1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
15 * Remove iomx support for Android
20 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
22 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
23 --------------------------------
25 Platform support changes:
26 * 3.0.x will be LTS (on a best-effort basis) that will be the last
27 working version for a lot of systems.
28 Indeed 3.0.x will be the last releases running on:
29 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those releases
30 - macOS 10.7, 10,8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
31 - Android 2.x, 3.x & 4.0.x
32 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4
34 * For 3.0, please note:
35 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
36 it should work, but not without limitations.
37 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
38 You _really_ should upgrade.
39 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
40 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
41 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
44 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
45 and rewrite the parsing of the media files
46 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
47 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
48 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subtitles
49 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
50 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
51 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
52 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
53 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
54 * Support wayland surface type
55 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
56 * Refactor preparsing input
57 * EPG reworked: table and single event updates, now using network time
58 * Refactored and fixed subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
59 es category single only or multiple es behavior
60 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint setting
61 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
62 * Support subtitles size live changing
65 * New NFS access module using libnfs
66 * New SMB access module using libdsm
68 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
69 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
70 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
71 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
72 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
73 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
74 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
75 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
76 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
77 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
78 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
79 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
80 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
81 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
82 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
83 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
84 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
85 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
86 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
87 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
88 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
89 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
90 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
91 * Improvements on DVB scanning
92 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
93 * Support for DVD ISO over network
94 * New SRT access module using libsrt
97 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
98 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
99 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
100 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
101 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
102 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
103 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
104 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
105 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
106 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
107 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
108 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
109 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
110 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
111 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
114 * Support for experimental AV1 video
115 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
116 * Support for experimental Daala video
117 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
118 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
119 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
120 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
121 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
122 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
123 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
124 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
125 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
126 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
127 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
128 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
129 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
130 can now decode up to 8 channels
131 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
132 * Support VPX high bit depth support
133 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
134 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
135 * Improved Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
137 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
138 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
141 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
142 * Support for fragmented MP4
143 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
144 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
145 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
146 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
147 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
148 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
149 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
150 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
151 * Add new metadata fields
152 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
153 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
154 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
155 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
156 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
157 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
158 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
159 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
160 * Improved broken-PCR probing and fixing
161 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
162 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
163 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
165 * Fixed a large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
166 * Partial support of PSMF
167 * Fix broken SCR samples
168 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
169 * Improvements on MKV:
170 * Rewrite MKV seeking
171 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
172 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
173 * Improve DVD-menus support
174 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
175 * Support Daala in Ogg
176 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
177 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
178 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
179 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
180 * Support WMV extended content metadata
181 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
182 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
183 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
184 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
185 * Support SBV subtitles
186 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
187 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
188 * Support for isofLaC
189 * Improved fLaC seeking
190 * Replaced --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
191 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
194 * Add an ADF stream filter
195 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
196 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
197 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
198 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
199 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
200 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
203 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
204 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
207 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
208 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
209 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
210 * Add Tizen audio module
211 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
212 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
213 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
214 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
217 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
218 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
219 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
220 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
221 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
222 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
223 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
225 * Add a pitch shifting module
228 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
230 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
231 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
232 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
233 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
234 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
235 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
236 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
237 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
238 * Wayland shell surface window provider
239 * Wayland shared memory video output
240 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
241 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
242 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
243 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
244 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
245 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
246 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
247 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
250 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
251 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
252 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
253 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
254 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
255 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
256 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
259 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
260 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
261 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
262 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
265 * Chromecast output module
266 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
269 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
270 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
273 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
274 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
275 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
279 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
280 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
281 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
282 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
285 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
286 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
287 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
288 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
289 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
290 * Improved and simplified preferences window
291 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
292 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
293 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
294 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
295 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
298 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
301 * Batch convert support
302 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
305 * Support key accelerators
308 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
309 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
310 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
311 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
312 This allows to attach media events between create and start
313 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
314 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
315 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
316 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
317 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
318 identifier (if there is one available)
319 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
320 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
321 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
322 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
323 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
324 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
325 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
326 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
327 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
328 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
329 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
330 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
331 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
332 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
334 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
335 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
336 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
337 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
338 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
341 * Support for the SystemD Journal
342 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
343 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
344 * New Android module for logging
347 * remove langfromtelx
348 * remove ZPL playlist format
349 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
350 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
351 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
352 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
353 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
354 * Add a memory keystore
355 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
356 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
360 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
361 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
362 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
363 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
364 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
365 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
366 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
367 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
368 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
369 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
370 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
371 * BD access module (use libbluray)
372 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
373 * EyeTV access module
374 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
375 * VDA decoder: use VT
376 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
377 * SDL video output module
378 * DirectFB video output module
379 * RAOP stream output module
382 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
383 --------------------------------
386 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
391 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
392 --------------------------------
395 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
396 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
397 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
398 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
401 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
402 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
405 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
406 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
407 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
408 update to the newest version.
411 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
415 * Support libupnp 1.8
420 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
421 ----------------------------------
424 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
425 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
428 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
430 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
431 ----------------------------------
433 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
438 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
439 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
440 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
441 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
442 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
443 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
444 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
447 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
448 --------------------------------
451 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
452 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
453 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
454 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
455 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
456 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
460 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
461 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
462 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
463 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
464 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
465 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
466 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
469 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
470 * Fix screenshots size
473 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
474 * Fix FTP scan string injection
475 * Fix HTTP size handling
481 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
485 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
488 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
489 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
490 * Fix uninstaller path handling
491 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
494 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
495 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
499 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
500 --------------------------------
503 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
504 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
505 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
508 * Fix resizing issues
511 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
514 * Build fixes for Hurd
517 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
518 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
519 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
522 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
523 --------------------------------
526 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
527 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
531 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
532 * Fix crashes with libvpx
533 * Use libass without caching dialog
536 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
539 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
542 * Fix resume where you left off
543 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
544 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
545 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
548 * Fix crashes in media information panel
549 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
552 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
555 * Update of most translations
558 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
559 --------------------------------
562 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
563 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
564 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
565 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
566 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
569 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
570 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
571 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
572 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
573 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
574 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
575 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
578 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
579 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
580 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
581 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
582 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
583 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
586 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
587 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
588 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
589 be set manually by the user)
590 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
591 * Fix alsa default device selection
594 * Fix video control that fails to show up
595 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
596 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
597 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
598 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
601 * Support for OS X El Capitan
602 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
603 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
604 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
607 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
608 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
609 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
610 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
611 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
615 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
616 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
617 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
620 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
621 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
622 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
623 * Improve PNG encoding time
624 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
625 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
626 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
627 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
628 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
629 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
630 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
631 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
632 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
633 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
634 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
635 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
636 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
639 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
640 * Update of most translations
643 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
644 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
645 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
646 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
649 * Update of most translations
652 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
653 --------------------------------
656 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
657 * Fix some VP9 decoding
659 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
660 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
661 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
662 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
667 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
668 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
669 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
670 * Revert to older ASX code
671 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
674 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
675 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
676 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
679 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
680 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
681 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
684 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
685 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
686 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
689 * Fix recent items behaviour
690 * Fix rotation filter activation
691 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
694 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
695 * Fix extensions registration during install
696 * Fix extensions dialog crash
697 * Default to no DxVA decoding
700 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
703 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
704 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
705 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
706 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
707 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
708 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
711 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
712 --------------------------------
715 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
716 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
719 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
720 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
721 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
722 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
725 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
726 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
727 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
728 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
730 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
731 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
732 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
735 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
736 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
737 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
738 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
739 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
740 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
741 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
742 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
743 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
744 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
745 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
746 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
747 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
748 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
749 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
750 * New jpeg image decoder
751 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
752 * New SVG image decoder
753 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
754 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
755 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
758 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
759 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
760 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
761 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
762 * New png image encoder using libpng
765 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
766 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
767 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
768 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
769 synchronization and tracks exclusion
770 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
771 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
772 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
773 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
774 * Support Opus in MKV
776 * Basic support for WebVTT
777 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
778 * Support HDPR TS files
779 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
780 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
781 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
782 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
783 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
784 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
785 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
786 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
787 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
788 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
789 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
790 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
793 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
794 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
795 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
796 * New Android native window provider module
797 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
798 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
799 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
802 * New Oldmovie effect filter
803 * New VHS effect filter
804 * New Freeze effect filter
805 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
806 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
807 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
810 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
811 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
812 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
813 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
814 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
815 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
818 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
819 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
821 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
824 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
825 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
826 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
827 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
828 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
829 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
830 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
831 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
832 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
834 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
835 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
836 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
839 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
840 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
843 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
844 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
847 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
848 * Add record button in Qt menus
849 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
850 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
851 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
854 * Support for OS X Yosemite
855 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
856 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
857 * Fixes for advanced preferences
858 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
859 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
860 * Option to increase playlist font size
861 * Improved crash log reporting
864 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
865 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
866 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
867 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
870 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
873 * iOS video output: use ios2
874 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
875 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
878 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
879 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
880 * Update of all translations:
881 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
882 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
883 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
884 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
885 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
886 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
887 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
890 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
891 --------------------------------
897 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
898 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
899 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
900 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
901 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
902 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
903 * Fix potential crash in zip access
904 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
905 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
908 * Update translations and greek encoding
911 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
912 --------------------------------
915 * Fix compilation on OS/2
918 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
920 Mac OS X audio output:
921 * Fix channel ordering
922 * Increase the buffersize
925 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
926 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
927 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
930 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
933 * Correctly support video-on-top
934 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
935 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
938 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
941 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
942 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
945 * Update British English
948 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
949 --------------------------------
952 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
955 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
958 * Fix DVD playback regression
959 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
960 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
963 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
968 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
971 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
972 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
973 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
976 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
977 by updating codec libraries
978 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
979 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
980 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
983 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
984 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
985 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
986 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
989 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
990 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
993 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
994 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
995 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
996 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
997 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1000 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1001 * Fix record file names
1004 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1005 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1006 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1007 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1008 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1011 * Fix album art display on Windows
1014 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1015 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1016 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1017 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1018 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1019 and Simplified Chinese translations
1020 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1023 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1024 --------------------------------
1027 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1028 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1029 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1030 audio devices on OS X
1031 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1032 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1035 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1036 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1039 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1040 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1043 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1046 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1047 * Improve A-B loop control
1048 * Fix album art update when changing media
1051 * Add a language option in the interface
1052 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1053 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1054 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1055 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1056 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1057 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1058 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1061 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1064 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1065 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1066 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1067 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1070 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1071 --------------------------------
1074 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1076 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1079 * VP9 support in WebM
1080 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1081 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1084 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1085 * Support Speex in ogg files
1086 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1087 * Support Alac in mkv
1088 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1089 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1092 * Fix DVB options parsing
1093 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1094 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1097 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1098 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1101 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1102 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1105 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1106 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1107 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1108 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1109 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1112 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1113 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1116 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1117 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1120 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1121 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1122 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1123 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1124 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1125 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1126 * Improves interface resizings
1129 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1130 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1131 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1132 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1133 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1137 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1138 --------------------------------
1141 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1142 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1143 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1144 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1145 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1147 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1148 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1151 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1152 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1153 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1154 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1155 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1158 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1159 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1160 * Remove SQL support
1163 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1164 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1165 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1166 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1167 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1168 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1169 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1170 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1171 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1172 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1173 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1174 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1175 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1178 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1179 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1180 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1183 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1184 remove support for previous OS X releases
1185 * Major improvements in DASH support
1186 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1187 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1188 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1189 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1190 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1191 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1192 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1193 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1194 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1195 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1196 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1199 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1200 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1201 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1202 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1203 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1204 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1205 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1206 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1207 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1208 * Add support for liveleak streams
1209 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1210 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1211 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1214 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1215 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1216 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1217 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1218 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1219 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1220 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1221 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1222 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1223 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1224 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1227 * New remapping channel filter
1228 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1229 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1230 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1231 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1232 * New gain audio filter
1235 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1236 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1237 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1238 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1239 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1240 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1241 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1242 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1243 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1246 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1247 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1248 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1249 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1250 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1251 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1252 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1255 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1256 * Options support for AVIO output module
1257 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1258 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1259 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1260 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1261 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1264 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1267 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1268 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1269 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1270 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1271 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1272 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1273 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1274 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1277 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1278 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1281 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1282 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1284 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1285 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1286 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1287 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1288 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1289 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1290 VLC's internal volume level
1291 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1293 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1294 selection and to manage the list of presets
1295 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1296 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1297 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1298 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1299 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1300 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1301 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1302 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1303 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1304 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1306 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1307 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1308 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1309 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1310 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1311 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1312 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1313 3rd party applications
1314 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1315 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1316 (system-wide settings)
1317 * Add support for the Video Title option
1318 * Add support for the Boss Key
1319 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1320 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1323 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1324 * Menus modifications and improvements
1325 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1326 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1327 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1328 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1329 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1330 * Add SD pixmap sources
1331 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1332 * Display playlist total duration
1333 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1334 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1335 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1340 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1341 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1342 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1343 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1346 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1347 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1348 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1349 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1350 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1351 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1352 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1353 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1354 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1355 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1358 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1359 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1360 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1361 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1362 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1363 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1365 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1366 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1367 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1368 * Broken crop video filter
1370 * OSD parser and menu
1371 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1372 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1373 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1374 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1378 * Update of all translations
1381 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1382 --------------------------------
1385 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1386 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1389 * Fix modplug security issues
1392 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1393 --------------------------------
1397 * Fix crash in QTsound
1398 * Fix screen mouse file location
1399 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1402 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1403 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1406 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1409 * Fix interface crashes
1410 * Fix autostart playback option
1411 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1414 * update Welsh translation
1415 * New Kannada translation
1418 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1419 --------------------------------
1422 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1423 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1427 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1430 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1433 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1436 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1439 * Minor improvements
1440 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1443 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1446 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1447 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1448 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1451 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1452 --------------------------------
1455 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1458 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1461 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1462 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1463 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1464 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1465 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1466 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1469 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1470 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1471 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1472 * 3rd party codecs updates
1475 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1476 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1477 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1478 in the advanced preferences panel
1479 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1480 * Fix crash within the video output code
1481 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1482 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1483 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1484 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1485 lua extensions, ...)
1486 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1489 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1492 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1493 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1496 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1499 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1500 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1501 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1502 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1503 Dutch, Danish, translations
1504 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1507 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1508 --------------------------------
1511 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1514 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1515 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1516 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1519 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1520 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1521 * Fix koreus lua parser
1522 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1523 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1524 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1525 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1528 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1529 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1532 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1535 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1536 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1537 * Fix Time counter UI look
1538 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1541 * Fix https streaming
1544 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1545 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1546 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1549 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1550 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1551 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1552 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1553 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1556 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1557 --------------------------------
1560 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1561 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1562 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1563 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1564 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1565 during playback on Mac OS X
1568 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1569 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1570 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1573 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1574 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1575 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1576 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1577 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1580 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1581 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1582 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1583 * Support Youtube live streams
1586 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1589 * Fix media info dialog update
1590 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1591 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1592 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1593 * Fix album art display at start
1596 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1597 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1598 * Fix menus display and behavior
1599 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1600 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1601 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1602 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1603 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1604 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1605 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1608 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1609 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1610 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1611 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1612 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1613 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1614 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1615 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1616 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1619 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1620 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1621 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1622 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1623 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1626 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1627 --------------------------------
1630 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1633 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1634 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1637 * Add GateKeeper support
1638 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1639 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1640 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1643 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1646 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1647 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1648 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1649 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1650 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1653 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1654 --------------------------------
1657 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1658 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1659 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1660 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1661 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1662 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1663 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1664 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1665 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1666 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1667 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1671 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1672 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1673 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1674 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1675 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1676 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1677 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1678 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1679 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1680 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1681 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1682 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1685 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1686 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1688 * Fix MP3 free format support
1691 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1692 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1693 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1694 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1695 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1698 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1699 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1701 Audio filters and output:
1702 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1703 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1704 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1705 * Do not apply volume in file output
1706 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1707 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1710 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1711 the persistant media library
1712 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1713 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1714 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1715 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1716 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1717 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1718 press on the Play/Pause button
1719 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1720 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1721 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1722 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1723 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1724 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1725 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1726 Synchronization panel
1727 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1728 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1729 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1730 * Fix crashes on exit
1731 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1733 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1734 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1735 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1736 automatically reset on the first launch.
1737 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1738 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1739 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1742 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1743 * Fixes for icecast SD
1746 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1747 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1748 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1749 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1750 * Fix tags and file names display
1751 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1754 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1755 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1758 * Fix display of some buttons
1759 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1760 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1763 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1764 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1765 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1768 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1769 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1770 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1771 Thai translations update
1772 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1775 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1776 --------------------------------
1779 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1780 * fix the samba module compilation
1781 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1782 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1783 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1784 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1787 * Support for MXPEG files
1788 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1789 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1792 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1793 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1794 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1797 * Fix ogm header creation
1800 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1801 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1804 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1805 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1806 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1807 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1810 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1813 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1814 * allow to hide the sidebar
1815 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1816 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1817 * noticebly faster launch time
1818 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1819 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1820 * improve track synchronization panel
1821 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1822 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1825 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1826 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1827 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1828 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1831 * fix for menus display
1832 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1833 * documentation update
1836 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1837 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1840 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1841 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1842 * Update Jamendo selections
1846 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1847 * fix a crash on VLM close
1850 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1851 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1852 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1853 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1856 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1859 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1860 ---------------------------------
1863 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1864 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1865 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1866 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1867 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1868 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1869 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1870 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1871 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1872 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1873 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1874 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1875 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1876 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1877 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1878 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1879 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1880 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1881 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1882 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1883 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1884 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1885 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1886 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1887 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1888 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1890 Important changes for packagers:
1891 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1892 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1893 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1894 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1895 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1896 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1897 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1898 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1899 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1900 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1903 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1904 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1905 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1906 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1907 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1908 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1909 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1912 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1913 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1914 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1915 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1916 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1917 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1918 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1919 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1920 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1921 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1922 * PulseAudio audio input support
1923 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1924 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1925 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1926 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1927 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1928 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1929 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1930 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1933 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1934 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1935 are notably concerned.
1936 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1937 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1938 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1939 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1940 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1941 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1942 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1943 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1944 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1945 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1946 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1947 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1948 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1949 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1950 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1953 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1954 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1955 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1956 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1957 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1958 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1959 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1960 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1961 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1962 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1963 * Improved support of tracker files
1964 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1967 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1968 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1969 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1970 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1971 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1972 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1973 and important cleanups and optimisations
1974 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1975 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1976 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1977 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1978 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1979 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1980 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1981 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1982 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1983 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1984 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1985 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1986 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1987 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1988 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1989 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1990 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1991 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1992 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1993 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1994 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1997 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1998 * New video output for iOS platform
1999 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2000 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2001 * Various vmem improvements
2002 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2003 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2004 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2005 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2006 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2007 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2009 Audio Output and Filters:
2010 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2011 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2012 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2013 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2014 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2015 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2016 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2017 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2018 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2019 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2022 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2023 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2024 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2025 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2026 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2027 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2028 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2029 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2030 * New anti-flickering filter
2031 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2032 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2033 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2034 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2035 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2036 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2037 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2040 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2041 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2042 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2043 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2044 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2045 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2046 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2047 * Major rework of VoD support
2048 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2049 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2050 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2051 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2052 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2053 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2054 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2055 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2056 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2057 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2060 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2061 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2064 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2065 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2066 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2067 list of available audio and video filters
2068 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2069 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2070 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2073 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2074 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2075 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2076 * id3tag: use taglib
2077 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2078 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2079 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2080 * removal of the noise filter
2081 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2082 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2083 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2084 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2087 * Update of translations for most languages.
2088 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2091 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2092 ----------------------------------
2095 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2096 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2099 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2100 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2103 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2104 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2105 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2108 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2111 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2112 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2115 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2118 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2119 ----------------------------------
2122 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2123 including support for OS X Lion
2124 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2125 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2128 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2131 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2132 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2133 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2136 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2139 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2140 ----------------------------------
2143 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2144 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2147 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2148 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2149 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2150 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2151 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2153 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2154 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2155 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2157 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2158 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2161 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2164 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2167 * Fix quitting on Linux
2168 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2172 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2175 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2178 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2179 ---------------------------------
2181 Windows and Mac OS X:
2182 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2185 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2186 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2189 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2192 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2195 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2197 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2198 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2200 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2201 * RTP output and XML export
2202 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2206 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2207 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2208 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2209 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2212 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2213 --------------------------------
2215 Windows and Mac OS X:
2216 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2219 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2222 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2223 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2224 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2225 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2226 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2227 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2230 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2231 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2235 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2236 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2237 * New Luganda Translation
2240 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2241 --------------------------------
2244 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2247 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2248 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2249 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2250 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2253 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2255 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2256 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2257 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2258 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2259 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2260 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2261 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2262 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2264 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2265 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2266 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2267 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2268 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2269 * Configure and build system improvements
2270 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2273 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2274 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2275 * New icelandic translation
2278 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2279 --------------------------------
2282 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2283 #234484 and #260719.
2286 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2287 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2288 and stability reasons
2291 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2295 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2298 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2299 ----------------------------------
2302 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2305 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2306 ---------------------------------
2309 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2310 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2311 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2312 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2315 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2318 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2319 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2320 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2321 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2324 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2325 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2326 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2328 Subtitles and renderer:
2329 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2330 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2331 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2332 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2333 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2336 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2337 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2338 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2339 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2342 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2343 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2345 Miscellaneous fixes:
2346 * KDE device solid actions
2348 * Transcode integer overflow
2349 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2350 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2353 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2354 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2355 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2358 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2359 ----------------------------------
2362 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2366 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2369 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2372 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2373 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2374 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2375 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2378 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2382 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2385 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2388 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2389 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2391 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2395 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2396 * Miscellaneous fixes
2399 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2400 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2401 French and Ukrainian
2402 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2403 * New Asturian translation
2406 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2407 ----------------------------------
2410 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2412 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2415 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2418 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2419 * Various fixes for Windows
2422 * New Armenian translation
2423 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2424 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2427 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2428 --------------------------------
2431 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2432 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2433 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2436 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2437 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2440 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2441 --------------------------------
2443 Access and demuxers:
2444 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2445 * fix for podcasts parsing
2446 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2449 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2450 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2453 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2454 * fix m3u playlists exports
2457 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2460 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2463 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2466 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2469 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2472 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2473 --------------------------------
2476 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2477 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2480 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2481 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2484 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2485 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2486 * fix console output encoding
2488 Interface and extensions:
2489 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2490 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2493 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2494 --------------------------------
2497 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2498 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2499 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2500 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2501 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2502 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2503 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2504 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2505 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2506 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2507 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2508 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2509 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2510 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2511 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2512 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2516 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2517 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2518 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2519 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2520 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2523 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2526 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2527 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2528 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2532 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2535 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2536 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2537 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2540 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2541 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2542 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2543 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2546 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2547 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2550 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2551 --------------------------------
2553 Important changes for users:
2554 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2555 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2557 Important changes for packagers:
2558 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2559 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2560 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2561 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2562 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2564 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2566 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2567 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2568 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2569 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2570 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2573 * Support for the sftp protocol
2574 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2575 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2576 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2577 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2578 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2581 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2582 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2583 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2585 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2586 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2587 * Invmem module improvements
2588 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2589 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2590 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2591 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2592 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2593 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2594 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2595 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2596 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2597 * Support for VP8 codec
2598 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2601 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2602 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2603 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2604 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2605 * Various EGP improvements
2606 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2607 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2610 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2611 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2612 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2613 * Podcast images are now displayed
2616 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2617 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2618 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2619 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2620 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2621 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2622 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2623 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2624 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2625 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2626 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2629 * New content extensions lua framework
2632 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2633 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2634 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2635 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2636 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2637 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2638 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2641 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2642 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2643 * Service discovery based on libudev
2644 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2647 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2648 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2649 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2650 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2651 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2652 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2653 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2656 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2657 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2658 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2661 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2663 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2664 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2667 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2670 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2671 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2672 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2673 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2674 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2675 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2676 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2679 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2680 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2683 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2684 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2685 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2689 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2690 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2691 * Improved Solaris port
2694 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2695 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2698 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2699 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2700 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2701 * transrate: broken since too long
2702 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2703 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2704 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2705 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2706 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2707 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2708 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2709 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2710 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2711 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2712 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2713 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2714 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2715 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2718 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2719 --------------------------------
2722 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2724 Decoders/Packetizers:
2725 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2728 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2729 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2730 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2731 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2732 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2735 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2736 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2739 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2740 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2743 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2744 and Walloon translations updated
2745 * Sinhala translation started
2748 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2749 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2752 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2753 --------------------------------
2756 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2757 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2760 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2763 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2764 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2767 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2768 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2769 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2770 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2773 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2774 --------------------------------
2777 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2778 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2781 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2782 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2785 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2786 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2789 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2792 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2793 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2796 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2797 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2800 * New Walloon translation
2801 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2804 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2805 --------------------------------
2808 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2809 regressions in most popular drivers
2810 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2813 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2814 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2815 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2818 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2819 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2822 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2823 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2824 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2825 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2826 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2829 * New udev module for linux
2832 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2835 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2838 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2839 --------------------------------
2842 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2843 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2844 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2847 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2848 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2851 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2852 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2855 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2858 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2859 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2860 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2861 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2864 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2865 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2866 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2867 - no support for Goom and SDL
2868 - limited text rendering support
2869 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2872 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2873 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2874 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2875 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2876 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2877 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2878 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2879 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2880 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2884 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2887 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2890 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2891 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2892 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2893 Arabic and French translation updates
2896 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2897 --------------------------------
2900 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2901 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2902 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2903 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2904 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2905 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2908 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2909 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2910 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2913 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2914 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2915 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2918 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2921 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2922 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2925 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2926 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2927 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2928 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2929 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2930 * Fix various crashes
2933 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2935 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2939 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2940 ---------------------------------
2944 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2945 See 'Access:' for more info.
2946 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2949 * Instantaneous pausing
2950 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2951 * Finer speed control
2952 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2953 * Timeshift for most medias
2954 * RTSP trickplay support
2955 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2958 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2959 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2960 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2961 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2962 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2963 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2964 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2965 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2966 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2967 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2970 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2971 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2972 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2973 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2974 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2975 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2976 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2979 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2980 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2983 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2984 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2985 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2986 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2987 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2988 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2989 * DVB scanning on linux
2990 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2991 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2992 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2993 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2994 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2995 * MTP device access on Unix
2996 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2997 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3000 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3001 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3002 Windows and Mac OS X.
3005 * Export the playlist in HTML
3006 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3007 * Better metadata handling and reading
3009 Linux/Windows interface:
3010 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3011 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3012 * Recently played items list
3013 * Interface toolbar customizations
3014 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3015 - More menus actions
3016 - Finer speed slider
3017 - Improvements on many dialogs
3018 - New dialog for plugins listing
3019 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3020 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3021 * Better integration in GTK environments
3024 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3025 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3026 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3027 * Additional usability improvements
3030 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3031 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3032 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3033 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3034 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3037 * New Maemo port with:
3038 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3039 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3042 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3045 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3046 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3047 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3048 * Support for latest iSight models
3051 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3052 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3055 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3056 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3057 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3058 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3059 The old image video output has been removed.
3060 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3061 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3064 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3072 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3073 --------------------------------------
3079 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3080 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3081 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3082 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3083 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3084 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3085 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3087 Various fixes to the following modules:
3090 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3091 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3092 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3094 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3099 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3100 ---------------------------------
3103 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3104 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3107 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3108 ---------------------------------
3111 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3114 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3117 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3118 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3119 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3120 main controller window.
3121 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3124 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3129 * Updates of other localizations
3132 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3133 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3134 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3135 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3136 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3139 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3140 ---------------------------------
3143 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3145 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3148 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3149 --------------------------------
3154 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3155 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3158 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3159 --------------------------------
3161 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3162 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3165 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3168 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3169 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3172 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3173 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3176 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3177 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3178 * Various fixed in playlist
3181 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3184 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3187 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3188 ------------------------------------
3190 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3191 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3194 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3195 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3196 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3199 * Stability fix for the video output.
3202 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3203 --------------------------------
3206 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3207 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3208 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3209 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3210 * Fixed update system bugs
3211 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3214 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3215 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3216 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3217 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3218 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3219 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3220 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3221 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3222 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3223 modern Mac OS X versions
3226 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3227 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3229 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3230 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3233 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3234 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3235 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3236 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3237 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3238 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3241 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3242 --------------------------------
3244 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3245 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3246 * Multiple bugfixes.
3249 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3250 --------------------------------
3252 * Multiple bug fixes.
3255 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3256 ---------------------------------
3260 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3261 recent to work correctly
3262 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3263 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3264 edit the ".hosts" file.
3265 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3266 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3267 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3268 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3269 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3270 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3271 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3272 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3273 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3274 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3275 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3276 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3277 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3278 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3279 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3280 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3281 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3282 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3283 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3284 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3285 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3286 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3287 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3288 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3289 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3290 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3291 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3292 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3293 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3294 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3295 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3296 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3297 and postproc modules.
3298 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3299 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3300 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3301 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3303 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3304 filter. For example:
3305 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3306 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3308 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3309 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3315 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3317 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3318 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3321 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3322 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3324 * Shoutcast TV listings
3325 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3327 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3328 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3330 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3333 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3334 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3335 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3336 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3337 * JACK audio input support
3338 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3339 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3340 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3341 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3342 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3343 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3344 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3345 (available as a separate download).
3346 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3347 * RTMP input support
3348 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3349 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3350 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3352 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3353 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3356 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3357 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3358 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3359 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3361 * APEv1/2 tags support
3362 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3363 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3365 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3366 * TiVo Series 2 support
3367 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3372 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3373 * Flash Screen Video support
3374 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3375 * DosBox Capture support
3376 * Karl Morton's Video support
3377 * limited atrac3 support
3379 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3380 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3381 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3382 * H.264 PAFF support
3383 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3384 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3385 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3386 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3387 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3390 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3391 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3392 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3393 * AQTitle subtitles support
3394 * MKV USF subtitles support
3395 * HTML-based subtitles support
3396 * MPSub subtitles support
3397 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3398 * MPL2 subtitles support
3399 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3400 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3401 * Realtext subtitle support
3402 * DKS subtitle support
3403 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3404 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3407 * Flash Screen Video support
3408 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3410 Video outputs and filters:
3411 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3412 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3413 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3414 * New puzzle video output filter
3415 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3416 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3418 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3419 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3420 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3421 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3422 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3423 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3424 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3425 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3426 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3427 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3428 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3429 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3430 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3431 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3433 Audio outputs and filters:
3434 * Replay gain support
3435 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3436 new scaletempo audio filter)
3437 * New spatializer audio filter
3438 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3441 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3442 * New RTP payload formats:
3443 * Speex voice audio codec
3444 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3445 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3446 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3447 * DCCP transport for RTP
3448 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3453 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3454 end-user suitable way.
3455 * Improved user interaction
3456 * Improved mouse gestures
3457 * Vastly improved Update checker
3458 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3460 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3461 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3463 * Improved video output features
3464 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3465 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3466 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3467 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3468 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3470 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3471 if libncursesw is available.
3472 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3473 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3474 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3476 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3477 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3478 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3479 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3480 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3481 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3482 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3483 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3486 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3487 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3488 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3491 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3492 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3493 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3494 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3495 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3496 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3499 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3500 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3510 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3511 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3512 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3515 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3516 ----------------------------------
3519 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3522 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3523 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3524 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3525 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3526 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3527 * Updated Polish translation
3530 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3531 ----------------------------------
3534 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3535 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3536 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3539 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3540 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3541 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3542 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3543 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3544 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3545 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3546 to an unexpected application termination
3547 * New Serbian translation
3548 * Updated Romanian translation
3551 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3552 ----------------------------------
3555 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3556 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3557 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3558 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3559 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3560 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3561 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3562 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3565 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3566 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3567 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3568 * Fixed AAC resampling
3569 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3570 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3573 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3574 ----------------------------------
3577 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3578 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3579 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3580 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3581 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3584 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3585 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3586 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3587 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3588 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3591 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3592 ----------------------------------
3595 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3596 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3599 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3600 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3601 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3602 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3604 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3608 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3611 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3614 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3617 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3620 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3621 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3622 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3623 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3624 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3626 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3627 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3628 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3629 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3632 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3635 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3636 ----------------------------------
3639 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3640 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3641 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3643 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3644 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3646 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3647 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3650 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3652 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3653 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3654 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3655 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3656 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3657 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3658 two different movies
3659 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3660 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3661 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3664 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3667 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3668 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3669 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3670 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3673 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3674 ----------------------------------
3676 Various bugfixes, notably:
3677 * Windows Vista compatibility
3678 * Cropping in Direct3D
3679 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3680 * RSS filter string overflow
3682 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3684 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3685 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3688 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3689 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3692 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3695 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3698 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3701 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3702 ----------------------------------
3704 Various bugfixes, notably:
3705 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3706 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3707 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3708 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3709 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3710 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3713 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3714 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3717 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3719 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3720 * Diverse usability improvements
3721 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3722 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3723 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3726 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3727 ---------------------------------
3729 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3730 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3733 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3736 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3737 --------------------------------
3740 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3743 * Support for RTSP authentication
3744 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3745 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3746 * ATSC support for DVB input
3747 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3748 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3749 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3752 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3753 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3754 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3755 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3756 * Matroska WavPack support
3757 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3758 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3759 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3762 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3763 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3764 * Improved libcaca support
3768 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3769 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3771 * Systray support in skins
3773 * Support for Apple Remote control
3774 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3775 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3776 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3777 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3779 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3782 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3783 Windows 9x/ME users:
3784 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3785 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3786 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3787 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3788 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3790 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3791 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3800 * Updates to the libvlc API
3801 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3804 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3805 --------------------------------
3808 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3809 * Support for downloading updates
3813 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3814 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3815 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3816 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3818 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3819 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3820 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3823 * Cook (Real audio) support
3825 Playlist / Services discovery:
3826 * XSPF playlist support
3828 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3831 * New JACK audio output
3834 * New video filters:
3835 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3836 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3837 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3838 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3839 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3840 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3843 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3846 * System to inform the user and request information
3847 - HTTP authentication
3851 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3852 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3853 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3856 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3857 - Improved playlist handling
3858 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3860 - Embedded Video output
3861 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3862 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3863 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3864 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3865 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3867 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3868 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3871 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3874 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3875 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3876 * Growl "Now playing" support
3879 * Ability to log to syslog
3880 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3883 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3885 * A bit more automatic testing
3888 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3889 ---------------------------------
3892 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3893 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3896 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3897 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3900 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3903 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3904 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3910 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3913 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3914 --------------------------------
3917 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3921 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3922 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3923 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3926 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3927 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3928 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3929 * GnomeVFS input module
3930 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3931 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3934 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3935 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3936 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3939 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3940 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3946 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3947 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3950 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3951 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3952 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3955 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3957 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3958 - New extended controls panel
3959 - New bookmarks window
3960 - Fixed playlist sorting
3961 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3963 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3964 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3965 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3966 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3970 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3971 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3973 - Include macro to include other files
3977 * Should now work outside IE as well
3980 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3983 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3984 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3987 The following languages were added:
3991 * Simplified Chinese
3992 The following languages were re-added:
3996 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3997 --------------------------------
4000 * Rewrite of the playlist
4002 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4003 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4004 * Preferences improvements:
4005 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4006 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4008 * Core image manipulation support
4009 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4010 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4011 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4012 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4013 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4014 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4015 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4016 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4017 * Access filter architecture
4018 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4019 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4023 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4024 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4025 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4026 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4027 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4028 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4029 * Massive Matroska improvements
4030 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4032 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4033 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4034 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4035 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4036 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4038 Decoders / Encoders:
4039 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4040 * PNG decoder/encoder
4041 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4042 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4045 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4048 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4049 * Brand new SAP module
4050 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4051 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4052 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4053 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4054 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4055 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4059 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4062 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4063 * Image file video output (png)
4064 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4065 * Improvements to wall video filter
4066 * Support for font color and opacity
4072 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4073 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4074 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4078 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4079 - Improved preferences
4080 - Improvements to the wizard
4081 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4083 - Redesigned playlist
4084 - Improved preferences
4086 - Support for multiple actions
4089 - Support for the new playlist system
4091 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4094 * Screensaver disabling fix
4095 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4096 * Support for no-decoration windows
4099 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4100 * The OpenGL video output is back
4101 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4102 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4103 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4104 is not yet available in the new module
4105 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4108 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4117 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4120 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4123 The following languages were added:
4129 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4130 --------------------------------
4133 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4134 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4137 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4138 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4139 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4142 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4145 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4148 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4151 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4152 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4153 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4157 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4159 * Support of playlist group announcement
4162 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4163 --------------------------------
4166 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4167 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4168 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4169 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4170 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4171 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4174 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4175 (Stream your desktop)
4176 * Improved DVD support:
4177 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4178 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4179 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4180 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4181 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4182 (selection of titles/chapters).
4185 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4186 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4187 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4188 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4189 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4190 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4191 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4192 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4193 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4194 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4197 * G.726 audio support
4198 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4199 * MPEG-4 text support
4200 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4201 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4202 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4206 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4207 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4208 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4209 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4210 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4211 * DVB subtitles encoder
4212 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4213 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4215 * Text track muxing for mp4
4216 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4217 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4218 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4219 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4220 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4221 * Improved ASF muxer
4223 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4224 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4225 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4228 * New audio equalizer filter
4229 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4230 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4231 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4232 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4235 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4236 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4237 with support for effects.
4238 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4239 - New filters can be streamed.
4240 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4241 - Centralized scaling and blending
4243 - "time", to display current time
4244 - "marq", to display a marquee
4247 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4248 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4249 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4250 * A few skins2 improvements
4251 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4252 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4253 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4254 * Improved CORBA control module
4257 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4258 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4259 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4262 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4263 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4264 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4267 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4268 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4269 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4270 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4271 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4274 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4277 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4278 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4281 * Server/client network synchronization module
4282 * VBrick streams fully supported
4283 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4287 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4288 --------------------------------
4291 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4292 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4293 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4294 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4297 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4298 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4299 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4300 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4301 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4302 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4303 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4306 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4307 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4308 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4309 * Improved directory access module.
4310 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4311 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4312 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4313 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4314 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4317 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4318 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4319 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4322 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4323 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4324 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4327 * Improved session announcement system.
4328 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4329 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4330 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4331 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4332 * Improved transrater.
4333 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4334 * New configuration system.
4335 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4338 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4339 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4340 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4341 * Supports scheduling.
4342 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4343 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4346 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4347 - Ability to embed video output.
4348 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4349 - Lots of improvements.
4350 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4351 - New design and set of icons.
4352 - Ability to embed video output.
4353 - Support for hotkeys.
4354 - Support for bookmarks.
4356 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4357 - Better hotkeys handling.
4360 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4361 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4362 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4363 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4366 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4367 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4368 * Improved Windows installer.
4374 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4375 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4378 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4379 ---------------------------------
4382 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4383 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4386 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4387 --------------------------------
4390 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4391 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4394 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4395 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4396 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4397 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4400 * Internal improvments
4401 * Improved import/export
4404 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4406 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4407 small and strange formats.
4409 * New MOD audio demux.
4410 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4411 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4412 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4413 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4416 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4417 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4418 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4424 * New opengl video output plugin.
4427 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4428 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4431 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4432 --------------------------------
4435 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4436 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4437 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4438 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4439 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4440 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4441 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4442 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4445 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4450 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4451 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4452 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4453 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4454 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4455 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4456 * Better Icecast support.
4457 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4458 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4461 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4462 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4463 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4464 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4465 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4466 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4467 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4470 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4471 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4472 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4473 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4474 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4475 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4476 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4477 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4478 * Preliminary RTP support.
4479 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4484 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4485 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4487 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4488 - Improvements and help in preferences
4489 - New streaming wizard
4490 - Revised Disc Open menu
4492 - Improvements of the standard pages
4493 - Support for new commands
4494 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4497 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4498 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4501 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4502 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4503 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4504 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4505 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4506 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4507 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4508 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4509 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4512 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4514 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4515 * Support for Panther.
4516 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4517 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4520 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4521 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4522 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4523 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4524 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4525 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4526 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4527 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4530 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4531 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4532 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4535 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4538 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4539 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4540 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4541 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4544 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4545 --------------------------------
4548 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4551 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4552 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4555 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4556 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4559 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4562 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4563 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4566 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4569 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4572 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4573 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4577 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4578 --------------------------------
4581 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4582 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4586 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4587 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4588 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4590 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4591 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4594 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4597 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4600 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4601 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4605 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4606 --------------------------------
4609 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4610 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4614 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4615 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4616 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4617 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4618 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4621 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4622 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4623 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4626 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4627 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4628 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4631 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4632 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4633 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4634 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4635 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4638 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4639 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4640 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4643 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4646 * Improved build system.
4647 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4648 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4649 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4650 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4653 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4654 --------------------------------
4657 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4660 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4661 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4662 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4663 * Video 4 Linux support
4664 * CD Digital Audio support
4665 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4668 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4669 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4670 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4671 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4674 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4675 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4676 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4677 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4678 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4679 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4680 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4683 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4684 * New HTTP remote control interface
4687 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4688 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4689 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4690 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4691 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4694 * New reset option for the preferences
4695 * You can set your language in the prefences
4696 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4697 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4698 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4699 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4702 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4703 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4704 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4707 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4708 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4709 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4710 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4711 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4712 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4713 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4714 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4715 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4716 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4719 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4720 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4721 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4722 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4723 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4724 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4725 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4728 * Interface localization
4729 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4730 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4731 * New full-featured Preferences window
4734 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4735 --------------------------------
4738 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4739 * support for skins at the interface level
4740 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4741 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4742 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4743 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4744 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4747 * fixed HTTP redirects
4748 * support for opening an entire directory
4749 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4750 * new video4linux access plug-in
4751 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4754 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4755 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4756 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4759 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4760 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4761 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4762 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4763 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4764 * new codec for raw I420 video
4765 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4768 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4769 (although it still misses some important features)
4770 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4773 * new HTTP output support
4774 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4775 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4778 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4781 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4784 * reorderable playlist
4785 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4786 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4787 * support for mono audio output devices
4788 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4789 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4790 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4791 * the messages window remembers more lines
4792 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4793 * http and ogg stream output options
4794 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4797 * new skinnable interface
4798 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4800 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4801 * support for FLAC audio format
4802 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4804 * network tab in the interface
4805 * "apply" handling in preferences
4808 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4809 ---------------------------------
4812 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4813 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4814 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4815 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4817 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4818 * DTS S/PDIF support
4821 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4822 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4823 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4824 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4827 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4828 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4831 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4834 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4837 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4839 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4840 * rc interface is now fully useable
4841 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4844 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4845 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4846 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4847 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4848 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4850 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4851 * support for mouse gestures
4852 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4855 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4856 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4859 * improved ID3 tag detection
4860 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4861 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4862 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4864 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4867 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4868 ---------------------------------
4871 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4872 English was set as the preferred language
4875 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4876 --------------------------------
4879 * new mouse gesture interface
4880 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4884 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4885 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4886 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4889 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4890 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4894 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4897 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4898 without the user consent
4901 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4903 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4904 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4905 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4908 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4909 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4910 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4911 * playlist enhancements
4912 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4913 * new step forward/step backward commands
4914 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4915 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4916 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4919 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4920 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4921 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4924 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4925 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4928 * native video output is working again
4929 * only commandline interface support
4930 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4933 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4934 --------------------------------
4937 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4938 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4939 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4940 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4941 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4942 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4943 and A/52 streams are supported)
4944 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4949 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4950 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4951 * VCD entry points support
4952 * VCD image file support
4955 * support for *.asf format
4956 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4957 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4958 * support for ogg encapsulation
4959 * support for raw DV format
4960 * support for *.wav format
4961 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4964 Stream discovery & playlists:
4965 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4966 * support for .m3u file format
4967 * support for .asx file format
4968 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4971 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4972 (only available with the .avi demux)
4973 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4974 * support for raw PCM data
4975 * support for Cinepak video codec
4976 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4977 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4978 * support for Xvid codec
4979 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4980 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4981 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4983 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4985 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4988 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4991 * new WxWindows interface
4992 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4993 device and the channels configuration
4994 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4995 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4996 format that VLC can play
4997 * new swedish translation
4998 * enhancements of the playlist window
4999 * new messages window to see debug info
5000 * fixed a few crashes
5003 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5004 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5005 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5006 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working