1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
13 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
20 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
21 --------------------------------
23 Platform support changes:
24 * 3.0.x will be LTS (on a best-effort basis) that will be the last
25 working version for a lot of systems.
26 Indeed 3.0.x will be the last releases running on:
27 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those releases
28 - macOS 10.7, 10,8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
29 - Android 2.x, 3.x & 4.0.x
30 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4
32 * For 3.0, please note:
33 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
34 it should work, but not without limitations.
35 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
36 You _really_ should upgrade.
37 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
38 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
39 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
42 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
43 and rewrite the parsing of the media files
44 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
45 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
46 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subtitles
47 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
48 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
49 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
50 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
51 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
52 * Support wayland surface type
53 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
54 * Refactor preparsing input
55 * EPG reworked: table and single event updates, now using network time
56 * Refactored and fixed subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
57 es category single only or multiple es behavior
58 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint setting
59 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
60 * Support subtitles size live changing
63 * New NFS access module using libnfs
64 * New SMB access module using libdsm
66 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
67 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
68 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
69 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
70 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
71 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
72 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
73 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
74 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
75 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
76 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
77 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
78 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
79 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
80 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
81 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
82 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
83 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
84 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
85 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
86 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
87 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
88 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
89 * Improvements on DVB scanning
90 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
91 * Support for DVD ISO over network
92 * New SRT access module using libsrt
95 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
96 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
97 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
98 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
99 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
100 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
101 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
102 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
103 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
104 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
105 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
106 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
107 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
108 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
109 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
112 * Support for experimental AV1 video
113 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
114 * Support for experimental Daala video
115 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
116 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
117 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
118 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
119 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
120 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
121 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
122 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
123 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
124 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
125 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
126 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
127 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
128 can now decode up to 8 channels
129 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
130 * Support VPX high bit depth support
131 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
132 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
133 * Improved Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
135 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
136 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
139 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
140 * Support for fragmented MP4
141 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
142 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
143 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
144 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
145 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
146 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
147 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
148 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
149 * Add new metadata fields
150 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
151 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
152 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
153 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
154 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
155 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
156 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
157 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
158 * Improved broken-PCR probing and fixing
159 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
160 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
161 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
163 * Fixed a large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
164 * Partial support of PSMF
165 * Fix broken SCR samples
166 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
167 * Improvements on MKV:
168 * Rewrite MKV seeking
169 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
170 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
171 * Improve DVD-menus support
172 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
173 * Support Daala in Ogg
174 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
175 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
176 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
177 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
178 * Support WMV extended content metadata
179 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
180 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
181 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
182 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
183 * Support SBV subtitles
184 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
185 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
186 * Support for isofLaC
187 * Improved fLaC seeking
188 * Replaced --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
189 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
192 * Add an ADF stream filter
193 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
194 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
195 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
196 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
197 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
198 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
201 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
202 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
205 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
206 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
207 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
208 * Add Tizen audio module
209 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
210 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
211 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
212 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
215 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
216 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
217 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
218 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
219 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
220 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
221 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
223 * Add a pitch shifting module
226 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
228 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
229 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
230 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
231 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
232 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
233 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
234 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
235 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
236 * Wayland shell surface window provider
237 * Wayland shared memory video output
238 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
239 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
240 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
241 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
242 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
243 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
244 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
245 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
248 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
249 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
250 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
251 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
252 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
253 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
254 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
257 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
258 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
259 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
260 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
263 * Chromecast output module
264 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
267 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
268 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
271 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
272 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
273 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
277 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
278 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
279 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
280 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
283 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
284 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
285 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
286 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
287 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
288 * Improved and simplified preferences window
289 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
290 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
291 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
292 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
293 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
296 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
299 * Batch convert support
300 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
303 * Support key accelerators
306 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
307 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
308 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
309 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
310 This allows to attach media events between create and start
311 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
312 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
313 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
314 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
315 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
316 identifier (if there is one available)
317 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
318 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
319 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
320 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
321 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
322 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
323 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
324 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
325 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
326 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
327 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
328 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
329 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
330 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
332 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
333 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
334 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
335 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
336 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
339 * Support for the SystemD Journal
340 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
341 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
342 * New Android module for logging
345 * remove langfromtelx
346 * remove ZPL playlist format
347 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
348 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
349 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
350 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
351 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
352 * Add a memory keystore
353 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
354 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
358 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
359 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
360 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
361 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
362 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
363 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
364 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
365 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
366 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
367 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
368 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
369 * BD access module (use libbluray)
370 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
371 * EyeTV access module
372 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
373 * VDA decoder: use VT
374 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
375 * SDL video output module
376 * DirectFB video output module
377 * RAOP stream output module
380 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
381 --------------------------------
384 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
389 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
390 --------------------------------
393 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
394 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
395 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
396 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
399 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
400 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
403 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
404 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
405 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
406 update to the newest version.
409 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
413 * Support libupnp 1.8
418 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
419 ----------------------------------
422 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
423 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
426 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
428 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
429 ----------------------------------
431 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
436 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
437 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
438 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
439 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
440 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
441 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
442 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
445 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
446 --------------------------------
449 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
450 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
451 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
452 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
453 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
454 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
458 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
459 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
460 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
461 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
462 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
463 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
464 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
467 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
468 * Fix screenshots size
471 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
472 * Fix FTP scan string injection
473 * Fix HTTP size handling
479 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
483 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
486 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
487 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
488 * Fix uninstaller path handling
489 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
492 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
493 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
497 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
498 --------------------------------
501 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
502 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
503 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
506 * Fix resizing issues
509 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
512 * Build fixes for Hurd
515 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
516 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
517 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
520 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
521 --------------------------------
524 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
525 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
529 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
530 * Fix crashes with libvpx
531 * Use libass without caching dialog
534 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
537 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
540 * Fix resume where you left off
541 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
542 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
543 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
546 * Fix crashes in media information panel
547 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
550 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
553 * Update of most translations
556 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
557 --------------------------------
560 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
561 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
562 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
563 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
564 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
567 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
568 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
569 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
570 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
571 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
572 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
573 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
576 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
577 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
578 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
579 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
580 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
581 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
584 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
585 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
586 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
587 be set manually by the user)
588 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
589 * Fix alsa default device selection
592 * Fix video control that fails to show up
593 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
594 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
595 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
596 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
599 * Support for OS X El Capitan
600 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
601 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
602 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
605 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
606 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
607 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
608 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
609 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
613 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
614 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
615 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
618 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
619 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
620 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
621 * Improve PNG encoding time
622 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
623 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
624 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
625 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
626 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
627 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
628 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
629 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
630 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
631 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
632 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
633 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
634 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
637 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
638 * Update of most translations
641 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
642 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
643 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
644 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
647 * Update of most translations
650 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
651 --------------------------------
654 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
655 * Fix some VP9 decoding
657 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
658 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
659 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
660 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
665 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
666 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
667 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
668 * Revert to older ASX code
669 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
672 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
673 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
674 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
677 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
678 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
679 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
682 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
683 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
684 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
687 * Fix recent items behaviour
688 * Fix rotation filter activation
689 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
692 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
693 * Fix extensions registration during install
694 * Fix extensions dialog crash
695 * Default to no DxVA decoding
698 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
701 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
702 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
703 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
704 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
705 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
706 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
709 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
710 --------------------------------
713 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
714 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
717 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
718 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
719 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
720 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
723 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
724 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
725 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
726 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
728 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
729 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
730 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
733 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
734 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
735 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
736 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
737 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
738 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
739 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
740 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
741 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
742 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
743 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
744 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
745 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
746 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
747 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
748 * New jpeg image decoder
749 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
750 * New SVG image decoder
751 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
752 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
753 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
756 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
757 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
758 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
759 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
760 * New png image encoder using libpng
763 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
764 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
765 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
766 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
767 synchronization and tracks exclusion
768 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
769 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
770 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
771 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
772 * Support Opus in MKV
774 * Basic support for WebVTT
775 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
776 * Support HDPR TS files
777 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
778 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
779 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
780 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
781 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
782 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
783 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
784 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
785 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
786 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
787 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
788 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
791 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
792 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
793 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
794 * New Android native window provider module
795 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
796 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
797 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
800 * New Oldmovie effect filter
801 * New VHS effect filter
802 * New Freeze effect filter
803 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
804 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
805 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
808 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
809 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
810 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
811 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
812 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
813 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
816 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
817 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
819 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
822 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
823 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
824 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
825 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
826 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
827 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
828 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
829 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
830 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
832 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
833 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
834 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
837 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
838 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
841 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
842 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
845 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
846 * Add record button in Qt menus
847 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
848 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
849 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
852 * Support for OS X Yosemite
853 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
854 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
855 * Fixes for advanced preferences
856 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
857 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
858 * Option to increase playlist font size
859 * Improved crash log reporting
862 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
863 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
864 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
865 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
868 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
871 * iOS video output: use ios2
872 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
873 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
876 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
877 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
878 * Update of all translations:
879 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
880 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
881 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
882 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
883 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
884 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
885 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
888 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
889 --------------------------------
895 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
896 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
897 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
898 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
899 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
900 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
901 * Fix potential crash in zip access
902 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
903 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
906 * Update translations and greek encoding
909 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
910 --------------------------------
913 * Fix compilation on OS/2
916 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
918 Mac OS X audio output:
919 * Fix channel ordering
920 * Increase the buffersize
923 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
924 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
925 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
928 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
931 * Correctly support video-on-top
932 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
933 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
936 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
939 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
940 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
943 * Update British English
946 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
947 --------------------------------
950 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
953 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
956 * Fix DVD playback regression
957 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
958 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
961 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
962 --------------------------------
965 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
966 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
969 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
970 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
971 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
974 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
975 by updating codec libraries
976 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
977 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
978 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
981 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
982 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
983 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
984 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
987 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
988 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
991 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
992 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
993 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
994 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
995 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
998 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
999 * Fix record file names
1002 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1003 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1004 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1005 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1006 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1009 * Fix album art display on Windows
1012 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1013 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1014 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1015 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1016 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1017 and Simplified Chinese translations
1018 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1021 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1022 --------------------------------
1025 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1026 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1027 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1028 audio devices on OS X
1029 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1030 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1033 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1034 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1037 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1038 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1041 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1044 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1045 * Improve A-B loop control
1046 * Fix album art update when changing media
1049 * Add a language option in the interface
1050 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1051 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1052 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1053 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1054 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1055 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1056 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1059 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1062 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1063 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1064 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1065 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1068 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1069 --------------------------------
1072 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1074 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1077 * VP9 support in WebM
1078 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1079 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1082 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1083 * Support Speex in ogg files
1084 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1085 * Support Alac in mkv
1086 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1087 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1090 * Fix DVB options parsing
1091 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1092 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1095 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1096 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1099 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1100 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1103 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1104 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1105 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1106 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1107 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1110 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1111 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1114 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1115 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1118 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1119 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1120 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1121 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1122 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1123 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1124 * Improves interface resizings
1127 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1128 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1129 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1130 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1131 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1135 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1136 --------------------------------
1139 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1140 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1141 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1142 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1143 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1145 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1146 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1149 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1150 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1151 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1152 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1153 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1156 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1157 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1158 * Remove SQL support
1161 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1162 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1163 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1164 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1165 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1166 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1167 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1168 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1169 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1170 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1171 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1172 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1173 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1176 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1177 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1178 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1181 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1182 remove support for previous OS X releases
1183 * Major improvements in DASH support
1184 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1185 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1186 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1187 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1188 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1189 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1190 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1191 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1192 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1193 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1194 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1197 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1198 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1199 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1200 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1201 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1202 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1203 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1204 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1205 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1206 * Add support for liveleak streams
1207 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1208 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1209 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1212 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1213 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1214 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1215 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1216 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1217 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1218 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1219 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1220 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1221 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1222 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1225 * New remapping channel filter
1226 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1227 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1228 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1229 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1230 * New gain audio filter
1233 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1234 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1235 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1236 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1237 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1238 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1239 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1240 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1241 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1244 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1245 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1246 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1247 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1248 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1249 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1250 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1253 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1254 * Options support for AVIO output module
1255 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1256 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1257 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1258 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1259 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1262 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1265 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1266 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1267 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1268 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1269 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1270 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1271 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1272 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1275 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1276 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1279 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1280 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1282 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1283 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1284 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1285 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1286 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1287 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1288 VLC's internal volume level
1289 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1291 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1292 selection and to manage the list of presets
1293 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1294 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1295 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1296 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1297 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1298 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1299 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1300 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1301 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1302 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1304 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1305 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1306 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1307 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1308 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1309 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1310 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1311 3rd party applications
1312 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1313 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1314 (system-wide settings)
1315 * Add support for the Video Title option
1316 * Add support for the Boss Key
1317 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1318 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1321 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1322 * Menus modifications and improvements
1323 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1324 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1325 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1326 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1327 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1328 * Add SD pixmap sources
1329 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1330 * Display playlist total duration
1331 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1332 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1333 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1338 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1339 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1340 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1341 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1344 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1345 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1346 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1347 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1348 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1349 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1350 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1351 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1352 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1353 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1356 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1357 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1358 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1359 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1360 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1361 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1363 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1364 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1365 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1366 * Broken crop video filter
1368 * OSD parser and menu
1369 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1370 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1371 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1372 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1376 * Update of all translations
1379 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1380 --------------------------------
1383 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1384 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1387 * Fix modplug security issues
1390 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1391 --------------------------------
1395 * Fix crash in QTsound
1396 * Fix screen mouse file location
1397 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1400 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1401 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1404 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1407 * Fix interface crashes
1408 * Fix autostart playback option
1409 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1412 * update Welsh translation
1413 * New Kannada translation
1416 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1417 --------------------------------
1420 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1421 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1425 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1428 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1431 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1434 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1437 * Minor improvements
1438 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1441 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1444 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1445 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1446 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1449 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1450 --------------------------------
1453 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1456 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1459 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1460 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1461 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1462 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1463 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1464 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1467 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1468 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1469 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1470 * 3rd party codecs updates
1473 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1474 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1475 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1476 in the advanced preferences panel
1477 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1478 * Fix crash within the video output code
1479 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1480 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1481 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1482 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1483 lua extensions, ...)
1484 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1487 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1490 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1491 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1494 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1497 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1498 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1499 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1500 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1501 Dutch, Danish, translations
1502 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1505 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1506 --------------------------------
1509 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1512 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1513 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1514 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1517 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1518 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1519 * Fix koreus lua parser
1520 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1521 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1522 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1523 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1526 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1527 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1530 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1533 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1534 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1535 * Fix Time counter UI look
1536 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1539 * Fix https streaming
1542 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1543 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1544 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1547 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1548 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1549 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1550 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1551 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1554 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1555 --------------------------------
1558 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1559 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1560 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1561 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1562 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1563 during playback on Mac OS X
1566 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1567 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1568 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1571 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1572 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1573 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1574 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1575 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1578 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1579 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1580 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1581 * Support Youtube live streams
1584 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1587 * Fix media info dialog update
1588 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1589 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1590 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1591 * Fix album art display at start
1594 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1595 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1596 * Fix menus display and behavior
1597 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1598 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1599 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1600 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1601 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1602 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1603 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1606 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1607 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1608 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1609 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1610 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1611 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1612 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1613 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1614 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1617 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1618 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1619 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1620 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1621 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1624 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1625 --------------------------------
1628 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1631 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1632 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1635 * Add GateKeeper support
1636 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1637 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1638 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1641 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1644 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1645 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1646 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1647 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1648 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1651 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1652 --------------------------------
1655 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1656 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1657 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1658 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1659 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1660 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1661 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1662 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1663 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1664 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1665 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1669 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1670 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1671 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1672 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1673 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1674 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1675 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1676 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1677 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1678 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1679 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1680 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1683 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1684 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1686 * Fix MP3 free format support
1689 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1690 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1691 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1692 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1693 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1696 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1697 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1699 Audio filters and output:
1700 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1701 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1702 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1703 * Do not apply volume in file output
1704 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1705 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1708 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1709 the persistant media library
1710 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1711 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1712 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1713 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1714 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1715 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1716 press on the Play/Pause button
1717 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1718 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1719 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1720 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1721 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1722 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1723 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1724 Synchronization panel
1725 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1726 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1727 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1728 * Fix crashes on exit
1729 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1731 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1732 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1733 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1734 automatically reset on the first launch.
1735 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1736 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1737 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1740 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1741 * Fixes for icecast SD
1744 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1745 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1746 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1747 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1748 * Fix tags and file names display
1749 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1752 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1753 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1756 * Fix display of some buttons
1757 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1758 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1761 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1762 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1763 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1766 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1767 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1768 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1769 Thai translations update
1770 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1773 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1774 --------------------------------
1777 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1778 * fix the samba module compilation
1779 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1780 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1781 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1782 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1785 * Support for MXPEG files
1786 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1787 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1790 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1791 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1792 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1795 * Fix ogm header creation
1798 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1799 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1802 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1803 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1804 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1805 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1808 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1811 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1812 * allow to hide the sidebar
1813 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1814 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1815 * noticebly faster launch time
1816 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1817 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1818 * improve track synchronization panel
1819 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1820 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1823 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1824 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1825 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1826 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1829 * fix for menus display
1830 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1831 * documentation update
1834 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1835 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1838 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1839 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1840 * Update Jamendo selections
1844 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1845 * fix a crash on VLM close
1848 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1849 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1850 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1851 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1854 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1857 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1858 ---------------------------------
1861 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1862 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1863 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1864 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1865 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1866 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1867 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1868 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1869 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1870 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1871 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1872 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1873 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1874 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1875 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1876 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1877 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1878 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1879 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1880 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1881 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1882 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1883 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1884 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1885 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1886 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1888 Important changes for packagers:
1889 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1890 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1891 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1892 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1893 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1894 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1895 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1896 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1897 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1898 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1901 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1902 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1903 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1904 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1905 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1906 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1907 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1910 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1911 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1912 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1913 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1914 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1915 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1916 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1917 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1918 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1919 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1920 * PulseAudio audio input support
1921 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1922 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1923 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1924 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1925 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1926 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1927 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1928 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1931 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1932 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1933 are notably concerned.
1934 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1935 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1936 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1937 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1938 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1939 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1940 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1941 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1942 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1943 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1944 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1945 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1946 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1947 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1948 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1951 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1952 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1953 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1954 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1955 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1956 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1957 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1958 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1959 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1960 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1961 * Improved support of tracker files
1962 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1965 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1966 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1967 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1968 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1969 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1970 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1971 and important cleanups and optimisations
1972 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1973 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1974 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1975 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1976 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1977 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1978 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1979 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1980 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1981 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1982 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1983 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1984 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1985 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1986 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1987 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1988 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1989 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1990 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1991 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1992 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1995 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1996 * New video output for iOS platform
1997 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1998 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1999 * Various vmem improvements
2000 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2001 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2002 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2003 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2004 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2005 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2007 Audio Output and Filters:
2008 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2009 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2010 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2011 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2012 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2013 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2014 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2015 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2016 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2017 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2020 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2021 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2022 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2023 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2024 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2025 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2026 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2027 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2028 * New anti-flickering filter
2029 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2030 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2031 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2032 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2033 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2034 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2035 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2038 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2039 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2040 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2041 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2042 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2043 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2044 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2045 * Major rework of VoD support
2046 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2047 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2048 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2049 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2050 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2051 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2052 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2053 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2054 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2055 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2058 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2059 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2062 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2063 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2064 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2065 list of available audio and video filters
2066 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2067 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2068 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2071 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2072 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2073 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2074 * id3tag: use taglib
2075 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2076 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2077 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2078 * removal of the noise filter
2079 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2080 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2081 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2082 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2085 * Update of translations for most languages.
2086 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2089 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2090 ----------------------------------
2093 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2094 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2097 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2098 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2101 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2102 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2103 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2106 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2109 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2110 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2113 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2116 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2117 ----------------------------------
2120 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2121 including support for OS X Lion
2122 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2123 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2126 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2129 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2130 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2131 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2134 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2137 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2138 ----------------------------------
2141 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2142 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2145 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2146 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2147 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2148 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2149 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2151 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2152 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2153 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2155 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2156 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2159 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2162 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2165 * Fix quitting on Linux
2166 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2170 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2173 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2176 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2177 ---------------------------------
2179 Windows and Mac OS X:
2180 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2183 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2184 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2187 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2190 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2193 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2195 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2196 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2198 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2199 * RTP output and XML export
2200 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2204 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2205 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2206 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2207 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2210 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2211 --------------------------------
2213 Windows and Mac OS X:
2214 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2217 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2220 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2221 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2222 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2223 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2224 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2225 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2228 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2229 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2233 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2234 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2235 * New Luganda Translation
2238 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2239 --------------------------------
2242 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2245 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2246 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2247 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2248 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2251 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2253 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2254 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2255 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2256 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2257 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2258 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2259 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2260 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2262 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2263 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2264 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2265 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2266 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2267 * Configure and build system improvements
2268 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2271 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2272 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2273 * New icelandic translation
2276 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2277 --------------------------------
2280 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2281 #234484 and #260719.
2284 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2285 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2286 and stability reasons
2289 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2293 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2296 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2297 ----------------------------------
2300 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2303 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2304 ---------------------------------
2307 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2308 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2309 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2310 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2313 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2316 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2317 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2318 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2319 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2322 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2323 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2324 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2326 Subtitles and renderer:
2327 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2328 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2329 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2330 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2331 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2334 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2335 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2336 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2337 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2340 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2341 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2343 Miscellaneous fixes:
2344 * KDE device solid actions
2346 * Transcode integer overflow
2347 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2348 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2351 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2352 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2353 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2356 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2357 ----------------------------------
2360 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2364 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2367 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2370 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2371 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2372 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2373 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2376 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2380 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2383 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2386 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2387 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2389 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2393 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2394 * Miscellaneous fixes
2397 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2398 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2399 French and Ukrainian
2400 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2401 * New Asturian translation
2404 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2405 ----------------------------------
2408 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2410 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2413 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2416 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2417 * Various fixes for Windows
2420 * New Armenian translation
2421 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2422 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2425 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2426 --------------------------------
2429 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2430 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2431 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2434 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2435 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2438 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2439 --------------------------------
2441 Access and demuxers:
2442 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2443 * fix for podcasts parsing
2444 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2447 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2448 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2451 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2452 * fix m3u playlists exports
2455 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2458 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2461 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2464 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2467 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2470 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2471 --------------------------------
2474 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2475 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2478 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2479 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2482 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2483 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2484 * fix console output encoding
2486 Interface and extensions:
2487 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2488 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2491 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2492 --------------------------------
2495 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2496 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2497 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2498 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2499 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2500 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2501 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2502 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2503 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2504 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2505 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2506 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2507 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2508 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2509 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2510 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2514 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2515 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2516 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2517 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2518 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2521 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2524 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2525 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2526 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2530 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2533 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2534 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2535 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2538 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2539 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2540 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2541 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2544 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2545 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2548 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2549 --------------------------------
2551 Important changes for users:
2552 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2553 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2555 Important changes for packagers:
2556 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2557 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2558 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2559 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2560 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2562 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2564 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2565 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2566 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2567 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2568 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2571 * Support for the sftp protocol
2572 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2573 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2574 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2575 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2576 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2579 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2580 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2581 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2583 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2584 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2585 * Invmem module improvements
2586 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2587 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2588 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2589 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2590 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2591 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2592 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2593 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2594 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2595 * Support for VP8 codec
2596 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2599 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2600 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2601 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2602 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2603 * Various EGP improvements
2604 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2605 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2608 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2609 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2610 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2611 * Podcast images are now displayed
2614 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2615 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2616 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2617 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2618 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2619 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2620 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2621 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2622 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2623 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2624 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2627 * New content extensions lua framework
2630 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2631 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2632 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2633 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2634 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2635 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2636 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2639 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2640 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2641 * Service discovery based on libudev
2642 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2645 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2646 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2647 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2648 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2649 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2650 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2651 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2654 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2655 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2656 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2659 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2661 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2662 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2665 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2668 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2669 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2670 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2671 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2672 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2673 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2674 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2677 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2678 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2681 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2682 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2683 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2687 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2688 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2689 * Improved Solaris port
2692 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2693 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2696 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2697 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2698 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2699 * transrate: broken since too long
2700 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2701 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2702 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2703 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2704 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2705 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2706 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2707 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2708 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2709 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2710 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2711 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2712 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2713 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2716 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2717 --------------------------------
2720 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2722 Decoders/Packetizers:
2723 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2726 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2727 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2728 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2729 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2730 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2733 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2734 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2737 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2738 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2741 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2742 and Walloon translations updated
2743 * Sinhala translation started
2746 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2747 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2750 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2751 --------------------------------
2754 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2755 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2758 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2761 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2762 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2765 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2766 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2767 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2768 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2771 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2772 --------------------------------
2775 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2776 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2779 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2780 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2783 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2784 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2787 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2790 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2791 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2794 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2795 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2798 * New Walloon translation
2799 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2802 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2803 --------------------------------
2806 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2807 regressions in most popular drivers
2808 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2811 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2812 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2813 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2816 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2817 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2820 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2821 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2822 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2823 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2824 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2827 * New udev module for linux
2830 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2833 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2836 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2837 --------------------------------
2840 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2841 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2842 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2845 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2846 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2849 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2850 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2853 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2856 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2857 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2858 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2859 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2862 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2863 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2864 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2865 - no support for Goom and SDL
2866 - limited text rendering support
2867 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2870 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2871 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2872 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2873 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2874 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2875 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2876 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2877 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2878 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2882 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2885 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2888 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2889 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2890 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2891 Arabic and French translation updates
2894 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2895 --------------------------------
2898 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2899 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2900 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2901 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2902 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2903 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2906 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2907 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2908 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2911 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2912 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2913 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2916 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2919 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2920 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2923 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2924 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2925 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2926 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2927 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2928 * Fix various crashes
2931 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2933 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2937 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2938 ---------------------------------
2942 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2943 See 'Access:' for more info.
2944 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2947 * Instantaneous pausing
2948 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2949 * Finer speed control
2950 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2951 * Timeshift for most medias
2952 * RTSP trickplay support
2953 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2956 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2957 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2958 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2959 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2960 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2961 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2962 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2963 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2964 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2965 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2968 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2969 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2970 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2971 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2972 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2973 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2974 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2977 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2978 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2981 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2982 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2983 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2984 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2985 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2986 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2987 * DVB scanning on linux
2988 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2989 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2990 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2991 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2992 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2993 * MTP device access on Unix
2994 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2995 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2998 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2999 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3000 Windows and Mac OS X.
3003 * Export the playlist in HTML
3004 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3005 * Better metadata handling and reading
3007 Linux/Windows interface:
3008 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3009 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3010 * Recently played items list
3011 * Interface toolbar customizations
3012 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3013 - More menus actions
3014 - Finer speed slider
3015 - Improvements on many dialogs
3016 - New dialog for plugins listing
3017 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3018 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3019 * Better integration in GTK environments
3022 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3023 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3024 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3025 * Additional usability improvements
3028 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3029 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3030 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3031 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3032 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3035 * New Maemo port with:
3036 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3037 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3040 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3043 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3044 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3045 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3046 * Support for latest iSight models
3049 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3050 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3053 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3054 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3055 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3056 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3057 The old image video output has been removed.
3058 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3059 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3062 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3070 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3071 --------------------------------------
3077 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3078 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3079 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3080 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3081 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3082 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3083 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3085 Various fixes to the following modules:
3088 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3089 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3090 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3092 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3097 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3098 ---------------------------------
3101 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3102 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3105 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3106 ---------------------------------
3109 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3112 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3115 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3116 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3117 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3118 main controller window.
3119 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3122 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3127 * Updates of other localizations
3130 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3131 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3132 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3133 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3134 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3137 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3138 ---------------------------------
3141 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3143 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3146 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3147 --------------------------------
3152 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3153 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3156 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3157 --------------------------------
3159 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3160 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3163 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3166 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3167 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3170 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3171 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3174 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3175 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3176 * Various fixed in playlist
3179 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3182 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3185 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3186 ------------------------------------
3188 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3189 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3192 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3193 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3194 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3197 * Stability fix for the video output.
3200 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3201 --------------------------------
3204 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3205 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3206 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3207 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3208 * Fixed update system bugs
3209 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3212 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3213 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3214 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3215 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3216 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3217 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3218 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3219 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3220 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3221 modern Mac OS X versions
3224 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3225 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3227 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3228 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3231 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3232 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3233 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3234 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3235 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3236 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3239 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3240 --------------------------------
3242 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3243 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3244 * Multiple bugfixes.
3247 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3248 --------------------------------
3250 * Multiple bug fixes.
3253 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3254 ---------------------------------
3258 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3259 recent to work correctly
3260 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3261 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3262 edit the ".hosts" file.
3263 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3264 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3265 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3266 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3267 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3268 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3269 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3270 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3271 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3272 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3273 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3274 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3275 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3276 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3277 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3278 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3279 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3280 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3281 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3282 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3283 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3284 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3285 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3286 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3287 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3288 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3289 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3290 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3291 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3292 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3293 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3294 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3295 and postproc modules.
3296 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3297 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3298 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3299 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3301 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3302 filter. For example:
3303 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3304 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3306 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3307 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3313 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3315 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3316 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3319 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3320 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3322 * Shoutcast TV listings
3323 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3325 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3326 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3328 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3331 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3332 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3333 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3334 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3335 * JACK audio input support
3336 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3337 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3338 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3339 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3340 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3341 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3342 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3343 (available as a separate download).
3344 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3345 * RTMP input support
3346 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3347 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3348 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3350 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3351 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3354 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3355 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3356 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3357 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3359 * APEv1/2 tags support
3360 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3361 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3363 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3364 * TiVo Series 2 support
3365 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3370 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3371 * Flash Screen Video support
3372 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3373 * DosBox Capture support
3374 * Karl Morton's Video support
3375 * limited atrac3 support
3377 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3378 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3379 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3380 * H.264 PAFF support
3381 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3382 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3383 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3384 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3385 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3388 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3389 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3390 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3391 * AQTitle subtitles support
3392 * MKV USF subtitles support
3393 * HTML-based subtitles support
3394 * MPSub subtitles support
3395 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3396 * MPL2 subtitles support
3397 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3398 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3399 * Realtext subtitle support
3400 * DKS subtitle support
3401 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3402 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3405 * Flash Screen Video support
3406 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3408 Video outputs and filters:
3409 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3410 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3411 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3412 * New puzzle video output filter
3413 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3414 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3416 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3417 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3418 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3419 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3420 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3421 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3422 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3423 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3424 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3425 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3426 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3427 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3428 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3429 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3431 Audio outputs and filters:
3432 * Replay gain support
3433 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3434 new scaletempo audio filter)
3435 * New spatializer audio filter
3436 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3439 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3440 * New RTP payload formats:
3441 * Speex voice audio codec
3442 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3443 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3444 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3445 * DCCP transport for RTP
3446 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3451 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3452 end-user suitable way.
3453 * Improved user interaction
3454 * Improved mouse gestures
3455 * Vastly improved Update checker
3456 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3458 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3459 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3461 * Improved video output features
3462 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3463 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3464 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3465 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3466 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3468 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3469 if libncursesw is available.
3470 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3471 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3472 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3474 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3475 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3476 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3477 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3478 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3479 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3480 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3481 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3484 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3485 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3486 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3489 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3490 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3491 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3492 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3493 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3494 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3497 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3498 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3508 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3509 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3510 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3513 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3514 ----------------------------------
3517 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3520 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3521 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3522 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3523 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3524 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3525 * Updated Polish translation
3528 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3529 ----------------------------------
3532 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3533 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3534 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3537 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3538 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3539 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3540 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3541 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3542 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3543 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3544 to an unexpected application termination
3545 * New Serbian translation
3546 * Updated Romanian translation
3549 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3550 ----------------------------------
3553 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3554 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3555 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3556 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3557 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3558 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3559 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3560 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3563 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3564 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3565 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3566 * Fixed AAC resampling
3567 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3568 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3571 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3572 ----------------------------------
3575 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3576 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3577 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3578 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3579 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3582 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3583 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3584 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3585 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3586 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3589 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3590 ----------------------------------
3593 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3594 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3597 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3598 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3599 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3600 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3602 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3606 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3609 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3612 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3615 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3618 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3619 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3620 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3621 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3622 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3624 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3625 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3626 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3627 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3630 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3633 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3634 ----------------------------------
3637 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3638 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3639 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3641 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3642 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3644 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3645 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3648 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3650 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3651 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3652 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3653 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3654 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3655 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3656 two different movies
3657 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3658 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3659 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3662 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3665 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3666 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3667 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3668 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3671 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3672 ----------------------------------
3674 Various bugfixes, notably:
3675 * Windows Vista compatibility
3676 * Cropping in Direct3D
3677 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3678 * RSS filter string overflow
3680 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3682 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3683 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3686 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3687 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3690 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3693 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3696 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3699 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3700 ----------------------------------
3702 Various bugfixes, notably:
3703 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3704 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3705 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3706 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3707 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3708 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3711 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3712 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3715 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3717 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3718 * Diverse usability improvements
3719 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3720 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3721 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3724 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3725 ---------------------------------
3727 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3728 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3731 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3734 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3735 --------------------------------
3738 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3741 * Support for RTSP authentication
3742 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3743 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3744 * ATSC support for DVB input
3745 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3746 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3747 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3750 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3751 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3752 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3753 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3754 * Matroska WavPack support
3755 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3756 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3757 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3760 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3761 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3762 * Improved libcaca support
3766 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3767 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3769 * Systray support in skins
3771 * Support for Apple Remote control
3772 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3773 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3774 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3775 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3777 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3780 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3781 Windows 9x/ME users:
3782 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3783 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3784 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3785 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3786 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3788 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3789 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3798 * Updates to the libvlc API
3799 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3802 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3803 --------------------------------
3806 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3807 * Support for downloading updates
3811 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3812 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3813 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3814 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3816 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3817 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3818 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3821 * Cook (Real audio) support
3823 Playlist / Services discovery:
3824 * XSPF playlist support
3826 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3829 * New JACK audio output
3832 * New video filters:
3833 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3834 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3835 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3836 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3837 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3838 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3841 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3844 * System to inform the user and request information
3845 - HTTP authentication
3849 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3850 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3851 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3854 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3855 - Improved playlist handling
3856 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3858 - Embedded Video output
3859 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3860 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3861 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3862 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3863 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3865 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3866 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3869 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3872 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3873 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3874 * Growl "Now playing" support
3877 * Ability to log to syslog
3878 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3881 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3883 * A bit more automatic testing
3886 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3887 ---------------------------------
3890 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3891 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3894 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3895 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3898 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3901 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3902 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3908 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3911 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3912 --------------------------------
3915 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3919 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3920 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3921 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3924 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3925 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3926 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3927 * GnomeVFS input module
3928 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3929 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3932 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3933 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3934 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3937 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3938 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3944 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3945 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3948 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3949 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3950 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3953 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3955 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3956 - New extended controls panel
3957 - New bookmarks window
3958 - Fixed playlist sorting
3959 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3961 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3962 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3963 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3964 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3968 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3969 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3971 - Include macro to include other files
3975 * Should now work outside IE as well
3978 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3981 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3982 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3985 The following languages were added:
3989 * Simplified Chinese
3990 The following languages were re-added:
3994 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3995 --------------------------------
3998 * Rewrite of the playlist
4000 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4001 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4002 * Preferences improvements:
4003 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4004 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4006 * Core image manipulation support
4007 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4008 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4009 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4010 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4011 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4012 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4013 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4014 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4015 * Access filter architecture
4016 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4017 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4021 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4022 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4023 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4024 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4025 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4026 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4027 * Massive Matroska improvements
4028 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4030 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4031 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4032 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4033 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4034 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4036 Decoders / Encoders:
4037 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4038 * PNG decoder/encoder
4039 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4040 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4043 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4046 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4047 * Brand new SAP module
4048 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4049 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4050 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4051 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4052 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4053 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4057 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4060 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4061 * Image file video output (png)
4062 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4063 * Improvements to wall video filter
4064 * Support for font color and opacity
4070 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4071 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4072 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4076 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4077 - Improved preferences
4078 - Improvements to the wizard
4079 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4081 - Redesigned playlist
4082 - Improved preferences
4084 - Support for multiple actions
4087 - Support for the new playlist system
4089 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4092 * Screensaver disabling fix
4093 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4094 * Support for no-decoration windows
4097 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4098 * The OpenGL video output is back
4099 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4100 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4101 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4102 is not yet available in the new module
4103 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4106 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4115 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4118 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4121 The following languages were added:
4127 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4128 --------------------------------
4131 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4132 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4135 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4136 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4137 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4140 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4143 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4146 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4149 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4150 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4151 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4155 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4157 * Support of playlist group announcement
4160 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4161 --------------------------------
4164 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4165 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4166 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4167 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4168 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4169 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4172 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4173 (Stream your desktop)
4174 * Improved DVD support:
4175 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4176 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4177 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4178 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4179 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4180 (selection of titles/chapters).
4183 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4184 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4185 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4186 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4187 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4188 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4189 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4190 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4191 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4192 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4195 * G.726 audio support
4196 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4197 * MPEG-4 text support
4198 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4199 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4200 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4204 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4205 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4206 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4207 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4208 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4209 * DVB subtitles encoder
4210 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4211 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4213 * Text track muxing for mp4
4214 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4215 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4216 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4217 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4218 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4219 * Improved ASF muxer
4221 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4222 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4223 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4226 * New audio equalizer filter
4227 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4228 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4229 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4230 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4233 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4234 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4235 with support for effects.
4236 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4237 - New filters can be streamed.
4238 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4239 - Centralized scaling and blending
4241 - "time", to display current time
4242 - "marq", to display a marquee
4245 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4246 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4247 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4248 * A few skins2 improvements
4249 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4250 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4251 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4252 * Improved CORBA control module
4255 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4256 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4257 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4260 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4261 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4262 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4265 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4266 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4267 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4268 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4269 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4272 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4275 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4276 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4279 * Server/client network synchronization module
4280 * VBrick streams fully supported
4281 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4285 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4286 --------------------------------
4289 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4290 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4291 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4292 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4295 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4296 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4297 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4298 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4299 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4300 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4301 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4304 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4305 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4306 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4307 * Improved directory access module.
4308 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4309 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4310 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4311 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4312 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4315 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4316 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4317 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4320 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4321 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4322 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4325 * Improved session announcement system.
4326 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4327 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4328 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4329 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4330 * Improved transrater.
4331 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4332 * New configuration system.
4333 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4336 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4337 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4338 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4339 * Supports scheduling.
4340 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4341 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4344 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4345 - Ability to embed video output.
4346 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4347 - Lots of improvements.
4348 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4349 - New design and set of icons.
4350 - Ability to embed video output.
4351 - Support for hotkeys.
4352 - Support for bookmarks.
4354 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4355 - Better hotkeys handling.
4358 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4359 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4360 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4361 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4364 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4365 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4366 * Improved Windows installer.
4372 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4373 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4376 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4377 ---------------------------------
4380 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4381 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4384 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4385 --------------------------------
4388 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4389 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4392 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4393 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4394 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4395 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4398 * Internal improvments
4399 * Improved import/export
4402 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4404 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4405 small and strange formats.
4407 * New MOD audio demux.
4408 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4409 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4410 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4411 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4414 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4415 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4416 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4422 * New opengl video output plugin.
4425 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4426 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4429 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4430 --------------------------------
4433 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4434 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4435 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4436 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4437 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4438 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4439 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4440 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4443 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4448 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4449 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4450 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4451 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4452 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4453 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4454 * Better Icecast support.
4455 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4456 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4459 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4460 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4461 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4462 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4463 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4464 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4465 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4468 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4469 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4470 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4471 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4472 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4473 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4474 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4475 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4476 * Preliminary RTP support.
4477 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4482 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4483 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4485 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4486 - Improvements and help in preferences
4487 - New streaming wizard
4488 - Revised Disc Open menu
4490 - Improvements of the standard pages
4491 - Support for new commands
4492 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4495 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4496 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4499 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4500 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4501 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4502 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4503 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4504 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4505 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4506 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4507 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4510 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4512 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4513 * Support for Panther.
4514 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4515 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4518 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4519 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4520 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4521 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4522 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4523 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4524 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4525 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4528 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4529 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4530 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4533 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4536 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4537 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4538 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4539 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4542 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4543 --------------------------------
4546 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4549 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4550 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4553 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4554 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4557 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4560 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4561 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4564 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4567 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4570 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4571 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4575 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4576 --------------------------------
4579 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4580 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4584 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4585 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4586 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4588 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4589 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4592 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4595 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4598 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4599 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4603 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4604 --------------------------------
4607 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4608 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4612 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4613 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4614 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4615 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4616 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4619 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4620 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4621 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4624 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4625 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4626 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4629 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4630 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4631 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4632 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4633 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4636 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4637 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4638 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4641 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4644 * Improved build system.
4645 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4646 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4647 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4648 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4651 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4652 --------------------------------
4655 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4658 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4659 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4660 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4661 * Video 4 Linux support
4662 * CD Digital Audio support
4663 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4666 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4667 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4668 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4669 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4672 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4673 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4674 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4675 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4676 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4677 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4678 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4681 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4682 * New HTTP remote control interface
4685 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4686 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4687 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4688 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4689 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4692 * New reset option for the preferences
4693 * You can set your language in the prefences
4694 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4695 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4696 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4697 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4700 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4701 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4702 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4705 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4706 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4707 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4708 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4709 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4710 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4711 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4712 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4713 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4714 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4717 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4718 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4719 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4720 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4721 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4722 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4723 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4726 * Interface localization
4727 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4728 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4729 * New full-featured Preferences window
4732 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4733 --------------------------------
4736 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4737 * support for skins at the interface level
4738 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4739 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4740 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4741 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4742 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4745 * fixed HTTP redirects
4746 * support for opening an entire directory
4747 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4748 * new video4linux access plug-in
4749 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4752 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4753 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4754 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4757 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4758 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4759 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4760 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4761 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4762 * new codec for raw I420 video
4763 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4766 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4767 (although it still misses some important features)
4768 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4771 * new HTTP output support
4772 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4773 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4776 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4779 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4782 * reorderable playlist
4783 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4784 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4785 * support for mono audio output devices
4786 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4787 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4788 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4789 * the messages window remembers more lines
4790 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4791 * http and ogg stream output options
4792 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4795 * new skinnable interface
4796 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4798 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4799 * support for FLAC audio format
4800 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4802 * network tab in the interface
4803 * "apply" handling in preferences
4806 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4807 ---------------------------------
4810 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4811 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4812 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4813 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4815 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4816 * DTS S/PDIF support
4819 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4820 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4821 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4822 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4825 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4826 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4829 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4832 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4835 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4837 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4838 * rc interface is now fully useable
4839 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4842 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4843 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4844 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4845 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4846 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4848 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4849 * support for mouse gestures
4850 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4853 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4854 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4857 * improved ID3 tag detection
4858 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4859 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4860 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4862 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4865 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4866 ---------------------------------
4869 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4870 English was set as the preferred language
4873 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4874 --------------------------------
4877 * new mouse gesture interface
4878 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4882 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4883 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4884 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4887 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4888 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4892 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4895 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4896 without the user consent
4899 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4901 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4902 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4903 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4906 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4907 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4908 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4909 * playlist enhancements
4910 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4911 * new step forward/step backward commands
4912 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4913 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4914 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4917 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4918 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4919 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4922 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4923 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4926 * native video output is working again
4927 * only commandline interface support
4928 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4931 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4932 --------------------------------
4935 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4936 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4937 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4938 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4939 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4940 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4941 and A/52 streams are supported)
4942 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4947 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4948 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4949 * VCD entry points support
4950 * VCD image file support
4953 * support for *.asf format
4954 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4955 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4956 * support for ogg encapsulation
4957 * support for raw DV format
4958 * support for *.wav format
4959 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4962 Stream discovery & playlists:
4963 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4964 * support for .m3u file format
4965 * support for .asx file format
4966 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4969 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4970 (only available with the .avi demux)
4971 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4972 * support for raw PCM data
4973 * support for Cinepak video codec
4974 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4975 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4976 * support for Xvid codec
4977 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4978 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4979 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4981 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4983 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4986 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4989 * new WxWindows interface
4990 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4991 device and the channels configuration
4992 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4993 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4994 format that VLC can play
4995 * new swedish translation
4996 * enhancements of the playlist window
4997 * new messages window to see debug info
4998 * fixed a few crashes
5001 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5002 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5003 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5004 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working