1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
14 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
17 * Support for HEIF format
18 * Support for DASH WebM
21 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
23 * Remove iomx support for Android
29 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
32 * Remove Growl notification support
35 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
36 --------------------------------
38 Platform support changes:
39 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
40 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
42 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
43 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
44 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
45 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
46 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
48 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
49 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
50 it should work, but not without limitations.
51 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
52 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
53 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
54 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
55 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
56 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
59 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
60 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
61 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
62 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
63 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
64 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
65 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
66 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
67 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
68 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
69 * Support wayland surface type
70 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
71 * Refactor preparsing input
72 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
73 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
74 es category single only or multiple es behavior
75 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
76 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
77 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
80 * New NFS access module using libnfs
81 * New SMB access module using libdsm
83 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
84 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
85 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
86 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
87 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
88 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
89 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
90 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
91 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
92 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
93 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
94 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
95 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
96 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
97 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
98 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
99 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
100 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
101 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
102 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
103 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
104 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
105 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
106 * Improvements on DVB scanning
107 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
108 * Support for DVD ISO over network
109 * New SRT access module using libsrt
112 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
113 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
114 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
115 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
116 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
117 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
118 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
119 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
120 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
121 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
122 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
123 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
124 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
125 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
126 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
129 * Support for experimental AV1 video
130 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
131 * Support for experimental Daala video
132 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
133 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
134 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
135 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
136 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
137 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
138 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
139 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
140 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
141 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
142 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
143 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
144 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
145 can now decode up to 8 channels
146 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
147 * Support VPX high bit depth support
148 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
149 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
150 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
152 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
153 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
156 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
157 * Support for fragmented MP4
158 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
159 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
160 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
161 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
162 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
163 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
164 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
165 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
166 * Add new metadata fields
167 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
168 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
169 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
170 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
171 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
172 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
173 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
174 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
175 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
176 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
177 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
178 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
180 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
181 * Partial support of PSMF
182 * Fix broken SCR samples
183 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
184 * Improvements on MKV:
185 * Rewrite MKV seeking
186 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
187 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
188 * Improve DVD-menus support
189 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
190 * Support Daala in Ogg
191 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
192 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
193 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
194 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
195 * Support WMV extended content metadata
196 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
197 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
198 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
199 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
200 * Support SBV subtitles
201 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
202 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
203 * Support for isofLaC
204 * Improve fLaC seeking
205 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
206 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
209 * Add an ADF stream filter
210 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
211 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
212 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
213 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
214 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
215 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
218 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
219 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
222 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
223 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
224 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
225 * Add Tizen audio module
226 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
227 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
228 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
229 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
232 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
233 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
234 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
235 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
236 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
237 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
238 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
240 * Add a pitch shifting module
243 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
245 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
246 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
247 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
248 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
249 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
250 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
251 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
252 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
253 * Wayland shell surface window provider
254 * Wayland shared memory video output
255 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
256 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
257 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
258 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
259 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
260 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
261 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
262 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
265 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
266 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
267 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
268 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
269 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
270 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
271 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
274 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
275 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
276 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
277 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
280 * Chromecast output module
281 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
284 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
285 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
288 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
289 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
290 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
294 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
295 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
296 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
297 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
300 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
301 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
302 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
303 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
304 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
305 * Improve and simplify preferences window
306 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
307 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
308 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
309 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
310 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
313 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
316 * Batch convert support
317 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
320 * Support key accelerators
323 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
324 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
325 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
326 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
327 This allows to attach media events between create and start
328 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
329 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
330 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
331 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
332 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
333 identifier (if there is one available)
334 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
335 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
336 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
337 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
338 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
339 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
340 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
341 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
342 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
343 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
344 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
345 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
346 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
347 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
349 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
350 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
351 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
352 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
353 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
356 * Support for the SystemD Journal
357 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
358 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
359 * New Android module for logging
362 * remove langfromtelx
363 * remove ZPL playlist format
364 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
365 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
366 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
367 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
368 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
369 * Add a memory keystore
370 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
371 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
375 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
376 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
377 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
378 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
379 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
380 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
381 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
382 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
383 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
384 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
385 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
386 * BD access module (use libbluray)
387 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
388 * EyeTV access module
389 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
390 * VDA decoder: use VT
391 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
392 * SDL video output module
393 * DirectFB video output module
394 * RAOP stream output module
397 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
398 --------------------------------
401 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
406 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
407 --------------------------------
410 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
411 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
412 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
413 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
416 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
417 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
420 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
421 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
422 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
423 update to the newest version.
426 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
430 * Support libupnp 1.8
435 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
436 ----------------------------------
439 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
440 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
443 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
445 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
446 ----------------------------------
448 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
453 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
454 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
455 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
456 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
457 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
458 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
459 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
462 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
463 --------------------------------
466 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
467 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
468 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
469 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
470 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
471 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
475 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
476 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
477 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
478 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
479 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
480 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
481 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
484 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
485 * Fix screenshots size
488 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
489 * Fix FTP scan string injection
490 * Fix HTTP size handling
496 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
500 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
503 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
504 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
505 * Fix uninstaller path handling
506 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
509 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
510 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
514 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
515 --------------------------------
518 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
519 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
520 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
523 * Fix resizing issues
526 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
529 * Build fixes for Hurd
532 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
533 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
534 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
537 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
538 --------------------------------
541 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
542 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
546 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
547 * Fix crashes with libvpx
548 * Use libass without caching dialog
551 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
554 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
557 * Fix resume where you left off
558 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
559 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
560 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
563 * Fix crashes in media information panel
564 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
567 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
570 * Update of most translations
573 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
574 --------------------------------
577 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
578 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
579 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
580 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
581 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
584 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
585 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
586 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
587 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
588 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
589 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
590 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
593 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
594 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
595 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
596 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
597 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
598 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
601 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
602 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
603 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
604 be set manually by the user)
605 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
606 * Fix alsa default device selection
609 * Fix video control that fails to show up
610 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
611 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
612 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
613 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
616 * Support for OS X El Capitan
617 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
618 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
619 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
622 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
623 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
624 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
625 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
626 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
630 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
631 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
632 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
635 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
636 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
637 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
638 * Improve PNG encoding time
639 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
640 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
641 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
642 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
643 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
644 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
645 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
646 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
647 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
648 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
649 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
650 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
651 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
654 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
655 * Update of most translations
658 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
659 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
660 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
661 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
664 * Update of most translations
667 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
668 --------------------------------
671 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
672 * Fix some VP9 decoding
674 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
675 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
676 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
677 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
682 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
683 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
684 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
685 * Revert to older ASX code
686 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
689 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
690 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
691 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
694 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
695 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
696 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
699 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
700 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
701 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
704 * Fix recent items behaviour
705 * Fix rotation filter activation
706 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
709 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
710 * Fix extensions registration during install
711 * Fix extensions dialog crash
712 * Default to no DxVA decoding
715 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
718 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
719 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
720 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
721 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
722 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
723 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
726 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
727 --------------------------------
730 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
731 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
734 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
735 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
736 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
737 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
740 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
741 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
742 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
743 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
745 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
746 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
747 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
750 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
751 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
752 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
753 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
754 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
755 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
756 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
757 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
758 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
759 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
760 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
761 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
762 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
763 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
764 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
765 * New jpeg image decoder
766 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
767 * New SVG image decoder
768 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
769 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
770 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
773 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
774 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
775 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
776 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
777 * New png image encoder using libpng
780 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
781 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
782 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
783 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
784 synchronization and tracks exclusion
785 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
786 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
787 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
788 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
789 * Support Opus in MKV
791 * Basic support for WebVTT
792 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
793 * Support HDPR TS files
794 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
795 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
796 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
797 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
798 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
799 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
800 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
801 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
802 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
803 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
804 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
805 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
808 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
809 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
810 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
811 * New Android native window provider module
812 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
813 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
814 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
817 * New Oldmovie effect filter
818 * New VHS effect filter
819 * New Freeze effect filter
820 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
821 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
822 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
825 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
826 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
827 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
828 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
829 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
830 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
833 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
834 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
836 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
839 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
840 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
841 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
842 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
843 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
844 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
845 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
846 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
847 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
849 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
850 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
851 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
854 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
855 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
858 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
859 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
862 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
863 * Add record button in Qt menus
864 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
865 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
866 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
869 * Support for OS X Yosemite
870 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
871 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
872 * Fixes for advanced preferences
873 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
874 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
875 * Option to increase playlist font size
876 * Improved crash log reporting
879 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
880 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
881 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
882 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
885 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
888 * iOS video output: use ios2
889 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
890 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
893 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
894 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
895 * Update of all translations:
896 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
897 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
898 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
899 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
900 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
901 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
902 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
905 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
906 --------------------------------
912 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
913 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
914 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
915 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
916 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
917 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
918 * Fix potential crash in zip access
919 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
920 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
923 * Update translations and greek encoding
926 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
927 --------------------------------
930 * Fix compilation on OS/2
933 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
935 Mac OS X audio output:
936 * Fix channel ordering
937 * Increase the buffersize
940 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
941 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
942 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
945 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
948 * Correctly support video-on-top
949 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
950 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
953 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
956 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
957 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
960 * Update British English
963 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
964 --------------------------------
967 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
970 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
973 * Fix DVD playback regression
974 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
975 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
978 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
979 --------------------------------
982 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
983 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
986 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
987 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
988 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
991 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
992 by updating codec libraries
993 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
994 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
995 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
998 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
999 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1000 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1001 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1004 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1005 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1008 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1009 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1010 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1011 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1012 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1015 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1016 * Fix record file names
1019 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1020 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1021 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1022 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1023 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1026 * Fix album art display on Windows
1029 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1030 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1031 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1032 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1033 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1034 and Simplified Chinese translations
1035 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1038 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1039 --------------------------------
1042 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1043 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1044 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1045 audio devices on OS X
1046 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1047 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1050 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1051 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1054 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1055 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1058 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1061 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1062 * Improve A-B loop control
1063 * Fix album art update when changing media
1066 * Add a language option in the interface
1067 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1068 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1069 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1070 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1071 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1072 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1073 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1076 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1079 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1080 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1081 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1082 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1085 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1086 --------------------------------
1089 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1091 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1094 * VP9 support in WebM
1095 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1096 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1099 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1100 * Support Speex in ogg files
1101 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1102 * Support Alac in mkv
1103 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1104 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1107 * Fix DVB options parsing
1108 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1109 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1112 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1113 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1116 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1117 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1120 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1121 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1122 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1123 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1124 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1127 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1128 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1131 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1132 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1135 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1136 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1137 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1138 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1139 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1140 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1141 * Improves interface resizings
1144 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1145 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1146 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1147 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1148 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1152 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1153 --------------------------------
1156 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1157 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1158 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1159 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1160 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1162 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1163 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1166 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1167 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1168 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1169 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1170 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1173 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1174 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1175 * Remove SQL support
1178 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1179 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1180 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1181 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1182 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1183 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1184 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1185 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1186 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1187 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1188 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1189 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1190 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1193 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1194 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1195 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1198 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1199 remove support for previous OS X releases
1200 * Major improvements in DASH support
1201 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1202 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1203 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1204 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1205 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1206 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1207 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1208 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1209 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1210 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1211 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1214 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1215 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1216 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1217 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1218 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1219 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1220 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1221 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1222 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1223 * Add support for liveleak streams
1224 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1225 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1226 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1229 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1230 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1231 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1232 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1233 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1234 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1235 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1236 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1237 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1238 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1239 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1242 * New remapping channel filter
1243 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1244 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1245 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1246 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1247 * New gain audio filter
1250 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1251 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1252 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1253 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1254 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1255 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1256 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1257 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1258 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1261 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1262 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1263 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1264 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1265 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1266 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1267 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1270 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1271 * Options support for AVIO output module
1272 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1273 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1274 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1275 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1276 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1279 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1282 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1283 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1284 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1285 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1286 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1287 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1288 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1289 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1292 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1293 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1296 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1297 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1299 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1300 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1301 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1302 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1303 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1304 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1305 VLC's internal volume level
1306 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1308 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1309 selection and to manage the list of presets
1310 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1311 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1312 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1313 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1314 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1315 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1316 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1317 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1318 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1319 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1321 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1322 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1323 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1324 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1325 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1326 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1327 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1328 3rd party applications
1329 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1330 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1331 (system-wide settings)
1332 * Add support for the Video Title option
1333 * Add support for the Boss Key
1334 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1335 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1338 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1339 * Menus modifications and improvements
1340 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1341 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1342 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1343 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1344 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1345 * Add SD pixmap sources
1346 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1347 * Display playlist total duration
1348 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1349 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1350 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1355 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1356 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1357 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1358 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1361 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1362 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1363 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1364 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1365 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1366 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1367 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1368 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1369 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1370 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1373 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1374 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1375 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1376 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1377 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1378 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1380 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1381 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1382 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1383 * Broken crop video filter
1385 * OSD parser and menu
1386 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1387 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1388 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1389 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1393 * Update of all translations
1396 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1397 --------------------------------
1400 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1401 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1404 * Fix modplug security issues
1407 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1408 --------------------------------
1412 * Fix crash in QTsound
1413 * Fix screen mouse file location
1414 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1417 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1418 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1421 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1424 * Fix interface crashes
1425 * Fix autostart playback option
1426 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1429 * update Welsh translation
1430 * New Kannada translation
1433 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1434 --------------------------------
1437 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1438 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1442 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1445 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1448 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1451 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1454 * Minor improvements
1455 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1458 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1461 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1462 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1463 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1466 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1467 --------------------------------
1470 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1473 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1476 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1477 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1478 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1479 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1480 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1481 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1484 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1485 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1486 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1487 * 3rd party codecs updates
1490 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1491 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1492 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1493 in the advanced preferences panel
1494 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1495 * Fix crash within the video output code
1496 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1497 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1498 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1499 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1500 lua extensions, ...)
1501 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1504 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1507 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1508 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1511 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1514 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1515 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1516 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1517 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1518 Dutch, Danish, translations
1519 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1522 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1523 --------------------------------
1526 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1529 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1530 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1531 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1534 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1535 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1536 * Fix koreus lua parser
1537 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1538 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1539 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1540 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1543 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1544 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1547 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1550 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1551 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1552 * Fix Time counter UI look
1553 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1556 * Fix https streaming
1559 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1560 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1561 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1564 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1565 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1566 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1567 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1568 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1571 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1572 --------------------------------
1575 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1576 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1577 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1578 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1579 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1580 during playback on Mac OS X
1583 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1584 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1585 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1588 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1589 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1590 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1591 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1592 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1595 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1596 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1597 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1598 * Support Youtube live streams
1601 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1604 * Fix media info dialog update
1605 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1606 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1607 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1608 * Fix album art display at start
1611 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1612 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1613 * Fix menus display and behavior
1614 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1615 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1616 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1617 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1618 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1619 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1620 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1623 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1624 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1625 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1626 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1627 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1628 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1629 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1630 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1631 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1634 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1635 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1636 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1637 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1638 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1641 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1642 --------------------------------
1645 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1648 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1649 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1652 * Add GateKeeper support
1653 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1654 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1655 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1658 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1661 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1662 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1663 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1664 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1665 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1668 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1669 --------------------------------
1672 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1673 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1674 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1675 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1676 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1677 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1678 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1679 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1680 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1681 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1682 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1686 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1687 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1688 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1689 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1690 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1691 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1692 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1693 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1694 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1695 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1696 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1697 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1700 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1701 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1703 * Fix MP3 free format support
1706 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1707 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1708 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1709 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1710 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1713 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1714 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1716 Audio filters and output:
1717 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1718 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1719 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1720 * Do not apply volume in file output
1721 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1722 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1725 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1726 the persistant media library
1727 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1728 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1729 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1730 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1731 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1732 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1733 press on the Play/Pause button
1734 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1735 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1736 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1737 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1738 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1739 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1740 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1741 Synchronization panel
1742 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1743 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1744 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1745 * Fix crashes on exit
1746 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1748 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1749 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1750 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1751 automatically reset on the first launch.
1752 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1753 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1754 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1757 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1758 * Fixes for icecast SD
1761 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1762 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1763 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1764 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1765 * Fix tags and file names display
1766 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1769 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1770 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1773 * Fix display of some buttons
1774 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1775 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1778 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1779 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1780 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1783 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1784 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1785 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1786 Thai translations update
1787 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1790 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1791 --------------------------------
1794 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1795 * fix the samba module compilation
1796 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1797 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1798 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1799 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1802 * Support for MXPEG files
1803 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1804 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1807 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1808 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1809 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1812 * Fix ogm header creation
1815 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1816 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1819 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1820 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1821 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1822 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1825 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1828 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1829 * allow to hide the sidebar
1830 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1831 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1832 * noticebly faster launch time
1833 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1834 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1835 * improve track synchronization panel
1836 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1837 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1840 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1841 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1842 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1843 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1846 * fix for menus display
1847 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1848 * documentation update
1851 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1852 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1855 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1856 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1857 * Update Jamendo selections
1861 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1862 * fix a crash on VLM close
1865 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1866 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1867 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1868 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1871 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1874 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1875 ---------------------------------
1878 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1879 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1880 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1881 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1882 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1883 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1884 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1885 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1886 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1887 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1888 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1889 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1890 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1891 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1892 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1893 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1894 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1895 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1896 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1897 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1898 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1899 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1900 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1901 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1902 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1903 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1905 Important changes for packagers:
1906 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1907 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1908 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1909 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1910 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1911 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1912 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1913 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1914 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1915 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1918 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1919 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1920 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1921 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1922 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1923 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1924 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1927 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1928 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1929 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1930 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1931 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1932 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1933 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1934 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1935 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1936 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1937 * PulseAudio audio input support
1938 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1939 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1940 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1941 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1942 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1943 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1944 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1945 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1948 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1949 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1950 are notably concerned.
1951 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1952 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1953 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1954 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1955 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1956 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1957 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1958 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1959 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1960 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1961 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1962 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1963 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1964 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1965 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1968 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1969 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1970 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1971 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1972 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1973 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1974 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1975 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1976 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1977 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1978 * Improved support of tracker files
1979 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1982 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1983 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1984 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1985 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1986 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1987 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1988 and important cleanups and optimisations
1989 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1990 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1991 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1992 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1993 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1994 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1995 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1996 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1997 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1998 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1999 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2000 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2001 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2002 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2003 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2004 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2005 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2006 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2007 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2008 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2009 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2012 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2013 * New video output for iOS platform
2014 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2015 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2016 * Various vmem improvements
2017 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2018 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2019 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2020 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2021 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2022 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2024 Audio Output and Filters:
2025 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2026 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2027 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2028 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2029 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2030 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2031 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2032 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2033 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2034 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2037 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2038 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2039 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2040 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2041 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2042 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2043 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2044 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2045 * New anti-flickering filter
2046 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2047 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2048 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2049 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2050 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2051 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2052 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2055 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2056 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2057 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2058 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2059 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2060 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2061 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2062 * Major rework of VoD support
2063 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2064 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2065 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2066 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2067 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2068 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2069 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2070 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2071 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2072 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2075 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2076 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2079 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2080 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2081 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2082 list of available audio and video filters
2083 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2084 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2085 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2088 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2089 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2090 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2091 * id3tag: use taglib
2092 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2093 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2094 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2095 * removal of the noise filter
2096 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2097 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2098 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2099 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2102 * Update of translations for most languages.
2103 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2106 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2107 ----------------------------------
2110 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2111 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2114 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2115 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2118 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2119 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2120 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2123 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2126 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2127 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2130 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2133 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2134 ----------------------------------
2137 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2138 including support for OS X Lion
2139 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2140 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2143 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2146 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2147 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2148 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2151 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2154 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2155 ----------------------------------
2158 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2159 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2162 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2163 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2164 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2165 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2166 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2168 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2169 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2170 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2172 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2173 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2176 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2179 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2182 * Fix quitting on Linux
2183 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2187 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2190 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2193 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2194 ---------------------------------
2196 Windows and Mac OS X:
2197 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2200 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2201 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2204 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2207 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2210 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2212 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2213 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2215 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2216 * RTP output and XML export
2217 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2221 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2222 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2223 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2224 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2227 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2228 --------------------------------
2230 Windows and Mac OS X:
2231 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2234 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2237 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2238 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2239 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2240 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2241 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2242 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2245 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2246 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2250 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2251 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2252 * New Luganda Translation
2255 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2256 --------------------------------
2259 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2262 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2263 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2264 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2265 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2268 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2270 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2271 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2272 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2273 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2274 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2275 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2276 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2277 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2279 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2280 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2281 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2282 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2283 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2284 * Configure and build system improvements
2285 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2288 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2289 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2290 * New icelandic translation
2293 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2294 --------------------------------
2297 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2298 #234484 and #260719.
2301 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2302 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2303 and stability reasons
2306 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2310 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2313 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2314 ----------------------------------
2317 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2320 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2321 ---------------------------------
2324 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2325 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2326 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2327 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2330 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2333 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2334 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2335 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2336 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2339 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2340 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2341 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2343 Subtitles and renderer:
2344 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2345 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2346 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2347 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2348 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2351 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2352 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2353 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2354 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2357 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2358 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2360 Miscellaneous fixes:
2361 * KDE device solid actions
2363 * Transcode integer overflow
2364 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2365 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2368 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2369 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2370 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2373 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2374 ----------------------------------
2377 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2381 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2384 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2387 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2388 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2389 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2390 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2393 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2397 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2400 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2403 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2404 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2406 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2410 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2411 * Miscellaneous fixes
2414 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2415 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2416 French and Ukrainian
2417 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2418 * New Asturian translation
2421 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2422 ----------------------------------
2425 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2427 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2430 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2433 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2434 * Various fixes for Windows
2437 * New Armenian translation
2438 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2439 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2442 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2443 --------------------------------
2446 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2447 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2448 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2451 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2452 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2455 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2456 --------------------------------
2458 Access and demuxers:
2459 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2460 * fix for podcasts parsing
2461 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2464 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2465 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2468 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2469 * fix m3u playlists exports
2472 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2475 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2478 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2481 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2484 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2487 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2488 --------------------------------
2491 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2492 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2495 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2496 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2499 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2500 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2501 * fix console output encoding
2503 Interface and extensions:
2504 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2505 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2508 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2509 --------------------------------
2512 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2513 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2514 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2515 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2516 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2517 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2518 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2519 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2520 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2521 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2522 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2523 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2524 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2525 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2526 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2527 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2531 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2532 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2533 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2534 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2535 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2538 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2541 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2542 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2543 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2547 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2550 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2551 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2552 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2555 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2556 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2557 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2558 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2561 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2562 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2565 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2566 --------------------------------
2568 Important changes for users:
2569 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2570 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2572 Important changes for packagers:
2573 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2574 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2575 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2576 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2577 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2579 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2581 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2582 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2583 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2584 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2585 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2588 * Support for the sftp protocol
2589 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2590 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2591 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2592 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2593 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2596 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2597 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2598 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2600 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2601 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2602 * Invmem module improvements
2603 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2604 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2605 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2606 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2607 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2608 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2609 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2610 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2611 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2612 * Support for VP8 codec
2613 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2616 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2617 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2618 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2619 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2620 * Various EGP improvements
2621 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2622 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2625 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2626 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2627 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2628 * Podcast images are now displayed
2631 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2632 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2633 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2634 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2635 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2636 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2637 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2638 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2639 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2640 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2641 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2644 * New content extensions lua framework
2647 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2648 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2649 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2650 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2651 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2652 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2653 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2656 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2657 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2658 * Service discovery based on libudev
2659 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2662 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2663 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2664 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2665 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2666 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2667 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2668 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2671 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2672 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2673 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2676 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2678 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2679 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2682 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2685 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2686 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2687 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2688 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2689 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2690 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2691 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2694 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2695 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2698 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2699 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2700 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2704 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2705 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2706 * Improved Solaris port
2709 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2710 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2713 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2714 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2715 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2716 * transrate: broken since too long
2717 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2718 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2719 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2720 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2721 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2722 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2723 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2724 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2725 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2726 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2727 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2728 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2729 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2730 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2733 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2734 --------------------------------
2737 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2739 Decoders/Packetizers:
2740 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2743 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2744 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2745 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2746 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2747 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2750 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2751 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2754 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2755 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2758 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2759 and Walloon translations updated
2760 * Sinhala translation started
2763 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2764 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2767 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2768 --------------------------------
2771 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2772 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2775 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2778 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2779 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2782 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2783 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2784 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2785 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2788 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2789 --------------------------------
2792 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2793 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2796 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2797 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2800 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2801 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2804 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2807 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2808 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2811 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2812 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2815 * New Walloon translation
2816 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2819 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2820 --------------------------------
2823 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2824 regressions in most popular drivers
2825 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2828 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2829 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2830 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2833 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2834 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2837 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2838 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2839 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2840 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2841 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2844 * New udev module for linux
2847 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2850 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2853 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2854 --------------------------------
2857 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2858 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2859 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2862 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2863 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2866 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2867 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2870 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2873 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2874 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2875 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2876 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2879 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2880 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2881 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2882 - no support for Goom and SDL
2883 - limited text rendering support
2884 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2887 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2888 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2889 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2890 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2891 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2892 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2893 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2894 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2895 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2899 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2902 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2905 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2906 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2907 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2908 Arabic and French translation updates
2911 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2912 --------------------------------
2915 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2916 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2917 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2918 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2919 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2920 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2923 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2924 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2925 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2928 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2929 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2930 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2933 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2936 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2937 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2940 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2941 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2942 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2943 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2944 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2945 * Fix various crashes
2948 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2950 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2954 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2955 ---------------------------------
2959 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2960 See 'Access:' for more info.
2961 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2964 * Instantaneous pausing
2965 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2966 * Finer speed control
2967 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2968 * Timeshift for most medias
2969 * RTSP trickplay support
2970 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2973 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2974 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2975 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2976 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2977 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2978 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2979 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2980 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2981 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2982 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2985 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2986 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2987 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2988 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2989 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2990 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2991 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2994 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2995 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2998 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2999 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3000 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3001 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3002 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3003 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3004 * DVB scanning on linux
3005 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3006 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3007 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3008 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3009 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3010 * MTP device access on Unix
3011 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3012 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3015 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3016 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3017 Windows and Mac OS X.
3020 * Export the playlist in HTML
3021 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3022 * Better metadata handling and reading
3024 Linux/Windows interface:
3025 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3026 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3027 * Recently played items list
3028 * Interface toolbar customizations
3029 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3030 - More menus actions
3031 - Finer speed slider
3032 - Improvements on many dialogs
3033 - New dialog for plugins listing
3034 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3035 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3036 * Better integration in GTK environments
3039 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3040 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3041 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3042 * Additional usability improvements
3045 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3046 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3047 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3048 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3049 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3052 * New Maemo port with:
3053 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3054 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3057 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3060 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3061 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3062 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3063 * Support for latest iSight models
3066 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3067 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3070 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3071 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3072 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3073 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3074 The old image video output has been removed.
3075 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3076 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3079 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3087 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3088 --------------------------------------
3094 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3095 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3096 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3097 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3098 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3099 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3100 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3102 Various fixes to the following modules:
3105 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3106 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3107 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3109 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3114 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3115 ---------------------------------
3118 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3119 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3122 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3123 ---------------------------------
3126 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3129 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3132 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3133 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3134 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3135 main controller window.
3136 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3139 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3144 * Updates of other localizations
3147 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3148 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3149 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3150 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3151 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3154 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3155 ---------------------------------
3158 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3160 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3163 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3164 --------------------------------
3169 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3170 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3173 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3174 --------------------------------
3176 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3177 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3180 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3183 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3184 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3187 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3188 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3191 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3192 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3193 * Various fixed in playlist
3196 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3199 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3202 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3203 ------------------------------------
3205 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3206 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3209 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3210 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3211 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3214 * Stability fix for the video output.
3217 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3218 --------------------------------
3221 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3222 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3223 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3224 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3225 * Fixed update system bugs
3226 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3229 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3230 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3231 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3232 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3233 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3234 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3235 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3236 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3237 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3238 modern Mac OS X versions
3241 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3242 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3244 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3245 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3248 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3249 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3250 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3251 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3252 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3253 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3256 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3257 --------------------------------
3259 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3260 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3261 * Multiple bugfixes.
3264 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3265 --------------------------------
3267 * Multiple bug fixes.
3270 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3271 ---------------------------------
3275 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3276 recent to work correctly
3277 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3278 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3279 edit the ".hosts" file.
3280 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3281 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3282 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3283 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3284 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3285 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3286 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3287 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3288 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3289 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3290 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3291 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3292 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3293 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3294 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3295 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3296 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3297 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3298 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3299 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3300 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3301 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3302 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3303 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3304 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3305 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3306 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3307 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3308 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3309 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3310 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3311 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3312 and postproc modules.
3313 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3314 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3315 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3316 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3318 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3319 filter. For example:
3320 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3321 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3323 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3324 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3330 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3332 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3333 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3336 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3337 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3339 * Shoutcast TV listings
3340 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3342 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3343 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3345 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3348 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3349 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3350 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3351 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3352 * JACK audio input support
3353 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3354 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3355 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3356 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3357 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3358 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3359 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3360 (available as a separate download).
3361 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3362 * RTMP input support
3363 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3364 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3365 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3367 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3368 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3371 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3372 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3373 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3374 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3376 * APEv1/2 tags support
3377 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3378 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3380 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3381 * TiVo Series 2 support
3382 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3387 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3388 * Flash Screen Video support
3389 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3390 * DosBox Capture support
3391 * Karl Morton's Video support
3392 * limited atrac3 support
3394 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3395 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3396 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3397 * H.264 PAFF support
3398 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3399 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3400 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3401 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3402 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3405 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3406 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3407 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3408 * AQTitle subtitles support
3409 * MKV USF subtitles support
3410 * HTML-based subtitles support
3411 * MPSub subtitles support
3412 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3413 * MPL2 subtitles support
3414 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3415 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3416 * Realtext subtitle support
3417 * DKS subtitle support
3418 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3419 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3422 * Flash Screen Video support
3423 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3425 Video outputs and filters:
3426 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3427 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3428 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3429 * New puzzle video output filter
3430 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3431 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3433 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3434 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3435 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3436 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3437 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3438 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3439 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3440 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3441 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3442 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3443 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3444 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3445 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3446 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3448 Audio outputs and filters:
3449 * Replay gain support
3450 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3451 new scaletempo audio filter)
3452 * New spatializer audio filter
3453 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3456 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3457 * New RTP payload formats:
3458 * Speex voice audio codec
3459 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3460 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3461 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3462 * DCCP transport for RTP
3463 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3468 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3469 end-user suitable way.
3470 * Improved user interaction
3471 * Improved mouse gestures
3472 * Vastly improved Update checker
3473 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3475 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3476 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3478 * Improved video output features
3479 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3480 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3481 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3482 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3483 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3485 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3486 if libncursesw is available.
3487 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3488 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3489 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3491 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3492 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3493 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3494 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3495 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3496 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3497 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3498 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3501 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3502 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3503 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3506 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3507 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3508 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3509 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3510 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3511 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3514 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3515 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3525 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3526 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3527 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3530 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3531 ----------------------------------
3534 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3537 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3538 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3539 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3540 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3541 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3542 * Updated Polish translation
3545 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3546 ----------------------------------
3549 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3550 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3551 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3554 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3555 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3556 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3557 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3558 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3559 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3560 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3561 to an unexpected application termination
3562 * New Serbian translation
3563 * Updated Romanian translation
3566 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3567 ----------------------------------
3570 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3571 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3572 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3573 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3574 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3575 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3576 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3577 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3580 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3581 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3582 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3583 * Fixed AAC resampling
3584 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3585 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3588 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3589 ----------------------------------
3592 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3593 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3594 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3595 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3596 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3599 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3600 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3601 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3602 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3603 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3606 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3607 ----------------------------------
3610 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3611 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3614 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3615 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3616 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3617 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3619 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3623 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3626 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3629 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3632 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3635 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3636 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3637 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3638 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3639 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3641 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3642 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3643 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3644 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3647 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3650 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3651 ----------------------------------
3654 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3655 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3656 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3658 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3659 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3661 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3662 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3665 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3667 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3668 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3669 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3670 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3671 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3672 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3673 two different movies
3674 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3675 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3676 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3679 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3682 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3683 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3684 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3685 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3688 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3689 ----------------------------------
3691 Various bugfixes, notably:
3692 * Windows Vista compatibility
3693 * Cropping in Direct3D
3694 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3695 * RSS filter string overflow
3697 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3699 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3700 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3703 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3704 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3707 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3710 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3713 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3716 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3717 ----------------------------------
3719 Various bugfixes, notably:
3720 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3721 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3722 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3723 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3724 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3725 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3728 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3729 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3732 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3734 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3735 * Diverse usability improvements
3736 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3737 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3738 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3741 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3742 ---------------------------------
3744 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3745 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3748 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3751 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3752 --------------------------------
3755 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3758 * Support for RTSP authentication
3759 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3760 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3761 * ATSC support for DVB input
3762 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3763 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3764 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3767 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3768 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3769 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3770 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3771 * Matroska WavPack support
3772 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3773 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3774 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3777 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3778 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3779 * Improved libcaca support
3783 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3784 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3786 * Systray support in skins
3788 * Support for Apple Remote control
3789 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3790 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3791 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3792 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3794 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3797 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3798 Windows 9x/ME users:
3799 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3800 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3801 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3802 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3803 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3805 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3806 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3815 * Updates to the libvlc API
3816 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3819 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3820 --------------------------------
3823 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3824 * Support for downloading updates
3828 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3829 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3830 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3831 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3833 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3834 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3835 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3838 * Cook (Real audio) support
3840 Playlist / Services discovery:
3841 * XSPF playlist support
3843 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3846 * New JACK audio output
3849 * New video filters:
3850 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3851 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3852 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3853 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3854 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3855 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3858 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3861 * System to inform the user and request information
3862 - HTTP authentication
3866 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3867 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3868 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3871 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3872 - Improved playlist handling
3873 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3875 - Embedded Video output
3876 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3877 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3878 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3879 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3880 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3882 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3883 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3886 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3889 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3890 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3891 * Growl "Now playing" support
3894 * Ability to log to syslog
3895 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3898 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3900 * A bit more automatic testing
3903 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3904 ---------------------------------
3907 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3908 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3911 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3912 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3915 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3918 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3919 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3925 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3928 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3929 --------------------------------
3932 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3936 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3937 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3938 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3941 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3942 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3943 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3944 * GnomeVFS input module
3945 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3946 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3949 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3950 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3951 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3954 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3955 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3961 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3962 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3965 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3966 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3967 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3970 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3972 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3973 - New extended controls panel
3974 - New bookmarks window
3975 - Fixed playlist sorting
3976 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3978 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3979 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3980 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
3981 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3985 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3986 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3988 - Include macro to include other files
3992 * Should now work outside IE as well
3995 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3998 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3999 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4002 The following languages were added:
4006 * Simplified Chinese
4007 The following languages were re-added:
4011 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4012 --------------------------------
4015 * Rewrite of the playlist
4017 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4018 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4019 * Preferences improvements:
4020 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4021 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4023 * Core image manipulation support
4024 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4025 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4026 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4027 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4028 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4029 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4030 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4031 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4032 * Access filter architecture
4033 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4034 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4038 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4039 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4040 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4041 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4042 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4043 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4044 * Massive Matroska improvements
4045 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4047 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4048 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4049 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4050 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4051 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4053 Decoders / Encoders:
4054 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4055 * PNG decoder/encoder
4056 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4057 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4060 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4063 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4064 * Brand new SAP module
4065 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4066 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4067 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4068 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4069 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4070 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4074 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4077 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4078 * Image file video output (png)
4079 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4080 * Improvements to wall video filter
4081 * Support for font color and opacity
4087 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4088 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4089 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4093 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4094 - Improved preferences
4095 - Improvements to the wizard
4096 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4098 - Redesigned playlist
4099 - Improved preferences
4101 - Support for multiple actions
4104 - Support for the new playlist system
4106 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4109 * Screensaver disabling fix
4110 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4111 * Support for no-decoration windows
4114 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4115 * The OpenGL video output is back
4116 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4117 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4118 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4119 is not yet available in the new module
4120 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4123 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4132 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4135 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4138 The following languages were added:
4144 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4145 --------------------------------
4148 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4149 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4152 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4153 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4154 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4157 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4160 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4163 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4166 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4167 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4168 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4172 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4174 * Support of playlist group announcement
4177 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4178 --------------------------------
4181 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4182 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4183 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4184 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4185 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4186 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4189 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4190 (Stream your desktop)
4191 * Improved DVD support:
4192 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4193 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4194 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4195 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4196 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4197 (selection of titles/chapters).
4200 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4201 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4202 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4203 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4204 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4205 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4206 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4207 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4208 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4209 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4212 * G.726 audio support
4213 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4214 * MPEG-4 text support
4215 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4216 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4217 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4221 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4222 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4223 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4224 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4225 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4226 * DVB subtitles encoder
4227 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4228 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4230 * Text track muxing for mp4
4231 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4232 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4233 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4234 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4235 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4236 * Improved ASF muxer
4238 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4239 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4240 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4243 * New audio equalizer filter
4244 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4245 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4246 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4247 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4250 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4251 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4252 with support for effects.
4253 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4254 - New filters can be streamed.
4255 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4256 - Centralized scaling and blending
4258 - "time", to display current time
4259 - "marq", to display a marquee
4262 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4263 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4264 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4265 * A few skins2 improvements
4266 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4267 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4268 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4269 * Improved CORBA control module
4272 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4273 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4274 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4277 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4278 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4279 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4282 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4283 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4284 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4285 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4286 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4289 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4292 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4293 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4296 * Server/client network synchronization module
4297 * VBrick streams fully supported
4298 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4302 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4303 --------------------------------
4306 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4307 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4308 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4309 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4312 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4313 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4314 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4315 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4316 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4317 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4318 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4321 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4322 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4323 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4324 * Improved directory access module.
4325 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4326 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4327 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4328 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4329 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4332 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4333 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4334 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4337 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4338 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4339 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4342 * Improved session announcement system.
4343 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4344 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4345 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4346 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4347 * Improved transrater.
4348 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4349 * New configuration system.
4350 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4353 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4354 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4355 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4356 * Supports scheduling.
4357 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4358 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4361 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4362 - Ability to embed video output.
4363 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4364 - Lots of improvements.
4365 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4366 - New design and set of icons.
4367 - Ability to embed video output.
4368 - Support for hotkeys.
4369 - Support for bookmarks.
4371 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4372 - Better hotkeys handling.
4375 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4376 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4377 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4378 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4381 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4382 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4383 * Improved Windows installer.
4389 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4390 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4393 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4394 ---------------------------------
4397 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4398 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4401 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4402 --------------------------------
4405 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4406 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4409 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4410 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4411 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4412 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4415 * Internal improvments
4416 * Improved import/export
4419 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4421 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4422 small and strange formats.
4424 * New MOD audio demux.
4425 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4426 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4427 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4428 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4431 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4432 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4433 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4439 * New opengl video output plugin.
4442 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4443 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4446 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4447 --------------------------------
4450 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4451 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4452 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4453 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4454 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4455 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4456 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4457 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4460 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4465 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4466 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4467 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4468 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4469 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4470 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4471 * Better Icecast support.
4472 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4473 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4476 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4477 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4478 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4479 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4480 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4481 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4482 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4485 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4486 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4487 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4488 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4489 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4490 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4491 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4492 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4493 * Preliminary RTP support.
4494 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4499 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4500 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4502 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4503 - Improvements and help in preferences
4504 - New streaming wizard
4505 - Revised Disc Open menu
4507 - Improvements of the standard pages
4508 - Support for new commands
4509 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4512 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4513 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4516 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4517 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4518 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4519 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4520 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4521 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4522 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4523 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4524 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4527 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4529 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4530 * Support for Panther.
4531 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4532 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4535 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4536 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4537 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4538 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4539 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4540 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4541 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4542 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4545 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4546 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4547 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4550 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4553 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4554 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4555 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4556 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4559 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4560 --------------------------------
4563 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4566 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4567 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4570 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4571 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4574 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4577 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4578 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4581 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4584 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4587 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4588 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4592 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4593 --------------------------------
4596 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4597 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4601 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4602 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4603 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4605 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4606 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4609 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4612 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4615 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4616 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4620 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4621 --------------------------------
4624 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4625 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4629 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4630 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4631 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4632 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4633 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4636 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4637 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4638 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4641 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4642 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4643 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4646 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4647 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4648 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4649 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4650 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4653 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4654 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4655 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4658 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4661 * Improved build system.
4662 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4663 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4664 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4665 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4668 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4669 --------------------------------
4672 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4675 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4676 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4677 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4678 * Video 4 Linux support
4679 * CD Digital Audio support
4680 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4683 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4684 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4685 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4686 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4689 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4690 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4691 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4692 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4693 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4694 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4695 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4698 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4699 * New HTTP remote control interface
4702 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4703 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4704 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4705 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4706 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4709 * New reset option for the preferences
4710 * You can set your language in the prefences
4711 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4712 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4713 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4714 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4717 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4718 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4719 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4722 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4723 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4724 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4725 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4726 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4727 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4728 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4729 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4730 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4731 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4734 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4735 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4736 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4737 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4738 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4739 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4740 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4743 * Interface localization
4744 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4745 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4746 * New full-featured Preferences window
4749 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4750 --------------------------------
4753 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4754 * support for skins at the interface level
4755 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4756 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4757 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4758 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4759 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4762 * fixed HTTP redirects
4763 * support for opening an entire directory
4764 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4765 * new video4linux access plug-in
4766 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4769 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4770 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4771 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4774 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4775 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4776 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4777 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4778 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4779 * new codec for raw I420 video
4780 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4783 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4784 (although it still misses some important features)
4785 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4788 * new HTTP output support
4789 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4790 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4793 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4796 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4799 * reorderable playlist
4800 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4801 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4802 * support for mono audio output devices
4803 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4804 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4805 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4806 * the messages window remembers more lines
4807 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4808 * http and ogg stream output options
4809 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4812 * new skinnable interface
4813 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4815 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4816 * support for FLAC audio format
4817 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4819 * network tab in the interface
4820 * "apply" handling in preferences
4823 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4824 ---------------------------------
4827 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4828 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4829 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4830 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4832 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4833 * DTS S/PDIF support
4836 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4837 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4838 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4839 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4842 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4843 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4846 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4849 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4852 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4854 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4855 * rc interface is now fully useable
4856 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4859 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4860 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4861 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4862 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4863 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4865 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4866 * support for mouse gestures
4867 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4870 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4871 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4874 * improved ID3 tag detection
4875 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4876 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4877 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4879 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4882 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4883 ---------------------------------
4886 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4887 English was set as the preferred language
4890 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4891 --------------------------------
4894 * new mouse gesture interface
4895 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4899 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4900 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4901 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4904 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4905 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4909 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4912 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4913 without the user consent
4916 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4918 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4919 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4920 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4923 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4924 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4925 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4926 * playlist enhancements
4927 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4928 * new step forward/step backward commands
4929 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4930 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4931 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4934 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4935 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4936 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4939 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4940 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4943 * native video output is working again
4944 * only commandline interface support
4945 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4948 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4949 --------------------------------
4952 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4953 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4954 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4955 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4956 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4957 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4958 and A/52 streams are supported)
4959 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4964 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4965 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4966 * VCD entry points support
4967 * VCD image file support
4970 * support for *.asf format
4971 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4972 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4973 * support for ogg encapsulation
4974 * support for raw DV format
4975 * support for *.wav format
4976 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4979 Stream discovery & playlists:
4980 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4981 * support for .m3u file format
4982 * support for .asx file format
4983 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4986 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4987 (only available with the .avi demux)
4988 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4989 * support for raw PCM data
4990 * support for Cinepak video codec
4991 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4992 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4993 * support for Xvid codec
4994 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4995 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4996 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4998 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5000 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5003 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5006 * new WxWindows interface
5007 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5008 device and the channels configuration
5009 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5010 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5011 format that VLC can play
5012 * new swedish translation
5013 * enhancements of the playlist window
5014 * new messages window to see debug info
5015 * fixed a few crashes
5018 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5019 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5020 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5021 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working