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
830 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
831 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
832 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working