1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
11 * Windows on ARM is now supported
14 * New output clock (internal):
15 - The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
16 - By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
17 resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
18 * New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
19 * New player (vlc_player.h):
20 - Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
21 - One instance is used to play subsequent medias
22 - Allow multiple track selection
23 - Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
24 * New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
25 - Browse local network and service discoveries
26 * New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
27 - Replace the previous one
28 - Flat, new random implementation
29 - Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
30 * Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
33 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
34 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
37 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
38 * Support for DASH WebM
39 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
40 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
41 * Support chapters in mp3 files
44 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
46 * Remove iomx support for Android
48 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
49 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
50 * Support IMM4 decoder
54 * Add NVDEC hardware decoder
57 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
58 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
59 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
60 * Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
61 * Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
62 * Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
65 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
68 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
71 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
72 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
73 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
77 * Remove remote OSD plugin
80 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
81 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
82 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
85 * MP4 files are no longer faststart by default
88 * Support Renderer discovery with avahi
91 * Remove Growl notification support
92 * Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
95 * Improved proxy configuration handling
98 Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
99 --------------------------------
102 * Improve Blu-ray support
105 * Fix pass-through on Android-23
108 * Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
112 * Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
115 * Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo scripts
118 Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
119 --------------------------------
122 * Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures
125 * Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
126 * Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata
129 Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
130 --------------------------------
133 * Improve RTSP playback
134 * BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
135 * Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
138 * Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
139 * Enable libaom decoder by default
140 * Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
143 * MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
144 * Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
145 * Fix CAF integer-underflow
146 * Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
149 * Add an AV1 packetizer
152 * Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
153 enabled on macOS Mojave.
154 All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
155 to continue working with the official VLC package.
156 * Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
157 * Fix convert & save panel stream option
160 * Fix corking when the playback state is paused
161 * Improve corking on Android
164 * Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
165 * More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
166 * Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
167 * Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
168 * Misc Direct3D11 fixes
172 * Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
173 * Update Youtube support
174 * Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
177 Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
178 --------------------------------
181 * Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
183 * Fix playback of low-fps files
184 * Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
185 * Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
186 * Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
187 * Fix crashes with LPCM streams
188 * Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
189 * Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
192 * Improve FLV fps detection
194 * Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
195 * Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
196 * Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
197 * Fixes for MKV seeking
198 * Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
199 * Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
202 * Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
203 * Improve macOS audio performance
204 * Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
205 * Fix crashes on DirectSound output
208 * Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
209 * Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
210 * Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
211 * Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
212 * Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
213 * Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
216 * Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
217 * Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
218 * Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
219 * Fix some RTL rendering
222 * Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
223 * Change the extension registration names on Windows
225 * Fixes on the HTTPD server
226 * Fix on the NTservice registration
227 * Fix --stop-time option
228 * Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
229 * Fix subtitles alignment
230 * Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
231 * Fix detection SAT>IP servers
234 * Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
237 * macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
238 * Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
239 * Modernized and improved support for media keys
240 * Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
241 * Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
242 * Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
245 * Update of most translations
248 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
249 --------------------------------
252 * Update subtitles display while paused
255 * Enable srt support on binary builds
258 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
259 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
260 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
261 * Fix subsdec wide character support
262 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
265 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
266 * Fix forced tracks selection
268 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
269 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
272 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
273 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
274 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
277 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
280 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
281 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
282 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
286 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
287 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
288 * Fix audioscrobbling
289 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
290 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
293 * Update of most languages
296 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
297 --------------------------------
300 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
301 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
304 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
305 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
306 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
307 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
308 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
309 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
310 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
311 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
314 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
315 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
316 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
317 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
318 * Fix TTML inside MP4
319 * Improve MP4 read of color information
320 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
321 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
322 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
323 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
324 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
325 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
326 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
329 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
332 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
333 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
334 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
335 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
336 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
337 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
340 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
341 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
344 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
345 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
346 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
347 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
348 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
349 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
350 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
351 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
352 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
353 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
354 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
355 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
356 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
357 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
358 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
361 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
362 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
363 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
365 * Fix remember playback position
366 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
367 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
368 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
369 * Fix localization issues
372 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
373 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
374 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
375 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
376 * Fix jump size not being configurable
377 * Fix missing time labels updates
378 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
380 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
383 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
384 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
385 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
386 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
387 * Improve support for NetBSD
388 * Fix MSI script for Windows
389 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
390 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
391 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
392 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
393 * Various VLSub improvements
394 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
395 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
398 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
399 --------------------------------
402 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
403 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
406 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
407 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
408 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
409 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
410 * Fix pink screen on Windows
413 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
414 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
417 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
418 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
419 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
420 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
423 * Improve MKV seeking speed
424 * Fix xspf base URL handling
425 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
426 * Fix adaptive http redirections
427 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
428 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
429 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
430 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
431 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
432 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
435 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
438 * Improve chromecast loading speed
439 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
440 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
441 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
442 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
446 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
447 * Auto-layout improvements
448 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
449 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
450 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
451 * Fix MKV files association
452 * Fix chromecast audio detection
455 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
458 * Improve interface look and feel.
461 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
462 --------------------------------
464 Platform support changes:
465 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
466 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
468 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
469 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
470 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
471 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
472 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
474 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
475 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
476 it should work, but not without limitations.
477 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
478 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
479 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
480 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
481 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
482 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
485 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
486 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
487 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
488 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
489 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
490 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
491 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
492 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
493 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
494 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
495 * Support wayland surface type
496 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
497 * Refactor preparsing input
498 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
499 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
500 es category single only or multiple es behavior
501 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
502 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
503 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
506 * New NFS access module using libnfs
507 * New SMB access module using libdsm
508 * Adaptive streaming:
509 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
510 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
511 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
512 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
513 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
514 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
515 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
516 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
517 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
518 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
519 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
520 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
521 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
522 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
523 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
524 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
525 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
526 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
527 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
528 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
529 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
530 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
531 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
532 * Improvements on DVB scanning
533 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
534 * Support for DVD ISO over network
535 * New SRT access module using libsrt
538 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
539 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
540 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
541 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
542 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
543 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
544 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
545 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
546 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
547 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
548 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
549 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
550 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
551 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
552 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
555 * Support for experimental AV1 video
556 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
557 * Support for experimental Daala video
558 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
559 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
560 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
561 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
562 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
563 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
564 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
565 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
566 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
567 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
568 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
569 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
570 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
571 can now decode up to 8 channels
572 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
573 * Support VPX high bit depth support
574 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
575 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
576 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
578 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
579 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
582 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
583 * Support for fragmented MP4
584 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
585 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
586 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
587 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
588 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
589 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
590 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
591 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
592 * Add new metadata fields
593 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
594 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
595 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
596 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
597 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
598 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
599 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
600 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
601 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
602 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
603 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
604 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
606 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
607 * Partial support of PSMF
608 * Fix broken SCR samples
609 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
610 * Improvements on MKV:
611 * Rewrite MKV seeking
612 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
613 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
614 * Improve DVD-menus support
615 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
616 * Support Daala in Ogg
617 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
618 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
619 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
620 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
621 * Support WMV extended content metadata
622 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
623 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
624 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
625 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
626 * Support SBV subtitles
627 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
628 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
629 * Support for isofLaC
630 * Improve fLaC seeking
631 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
632 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
635 * Add an ADF stream filter
636 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
637 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
638 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
639 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
640 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
641 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
644 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
645 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
648 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
649 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
650 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
651 * Add Tizen audio module
652 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
653 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
654 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
655 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
658 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
659 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
660 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
661 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
662 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
663 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
664 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
666 * Add a pitch shifting module
669 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
671 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
672 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
673 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
674 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
675 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
676 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
677 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
678 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
679 * Wayland shell surface window provider
680 * Wayland shared memory video output
681 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
682 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
683 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
684 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
685 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
686 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
687 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
688 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
691 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
692 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
693 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
694 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
695 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
696 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
697 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
700 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
701 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
702 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
703 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
706 * Chromecast output module
707 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
710 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
711 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
714 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
715 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
716 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
720 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
721 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
722 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
723 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
726 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
727 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
728 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
729 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
730 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
731 * Improve and simplify preferences window
732 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
733 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
734 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
735 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
736 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
739 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
742 * Batch convert support
743 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
746 * Support key accelerators
749 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
750 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
751 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
752 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
753 This allows to attach media events between create and start
754 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
755 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
756 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
757 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
758 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
759 identifier (if there is one available)
760 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
761 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
762 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
763 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
764 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
765 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
766 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
767 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
768 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
769 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
770 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
771 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
772 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
773 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
775 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
776 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
777 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
778 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
779 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
782 * Support for the SystemD Journal
783 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
784 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
785 * New Android module for logging
788 * remove langfromtelx
789 * remove ZPL playlist format
790 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
791 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
792 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
793 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
794 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
795 * Add a memory keystore
796 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
797 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
801 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
802 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
803 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
804 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
805 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
806 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
807 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
808 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
809 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
810 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
811 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
812 * BD access module (use libbluray)
813 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
814 * EyeTV access module
815 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
816 * VDA decoder: use VT
817 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
818 * SDL video output module
819 * DirectFB video output module
820 * RAOP stream output module
823 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
824 --------------------------------
827 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
832 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
833 --------------------------------
836 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
837 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
838 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
839 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
842 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
843 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
846 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
847 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
848 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
849 update to the newest version.
852 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
856 * Support libupnp 1.8
861 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
862 ----------------------------------
865 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
866 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
869 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
871 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
872 ----------------------------------
874 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
879 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
880 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
881 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
882 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
883 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
884 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
885 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
888 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
889 --------------------------------
892 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
893 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
894 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
895 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
896 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
897 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
901 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
902 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
903 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
904 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
905 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
906 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
907 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
910 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
911 * Fix screenshots size
914 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
915 * Fix FTP scan string injection
916 * Fix HTTP size handling
922 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
926 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
929 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
930 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
931 * Fix uninstaller path handling
932 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
935 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
936 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
940 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
941 --------------------------------
944 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
945 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
946 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
949 * Fix resizing issues
952 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
955 * Build fixes for Hurd
958 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
959 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
960 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
963 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
968 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
972 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
973 * Fix crashes with libvpx
974 * Use libass without caching dialog
977 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
980 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
983 * Fix resume where you left off
984 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
985 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
986 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
989 * Fix crashes in media information panel
990 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
993 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
996 * Update of most translations
999 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
1004 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
1005 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
1006 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
1007 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
1010 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
1011 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
1012 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
1013 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
1014 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
1015 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
1016 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
1019 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
1020 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
1021 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
1022 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
1023 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
1024 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
1027 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
1028 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
1029 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
1030 be set manually by the user)
1031 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
1032 * Fix alsa default device selection
1035 * Fix video control that fails to show up
1036 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
1037 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
1038 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
1039 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
1042 * Support for OS X El Capitan
1043 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
1044 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
1045 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
1048 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
1049 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
1050 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
1051 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
1052 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
1056 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
1057 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
1058 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
1061 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
1062 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
1063 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
1064 * Improve PNG encoding time
1065 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
1066 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
1067 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
1068 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
1069 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
1070 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
1071 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
1072 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
1073 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
1074 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
1075 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
1076 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
1077 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
1080 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
1081 * Update of most translations
1084 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
1085 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
1086 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
1087 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
1090 * Update of most translations
1093 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
1094 --------------------------------
1097 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
1098 * Fix some VP9 decoding
1100 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
1101 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
1102 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
1103 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
1104 * Fix AAC samplerate
1108 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
1109 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
1110 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
1111 * Revert to older ASX code
1112 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
1115 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
1116 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
1117 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
1120 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
1121 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
1122 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
1125 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
1126 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
1127 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
1130 * Fix recent items behaviour
1131 * Fix rotation filter activation
1132 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
1135 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
1136 * Fix extensions registration during install
1137 * Fix extensions dialog crash
1138 * Default to no DxVA decoding
1141 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
1144 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
1145 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
1146 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
1147 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
1148 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
1149 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
1152 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
1153 --------------------------------
1156 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
1157 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
1160 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
1161 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
1162 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
1163 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
1166 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
1167 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
1168 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
1169 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
1171 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
1172 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
1173 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
1176 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1177 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1178 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
1179 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
1180 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
1181 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
1182 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
1183 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
1184 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
1185 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
1186 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
1187 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
1188 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
1189 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
1190 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
1191 * New jpeg image decoder
1192 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
1193 * New SVG image decoder
1194 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
1195 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1196 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1199 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1200 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1201 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1202 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1203 * New png image encoder using libpng
1206 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1207 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1208 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1209 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1210 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1211 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1212 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1213 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1214 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1215 * Support Opus in MKV
1216 * Support VP8 in OGG
1217 * Basic support for WebVTT
1218 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1219 * Support HDPR TS files
1220 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1221 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1222 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1223 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1224 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1225 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1226 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1227 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1228 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1229 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1230 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1231 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1234 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1235 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1236 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1237 * New Android native window provider module
1238 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1239 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1240 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1243 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1244 * New VHS effect filter
1245 * New Freeze effect filter
1246 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1247 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1248 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1251 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1252 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1253 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1254 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1255 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1256 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1259 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1260 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1261 * Support VP8 in OGG
1262 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1265 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1266 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1267 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1268 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1269 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1270 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1271 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1272 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1273 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1275 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1276 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1277 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1280 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1281 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1284 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1285 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1288 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1289 * Add record button in Qt menus
1290 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1291 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1292 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1295 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1296 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1297 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1298 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1299 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1300 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1301 * Option to increase playlist font size
1302 * Improved crash log reporting
1305 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1306 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1307 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1308 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1311 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1314 * iOS video output: use ios2
1315 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1316 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1319 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1320 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1321 * Update of all translations:
1322 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1323 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1324 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1325 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1326 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1327 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1328 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1331 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1332 --------------------------------
1335 * Fix OSS stuttering
1338 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1339 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1340 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1341 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1342 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1343 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1344 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1345 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1346 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1349 * Update translations and greek encoding
1352 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1353 --------------------------------
1356 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1359 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1361 Mac OS X audio output:
1362 * Fix channel ordering
1363 * Increase the buffersize
1366 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1367 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1368 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1371 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1374 * Correctly support video-on-top
1375 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1376 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1379 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1382 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1383 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1386 * Update British English
1389 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1390 --------------------------------
1393 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1396 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1399 * Fix DVD playback regression
1400 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1401 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1404 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1405 --------------------------------
1408 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1409 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1412 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1413 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1414 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1417 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1418 by updating codec libraries
1419 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1420 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1421 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1424 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1425 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1426 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1427 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1430 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1431 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1434 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1435 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1436 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1437 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1438 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1441 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1442 * Fix record file names
1445 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1446 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1447 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1448 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1449 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1452 * Fix album art display on Windows
1455 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1456 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1457 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1458 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1459 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1460 and Simplified Chinese translations
1461 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1464 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1465 --------------------------------
1468 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1469 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1470 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1471 audio devices on OS X
1472 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1473 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1476 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1477 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1480 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1481 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1484 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1487 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1488 * Improve A-B loop control
1489 * Fix album art update when changing media
1492 * Add a language option in the interface
1493 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1494 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1495 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1496 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1497 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1498 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1499 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1502 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1505 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1506 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1507 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1508 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1511 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1512 --------------------------------
1515 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1517 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1520 * VP9 support in WebM
1521 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1522 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1525 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1526 * Support Speex in ogg files
1527 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1528 * Support Alac in mkv
1529 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1530 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1533 * Fix DVB options parsing
1534 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1535 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1538 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1539 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1542 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1543 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1546 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1547 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1548 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1549 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1550 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1553 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1554 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1557 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1558 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1561 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1562 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1563 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1564 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1565 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1566 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1567 * Improves interface resizings
1570 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1571 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1572 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1573 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1574 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1578 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1579 --------------------------------
1582 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1583 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1584 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1585 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1586 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1588 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1589 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1592 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1593 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1594 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1595 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1596 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1599 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1600 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1601 * Remove SQL support
1604 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1605 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1606 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1607 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1608 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1609 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1610 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1611 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1612 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1613 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1614 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1615 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1616 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1619 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1620 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1621 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1624 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1625 remove support for previous OS X releases
1626 * Major improvements in DASH support
1627 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1628 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1629 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1630 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1631 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1632 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1633 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1634 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1635 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1636 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1637 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1640 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1641 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1642 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1643 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1644 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1645 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1646 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1647 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1648 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1649 * Add support for liveleak streams
1650 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1651 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1652 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1655 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1656 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1657 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1658 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1659 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1660 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1661 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1662 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1663 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1664 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1665 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1668 * New remapping channel filter
1669 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1670 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1671 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1672 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1673 * New gain audio filter
1676 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1677 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1678 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1679 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1680 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1681 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1682 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1683 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1684 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1687 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1688 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1689 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1690 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1691 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1692 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1693 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1696 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1697 * Options support for AVIO output module
1698 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1699 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1700 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1701 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1702 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1705 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1708 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1709 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1710 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1711 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1712 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1713 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1714 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1715 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1718 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1719 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1722 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1723 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1725 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1726 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1727 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1728 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1729 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1730 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1731 VLC's internal volume level
1732 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1734 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1735 selection and to manage the list of presets
1736 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1737 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1738 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1739 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1740 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1741 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1742 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1743 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1744 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1745 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1747 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1748 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1749 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1750 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1751 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1752 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1753 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1754 3rd party applications
1755 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1756 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1757 (system-wide settings)
1758 * Add support for the Video Title option
1759 * Add support for the Boss Key
1760 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1761 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1764 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1765 * Menus modifications and improvements
1766 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1767 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1768 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1769 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1770 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1771 * Add SD pixmap sources
1772 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1773 * Display playlist total duration
1774 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1775 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1776 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1781 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1782 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1783 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1784 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1787 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1788 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1789 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1790 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1791 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1792 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1793 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1794 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1795 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1796 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1799 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1800 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1801 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1802 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1803 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1804 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1806 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1807 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1808 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1809 * Broken crop video filter
1811 * OSD parser and menu
1812 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1813 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1814 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1815 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1819 * Update of all translations
1822 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1823 --------------------------------
1826 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1827 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1830 * Fix modplug security issues
1833 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1834 --------------------------------
1838 * Fix crash in QTsound
1839 * Fix screen mouse file location
1840 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1843 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1844 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1847 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1850 * Fix interface crashes
1851 * Fix autostart playback option
1852 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1855 * update Welsh translation
1856 * New Kannada translation
1859 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1860 --------------------------------
1863 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1864 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1868 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1871 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1874 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1877 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1880 * Minor improvements
1881 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1884 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1887 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1888 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1889 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1892 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1893 --------------------------------
1896 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1899 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1902 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1903 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1904 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1905 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1906 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1907 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1910 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1911 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1912 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1913 * 3rd party codecs updates
1916 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1917 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1918 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1919 in the advanced preferences panel
1920 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1921 * Fix crash within the video output code
1922 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1923 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1924 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1925 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1926 lua extensions, ...)
1927 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1930 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1933 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1934 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1937 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1940 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1941 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1942 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1943 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1944 Dutch, Danish, translations
1945 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1948 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1949 --------------------------------
1952 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1955 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1956 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1957 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1960 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1961 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1962 * Fix koreus lua parser
1963 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1964 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1965 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1966 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1969 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1970 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1973 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1976 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1977 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1978 * Fix Time counter UI look
1979 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1982 * Fix https streaming
1985 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1986 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1987 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1990 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1991 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1992 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1993 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1994 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1997 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1998 --------------------------------
2001 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
2002 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
2003 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
2004 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
2005 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
2006 during playback on Mac OS X
2009 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
2010 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
2011 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
2014 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
2015 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
2016 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
2017 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
2018 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
2021 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
2022 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
2023 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
2024 * Support Youtube live streams
2027 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
2030 * Fix media info dialog update
2031 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
2032 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
2033 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
2034 * Fix album art display at start
2037 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
2038 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
2039 * Fix menus display and behavior
2040 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
2041 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
2042 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
2043 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
2044 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
2045 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
2046 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
2049 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
2050 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
2051 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
2052 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
2053 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
2054 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
2055 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
2056 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
2057 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
2060 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
2061 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
2062 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
2063 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
2064 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
2067 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
2068 --------------------------------
2071 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
2074 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
2075 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
2078 * Add GateKeeper support
2079 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
2080 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
2081 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
2084 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
2087 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
2088 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
2089 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
2090 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
2091 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
2094 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
2095 --------------------------------
2098 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
2099 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
2100 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
2101 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
2102 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
2103 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
2104 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
2105 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
2106 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
2107 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
2108 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
2112 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
2113 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
2114 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
2115 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
2116 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
2117 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
2118 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
2119 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
2120 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
2121 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
2122 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
2123 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
2126 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
2127 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
2129 * Fix MP3 free format support
2132 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
2133 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
2134 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
2135 * Fix for DVB channels file support
2136 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
2139 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
2140 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
2142 Audio filters and output:
2143 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
2144 * Fix DirectSound device selection
2145 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
2146 * Do not apply volume in file output
2147 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
2148 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
2151 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
2152 the persistant media library
2153 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
2154 to the media library or the temporary playlist
2155 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
2156 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
2157 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
2158 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
2159 press on the Play/Pause button
2160 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
2161 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
2162 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
2163 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
2164 * Many Fullscreen fixes
2165 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
2166 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
2167 Synchronization panel
2168 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
2169 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
2170 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
2171 * Fix crashes on exit
2172 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
2174 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
2175 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
2176 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
2177 automatically reset on the first launch.
2178 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
2179 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
2180 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
2183 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
2184 * Fixes for icecast SD
2187 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
2188 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
2189 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
2190 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
2191 * Fix tags and file names display
2192 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
2195 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2196 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2199 * Fix display of some buttons
2200 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2201 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2204 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2205 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2206 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2209 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2210 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2211 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2212 Thai translations update
2213 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2216 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2217 --------------------------------
2220 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2221 * fix the samba module compilation
2222 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2223 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2224 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2225 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2228 * Support for MXPEG files
2229 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2230 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2233 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2234 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2235 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2238 * Fix ogm header creation
2241 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2242 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2245 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2246 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2247 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2248 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2251 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2254 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2255 * allow to hide the sidebar
2256 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2257 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2258 * noticebly faster launch time
2259 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2260 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2261 * improve track synchronization panel
2262 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2263 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2266 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2267 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2268 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2269 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2272 * fix for menus display
2273 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2274 * documentation update
2277 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2278 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2281 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2282 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2283 * Update Jamendo selections
2287 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2288 * fix a crash on VLM close
2291 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2292 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2293 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2294 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2297 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2300 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2301 ---------------------------------
2304 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2305 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2306 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2307 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2308 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2309 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2310 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2311 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2312 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2313 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2314 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2315 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2316 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2317 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2318 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2319 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2320 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2321 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2322 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2323 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2324 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2325 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2326 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2327 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2328 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2329 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2331 Important changes for packagers:
2332 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2333 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2334 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2335 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2336 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2337 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2338 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2339 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2340 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2341 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2344 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2345 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2346 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2347 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2348 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2349 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2350 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2353 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2354 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2355 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2356 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2357 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2358 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2359 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2360 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2361 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2362 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2363 * PulseAudio audio input support
2364 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2365 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2366 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2367 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2368 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2369 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2370 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2371 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2374 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2375 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2376 are notably concerned.
2377 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2378 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2379 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2380 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2381 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2382 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2383 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2384 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2385 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2386 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2387 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2388 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2389 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2390 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2391 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2394 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2395 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2396 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2397 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2398 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2399 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2400 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2401 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2402 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2403 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2404 * Improved support of tracker files
2405 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2408 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2409 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2410 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2411 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2412 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2413 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2414 and important cleanups and optimisations
2415 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2416 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2417 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2418 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2419 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2420 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2421 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2422 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2423 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2424 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2425 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2426 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2427 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2428 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2429 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2430 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2431 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2432 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2433 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2434 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2435 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2438 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2439 * New video output for iOS platform
2440 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2441 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2442 * Various vmem improvements
2443 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2444 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2445 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2446 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2447 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2448 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2450 Audio Output and Filters:
2451 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2452 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2453 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2454 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2455 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2456 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2457 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2458 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2459 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2460 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2463 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2464 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2465 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2466 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2467 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2468 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2469 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2470 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2471 * New anti-flickering filter
2472 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2473 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2474 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2475 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2476 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2477 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2478 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2481 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2482 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2483 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2484 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2485 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2486 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2487 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2488 * Major rework of VoD support
2489 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2490 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2491 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2492 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2493 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2494 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2495 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2496 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2497 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2498 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2501 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2502 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2505 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2506 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2507 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2508 list of available audio and video filters
2509 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2510 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2511 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2514 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2515 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2516 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2517 * id3tag: use taglib
2518 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2519 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2520 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2521 * removal of the noise filter
2522 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2523 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2524 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2525 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2528 * Update of translations for most languages.
2529 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2532 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2533 ----------------------------------
2536 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2537 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2540 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2541 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2544 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2545 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2546 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2549 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2552 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2553 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2556 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2559 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2560 ----------------------------------
2563 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2564 including support for OS X Lion
2565 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2566 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2569 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2572 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2573 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2574 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2577 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2580 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2581 ----------------------------------
2584 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2585 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2588 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2589 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2590 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2591 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2592 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2594 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2595 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2596 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2598 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2599 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2602 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2605 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2608 * Fix quitting on Linux
2609 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2613 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2616 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2619 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2620 ---------------------------------
2622 Windows and Mac OS X:
2623 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2626 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2627 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2630 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2633 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2636 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2638 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2639 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2641 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2642 * RTP output and XML export
2643 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2647 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2648 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2649 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2650 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2653 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2654 --------------------------------
2656 Windows and Mac OS X:
2657 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2660 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2663 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2664 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2665 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2666 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2667 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2668 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2671 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2672 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2676 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2677 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2678 * New Luganda Translation
2681 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2682 --------------------------------
2685 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2688 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2689 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2690 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2691 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2694 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2696 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2697 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2698 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2699 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2700 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2701 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2702 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2703 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2705 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2706 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2707 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2708 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2709 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2710 * Configure and build system improvements
2711 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2714 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2715 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2716 * New icelandic translation
2719 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2720 --------------------------------
2723 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2724 #234484 and #260719.
2727 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2728 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2729 and stability reasons
2732 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2736 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2739 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2740 ----------------------------------
2743 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2746 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2747 ---------------------------------
2750 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2751 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2752 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2753 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2756 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2759 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2760 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2761 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2762 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2765 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2766 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2767 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2769 Subtitles and renderer:
2770 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2771 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2772 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2773 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2774 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2777 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2778 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2779 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2780 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2783 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2784 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2786 Miscellaneous fixes:
2787 * KDE device solid actions
2789 * Transcode integer overflow
2790 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2791 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2794 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2795 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2796 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2799 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2800 ----------------------------------
2803 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2807 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2810 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2813 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2814 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2815 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2816 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2819 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2823 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2826 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2829 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2830 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2832 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2836 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2837 * Miscellaneous fixes
2840 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2841 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2842 French and Ukrainian
2843 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2844 * New Asturian translation
2847 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2848 ----------------------------------
2851 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2853 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2856 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2859 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2860 * Various fixes for Windows
2863 * New Armenian translation
2864 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2865 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2868 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2869 --------------------------------
2872 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2873 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2874 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2877 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2878 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2881 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2882 --------------------------------
2884 Access and demuxers:
2885 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2886 * fix for podcasts parsing
2887 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2890 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2891 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2894 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2895 * fix m3u playlists exports
2898 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2901 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2904 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2907 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2910 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2913 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2914 --------------------------------
2917 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2918 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2921 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2922 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2925 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2926 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2927 * fix console output encoding
2929 Interface and extensions:
2930 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2931 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2934 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2935 --------------------------------
2938 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2939 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2940 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2941 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2942 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2943 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2944 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2945 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2946 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2947 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2948 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2949 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2950 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2951 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2952 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2953 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2957 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2958 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2959 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2960 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2961 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2964 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2967 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2968 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2969 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2973 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2976 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2977 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2978 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2981 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2982 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2983 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2984 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2987 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2988 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2991 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2992 --------------------------------
2994 Important changes for users:
2995 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2996 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2998 Important changes for packagers:
2999 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
3000 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
3001 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
3002 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
3003 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
3005 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
3007 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
3008 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
3009 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
3010 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
3011 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
3014 * Support for the sftp protocol
3015 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
3016 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
3017 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
3018 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
3019 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
3022 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
3023 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
3024 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
3026 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
3027 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
3028 * Invmem module improvements
3029 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
3030 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
3031 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
3032 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
3033 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
3034 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
3035 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
3036 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
3037 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
3038 * Support for VP8 codec
3039 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
3042 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
3043 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
3044 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
3045 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
3046 * Various EGP improvements
3047 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
3048 * Metadata and cover art improvements
3051 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
3052 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
3053 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
3054 * Podcast images are now displayed
3057 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
3058 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
3059 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
3060 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
3061 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
3062 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
3063 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
3064 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
3065 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
3066 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
3067 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
3070 * New content extensions lua framework
3073 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3074 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
3075 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
3076 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
3077 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
3078 * NEON assembly audio converter module
3079 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
3082 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
3083 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
3084 * Service discovery based on libudev
3085 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
3088 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
3089 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
3090 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
3091 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
3092 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
3093 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
3094 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
3097 * New smem module, streaming to memory
3098 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
3099 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
3102 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
3104 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
3105 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
3108 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
3111 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
3112 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
3113 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
3114 by Andy Matuschak et al.
3115 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
3116 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
3117 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
3120 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
3121 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
3124 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
3125 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
3126 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
3130 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
3131 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
3132 * Improved Solaris port
3135 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
3136 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
3139 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
3140 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
3141 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
3142 * transrate: broken since too long
3143 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
3144 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
3145 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
3146 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
3147 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
3148 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
3149 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
3150 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
3151 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
3152 * cddax: use cdda instead.
3153 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
3154 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
3155 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
3156 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
3159 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
3160 --------------------------------
3163 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
3165 Decoders/Packetizers:
3166 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
3169 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
3170 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
3171 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
3172 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
3173 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
3176 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
3177 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
3180 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
3181 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
3184 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
3185 and Walloon translations updated
3186 * Sinhala translation started
3189 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
3190 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
3193 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
3194 --------------------------------
3197 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3198 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3201 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3204 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3205 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3208 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3209 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3210 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3211 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3214 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3215 --------------------------------
3218 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3219 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3222 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3223 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3226 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3227 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3230 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3233 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3234 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3237 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3238 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3241 * New Walloon translation
3242 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3245 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3246 --------------------------------
3249 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3250 regressions in most popular drivers
3251 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3254 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3255 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3256 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3259 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3260 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3263 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3264 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3265 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3266 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3267 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3270 * New udev module for linux
3273 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3276 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3279 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3280 --------------------------------
3283 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3284 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3285 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3288 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3289 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3292 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3293 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3296 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3299 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3300 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3301 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3302 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3305 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3306 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3307 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3308 - no support for Goom and SDL
3309 - limited text rendering support
3310 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3313 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3314 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3315 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3316 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3317 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3318 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3319 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3320 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3321 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3325 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3328 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3331 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3332 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3333 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3334 Arabic and French translation updates
3337 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3338 --------------------------------
3341 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3342 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3343 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3344 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3345 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3346 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3349 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3350 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3351 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3354 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3355 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3356 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3359 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3362 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3363 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3366 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3367 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3368 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3369 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3370 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3371 * Fix various crashes
3374 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3376 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3380 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3381 ---------------------------------
3385 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3386 See 'Access:' for more info.
3387 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3390 * Instantaneous pausing
3391 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3392 * Finer speed control
3393 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3394 * Timeshift for most medias
3395 * RTSP trickplay support
3396 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3399 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3400 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3401 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3402 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3403 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3404 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3405 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3406 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3407 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3408 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3411 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3412 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3413 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3414 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3415 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3416 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3417 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3420 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3421 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3424 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3425 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3426 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3427 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3428 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3429 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3430 * DVB scanning on linux
3431 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3432 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3433 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3434 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3435 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3436 * MTP device access on Unix
3437 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3438 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3441 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3442 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3443 Windows and Mac OS X.
3446 * Export the playlist in HTML
3447 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3448 * Better metadata handling and reading
3450 Linux/Windows interface:
3451 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3452 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3453 * Recently played items list
3454 * Interface toolbar customizations
3455 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3456 - More menus actions
3457 - Finer speed slider
3458 - Improvements on many dialogs
3459 - New dialog for plugins listing
3460 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3461 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3462 * Better integration in GTK environments
3465 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3466 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3467 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3468 * Additional usability improvements
3471 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3472 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3473 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3474 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3475 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3478 * New Maemo port with:
3479 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3480 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3483 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3486 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3487 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3488 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3489 * Support for latest iSight models
3492 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3493 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3496 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3497 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3498 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3499 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3500 The old image video output has been removed.
3501 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3502 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3505 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3513 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3514 --------------------------------------
3520 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3521 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3522 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3523 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3524 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3525 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3526 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3528 Various fixes to the following modules:
3531 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3532 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3533 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3535 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3540 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3541 ---------------------------------
3544 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3545 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3548 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3549 ---------------------------------
3552 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3555 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3558 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3559 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3560 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3561 main controller window.
3562 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3565 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3570 * Updates of other localizations
3573 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3574 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3575 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3576 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3577 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3580 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3581 ---------------------------------
3584 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3586 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3589 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3590 --------------------------------
3595 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3596 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3599 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3600 --------------------------------
3602 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3603 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3606 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3609 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3610 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3613 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3614 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3617 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3618 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3619 * Various fixed in playlist
3622 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3625 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3628 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3629 ------------------------------------
3631 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3632 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3635 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3636 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3637 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3640 * Stability fix for the video output.
3643 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3644 --------------------------------
3647 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3648 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3649 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3650 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3651 * Fixed update system bugs
3652 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3655 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3656 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3657 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3658 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3659 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3660 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3661 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3662 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3663 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3664 modern Mac OS X versions
3667 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3668 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3670 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3671 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3674 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3675 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3676 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3677 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3678 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3679 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3682 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3683 --------------------------------
3685 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3686 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3687 * Multiple bugfixes.
3690 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3691 --------------------------------
3693 * Multiple bug fixes.
3696 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3697 ---------------------------------
3701 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3702 recent to work correctly
3703 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3704 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3705 edit the ".hosts" file.
3706 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3707 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3708 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3709 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3710 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3711 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3712 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3713 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3714 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3715 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3716 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3717 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3718 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3719 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3720 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3721 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3722 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3723 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3724 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3725 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3726 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3727 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3728 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3729 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3730 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3731 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3732 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3733 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3734 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3735 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3736 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3737 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3738 and postproc modules.
3739 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3740 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3741 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3742 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3744 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3745 filter. For example:
3746 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3747 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3749 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3750 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3756 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3758 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3759 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3762 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3763 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3765 * Shoutcast TV listings
3766 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3768 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3769 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3771 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3774 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3775 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3776 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3777 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3778 * JACK audio input support
3779 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3780 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3781 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3782 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3783 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3784 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3785 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3786 (available as a separate download).
3787 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3788 * RTMP input support
3789 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3790 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3791 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3793 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3794 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3797 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3798 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3799 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3800 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3802 * APEv1/2 tags support
3803 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3804 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3806 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3807 * TiVo Series 2 support
3808 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3813 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3814 * Flash Screen Video support
3815 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3816 * DosBox Capture support
3817 * Karl Morton's Video support
3818 * limited atrac3 support
3820 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3821 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3822 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3823 * H.264 PAFF support
3824 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3825 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3826 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3827 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3828 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3831 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3832 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3833 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3834 * AQTitle subtitles support
3835 * MKV USF subtitles support
3836 * HTML-based subtitles support
3837 * MPSub subtitles support
3838 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3839 * MPL2 subtitles support
3840 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3841 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3842 * Realtext subtitle support
3843 * DKS subtitle support
3844 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3845 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3848 * Flash Screen Video support
3849 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3851 Video outputs and filters:
3852 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3853 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3854 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3855 * New puzzle video output filter
3856 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3857 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3859 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3860 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3861 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3862 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3863 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3864 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3865 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3866 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3867 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3868 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3869 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3870 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3871 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3872 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3874 Audio outputs and filters:
3875 * Replay gain support
3876 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3877 new scaletempo audio filter)
3878 * New spatializer audio filter
3879 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3882 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3883 * New RTP payload formats:
3884 * Speex voice audio codec
3885 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3886 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3887 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3888 * DCCP transport for RTP
3889 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3894 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3895 end-user suitable way.
3896 * Improved user interaction
3897 * Improved mouse gestures
3898 * Vastly improved Update checker
3899 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3901 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3902 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3904 * Improved video output features
3905 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3906 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3907 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3908 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3909 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3911 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3912 if libncursesw is available.
3913 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3914 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3915 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3917 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3918 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3919 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3920 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3921 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3922 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3923 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3924 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3927 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3928 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3929 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3932 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3933 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3934 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3935 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3936 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3937 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3940 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3941 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3951 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3952 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3953 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3956 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3957 ----------------------------------
3960 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3963 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3964 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3965 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3966 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3967 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3968 * Updated Polish translation
3971 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3972 ----------------------------------
3975 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3976 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3977 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3980 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3981 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3982 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3983 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3984 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3985 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3986 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3987 to an unexpected application termination
3988 * New Serbian translation
3989 * Updated Romanian translation
3992 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3993 ----------------------------------
3996 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3997 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3998 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3999 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
4000 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
4001 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
4002 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
4003 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
4006 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
4007 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
4008 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
4009 * Fixed AAC resampling
4010 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
4011 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
4014 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
4015 ----------------------------------
4018 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
4019 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
4020 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
4021 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
4022 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
4025 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
4026 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
4027 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
4028 * Close MMS access on network timeout
4029 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
4032 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
4033 ----------------------------------
4036 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
4037 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
4040 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
4041 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
4042 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
4043 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
4045 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
4049 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
4052 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
4055 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
4058 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
4061 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
4062 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
4063 encoding on multi-cpu systems
4064 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
4065 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
4067 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4068 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
4069 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
4070 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
4073 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
4076 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
4077 ----------------------------------
4080 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
4081 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
4082 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
4084 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
4085 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
4087 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
4088 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
4091 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
4093 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4094 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
4095 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4096 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
4097 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
4098 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
4099 two different movies
4100 * Support for current Ogg file formats
4101 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
4102 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
4105 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
4108 * The automatic updating facility was removed
4109 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
4110 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
4111 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
4114 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
4115 ----------------------------------
4117 Various bugfixes, notably:
4118 * Windows Vista compatibility
4119 * Cropping in Direct3D
4120 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
4121 * RSS filter string overflow
4123 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
4125 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
4126 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
4129 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
4130 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
4133 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
4136 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
4139 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
4142 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
4143 ----------------------------------
4145 Various bugfixes, notably:
4146 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
4147 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
4148 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
4149 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
4150 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
4151 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
4154 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
4155 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
4158 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
4160 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4161 * Diverse usability improvements
4162 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
4163 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
4164 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
4167 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
4168 ---------------------------------
4170 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
4171 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
4174 * Fullscreen controller improvements
4177 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
4178 --------------------------------
4181 * Shoutcast TV listings support
4184 * Support for RTSP authentication
4185 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
4186 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
4187 * ATSC support for DVB input
4188 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
4189 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
4190 * Improved support for Flash Video files
4193 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
4194 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
4195 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4196 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4197 * Matroska WavPack support
4198 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4199 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4200 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4203 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4204 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4205 * Improved libcaca support
4209 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4210 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4212 * Systray support in skins
4214 * Support for Apple Remote control
4215 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4216 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4217 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4218 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4220 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4223 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4224 Windows 9x/ME users:
4225 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4226 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4227 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4228 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4229 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4231 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4232 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4241 * Updates to the libvlc API
4242 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4245 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4246 --------------------------------
4249 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4250 * Support for downloading updates
4254 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4255 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4256 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4257 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4259 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4260 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4261 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4264 * Cook (Real audio) support
4266 Playlist / Services discovery:
4267 * XSPF playlist support
4269 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4272 * New JACK audio output
4275 * New video filters:
4276 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4277 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4278 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4279 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4280 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4281 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4284 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4287 * System to inform the user and request information
4288 - HTTP authentication
4292 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4293 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4294 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4297 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4298 - Improved playlist handling
4299 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4301 - Embedded Video output
4302 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4303 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4304 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4305 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4306 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4308 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4309 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4312 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4315 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4316 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4317 * Growl "Now playing" support
4320 * Ability to log to syslog
4321 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4324 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4326 * A bit more automatic testing
4329 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4330 ---------------------------------
4333 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4334 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4337 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4338 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4341 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4344 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4345 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4351 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4354 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4355 --------------------------------
4358 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4362 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4363 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4364 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4367 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4368 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4369 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4370 * GnomeVFS input module
4371 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4372 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4375 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4376 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4377 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4380 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4381 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4387 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4388 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4391 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4392 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4393 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4396 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4398 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4399 - New extended controls panel
4400 - New bookmarks window
4401 - Fixed playlist sorting
4402 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4404 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4405 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4406 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4407 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4411 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4412 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4414 - Include macro to include other files
4418 * Should now work outside IE as well
4421 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4424 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4425 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4428 The following languages were added:
4432 * Simplified Chinese
4433 The following languages were re-added:
4437 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4438 --------------------------------
4441 * Rewrite of the playlist
4443 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4444 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4445 * Preferences improvements:
4446 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4447 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4449 * Core image manipulation support
4450 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4451 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4452 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4453 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4454 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4455 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4456 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4457 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4458 * Access filter architecture
4459 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4460 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4464 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4465 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4466 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4467 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4468 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4469 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4470 * Massive Matroska improvements
4471 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4473 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4474 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4475 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4476 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4477 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4479 Decoders / Encoders:
4480 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4481 * PNG decoder/encoder
4482 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4483 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4486 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4489 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4490 * Brand new SAP module
4491 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4492 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4493 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4494 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4495 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4496 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4500 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4503 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4504 * Image file video output (png)
4505 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4506 * Improvements to wall video filter
4507 * Support for font color and opacity
4513 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4514 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4515 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4519 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4520 - Improved preferences
4521 - Improvements to the wizard
4522 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4524 - Redesigned playlist
4525 - Improved preferences
4527 - Support for multiple actions
4530 - Support for the new playlist system
4532 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4535 * Screensaver disabling fix
4536 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4537 * Support for no-decoration windows
4540 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4541 * The OpenGL video output is back
4542 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4543 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4544 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4545 is not yet available in the new module
4546 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4549 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4558 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4561 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4564 The following languages were added:
4570 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4571 --------------------------------
4574 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4575 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4578 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4579 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4580 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4583 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4586 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4589 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4592 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4593 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4594 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4598 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4600 * Support of playlist group announcement
4603 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4604 --------------------------------
4607 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4608 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4609 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4610 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4611 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4612 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4615 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4616 (Stream your desktop)
4617 * Improved DVD support:
4618 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4619 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4620 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4621 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4622 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4623 (selection of titles/chapters).
4626 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4627 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4628 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4629 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4630 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4631 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4632 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4633 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4634 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4635 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4638 * G.726 audio support
4639 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4640 * MPEG-4 text support
4641 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4642 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4643 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4647 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4648 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4649 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4650 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4651 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4652 * DVB subtitles encoder
4653 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4654 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4656 * Text track muxing for mp4
4657 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4658 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4659 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4660 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4661 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4662 * Improved ASF muxer
4664 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4665 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4666 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4669 * New audio equalizer filter
4670 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4671 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4672 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4673 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4676 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4677 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4678 with support for effects.
4679 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4680 - New filters can be streamed.
4681 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4682 - Centralized scaling and blending
4684 - "time", to display current time
4685 - "marq", to display a marquee
4688 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4689 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4690 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4691 * A few skins2 improvements
4692 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4693 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4694 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4695 * Improved CORBA control module
4698 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4699 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4700 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4703 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4704 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4705 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4708 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4709 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4710 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4711 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4712 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4715 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4718 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4719 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4722 * Server/client network synchronization module
4723 * VBrick streams fully supported
4724 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4728 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4729 --------------------------------
4732 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4733 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4734 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4735 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4738 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4739 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4740 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4741 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4742 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4743 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4744 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4747 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4748 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4749 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4750 * Improved directory access module.
4751 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4752 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4753 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4754 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4755 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4758 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4759 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4760 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4763 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4764 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4765 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4768 * Improved session announcement system.
4769 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4770 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4771 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4772 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4773 * Improved transrater.
4774 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4775 * New configuration system.
4776 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4779 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4780 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4781 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4782 * Supports scheduling.
4783 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4784 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4787 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4788 - Ability to embed video output.
4789 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4790 - Lots of improvements.
4791 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4792 - New design and set of icons.
4793 - Ability to embed video output.
4794 - Support for hotkeys.
4795 - Support for bookmarks.
4797 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4798 - Better hotkeys handling.
4801 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4802 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4803 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4804 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4807 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4808 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4809 * Improved Windows installer.
4815 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4816 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4819 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4820 ---------------------------------
4823 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4824 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4827 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4828 --------------------------------
4831 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4832 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4835 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4836 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4837 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4838 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4841 * Internal improvments
4842 * Improved import/export
4845 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4847 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4848 small and strange formats.
4850 * New MOD audio demux.
4851 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4852 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4853 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4854 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4857 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4858 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4859 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4865 * New opengl video output plugin.
4868 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4869 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4872 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4873 --------------------------------
4876 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4877 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4878 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4879 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4880 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4881 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4882 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4883 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4886 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4891 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4892 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4893 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4894 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4895 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4896 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4897 * Better Icecast support.
4898 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4899 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4902 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4903 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4904 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4905 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4906 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4907 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4908 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4911 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4912 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4913 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4914 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4915 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4916 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4917 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4918 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4919 * Preliminary RTP support.
4920 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4925 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4926 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4928 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4929 - Improvements and help in preferences
4930 - New streaming wizard
4931 - Revised Disc Open menu
4933 - Improvements of the standard pages
4934 - Support for new commands
4935 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4938 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4939 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4942 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4943 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4944 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4945 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4946 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4947 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4948 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4949 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4950 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4953 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4955 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4956 * Support for Panther.
4957 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4958 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4961 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4962 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4963 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4964 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4965 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4966 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4967 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4968 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4971 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4972 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4973 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4976 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4979 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4980 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4981 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4982 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4985 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4986 --------------------------------
4989 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4992 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4993 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4996 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4997 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
5000 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
5003 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5004 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5007 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5010 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5013 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5014 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5018 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5019 --------------------------------
5022 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5023 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5027 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5028 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5029 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5031 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5032 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5035 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5038 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5041 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5042 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5046 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5047 --------------------------------
5050 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5051 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5055 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5056 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5057 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5058 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
5059 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
5062 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
5063 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
5064 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
5067 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
5068 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
5069 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
5072 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
5073 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
5074 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
5075 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
5076 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
5079 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
5080 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
5081 * A new CORBA control plugin.
5084 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
5087 * Improved build system.
5088 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
5089 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
5090 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
5091 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
5094 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
5095 --------------------------------
5098 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
5101 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
5102 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
5103 * Fixed large file support on Windows
5104 * Video 4 Linux support
5105 * CD Digital Audio support
5106 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
5109 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
5110 * Support for OpenDML avi files
5111 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
5112 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
5115 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
5116 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
5117 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
5118 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
5119 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
5120 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
5121 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
5124 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
5125 * New HTTP remote control interface
5128 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
5129 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
5130 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
5131 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
5132 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
5135 * New reset option for the preferences
5136 * You can set your language in the prefences
5137 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
5138 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
5139 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
5140 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
5143 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
5144 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
5145 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
5148 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
5149 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
5150 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
5151 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
5152 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
5153 * New icons by Davor Orel.
5154 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
5155 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
5156 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
5157 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
5160 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
5161 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
5162 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
5163 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
5164 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
5165 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
5166 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
5169 * Interface localization
5170 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
5171 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
5172 * New full-featured Preferences window
5175 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
5176 --------------------------------
5179 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
5180 * support for skins at the interface level
5181 * new OSD module using Freetype2
5182 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
5183 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
5184 input level before dropping out of date frames.
5185 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
5188 * fixed HTTP redirects
5189 * support for opening an entire directory
5190 * EOF should be detected more reliably
5191 * new video4linux access plug-in
5192 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
5195 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5196 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5197 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5200 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5201 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5202 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5203 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5204 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5205 * new codec for raw I420 video
5206 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5209 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5210 (although it still misses some important features)
5211 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5214 * new HTTP output support
5215 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5216 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5219 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5222 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5225 * reorderable playlist
5226 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5227 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5228 * support for mono audio output devices
5229 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5230 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5231 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5232 * the messages window remembers more lines
5233 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5234 * http and ogg stream output options
5235 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5238 * new skinnable interface
5239 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5241 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5242 * support for FLAC audio format
5243 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5245 * network tab in the interface
5246 * "apply" handling in preferences
5249 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5250 ---------------------------------
5253 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5254 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5255 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5256 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5258 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5259 * DTS S/PDIF support
5262 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5263 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5264 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5265 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5268 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5269 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5272 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5275 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5278 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5280 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5281 * rc interface is now fully useable
5282 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5285 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5286 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5287 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5288 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5289 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5291 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5292 * support for mouse gestures
5293 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5296 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5297 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5300 * improved ID3 tag detection
5301 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5302 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5303 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5305 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5308 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5309 ---------------------------------
5312 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5313 English was set as the preferred language
5316 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5317 --------------------------------
5320 * new mouse gesture interface
5321 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5325 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5326 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5327 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5330 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5331 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5335 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5338 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5339 without the user consent
5342 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5344 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5345 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5346 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5349 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5350 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5351 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5352 * playlist enhancements
5353 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5354 * new step forward/step backward commands
5355 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5356 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5357 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5360 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5361 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5362 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5365 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5366 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5369 * native video output is working again
5370 * only commandline interface support
5371 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5374 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5375 --------------------------------
5378 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5379 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5380 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5381 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5382 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5383 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5384 and A/52 streams are supported)
5385 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5390 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5391 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5392 * VCD entry points support
5393 * VCD image file support
5396 * support for *.asf format
5397 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5398 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5399 * support for ogg encapsulation
5400 * support for raw DV format
5401 * support for *.wav format
5402 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5405 Stream discovery & playlists:
5406 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5407 * support for .m3u file format
5408 * support for .asx file format
5409 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5412 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5413 (only available with the .avi demux)
5414 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5415 * support for raw PCM data
5416 * support for Cinepak video codec
5417 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5418 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5419 * support for Xvid codec
5420 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5421 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5422 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5424 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5426 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5429 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5432 * new WxWindows interface
5433 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5434 device and the channels configuration
5435 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5436 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5437 format that VLC can play
5438 * new swedish translation
5439 * enhancements of the playlist window
5440 * new messages window to see debug info
5441 * fixed a few crashes
5444 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5445 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5446 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5447 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working