1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support wayland surface type
6 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
7 * Support portable version of Windows build
8 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
9 and rewrite the parsing of those files
10 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
13 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
14 * New SMB access module using libdsm
15 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
16 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
17 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
18 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
19 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
20 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
21 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
22 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
23 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
24 * Support sftp username and passwords options and URL
25 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
26 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
27 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
28 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
29 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
32 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
33 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
34 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
35 * Support for Daala video
36 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
37 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
38 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
39 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
40 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
41 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
42 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
43 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
44 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
45 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
46 * Basic TTML subtitles support
47 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
48 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
49 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
50 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
51 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
55 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
56 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
57 * Support Daala in Ogg
58 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
59 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
60 * Support SBV subtitles
61 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
62 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
63 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
64 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
65 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
66 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
67 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
68 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
69 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
70 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
71 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
72 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
73 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, using the same core
77 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
78 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
79 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
82 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
83 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
84 * Added Tizen audio module.
87 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
88 * Wayland shell surface window provider
89 * Wayland shared memory video output
90 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
91 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
92 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
93 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
94 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
95 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
98 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
101 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
102 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
103 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
106 * Chromecast output module
107 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
110 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
113 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
114 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
118 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
119 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
122 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
123 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
124 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
125 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
126 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
129 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
132 * Batch convert support
135 * Support key accelerators
138 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
139 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
140 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
141 libvlc_media_discoverer_new and libvlc_media_discoverer_start.
142 This allows to attach media events between create and start.
143 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
144 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
145 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
146 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
147 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
148 identifier (if there is one available)
149 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
150 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
151 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
152 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
153 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
156 * Support for the SystemD Journal
157 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
158 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
159 * New Android module for logging
162 * remove langfromtelx
163 * remove ZPL playlist format
164 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
165 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
169 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
170 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
171 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
174 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
175 --------------------------------
178 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
179 * Fix some VP9 decoding
181 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
182 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
183 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
184 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
189 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
190 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
191 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
192 * Revert to older ASX code
193 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
196 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
197 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
198 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
201 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
202 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
203 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
206 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
207 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
208 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
211 * Fix recent items behaviour
212 * Fix rotation filter activation
213 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
216 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
217 * Fix extensions registration during install
218 * Fix extensions dialog crash
219 * Default to no DxVA decoding
222 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
225 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
226 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
227 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
228 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
229 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
230 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
233 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
234 --------------------------------
237 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
238 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
241 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
242 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
243 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
244 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
247 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
248 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
249 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
250 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
252 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
253 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
254 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
257 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
258 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
259 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
260 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
261 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
262 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
263 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
264 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
265 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
266 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
267 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
268 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
269 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
270 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
271 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
272 * New jpeg image decoder
273 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
274 * New SVG image decoder
275 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
276 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
277 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
280 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
281 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
282 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
283 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
284 * New png image encoder using libpng
287 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
288 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
289 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
290 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
291 synchronization and tracks exclusion
292 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
293 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
294 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
295 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
296 * Support Opus in MKV
298 * Basic support for WebVTT
299 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
300 * Support HDPR TS files
301 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
302 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
303 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
304 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
305 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
306 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
307 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
308 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
309 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
310 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
311 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
312 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
315 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
316 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
317 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
318 * New Android native window provider module
319 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
320 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
321 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
324 * New Oldmovie effect filter
325 * New VHS effect filter
326 * New Freeze effect filter
327 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
328 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
329 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
332 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
333 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
334 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
335 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
336 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
337 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
340 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
341 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
343 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
346 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
347 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
348 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
349 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
350 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
351 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
352 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
353 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
354 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
356 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
357 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
358 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
361 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
362 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
365 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
366 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
369 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
370 * Add record button in Qt menus
371 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
372 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
373 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
376 * Support for OS X Yosemite
377 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
378 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
379 * Fixes for advanced preferences
380 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
381 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
382 * Option to increase playlist font size
383 * Improved crash log reporting
386 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
387 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
388 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
389 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
392 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
395 * iOS video output: use ios2
396 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
397 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
400 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
401 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
402 * Update of all translations:
403 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
404 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
405 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
406 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
407 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
408 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
409 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
412 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
413 --------------------------------
419 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
420 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
421 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
422 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
423 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
424 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
425 * Fix potential crash in zip access
426 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
427 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
430 * Update translations and greek encoding
433 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
434 --------------------------------
437 * Fix compilation on OS/2
440 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
442 Mac OS X audio output:
443 * Fix channel ordering
444 * Increase the buffersize
447 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
448 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
449 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
452 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
455 * Correctly support video-on-top
456 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
457 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
460 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
463 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
464 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
467 * Update British English
470 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
471 --------------------------------
474 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
477 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
480 * Fix DVD playback regression
481 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
482 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
485 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
486 --------------------------------
489 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
490 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
493 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
494 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
495 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
498 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
499 by updating codec libraries
500 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
501 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
502 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
505 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
506 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
507 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
508 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
511 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
512 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
515 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
516 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
517 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
518 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
519 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
522 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
523 * Fix record file names
526 * Fix minimal size possible on start
527 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
528 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
529 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
530 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
533 * Fix album art display on Windows
536 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
537 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
538 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
539 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
540 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
541 and Simplified Chinese translations
542 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
545 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
546 --------------------------------
549 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
550 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
551 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
552 audio devices on OS X
553 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
554 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
557 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
558 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
561 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
562 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
565 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
568 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
569 * Improve A-B loop control
570 * Fix album art update when changing media
573 * Add a language option in the interface
574 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
575 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
576 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
577 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
578 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
579 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
580 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
583 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
586 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
587 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
588 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
589 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
592 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
593 --------------------------------
596 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
598 * Fix some subtitles track selection
601 * VP9 support in WebM
602 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
603 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
606 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
607 * Support Speex in ogg files
608 * Fix some .mov playlists support
609 * Support Alac in mkv
610 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
611 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
614 * Fix DVB options parsing
615 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
616 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
619 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
620 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
623 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
624 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
627 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
628 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
629 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
630 * Fix play after drag'n drop
631 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
634 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
635 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
638 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
639 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
642 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
643 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
644 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
645 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
646 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
647 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
648 * Improves interface resizings
651 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
652 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
653 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
654 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
655 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
659 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
660 --------------------------------
663 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
664 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
665 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
666 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
667 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
669 3rd party libraries (contrib):
670 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
673 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
674 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
675 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
676 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
677 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
680 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
681 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
685 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
686 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
687 * Support for Ulead DV audio
688 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
689 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
690 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
691 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
692 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
693 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
694 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
695 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
696 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
697 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
700 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
701 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
702 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
705 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
706 remove support for previous OS X releases
707 * Major improvements in DASH support
708 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
709 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
710 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
711 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
712 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
713 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
714 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
715 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
716 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
717 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
718 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
721 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
722 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
723 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
724 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
725 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
726 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
727 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
728 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
729 * Support for more MJPEG streams
730 * Add support for liveleak streams
731 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
732 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
733 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
736 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
737 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
738 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
739 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
740 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
741 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
742 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
743 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
744 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
745 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
746 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
749 * New remapping channel filter
750 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
751 * New VSXu visualization plugin
752 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
753 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
754 * New gain audio filter
757 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
758 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
759 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
760 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
761 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
762 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
763 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
764 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
765 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
768 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
769 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
770 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
771 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
772 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
773 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
774 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
777 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
778 * Options support for AVIO output module
779 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
780 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
781 * Livehttp stream encryption support
782 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
783 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
786 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
789 * configurable password for the HTTP server
790 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
791 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
792 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
793 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
794 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
795 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
796 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
800 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
803 * Add support for multiple video outputs
804 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
806 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
807 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
808 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
809 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
810 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
811 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
812 VLC's internal volume level
813 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
815 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
816 selection and to manage the list of presets
817 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
818 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
819 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
820 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
821 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
822 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
823 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
824 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
825 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
826 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
828 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
829 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
830 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
831 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
832 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
833 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
834 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
835 3rd party applications
836 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
837 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
838 (system-wide settings)
839 * Add support for the Video Title option
840 * Add support for the Boss Key
841 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
842 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
845 * Partial support for Qt5.0
846 * Menus modifications and improvements
847 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
848 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
849 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
850 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
851 * EPG display fixes and improvements
852 * Add SD pixmap sources
853 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
854 * Display playlist total duration
855 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
856 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
857 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
862 * Extend sliders, offsets options
863 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
864 * Numerous fixes and improvements
865 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
868 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
869 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
870 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
871 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
872 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
873 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
874 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
875 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
876 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
877 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
880 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
881 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
882 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
883 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
884 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
885 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
887 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
888 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
889 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
890 * Broken crop video filter
892 * OSD parser and menu
893 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
894 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
895 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
896 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
900 * Update of all translations
903 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
904 --------------------------------
907 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
908 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
911 * Fix modplug security issues
914 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
915 --------------------------------
919 * Fix crash in QTsound
920 * Fix screen mouse file location
921 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
924 * Fix use after free in sgimb
925 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
928 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
931 * Fix interface crashes
932 * Fix autostart playback option
933 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
936 * update Welsh translation
937 * New Kannada translation
940 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
941 --------------------------------
944 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
945 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
949 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
952 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
955 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
958 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
962 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
965 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
968 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
969 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
970 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
973 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
974 --------------------------------
977 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
980 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
983 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
984 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
985 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
986 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
987 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
988 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
991 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
992 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
993 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
994 * 3rd party codecs updates
997 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
998 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
999 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1000 in the advanced preferences panel
1001 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1002 * Fix crash within the video output code
1003 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1004 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1005 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1006 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1007 lua extensions, ...)
1008 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1011 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1014 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1015 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1018 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1021 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1022 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1023 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1024 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1025 Dutch, Danish, translations
1026 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1029 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1030 --------------------------------
1033 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1036 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1037 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1038 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1041 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1042 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1043 * Fix koreus lua parser
1044 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1045 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1046 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1047 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1050 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1051 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1054 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1057 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1058 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1059 * Fix Time counter UI look
1060 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1063 * Fix https streaming
1066 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1067 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1068 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1071 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1072 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1073 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1074 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1075 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1078 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1079 --------------------------------
1082 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1083 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1084 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1085 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1086 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1087 during playback on Mac OS X
1090 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1091 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1092 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1095 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1096 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1097 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1098 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1099 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1102 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1103 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1104 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1105 * Support Youtube live streams
1108 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1111 * Fix media info dialog update
1112 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1113 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1114 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1115 * Fix album art display at start
1118 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1119 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1120 * Fix menus display and behavior
1121 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1122 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1123 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1124 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1125 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1126 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1127 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1130 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1131 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1132 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1133 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1134 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1135 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1136 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1137 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1138 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1141 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1142 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1143 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1144 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1145 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1148 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1149 --------------------------------
1152 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1155 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1156 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1159 * Add GateKeeper support
1160 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1161 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1162 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1165 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1168 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1169 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1170 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1171 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1172 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1175 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1176 --------------------------------
1179 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1180 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1181 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1182 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1183 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1184 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1185 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1186 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1187 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1188 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1189 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1193 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1194 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1195 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1196 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1197 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1198 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1199 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1200 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1201 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1202 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1203 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1204 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1207 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1208 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1210 * Fix MP3 free format support
1213 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1214 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1215 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1216 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1217 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1220 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1221 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1223 Audio filters and output:
1224 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1225 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1226 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1227 * Do not apply volume in file output
1228 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1229 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1232 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1233 the persistant media library
1234 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1235 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1236 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1237 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1238 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1239 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1240 press on the Play/Pause button
1241 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1242 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1243 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1244 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1245 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1246 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1247 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1248 Synchronization panel
1249 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1250 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1251 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1252 * Fix crashes on exit
1253 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1255 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1256 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1257 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1258 automatically reset on the first launch.
1259 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1260 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1261 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1264 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1265 * Fixes for icecast SD
1268 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1269 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1270 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1271 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1272 * Fix tags and file names display
1273 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1276 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1277 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1280 * Fix display of some buttons
1281 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1282 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1285 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1286 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1287 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1290 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1291 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1292 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1293 Thai translations update
1294 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1297 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1298 --------------------------------
1301 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1302 * fix the samba module compilation
1303 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1304 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1305 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1306 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1309 * Support for MXPEG files
1310 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1311 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1314 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1315 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1316 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1319 * Fix ogm header creation
1322 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1323 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1326 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1327 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1328 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1329 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1332 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1335 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1336 * allow to hide the sidebar
1337 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1338 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1339 * noticebly faster launch time
1340 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1341 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1342 * improve track synchronization panel
1343 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1344 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1347 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1348 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1349 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1350 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1353 * fix for menus display
1354 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1355 * documentation update
1358 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1359 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1362 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1363 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1364 * Update Jamendo selections
1368 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1369 * fix a crash on VLM close
1372 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1373 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1374 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1375 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1378 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1381 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1382 ---------------------------------
1385 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1386 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1387 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1388 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1389 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1390 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1391 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1392 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1393 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1394 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1395 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1396 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1397 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1398 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1399 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1400 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1401 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1402 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1403 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1404 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1405 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1406 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1407 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1408 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1409 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1410 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1412 Important changes for packagers:
1413 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1414 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1415 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1416 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1417 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1418 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1419 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1420 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1421 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1422 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1425 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1426 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1427 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1428 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1429 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1430 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1431 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1434 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1435 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1436 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1437 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1438 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1439 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1440 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1441 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1442 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1443 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1444 * PulseAudio audio input support
1445 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1446 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1447 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1448 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1449 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1450 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1451 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1452 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1455 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1456 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1457 are notably concerned.
1458 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1459 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1460 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1461 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1462 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1463 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1464 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1465 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1466 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1467 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1468 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1469 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1470 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1471 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1472 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1475 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1476 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1477 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1478 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1479 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1480 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1481 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1482 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1483 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1484 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1485 * Improved support of tracker files
1486 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1489 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1490 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1491 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1492 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1493 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1494 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1495 and important cleanups and optimisations
1496 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1497 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1498 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1499 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1500 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1501 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1502 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1503 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1504 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1505 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1506 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1507 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1508 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1509 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1510 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1511 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1512 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1513 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1514 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1515 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1516 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1519 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1520 * New video output for iOS platform
1521 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1522 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1523 * Various vmem improvements
1524 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1525 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1526 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1527 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1528 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1529 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1531 Audio Output and Filters:
1532 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1533 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1534 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1535 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1536 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1537 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1538 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1539 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1540 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1541 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1544 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1545 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1546 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1547 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1548 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1549 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1550 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1551 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1552 * New anti-flickering filter
1553 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1554 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1555 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1556 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1557 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1558 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1559 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1562 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1563 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1564 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1565 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1566 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1567 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1568 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1569 * Major rework of VoD support
1570 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1571 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1572 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1573 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1574 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1575 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1576 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1577 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1578 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1579 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1582 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1583 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1586 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1587 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1588 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1589 list of available audio and video filters
1590 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1591 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1592 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1595 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1596 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1597 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1598 * id3tag: use taglib
1599 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1600 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1601 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1602 * removal of the noise filter
1603 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1604 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1605 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1606 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1609 * Update of translations for most languages.
1610 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1613 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1614 ----------------------------------
1617 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1618 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1621 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1622 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1625 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1626 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1627 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1630 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1633 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1634 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1637 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1640 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1641 ----------------------------------
1644 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1645 including support for OS X Lion
1646 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1647 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1650 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1653 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1654 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1655 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1658 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1661 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1662 ----------------------------------
1665 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1666 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1669 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1670 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1671 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1672 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1673 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1675 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1676 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1677 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1679 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1680 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1683 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1686 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1689 * Fix quitting on Linux
1690 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1694 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1697 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1700 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1701 ---------------------------------
1703 Windows and Mac OS X:
1704 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1707 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1708 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1711 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1714 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1717 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1719 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1720 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1722 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1723 * RTP output and XML export
1724 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1728 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1729 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1730 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1731 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1734 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1735 --------------------------------
1737 Windows and Mac OS X:
1738 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1741 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1744 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1745 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1746 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1747 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1748 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1749 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1752 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1753 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1757 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1758 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1759 * New Luganda Translation
1762 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1763 --------------------------------
1766 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1769 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1770 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1771 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1772 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1775 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1777 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1778 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1779 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1780 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1781 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1782 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1783 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1784 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1786 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1787 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1788 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1789 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1790 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1791 * Configure and build system improvements
1792 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1795 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1796 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1797 * New icelandic translation
1800 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1801 --------------------------------
1804 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1805 #234484 and #260719.
1808 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1809 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1810 and stability reasons
1813 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1817 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1820 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1821 ----------------------------------
1824 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1827 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1828 ---------------------------------
1831 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1832 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1833 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1834 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1837 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1840 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1841 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1842 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1843 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1846 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1847 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1848 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1850 Subtitles and renderer:
1851 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1852 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1853 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1854 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1855 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1858 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1859 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1860 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1861 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1864 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1865 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1867 Miscellaneous fixes:
1868 * KDE device solid actions
1870 * Transcode integer overflow
1871 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1872 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1875 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1876 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1877 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1880 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1881 ----------------------------------
1884 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1888 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1891 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1894 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1895 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1896 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1897 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1900 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1904 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1907 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1910 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1911 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1913 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1917 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1918 * Miscellaneous fixes
1921 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1922 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1923 French and Ukrainian
1924 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1925 * New Asturian translation
1928 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1929 ----------------------------------
1932 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1934 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1937 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1940 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1941 * Various fixes for Windows
1944 * New Armenian translation
1945 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1946 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1949 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1950 --------------------------------
1953 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1954 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1955 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1958 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1959 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1962 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1963 --------------------------------
1965 Access and demuxers:
1966 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1967 * fix for podcasts parsing
1968 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1971 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1972 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1975 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1976 * fix m3u playlists exports
1979 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1982 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1985 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1988 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1991 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1994 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1995 --------------------------------
1998 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1999 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2002 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2003 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2006 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2007 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2008 * fix console output encoding
2010 Interface and extensions:
2011 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2012 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2015 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2016 --------------------------------
2019 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2020 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2021 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2022 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2023 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2024 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2025 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2026 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2027 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2028 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2029 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2030 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2031 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2032 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2033 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2034 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2038 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2039 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2040 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2041 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2042 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2045 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2048 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2049 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2050 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2054 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2057 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2058 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2059 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2062 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2063 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2064 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2065 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2068 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2069 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2072 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2073 --------------------------------
2075 Important changes for users:
2076 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2077 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2079 Important changes for packagers:
2080 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2081 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2082 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2083 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2084 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2086 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2088 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2089 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2090 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2091 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2092 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2095 * Support for the sftp protocol
2096 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2097 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2098 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2099 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2100 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2103 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2104 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2105 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2107 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2108 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2109 * Invmem module improvements
2110 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2111 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2112 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2113 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2114 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2115 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2116 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2117 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2118 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2119 * Support for VP8 codec
2120 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2123 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2124 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2125 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2126 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2127 * Various EGP improvements
2128 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2129 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2132 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2133 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2134 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2135 * Podcast images are now displayed
2138 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2139 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2140 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2141 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2142 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2143 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2144 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2145 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2146 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2147 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2148 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2151 * New content extensions lua framework
2154 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2155 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2156 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2157 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2158 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2159 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2160 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2163 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2164 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2165 * Service discovery based on libudev
2166 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2169 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2170 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2171 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2172 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2173 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2174 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2175 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2178 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2179 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2180 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2183 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2185 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2186 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2189 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2192 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2193 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2194 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2195 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2196 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2197 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2198 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2201 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2202 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2205 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2206 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2207 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2211 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2212 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2213 * Improved Solaris port
2216 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2217 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2220 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2221 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2222 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2223 * transrate: broken since too long
2224 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2225 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2226 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2227 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2228 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2229 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2230 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2231 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2232 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2233 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2234 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2235 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2236 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2237 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2240 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2241 --------------------------------
2244 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2246 Decoders/Packetizers:
2247 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2250 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2251 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2252 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2253 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2254 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2257 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2258 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2261 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2262 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2265 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2266 and Walloon translations updated
2267 * Sinhala translation started
2270 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2271 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2274 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2275 --------------------------------
2278 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2279 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2282 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2285 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2286 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2289 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2290 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2291 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2292 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2295 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2296 --------------------------------
2299 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2300 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2303 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2304 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2307 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2308 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2311 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2314 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2315 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2318 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2319 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2322 * New Walloon translation
2323 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2326 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2327 --------------------------------
2330 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2331 regressions in most popular drivers
2332 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2335 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2336 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2337 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2340 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2341 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2344 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2345 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2346 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2347 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2348 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2351 * New udev module for linux
2354 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2357 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2360 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2361 --------------------------------
2364 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2365 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2366 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2369 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2370 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2373 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2374 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2377 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2380 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2381 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2382 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2383 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2386 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2387 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2388 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2389 - no support for Goom and SDL
2390 - limited text rendering support
2391 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2394 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2395 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2396 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2397 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2398 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2399 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2400 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2401 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2402 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2406 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2409 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2412 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2413 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2414 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2415 Arabic and French translation updates
2418 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2419 --------------------------------
2422 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2423 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2424 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2425 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2426 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2427 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2430 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2431 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2432 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2435 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2436 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2437 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2440 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2443 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2444 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2447 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2448 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2449 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2450 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2451 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2452 * Fix various crashes
2455 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2457 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2461 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2462 ---------------------------------
2466 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2467 See 'Access:' for more info.
2468 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2471 * Instantaneous pausing
2472 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2473 * Finer speed control
2474 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2475 * Timeshift for most medias
2476 * RTSP trickplay support
2477 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2480 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2481 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2482 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2483 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2484 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2485 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2486 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2487 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2488 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2489 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2492 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2493 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2494 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2495 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2496 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2497 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2498 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2501 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2502 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2505 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2506 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2507 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2508 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2509 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2510 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2511 * DVB scanning on linux
2512 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2513 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2514 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2515 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2516 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2517 * MTP device access on Unix
2518 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2519 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2522 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2523 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2524 Windows and Mac OS X.
2527 * Export the playlist in HTML
2528 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2529 * Better metadata handling and reading
2531 Linux/Windows interface:
2532 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2533 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2534 * Recently played items list
2535 * Interface toolbar customizations
2536 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2537 - More menus actions
2538 - Finer speed slider
2539 - Improvements on many dialogs
2540 - New dialog for plugins listing
2541 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2542 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2543 * Better integration in GTK environments
2546 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2547 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2548 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2549 * Additional usability improvements
2552 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2553 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2554 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2555 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2556 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2559 * New Maemo port with:
2560 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2561 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2564 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2567 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2568 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2569 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2570 * Support for latest iSight models
2573 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2574 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2577 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2578 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2579 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2580 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2581 The old image video output has been removed.
2582 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2583 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2586 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2594 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2595 --------------------------------------
2601 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2602 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2603 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2604 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2605 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2606 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2607 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2609 Various fixes to the following modules:
2612 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2613 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2614 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2616 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2621 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2622 ---------------------------------
2625 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2626 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2629 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2630 ---------------------------------
2633 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2636 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2639 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2640 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2641 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2642 main controller window.
2643 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2646 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2651 * Updates of other localizations
2654 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2655 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2656 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2657 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2658 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2661 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2662 ---------------------------------
2665 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2667 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2670 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2671 --------------------------------
2676 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2677 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2680 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2681 --------------------------------
2683 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2684 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2687 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2690 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2691 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2694 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2695 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2698 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2699 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2700 * Various fixed in playlist
2703 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2706 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2709 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2710 ------------------------------------
2712 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2713 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2716 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2717 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2718 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2721 * Stability fix for the video output.
2724 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2725 --------------------------------
2728 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2729 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2730 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2731 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2732 * Fixed update system bugs
2733 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2736 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2737 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2738 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2739 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2740 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2741 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2742 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2743 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2744 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2745 modern Mac OS X versions
2748 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2749 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2751 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2752 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2755 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2756 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2757 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2758 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2759 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2760 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2763 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2764 --------------------------------
2766 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2767 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2768 * Multiple bugfixes.
2771 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2772 --------------------------------
2774 * Multiple bug fixes.
2777 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2778 ---------------------------------
2782 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2783 recent to work correctly
2784 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2785 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2786 edit the ".hosts" file.
2787 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2788 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2789 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2790 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2791 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2792 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2793 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2794 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2795 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2796 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2797 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2798 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2799 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2800 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2801 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2802 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2803 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2804 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2805 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2806 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2807 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2808 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2809 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2810 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2811 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2812 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2813 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2814 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2815 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2816 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2817 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2818 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2819 and postproc modules.
2820 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2821 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2822 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2823 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2825 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2826 filter. For example:
2827 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2828 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2830 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2831 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2837 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2839 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2840 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2843 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2844 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2846 * Shoutcast TV listings
2847 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2849 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2850 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2852 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2855 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2856 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2857 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2858 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2859 * JACK audio input support
2860 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2861 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2862 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2863 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2864 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2865 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2866 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2867 (available as a separate download).
2868 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2869 * RTMP input support
2870 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2871 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2872 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2874 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2875 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2878 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2879 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2880 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2881 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2883 * APEv1/2 tags support
2884 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2885 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2887 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2888 * TiVo Series 2 support
2889 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2894 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2895 * Flash Screen Video support
2896 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2897 * DosBox Capture support
2898 * Karl Morton's Video support
2899 * limited atrac3 support
2901 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2902 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2903 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2904 * H.264 PAFF support
2905 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2906 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2907 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2908 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2909 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2912 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2913 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2914 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2915 * AQTitle subtitles support
2916 * MKV USF subtitles support
2917 * HTML-based subtitles support
2918 * MPSub subtitles support
2919 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2920 * MPL2 subtitles support
2921 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2922 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2923 * Realtext subtitle support
2924 * DKS subtitle support
2925 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2926 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2929 * Flash Screen Video support
2930 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2932 Video outputs and filters:
2933 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2934 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2935 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2936 * New puzzle video output filter
2937 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2938 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2940 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2941 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2942 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2943 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2944 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2945 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2946 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2947 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2948 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2949 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2950 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2951 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2952 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2953 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2955 Audio outputs and filters:
2956 * Replay gain support
2957 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2958 new scaletempo audio filter)
2959 * New spatializer audio filter
2960 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2963 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2964 * New RTP payload formats:
2965 * Speex voice audio codec
2966 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2967 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2968 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2969 * DCCP transport for RTP
2970 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2975 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2976 end-user suitable way.
2977 * Improved user interaction
2978 * Improved mouse gestures
2979 * Vastly improved Update checker
2980 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2982 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2983 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2985 * Improved video output features
2986 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2987 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2988 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2989 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2990 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2992 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2993 if libncursesw is available.
2994 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2995 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2996 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2998 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2999 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3000 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3001 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3002 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3003 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3004 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3005 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3008 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3009 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3010 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3013 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3014 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3015 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3016 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3017 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3018 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3021 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3022 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3032 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3033 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3034 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3037 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3038 ----------------------------------
3041 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3044 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3045 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3046 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3047 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3048 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3049 * Updated Polish translation
3052 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3053 ----------------------------------
3056 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3057 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3058 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3061 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3062 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3063 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3064 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3065 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3066 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3067 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3068 to an unexpected application termination
3069 * New Serbian translation
3070 * Updated Romanian translation
3073 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3074 ----------------------------------
3077 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3078 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3079 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3080 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3081 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3082 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3083 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3084 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3087 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3088 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3089 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3090 * Fixed AAC resampling
3091 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3092 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3095 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3096 ----------------------------------
3099 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3100 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3101 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3102 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3103 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3106 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3107 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3108 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3109 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3110 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3113 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3114 ----------------------------------
3117 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3118 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3121 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3122 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3123 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3124 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3126 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3130 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3133 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3136 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3139 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3142 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3143 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3144 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3145 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3146 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3148 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3149 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3150 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3151 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3154 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3157 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3158 ----------------------------------
3161 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3162 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3163 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3165 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3166 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3168 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3169 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3172 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3174 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3175 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3176 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3177 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3178 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3179 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3180 two different movies
3181 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3182 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3183 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3186 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3189 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3190 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3191 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3192 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3195 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3196 ----------------------------------
3198 Various bugfixes, notably:
3199 * Windows Vista compatibility
3200 * Cropping in Direct3D
3201 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3202 * RSS filter string overflow
3204 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3206 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3207 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3210 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3211 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3214 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3217 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3220 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3223 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3224 ----------------------------------
3226 Various bugfixes, notably:
3227 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3228 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3229 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3230 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3231 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3232 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3235 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3236 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3239 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3241 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3242 * Diverse usability improvements
3243 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3244 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3245 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3248 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3249 ---------------------------------
3251 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3252 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3255 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3258 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3259 --------------------------------
3262 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3265 * Support for RTSP authentication
3266 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3267 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3268 * ATSC support for DVB input
3269 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3270 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3271 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3274 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3275 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3276 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3277 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3278 * Matroska WavPack support
3279 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3280 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3281 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3284 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3285 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3286 * Improved libcaca support
3290 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3291 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3293 * Systray support in skins
3295 * Support for Apple Remote control
3296 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3297 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3298 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3299 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3301 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3304 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3305 Windows 9x/ME users:
3306 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3307 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3308 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3309 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3310 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3312 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3313 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3322 * Updates to the libvlc API
3323 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3326 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3327 --------------------------------
3330 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3331 * Support for downloading updates
3335 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3336 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3337 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3338 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3340 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3341 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3342 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3345 * Cook (Real audio) support
3347 Playlist / Services discovery:
3348 * XSPF playlist support
3350 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3353 * New JACK audio output
3356 * New video filters:
3357 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3358 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3359 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3360 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3361 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3362 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3365 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3368 * System to inform the user and request information
3369 - HTTP authentication
3373 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3374 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3375 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3378 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3379 - Improved playlist handling
3380 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3382 - Embedded Video output
3383 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3384 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3385 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3386 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3387 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3389 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3390 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3393 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3396 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3397 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3398 * Growl "Now playing" support
3401 * Ability to log to syslog
3402 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3405 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3407 * A bit more automatic testing
3410 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3411 ---------------------------------
3414 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3415 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3418 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3419 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3422 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3425 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3426 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3432 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3435 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3436 --------------------------------
3439 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3443 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3444 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3445 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3448 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3449 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3450 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3451 * GnomeVFS input module
3452 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3453 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3456 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3457 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3458 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3461 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3462 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3468 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3469 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3472 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3473 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3474 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3477 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3479 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3480 - New extended controls panel
3481 - New bookmarks window
3482 - Fixed playlist sorting
3483 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3485 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3486 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3487 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3488 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3492 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3493 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3495 - Include macro to include other files
3499 * Should now work outside IE as well
3502 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3505 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3506 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3509 The following languages were added:
3513 * Simplified Chinese
3514 The following languages were re-added:
3518 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3519 --------------------------------
3522 * Rewrite of the playlist
3524 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3525 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3526 * Preferences improvements:
3527 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3528 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3530 * Core image manipulation support
3531 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3532 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3533 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3534 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3535 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3536 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3537 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3538 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3539 * Access filter architecture
3540 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3541 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3545 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3546 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3547 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3548 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3549 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3550 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3551 * Massive Matroska improvements
3552 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3554 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3555 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3556 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3557 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3558 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3560 Decoders / Encoders:
3561 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3562 * PNG decoder/encoder
3563 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3564 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3567 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3570 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3571 * Brand new SAP module
3572 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3573 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3574 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3575 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3576 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3577 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3581 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3584 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3585 * Image file video output (png)
3586 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3587 * Improvements to wall video filter
3588 * Support for font color and opacity
3594 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3595 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3596 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3600 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3601 - Improved preferences
3602 - Improvements to the wizard
3603 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3605 - Redesigned playlist
3606 - Improved preferences
3608 - Support for multiple actions
3611 - Support for the new playlist system
3613 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3616 * Screensaver disabling fix
3617 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3618 * Support for no-decoration windows
3621 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3622 * The OpenGL video output is back
3623 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3624 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3625 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3626 is not yet available in the new module
3627 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3630 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3639 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3642 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3645 The following languages were added:
3651 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3652 --------------------------------
3655 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3656 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3659 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3660 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3661 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3664 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3667 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3670 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3673 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3674 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3675 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3679 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3681 * Support of playlist group announcement
3684 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3685 --------------------------------
3688 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3689 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3690 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3691 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3692 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3693 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3696 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3697 (Stream your desktop)
3698 * Improved DVD support:
3699 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3700 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3701 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3702 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3703 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3704 (selection of titles/chapters).
3707 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3708 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3709 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3710 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3711 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3712 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3713 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3714 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3715 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3716 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3719 * G.726 audio support
3720 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3721 * MPEG-4 text support
3722 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3723 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3724 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3728 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3729 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3730 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3731 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3732 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3733 * DVB subtitles encoder
3734 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3735 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3737 * Text track muxing for mp4
3738 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3739 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3740 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3741 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3742 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3743 * Improved ASF muxer
3745 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3746 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3747 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3750 * New audio equalizer filter
3751 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3752 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3753 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3754 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3757 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3758 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3759 with support for effects.
3760 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3761 - New filters can be streamed.
3762 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3763 - Centralized scaling and blending
3765 - "time", to display current time
3766 - "marq", to display a marquee
3769 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3770 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3771 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3772 * A few skins2 improvements
3773 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3774 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3775 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3776 * Improved CORBA control module
3779 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3780 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3781 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3784 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3785 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3786 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3789 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3790 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3791 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3792 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3793 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3796 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3799 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3800 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3803 * Server/client network synchronization module
3804 * VBrick streams fully supported
3805 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3809 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3810 --------------------------------
3813 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3814 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3815 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3816 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3819 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3820 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3821 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3822 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3823 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3824 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3825 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3828 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3829 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3830 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3831 * Improved directory access module.
3832 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3833 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3834 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3835 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3836 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3839 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3840 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3841 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3844 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3845 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3846 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3849 * Improved session announcement system.
3850 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3851 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3852 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3853 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3854 * Improved transrater.
3855 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3856 * New configuration system.
3857 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3860 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3861 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3862 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3863 * Supports scheduling.
3864 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3865 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3868 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3869 - Ability to embed video output.
3870 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3871 - Lots of improvements.
3872 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3873 - New design and set of icons.
3874 - Ability to embed video output.
3875 - Support for hotkeys.
3876 - Support for bookmarks.
3878 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3879 - Better hotkeys handling.
3882 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3883 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3884 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3885 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3888 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3889 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3890 * Improved Windows installer.
3896 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3897 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3900 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3901 ---------------------------------
3904 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3905 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3908 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3909 --------------------------------
3912 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3913 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3916 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3917 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3918 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3919 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3922 * Internal improvments
3923 * Improved import/export
3926 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3928 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3929 small and strange formats.
3931 * New MOD audio demux.
3932 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3933 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3934 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3935 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3938 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3939 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3940 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3946 * New opengl video output plugin.
3949 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3950 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3953 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3954 --------------------------------
3957 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3958 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3959 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3960 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3961 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3962 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3963 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3964 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3967 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3972 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3973 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3974 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3975 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3976 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3977 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3978 * Better Icecast support.
3979 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3980 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3983 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3984 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3985 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3986 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3987 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3988 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3989 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3992 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3993 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3994 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3995 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3996 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3997 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3998 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3999 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4000 * Preliminary RTP support.
4001 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4006 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4007 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4009 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4010 - Improvements and help in preferences
4011 - New streaming wizard
4012 - Revised Disc Open menu
4014 - Improvements of the standard pages
4015 - Support for new commands
4016 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4019 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4020 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4023 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4024 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4025 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4026 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4027 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4028 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4029 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4030 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4031 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4034 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4036 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4037 * Support for Panther.
4038 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4039 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4042 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4043 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4044 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4045 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4046 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4047 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4048 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4049 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4052 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4053 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4054 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4057 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4060 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4061 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4062 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4063 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4066 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4067 --------------------------------
4070 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4073 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4074 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4077 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4078 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4081 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4084 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4085 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4088 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4091 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4094 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4095 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4099 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4100 --------------------------------
4103 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4104 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4108 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4109 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4110 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4112 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4113 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4116 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4119 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4122 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4123 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4127 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4128 --------------------------------
4131 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4132 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4136 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4137 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4138 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4139 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4140 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4143 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4144 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4145 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4148 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4149 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4150 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4153 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4154 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4155 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4156 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4157 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4160 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4161 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4162 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4165 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4168 * Improved build system.
4169 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4170 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4171 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4172 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4175 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4176 --------------------------------
4179 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4182 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4183 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4184 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4185 * Video 4 Linux support
4186 * CD Digital Audio support
4187 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4190 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4191 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4192 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4193 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4196 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4197 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4198 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4199 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4200 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4201 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4202 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4205 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4206 * New HTTP remote control interface
4209 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4210 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4211 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4212 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4213 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4216 * New reset option for the preferences
4217 * You can set your language in the prefences
4218 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4219 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4220 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4221 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4224 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4225 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4226 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4229 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4230 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4231 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4232 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4233 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4234 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4235 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4236 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4237 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4238 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4241 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4242 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4243 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4244 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4245 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4246 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4247 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4250 * Interface localization
4251 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4252 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4253 * New full-featured Preferences window
4256 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4257 --------------------------------
4260 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4261 * support for skins at the interface level
4262 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4263 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4264 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4265 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4266 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4269 * fixed HTTP redirects
4270 * support for opening an entire directory
4271 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4272 * new video4linux access plug-in
4273 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4276 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4277 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4278 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4281 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4282 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4283 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4284 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4285 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4286 * new codec for raw I420 video
4287 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4290 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4291 (although it still misses some important features)
4292 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4295 * new HTTP output support
4296 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4297 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4300 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4303 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4306 * reorderable playlist
4307 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4308 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4309 * support for mono audio output devices
4310 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4311 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4312 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4313 * the messages window remembers more lines
4314 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4315 * http and ogg stream output options
4316 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4319 * new skinnable interface
4320 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4322 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4323 * support for FLAC audio format
4324 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4326 * network tab in the interface
4327 * "apply" handling in preferences
4330 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4331 ---------------------------------
4334 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4335 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4336 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4337 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4339 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4340 * DTS S/PDIF support
4343 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4344 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4345 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4346 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4349 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4350 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4353 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4356 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4359 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4361 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4362 * rc interface is now fully useable
4363 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4366 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4367 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4368 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4369 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4370 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4372 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4373 * support for mouse gestures
4374 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4377 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4378 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4381 * improved ID3 tag detection
4382 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4383 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4384 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4386 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4389 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4390 ---------------------------------
4393 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4394 English was set as the preferred language
4397 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4398 --------------------------------
4401 * new mouse gesture interface
4402 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4406 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4407 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4408 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4411 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4412 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4416 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4419 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4420 without the user consent
4423 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4425 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4426 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4427 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4430 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4431 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4432 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4433 * playlist enhancements
4434 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4435 * new step forward/step backward commands
4436 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4437 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4438 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4441 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4442 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4443 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4446 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4447 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4450 * native video output is working again
4451 * only commandline interface support
4452 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4455 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4456 --------------------------------
4459 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4460 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4461 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4462 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4463 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4464 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4465 and A/52 streams are supported)
4466 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4471 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4472 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4473 * VCD entry points support
4474 * VCD image file support
4477 * support for *.asf format
4478 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4479 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4480 * support for ogg encapsulation
4481 * support for raw DV format
4482 * support for *.wav format
4483 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4486 Stream discovery & playlists:
4487 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4488 * support for .m3u file format
4489 * support for .asx file format
4490 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4493 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4494 (only available with the .avi demux)
4495 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4496 * support for raw PCM data
4497 * support for Cinepak video codec
4498 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4499 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4500 * support for Xvid codec
4501 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4502 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4503 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4505 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4507 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4510 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4513 * new WxWindows interface
4514 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4515 device and the channels configuration
4516 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4517 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4518 format that VLC can play
4519 * new swedish translation
4520 * enhancements of the playlist window
4521 * new messages window to see debug info
4522 * fixed a few crashes
4525 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4526 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4527 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4528 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working