1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-efforts basis:
6 it should work, but not without limitations.
7 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
8 You _really_ should upgrade.
9 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
10 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26
11 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7 to run VLC.
14 * Support wayland surface type
15 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
16 * Support portable version of Windows build
17 * Support network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
18 and rewrite the parsing of those files
19 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
20 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
21 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
22 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3,m4a,aac,dts...)
25 * New NFS access module using libnfs
26 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
27 * New SMB access module using libdsm
28 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
29 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
30 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
31 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
32 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
33 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
34 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
35 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
36 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
37 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
38 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
39 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
40 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
41 * Support for SAT>IP server dialect for RTSP (satip://)
42 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
43 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
44 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
45 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
46 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
49 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
50 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
51 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
52 * Support for Daala video
53 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
54 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec
55 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
56 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
57 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
58 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
59 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
60 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
61 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX
62 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2
63 * Basic TTML subtitles support
64 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode
65 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows
66 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
67 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
68 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
70 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
71 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
74 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
75 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
76 * Support Daala in Ogg
77 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including fragments
78 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
79 * Support SBV subtitles
80 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
81 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
82 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
83 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
84 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
85 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
86 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
87 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
88 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
89 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
90 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
91 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
92 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
93 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
94 * Improved smooth streaming compatibility
95 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
96 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track In MP4 with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads.
97 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
100 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
101 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
102 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
103 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
106 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module. This is now the default.
107 It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3, 5.1/7.1 and float output.
108 * Added Tizen audio module.
109 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI
111 Audio filters and output:
112 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
115 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
116 * Wayland shell surface window provider
117 * Wayland shared memory video output
118 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
119 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
120 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
121 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
122 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
123 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
124 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
127 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
130 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
131 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
132 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
133 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
136 * Chromecast output module
137 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
140 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
141 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
144 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
145 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
146 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
150 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
151 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
152 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
153 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
156 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
157 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
158 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
159 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
160 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
163 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
166 * Batch convert support
169 * Support key accelerators
172 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
173 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
174 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
175 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
176 This allows to attach media events between create and start
177 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
178 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
179 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
180 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
181 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
182 identifier (if there is one available)
183 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
184 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
185 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
186 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
187 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
188 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
189 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
190 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
191 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
192 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
193 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
194 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
195 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
196 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
197 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
201 * Support for the SystemD Journal
202 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
203 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
204 * New Android module for logging
207 * remove langfromtelx
208 * remove ZPL playlist format
209 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
210 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
211 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
212 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
213 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
214 * Add a memory keystore
215 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
216 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
220 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
221 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
222 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
223 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
224 * QuartText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
225 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
226 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
227 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
228 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
229 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
230 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
233 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
234 --------------------------------
237 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
238 * Fix some VP9 decoding
240 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
241 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
242 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
243 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
248 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
249 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
250 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
251 * Revert to older ASX code
252 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
255 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
256 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
257 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
260 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
261 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
262 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
265 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
266 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
267 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
270 * Fix recent items behaviour
271 * Fix rotation filter activation
272 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
275 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
276 * Fix extensions registration during install
277 * Fix extensions dialog crash
278 * Default to no DxVA decoding
281 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
284 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
285 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
286 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
287 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
288 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
289 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
292 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
293 --------------------------------
296 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
297 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
300 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
301 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
302 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
303 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
306 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
307 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
308 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
309 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
311 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
312 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
313 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
316 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
317 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
318 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
319 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
320 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
321 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
322 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
323 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
324 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
325 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
326 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
327 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
328 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
329 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
330 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
331 * New jpeg image decoder
332 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
333 * New SVG image decoder
334 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
335 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
336 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
339 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
340 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
341 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
342 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
343 * New png image encoder using libpng
346 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
347 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
348 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
349 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
350 synchronization and tracks exclusion
351 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
352 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
353 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
354 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
355 * Support Opus in MKV
357 * Basic support for WebVTT
358 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
359 * Support HDPR TS files
360 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
361 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
362 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
363 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
364 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
365 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
366 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
367 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
368 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
369 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
370 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
371 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
374 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
375 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
376 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
377 * New Android native window provider module
378 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
379 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
380 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
383 * New Oldmovie effect filter
384 * New VHS effect filter
385 * New Freeze effect filter
386 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
387 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
388 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
391 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
392 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
393 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
394 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
395 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
396 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
399 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
400 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
402 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
405 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
406 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
407 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
408 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
409 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
410 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
411 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
412 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
413 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
415 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
416 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
417 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
420 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
421 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
424 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
425 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
428 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
429 * Add record button in Qt menus
430 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
431 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
432 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
435 * Support for OS X Yosemite
436 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
437 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
438 * Fixes for advanced preferences
439 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
440 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
441 * Option to increase playlist font size
442 * Improved crash log reporting
445 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
446 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
447 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
448 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
451 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
454 * iOS video output: use ios2
455 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
456 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
459 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
460 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
461 * Update of all translations:
462 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
463 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
464 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
465 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
466 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
467 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
468 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
471 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
472 --------------------------------
478 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
479 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
480 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
481 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
482 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
483 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
484 * Fix potential crash in zip access
485 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
486 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
489 * Update translations and greek encoding
492 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
493 --------------------------------
496 * Fix compilation on OS/2
499 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
501 Mac OS X audio output:
502 * Fix channel ordering
503 * Increase the buffersize
506 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
507 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
508 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
511 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
514 * Correctly support video-on-top
515 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
516 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
519 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
522 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
523 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
526 * Update British English
529 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
530 --------------------------------
533 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
536 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
539 * Fix DVD playback regression
540 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
541 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
544 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
545 --------------------------------
548 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
549 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
552 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
553 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
554 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
557 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
558 by updating codec libraries
559 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
560 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
561 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
564 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
565 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
566 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
567 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
570 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
571 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
574 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
575 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
576 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
577 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
578 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
581 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
582 * Fix record file names
585 * Fix minimal size possible on start
586 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
587 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
588 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
589 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
592 * Fix album art display on Windows
595 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
596 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
597 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
598 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
599 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
600 and Simplified Chinese translations
601 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
604 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
605 --------------------------------
608 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
609 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
610 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
611 audio devices on OS X
612 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
613 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
616 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
617 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
620 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
621 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
624 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
627 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
628 * Improve A-B loop control
629 * Fix album art update when changing media
632 * Add a language option in the interface
633 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
634 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
635 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
636 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
637 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
638 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
639 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
642 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
645 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
646 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
647 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
648 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
651 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
652 --------------------------------
655 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
657 * Fix some subtitles track selection
660 * VP9 support in WebM
661 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
662 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
665 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
666 * Support Speex in ogg files
667 * Fix some .mov playlists support
668 * Support Alac in mkv
669 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
670 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
673 * Fix DVB options parsing
674 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
675 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
678 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
679 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
682 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
683 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
686 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
687 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
688 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
689 * Fix play after drag'n drop
690 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
693 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
694 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
697 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
698 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
701 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
702 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
703 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
704 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
705 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
706 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
707 * Improves interface resizings
710 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
711 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
712 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
713 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
714 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
718 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
719 --------------------------------
722 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
723 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
724 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
725 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
726 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
728 3rd party libraries (contrib):
729 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
732 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
733 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
734 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
735 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
736 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
739 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
740 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
744 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
745 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
746 * Support for Ulead DV audio
747 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
748 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
749 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
750 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
751 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
752 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
753 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
754 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
755 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
756 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
759 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
760 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
761 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
764 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
765 remove support for previous OS X releases
766 * Major improvements in DASH support
767 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
768 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
769 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
770 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
771 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
772 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
773 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
774 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
775 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
776 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
777 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
780 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
781 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
782 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
783 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
784 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
785 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
786 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
787 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
788 * Support for more MJPEG streams
789 * Add support for liveleak streams
790 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
791 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
792 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
795 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
796 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
797 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
798 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
799 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
800 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
801 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
802 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
803 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
804 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
805 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
808 * New remapping channel filter
809 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
810 * New VSXu visualization plugin
811 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
812 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
813 * New gain audio filter
816 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
817 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
818 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
819 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
820 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
821 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
822 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
823 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
824 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
827 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
828 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
829 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
830 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
831 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
832 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
833 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
836 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
837 * Options support for AVIO output module
838 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
839 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
840 * Livehttp stream encryption support
841 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
842 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
845 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
848 * configurable password for the HTTP server
849 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
850 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
851 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
852 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
853 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
854 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
855 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
859 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
862 * Add support for multiple video outputs
863 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
865 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
866 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
867 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
868 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
869 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
870 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
871 VLC's internal volume level
872 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
874 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
875 selection and to manage the list of presets
876 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
877 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
878 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
879 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
880 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
881 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
882 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
883 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
884 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
885 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
887 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
888 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
889 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
890 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
891 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
892 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
893 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
894 3rd party applications
895 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
896 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
897 (system-wide settings)
898 * Add support for the Video Title option
899 * Add support for the Boss Key
900 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
901 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
904 * Partial support for Qt5.0
905 * Menus modifications and improvements
906 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
907 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
908 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
909 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
910 * EPG display fixes and improvements
911 * Add SD pixmap sources
912 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
913 * Display playlist total duration
914 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
915 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
916 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
921 * Extend sliders, offsets options
922 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
923 * Numerous fixes and improvements
924 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
927 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
928 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
929 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
930 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
931 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
932 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
933 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
934 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
935 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
936 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
939 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
940 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
941 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
942 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
943 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
944 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
946 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
947 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
948 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
949 * Broken crop video filter
951 * OSD parser and menu
952 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
953 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
954 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
955 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
959 * Update of all translations
962 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
963 --------------------------------
966 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
967 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
970 * Fix modplug security issues
973 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
974 --------------------------------
978 * Fix crash in QTsound
979 * Fix screen mouse file location
980 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
983 * Fix use after free in sgimb
984 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
987 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
990 * Fix interface crashes
991 * Fix autostart playback option
992 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
995 * update Welsh translation
996 * New Kannada translation
999 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1000 --------------------------------
1003 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1004 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1008 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1011 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1014 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1017 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1020 * Minor improvements
1021 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1024 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1027 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1028 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1029 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1032 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1033 --------------------------------
1036 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1039 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1042 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1043 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1044 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1045 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1046 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1047 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1050 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1051 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1052 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1053 * 3rd party codecs updates
1056 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1057 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1058 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1059 in the advanced preferences panel
1060 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1061 * Fix crash within the video output code
1062 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1063 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1064 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1065 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1066 lua extensions, ...)
1067 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1070 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1073 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1074 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1077 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1080 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1081 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1082 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1083 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1084 Dutch, Danish, translations
1085 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1088 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1089 --------------------------------
1092 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1095 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1096 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1097 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1100 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1101 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1102 * Fix koreus lua parser
1103 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1104 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1105 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1106 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1109 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1110 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1113 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1116 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1117 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1118 * Fix Time counter UI look
1119 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1122 * Fix https streaming
1125 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1126 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1127 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1130 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1131 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1132 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1133 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1134 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1137 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1138 --------------------------------
1141 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1142 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1143 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1144 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1145 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1146 during playback on Mac OS X
1149 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1150 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1151 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1154 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1155 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1156 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1157 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1158 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1161 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1162 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1163 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1164 * Support Youtube live streams
1167 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1170 * Fix media info dialog update
1171 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1172 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1173 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1174 * Fix album art display at start
1177 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1178 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1179 * Fix menus display and behavior
1180 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1181 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1182 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1183 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1184 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1185 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1186 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1189 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1190 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1191 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1192 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1193 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1194 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1195 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1196 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1197 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1200 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1201 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1202 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1203 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1204 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1207 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1208 --------------------------------
1211 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1214 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1215 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1218 * Add GateKeeper support
1219 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1220 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1221 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1224 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1227 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1228 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1229 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1230 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1231 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1234 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1235 --------------------------------
1238 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1239 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1240 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1241 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1242 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1243 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1244 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1245 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1246 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1247 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1248 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1252 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1253 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1254 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1255 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1256 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1257 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1258 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1259 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1260 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1261 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1262 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1263 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1266 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1267 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1269 * Fix MP3 free format support
1272 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1273 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1274 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1275 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1276 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1279 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1280 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1282 Audio filters and output:
1283 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1284 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1285 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1286 * Do not apply volume in file output
1287 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1288 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1291 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1292 the persistant media library
1293 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1294 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1295 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1296 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1297 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1298 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1299 press on the Play/Pause button
1300 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1301 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1302 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1303 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1304 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1305 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1306 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1307 Synchronization panel
1308 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1309 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1310 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1311 * Fix crashes on exit
1312 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1314 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1315 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1316 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1317 automatically reset on the first launch.
1318 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1319 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1320 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1323 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1324 * Fixes for icecast SD
1327 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1328 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1329 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1330 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1331 * Fix tags and file names display
1332 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1335 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1336 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1339 * Fix display of some buttons
1340 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1341 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1344 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1345 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1346 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1349 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1350 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1351 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1352 Thai translations update
1353 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1356 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1357 --------------------------------
1360 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1361 * fix the samba module compilation
1362 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1363 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1364 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1365 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1368 * Support for MXPEG files
1369 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1370 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1373 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1374 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1375 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1378 * Fix ogm header creation
1381 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1382 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1385 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1386 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1387 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1388 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1391 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1394 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1395 * allow to hide the sidebar
1396 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1397 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1398 * noticebly faster launch time
1399 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1400 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1401 * improve track synchronization panel
1402 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1403 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1406 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1407 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1408 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1409 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1412 * fix for menus display
1413 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1414 * documentation update
1417 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1418 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1421 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1422 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1423 * Update Jamendo selections
1427 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1428 * fix a crash on VLM close
1431 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1432 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1433 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1434 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1437 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1440 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1441 ---------------------------------
1444 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1445 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1446 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1447 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1448 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1449 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1450 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1451 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1452 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1453 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1454 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1455 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1456 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1457 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1458 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1459 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1460 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1461 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1462 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1463 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1464 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1465 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1466 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1467 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1468 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1469 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1471 Important changes for packagers:
1472 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1473 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1474 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1475 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1476 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1477 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1478 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1479 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1480 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1481 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1484 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1485 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1486 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1487 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1488 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1489 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1490 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1493 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1494 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1495 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1496 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1497 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1498 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1499 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1500 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1501 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1502 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1503 * PulseAudio audio input support
1504 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1505 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1506 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1507 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1508 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1509 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1510 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1511 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1514 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1515 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1516 are notably concerned.
1517 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1518 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1519 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1520 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1521 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1522 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1523 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1524 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1525 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1526 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1527 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1528 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1529 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1530 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1531 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1534 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1535 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1536 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1537 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1538 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1539 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1540 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1541 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1542 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1543 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1544 * Improved support of tracker files
1545 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1548 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1549 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1550 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1551 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1552 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1553 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1554 and important cleanups and optimisations
1555 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1556 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1557 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1558 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1559 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1560 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1561 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1562 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1563 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1564 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1565 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1566 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1567 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1568 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1569 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1570 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1571 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1572 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1573 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1574 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1575 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1578 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1579 * New video output for iOS platform
1580 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1581 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1582 * Various vmem improvements
1583 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1584 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1585 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1586 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1587 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1588 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1590 Audio Output and Filters:
1591 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1592 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1593 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1594 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1595 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1596 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1597 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1598 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1599 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1600 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1603 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1604 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1605 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1606 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1607 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1608 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1609 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1610 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1611 * New anti-flickering filter
1612 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1613 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1614 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1615 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1616 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1617 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1618 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1621 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1622 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1623 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1624 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1625 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1626 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1627 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1628 * Major rework of VoD support
1629 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1630 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1631 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1632 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1633 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1634 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1635 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1636 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1637 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1638 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1641 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1642 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1645 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1646 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1647 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1648 list of available audio and video filters
1649 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1650 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1651 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1654 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1655 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1656 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1657 * id3tag: use taglib
1658 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1659 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1660 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1661 * removal of the noise filter
1662 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1663 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1664 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1665 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1668 * Update of translations for most languages.
1669 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1672 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1673 ----------------------------------
1676 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1677 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1680 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1681 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1684 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1685 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1686 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1689 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1692 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1693 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1696 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1699 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1700 ----------------------------------
1703 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1704 including support for OS X Lion
1705 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1706 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1709 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1712 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1713 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1714 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1717 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1720 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1721 ----------------------------------
1724 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1725 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1728 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1729 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1730 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1731 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1732 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1734 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1735 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1736 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1738 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1739 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1742 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1745 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1748 * Fix quitting on Linux
1749 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1753 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1756 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1759 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1760 ---------------------------------
1762 Windows and Mac OS X:
1763 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1766 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1767 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1770 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1773 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1776 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1778 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1779 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1781 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1782 * RTP output and XML export
1783 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1787 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1788 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1789 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1790 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1793 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1794 --------------------------------
1796 Windows and Mac OS X:
1797 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1800 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1803 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1804 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1805 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1806 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1807 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1808 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1811 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1812 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1816 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1817 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1818 * New Luganda Translation
1821 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1822 --------------------------------
1825 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1828 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1829 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1830 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1831 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1834 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1836 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1837 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1838 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1839 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1840 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1841 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1842 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1843 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1845 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1846 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1847 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1848 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1849 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1850 * Configure and build system improvements
1851 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1854 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1855 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1856 * New icelandic translation
1859 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1860 --------------------------------
1863 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1864 #234484 and #260719.
1867 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1868 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1869 and stability reasons
1872 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1876 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1879 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1880 ----------------------------------
1883 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1886 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1887 ---------------------------------
1890 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1891 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1892 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1893 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1896 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1899 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1900 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1901 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1902 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1905 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1906 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1907 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1909 Subtitles and renderer:
1910 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1911 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1912 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1913 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1914 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1917 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1918 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1919 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1920 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1923 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1924 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1926 Miscellaneous fixes:
1927 * KDE device solid actions
1929 * Transcode integer overflow
1930 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1931 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1934 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1935 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1936 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1939 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1940 ----------------------------------
1943 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1947 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1950 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1953 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1954 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1955 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1956 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1959 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1963 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1966 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1969 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1970 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1972 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1976 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1977 * Miscellaneous fixes
1980 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1981 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1982 French and Ukrainian
1983 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1984 * New Asturian translation
1987 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1988 ----------------------------------
1991 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1993 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1996 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1999 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2000 * Various fixes for Windows
2003 * New Armenian translation
2004 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2005 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2008 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2009 --------------------------------
2012 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2013 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2014 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2017 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2018 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2021 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2022 --------------------------------
2024 Access and demuxers:
2025 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2026 * fix for podcasts parsing
2027 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2030 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2031 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2034 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2035 * fix m3u playlists exports
2038 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2041 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2044 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2047 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2050 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2053 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2054 --------------------------------
2057 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2058 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2061 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2062 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2065 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2066 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2067 * fix console output encoding
2069 Interface and extensions:
2070 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2071 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2074 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2075 --------------------------------
2078 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2079 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2080 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2081 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2082 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2083 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2084 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2085 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2086 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2087 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2088 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2089 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2090 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2091 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2092 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2093 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2097 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2098 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2099 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2100 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2101 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2104 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2107 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2108 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2109 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2113 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2116 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2117 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2118 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2121 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2122 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2123 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2124 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2127 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2128 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2131 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2132 --------------------------------
2134 Important changes for users:
2135 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2136 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2138 Important changes for packagers:
2139 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2140 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2141 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2142 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2143 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2145 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2147 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2148 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2149 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2150 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2151 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2154 * Support for the sftp protocol
2155 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2156 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2157 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2158 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2159 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2162 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2163 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2164 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2166 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2167 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2168 * Invmem module improvements
2169 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2170 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2171 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2172 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2173 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2174 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2175 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2176 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2177 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2178 * Support for VP8 codec
2179 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2182 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2183 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2184 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2185 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2186 * Various EGP improvements
2187 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2188 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2191 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2192 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2193 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2194 * Podcast images are now displayed
2197 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2198 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2199 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2200 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2201 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2202 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2203 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2204 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2205 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2206 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2207 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2210 * New content extensions lua framework
2213 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2214 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2215 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2216 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2217 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2218 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2219 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2222 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2223 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2224 * Service discovery based on libudev
2225 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2228 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2229 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2230 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2231 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2232 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2233 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2234 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2237 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2238 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2239 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2242 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2244 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2245 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2248 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2251 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2252 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2253 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2254 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2255 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2256 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2257 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2260 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2261 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2264 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2265 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2266 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2270 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2271 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2272 * Improved Solaris port
2275 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2276 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2279 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2280 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2281 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2282 * transrate: broken since too long
2283 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2284 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2285 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2286 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2287 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2288 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2289 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2290 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2291 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2292 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2293 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2294 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2295 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2296 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2299 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2300 --------------------------------
2303 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2305 Decoders/Packetizers:
2306 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2309 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2310 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2311 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2312 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2313 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2316 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2317 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2320 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2321 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2324 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2325 and Walloon translations updated
2326 * Sinhala translation started
2329 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2330 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2333 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2334 --------------------------------
2337 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2338 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2341 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2344 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2345 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2348 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2349 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2350 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2351 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2354 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2355 --------------------------------
2358 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2359 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2362 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2363 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2366 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2367 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2370 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2373 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2374 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2377 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2378 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2381 * New Walloon translation
2382 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2385 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2386 --------------------------------
2389 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2390 regressions in most popular drivers
2391 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2394 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2395 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2396 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2399 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2400 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2403 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2404 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2405 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2406 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2407 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2410 * New udev module for linux
2413 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2416 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2419 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2420 --------------------------------
2423 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2424 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2425 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2428 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2429 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2432 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2433 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2436 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2439 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2440 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2441 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2442 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2445 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2446 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2447 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2448 - no support for Goom and SDL
2449 - limited text rendering support
2450 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2453 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2454 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2455 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2456 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2457 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2458 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2459 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2460 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2461 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2465 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2468 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2471 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2472 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2473 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2474 Arabic and French translation updates
2477 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2478 --------------------------------
2481 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2482 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2483 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2484 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2485 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2486 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2489 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2490 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2491 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2494 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2495 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2496 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2499 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2502 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2503 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2506 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2507 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2508 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2509 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2510 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2511 * Fix various crashes
2514 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2516 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2520 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2521 ---------------------------------
2525 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2526 See 'Access:' for more info.
2527 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2530 * Instantaneous pausing
2531 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2532 * Finer speed control
2533 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2534 * Timeshift for most medias
2535 * RTSP trickplay support
2536 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2539 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2540 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2541 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2542 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2543 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2544 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2545 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2546 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2547 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2548 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2551 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2552 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2553 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2554 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2555 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2556 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2557 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2560 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2561 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2564 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2565 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2566 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2567 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2568 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2569 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2570 * DVB scanning on linux
2571 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2572 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2573 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2574 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2575 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2576 * MTP device access on Unix
2577 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2578 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2581 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2582 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2583 Windows and Mac OS X.
2586 * Export the playlist in HTML
2587 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2588 * Better metadata handling and reading
2590 Linux/Windows interface:
2591 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2592 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2593 * Recently played items list
2594 * Interface toolbar customizations
2595 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2596 - More menus actions
2597 - Finer speed slider
2598 - Improvements on many dialogs
2599 - New dialog for plugins listing
2600 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2601 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2602 * Better integration in GTK environments
2605 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2606 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2607 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2608 * Additional usability improvements
2611 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2612 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2613 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2614 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2615 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2618 * New Maemo port with:
2619 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2620 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2623 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2626 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2627 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2628 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2629 * Support for latest iSight models
2632 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2633 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2636 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2637 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2638 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2639 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2640 The old image video output has been removed.
2641 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2642 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2645 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2653 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2654 --------------------------------------
2660 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2661 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2662 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2663 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2664 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2665 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2666 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2668 Various fixes to the following modules:
2671 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2672 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2673 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2675 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2680 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2681 ---------------------------------
2684 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2685 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2688 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2689 ---------------------------------
2692 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2695 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2698 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2699 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2700 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2701 main controller window.
2702 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2705 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2710 * Updates of other localizations
2713 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2714 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2715 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2716 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2717 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2720 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2721 ---------------------------------
2724 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2726 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2729 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2730 --------------------------------
2735 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2736 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2739 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2740 --------------------------------
2742 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2743 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2746 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2749 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2750 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2753 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2754 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2757 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2758 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2759 * Various fixed in playlist
2762 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2765 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2768 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2769 ------------------------------------
2771 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2772 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2775 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2776 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2777 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2780 * Stability fix for the video output.
2783 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2784 --------------------------------
2787 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2788 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2789 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2790 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2791 * Fixed update system bugs
2792 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2795 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2796 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2797 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2798 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2799 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2800 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2801 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2802 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2803 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2804 modern Mac OS X versions
2807 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2808 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2810 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2811 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2814 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2815 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2816 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2817 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2818 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2819 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2822 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2823 --------------------------------
2825 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2826 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2827 * Multiple bugfixes.
2830 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2831 --------------------------------
2833 * Multiple bug fixes.
2836 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2837 ---------------------------------
2841 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2842 recent to work correctly
2843 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2844 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2845 edit the ".hosts" file.
2846 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2847 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2848 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2849 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2850 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2851 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2852 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2853 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2854 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2855 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2856 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2857 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2858 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2859 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2860 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2861 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2862 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2863 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2864 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2865 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2866 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2867 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2868 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2869 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2870 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2871 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2872 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2873 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2874 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2875 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2876 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2877 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2878 and postproc modules.
2879 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2880 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2881 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2882 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2884 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2885 filter. For example:
2886 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2887 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2889 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2890 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2896 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2898 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2899 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2902 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2903 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2905 * Shoutcast TV listings
2906 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2908 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2909 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2911 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2914 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2915 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2916 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2917 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2918 * JACK audio input support
2919 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2920 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2921 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2922 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2923 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2924 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2925 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2926 (available as a separate download).
2927 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2928 * RTMP input support
2929 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2930 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2931 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2933 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2934 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2937 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2938 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2939 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2940 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2942 * APEv1/2 tags support
2943 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2944 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2946 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2947 * TiVo Series 2 support
2948 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2953 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2954 * Flash Screen Video support
2955 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2956 * DosBox Capture support
2957 * Karl Morton's Video support
2958 * limited atrac3 support
2960 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2961 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2962 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2963 * H.264 PAFF support
2964 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2965 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2966 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2967 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2968 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2971 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2972 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2973 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2974 * AQTitle subtitles support
2975 * MKV USF subtitles support
2976 * HTML-based subtitles support
2977 * MPSub subtitles support
2978 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2979 * MPL2 subtitles support
2980 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2981 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2982 * Realtext subtitle support
2983 * DKS subtitle support
2984 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2985 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2988 * Flash Screen Video support
2989 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2991 Video outputs and filters:
2992 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2993 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2994 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2995 * New puzzle video output filter
2996 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2997 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2999 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3000 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3001 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3002 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3003 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3004 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3005 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3006 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3007 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3008 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3009 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3010 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3011 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3012 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3014 Audio outputs and filters:
3015 * Replay gain support
3016 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3017 new scaletempo audio filter)
3018 * New spatializer audio filter
3019 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3022 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3023 * New RTP payload formats:
3024 * Speex voice audio codec
3025 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3026 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3027 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3028 * DCCP transport for RTP
3029 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3034 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3035 end-user suitable way.
3036 * Improved user interaction
3037 * Improved mouse gestures
3038 * Vastly improved Update checker
3039 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3041 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3042 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3044 * Improved video output features
3045 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3046 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3047 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3048 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3049 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3051 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3052 if libncursesw is available.
3053 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3054 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3055 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3057 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3058 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3059 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3060 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3061 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3062 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3063 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3064 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3067 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3068 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3069 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3072 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3073 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3074 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3075 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3076 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3077 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3080 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3081 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3091 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3092 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3093 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3096 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3097 ----------------------------------
3100 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3103 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3104 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3105 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3106 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3107 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3108 * Updated Polish translation
3111 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3112 ----------------------------------
3115 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3116 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3117 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3120 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3121 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3122 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3123 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3124 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3125 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3126 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3127 to an unexpected application termination
3128 * New Serbian translation
3129 * Updated Romanian translation
3132 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3133 ----------------------------------
3136 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3137 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3138 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3139 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3140 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3141 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3142 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3143 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3146 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3147 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3148 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3149 * Fixed AAC resampling
3150 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3151 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3154 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3155 ----------------------------------
3158 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3159 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3160 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3161 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3162 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3165 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3166 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3167 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3168 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3169 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3172 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3173 ----------------------------------
3176 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3177 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3180 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3181 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3182 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3183 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3185 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3189 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3192 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3195 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3198 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3201 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3202 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3203 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3204 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3205 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3207 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3208 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3209 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3210 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3213 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3216 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3217 ----------------------------------
3220 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3221 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3222 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3224 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3225 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3227 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3228 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3231 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3233 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3234 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3235 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3236 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3237 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3238 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3239 two different movies
3240 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3241 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3242 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3245 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3248 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3249 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3250 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3251 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3254 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3255 ----------------------------------
3257 Various bugfixes, notably:
3258 * Windows Vista compatibility
3259 * Cropping in Direct3D
3260 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3261 * RSS filter string overflow
3263 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3265 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3266 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3269 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3270 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3273 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3276 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3279 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3282 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3283 ----------------------------------
3285 Various bugfixes, notably:
3286 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3287 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3288 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3289 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3290 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3291 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3294 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3295 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3298 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3300 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3301 * Diverse usability improvements
3302 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3303 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3304 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3307 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3308 ---------------------------------
3310 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3311 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3314 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3317 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3318 --------------------------------
3321 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3324 * Support for RTSP authentication
3325 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3326 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3327 * ATSC support for DVB input
3328 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3329 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3330 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3333 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3334 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3335 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3336 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3337 * Matroska WavPack support
3338 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3339 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3340 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3343 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3344 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3345 * Improved libcaca support
3349 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3350 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3352 * Systray support in skins
3354 * Support for Apple Remote control
3355 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3356 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3357 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3358 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3360 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3363 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3364 Windows 9x/ME users:
3365 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3366 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3367 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3368 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3369 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3371 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3372 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3381 * Updates to the libvlc API
3382 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3385 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3386 --------------------------------
3389 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3390 * Support for downloading updates
3394 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3395 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3396 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3397 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3399 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3400 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3401 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3404 * Cook (Real audio) support
3406 Playlist / Services discovery:
3407 * XSPF playlist support
3409 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3412 * New JACK audio output
3415 * New video filters:
3416 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3417 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3418 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3419 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3420 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3421 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3424 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3427 * System to inform the user and request information
3428 - HTTP authentication
3432 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3433 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3434 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3437 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3438 - Improved playlist handling
3439 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3441 - Embedded Video output
3442 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3443 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3444 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3445 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3446 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3448 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3449 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3452 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3455 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3456 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3457 * Growl "Now playing" support
3460 * Ability to log to syslog
3461 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3464 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3466 * A bit more automatic testing
3469 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3470 ---------------------------------
3473 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3474 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3477 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3478 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3481 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3484 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3485 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3491 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3494 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3495 --------------------------------
3498 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3502 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3503 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3504 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3507 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3508 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3509 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3510 * GnomeVFS input module
3511 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3512 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3515 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3516 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3517 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3520 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3521 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3527 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3528 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3531 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3532 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3533 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3536 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3538 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3539 - New extended controls panel
3540 - New bookmarks window
3541 - Fixed playlist sorting
3542 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3544 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3545 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3546 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3547 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3551 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3552 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3554 - Include macro to include other files
3558 * Should now work outside IE as well
3561 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3564 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3565 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3568 The following languages were added:
3572 * Simplified Chinese
3573 The following languages were re-added:
3577 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3578 --------------------------------
3581 * Rewrite of the playlist
3583 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3584 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3585 * Preferences improvements:
3586 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3587 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3589 * Core image manipulation support
3590 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3591 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3592 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3593 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3594 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3595 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3596 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3597 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3598 * Access filter architecture
3599 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3600 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3604 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3605 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3606 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3607 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3608 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3609 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3610 * Massive Matroska improvements
3611 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3613 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3614 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3615 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3616 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3617 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3619 Decoders / Encoders:
3620 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3621 * PNG decoder/encoder
3622 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3623 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3626 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3629 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3630 * Brand new SAP module
3631 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3632 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3633 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3634 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3635 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3636 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3640 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3643 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3644 * Image file video output (png)
3645 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3646 * Improvements to wall video filter
3647 * Support for font color and opacity
3653 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3654 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3655 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3659 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3660 - Improved preferences
3661 - Improvements to the wizard
3662 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3664 - Redesigned playlist
3665 - Improved preferences
3667 - Support for multiple actions
3670 - Support for the new playlist system
3672 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3675 * Screensaver disabling fix
3676 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3677 * Support for no-decoration windows
3680 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3681 * The OpenGL video output is back
3682 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3683 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3684 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3685 is not yet available in the new module
3686 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3689 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3698 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3701 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3704 The following languages were added:
3710 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3711 --------------------------------
3714 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3715 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3718 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3719 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3720 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3723 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3726 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3729 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3732 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3733 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3734 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3738 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3740 * Support of playlist group announcement
3743 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3744 --------------------------------
3747 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3748 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3749 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3750 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3751 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3752 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3755 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3756 (Stream your desktop)
3757 * Improved DVD support:
3758 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3759 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3760 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3761 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3762 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3763 (selection of titles/chapters).
3766 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3767 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3768 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3769 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3770 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3771 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3772 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3773 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3774 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3775 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3778 * G.726 audio support
3779 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3780 * MPEG-4 text support
3781 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3782 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3783 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3787 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3788 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3789 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3790 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3791 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3792 * DVB subtitles encoder
3793 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3794 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3796 * Text track muxing for mp4
3797 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3798 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3799 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3800 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3801 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3802 * Improved ASF muxer
3804 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3805 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3806 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3809 * New audio equalizer filter
3810 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3811 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3812 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3813 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3816 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3817 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3818 with support for effects.
3819 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3820 - New filters can be streamed.
3821 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3822 - Centralized scaling and blending
3824 - "time", to display current time
3825 - "marq", to display a marquee
3828 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3829 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3830 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3831 * A few skins2 improvements
3832 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3833 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3834 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3835 * Improved CORBA control module
3838 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3839 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3840 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3843 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3844 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3845 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3848 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3849 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3850 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3851 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3852 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3855 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3858 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3859 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3862 * Server/client network synchronization module
3863 * VBrick streams fully supported
3864 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3868 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3869 --------------------------------
3872 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3873 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3874 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3875 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3878 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3879 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3880 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3881 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3882 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3883 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3884 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3887 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3888 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3889 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3890 * Improved directory access module.
3891 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3892 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3893 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3894 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3895 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3898 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3899 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3900 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3903 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3904 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3905 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3908 * Improved session announcement system.
3909 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3910 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3911 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3912 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3913 * Improved transrater.
3914 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3915 * New configuration system.
3916 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3919 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3920 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3921 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3922 * Supports scheduling.
3923 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3924 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3927 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3928 - Ability to embed video output.
3929 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3930 - Lots of improvements.
3931 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3932 - New design and set of icons.
3933 - Ability to embed video output.
3934 - Support for hotkeys.
3935 - Support for bookmarks.
3937 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3938 - Better hotkeys handling.
3941 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3942 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3943 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3944 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3947 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3948 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3949 * Improved Windows installer.
3955 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3956 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3959 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3960 ---------------------------------
3963 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3964 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3967 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3968 --------------------------------
3971 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3972 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3975 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3976 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3977 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3978 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3981 * Internal improvments
3982 * Improved import/export
3985 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3987 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3988 small and strange formats.
3990 * New MOD audio demux.
3991 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3992 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3993 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3994 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3997 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3998 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3999 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4005 * New opengl video output plugin.
4008 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4009 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4012 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4013 --------------------------------
4016 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4017 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4018 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4019 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4020 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4021 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4022 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4023 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4026 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4031 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4032 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4033 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4034 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4035 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4036 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4037 * Better Icecast support.
4038 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4039 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4042 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4043 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4044 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4045 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4046 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4047 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4048 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4051 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4052 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4053 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4054 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4055 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4056 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4057 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4058 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4059 * Preliminary RTP support.
4060 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4065 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4066 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4068 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4069 - Improvements and help in preferences
4070 - New streaming wizard
4071 - Revised Disc Open menu
4073 - Improvements of the standard pages
4074 - Support for new commands
4075 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4078 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4079 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4082 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4083 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4084 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4085 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4086 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4087 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4088 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4089 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4090 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4093 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4095 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4096 * Support for Panther.
4097 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4098 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4101 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4102 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4103 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4104 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4105 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4106 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4107 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4108 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4111 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4112 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4113 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4116 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4119 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4120 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4121 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4122 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4125 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4126 --------------------------------
4129 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4132 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4133 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4136 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4137 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4140 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4143 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4144 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4147 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4150 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4153 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4154 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4158 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4159 --------------------------------
4162 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4163 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4167 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4168 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4169 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4171 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4172 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4175 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4178 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4181 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4182 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4186 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4187 --------------------------------
4190 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4191 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4195 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4196 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4197 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4198 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4199 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4202 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4203 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4204 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4207 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4208 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4209 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4212 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4213 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4214 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4215 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4216 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4219 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4220 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4221 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4224 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4227 * Improved build system.
4228 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4229 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4230 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4231 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4234 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4235 --------------------------------
4238 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4241 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4242 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4243 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4244 * Video 4 Linux support
4245 * CD Digital Audio support
4246 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4249 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4250 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4251 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4252 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4255 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4256 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4257 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4258 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4259 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4260 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4261 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4264 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4265 * New HTTP remote control interface
4268 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4269 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4270 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4271 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4272 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4275 * New reset option for the preferences
4276 * You can set your language in the prefences
4277 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4278 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4279 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4280 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4283 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4284 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4285 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4288 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4289 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4290 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4291 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4292 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4293 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4294 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4295 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4296 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4297 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4300 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4301 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4302 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4303 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4304 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4305 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4306 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4309 * Interface localization
4310 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4311 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4312 * New full-featured Preferences window
4315 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4316 --------------------------------
4319 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4320 * support for skins at the interface level
4321 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4322 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4323 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4324 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4325 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4328 * fixed HTTP redirects
4329 * support for opening an entire directory
4330 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4331 * new video4linux access plug-in
4332 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4335 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4336 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4337 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4340 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4341 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4342 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4343 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4344 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4345 * new codec for raw I420 video
4346 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4349 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4350 (although it still misses some important features)
4351 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4354 * new HTTP output support
4355 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4356 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4359 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4362 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4365 * reorderable playlist
4366 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4367 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4368 * support for mono audio output devices
4369 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4370 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4371 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4372 * the messages window remembers more lines
4373 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4374 * http and ogg stream output options
4375 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4378 * new skinnable interface
4379 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4381 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4382 * support for FLAC audio format
4383 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4385 * network tab in the interface
4386 * "apply" handling in preferences
4389 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4390 ---------------------------------
4393 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4394 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4395 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4396 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4398 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4399 * DTS S/PDIF support
4402 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4403 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4404 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4405 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4408 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4409 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4412 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4415 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4418 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4420 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4421 * rc interface is now fully useable
4422 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4425 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4426 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4427 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4428 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4429 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4431 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4432 * support for mouse gestures
4433 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4436 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4437 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4440 * improved ID3 tag detection
4441 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4442 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4443 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4445 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4448 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4449 ---------------------------------
4452 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4453 English was set as the preferred language
4456 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4457 --------------------------------
4460 * new mouse gesture interface
4461 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4465 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4466 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4467 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4470 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4471 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4475 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4478 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4479 without the user consent
4482 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4484 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4485 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4486 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4489 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4490 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4491 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4492 * playlist enhancements
4493 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4494 * new step forward/step backward commands
4495 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4496 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4497 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4500 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4501 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4502 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4505 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4506 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4509 * native video output is working again
4510 * only commandline interface support
4511 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4514 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4515 --------------------------------
4518 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4519 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4520 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4521 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4522 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4523 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4524 and A/52 streams are supported)
4525 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4530 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4531 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4532 * VCD entry points support
4533 * VCD image file support
4536 * support for *.asf format
4537 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4538 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4539 * support for ogg encapsulation
4540 * support for raw DV format
4541 * support for *.wav format
4542 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4545 Stream discovery & playlists:
4546 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4547 * support for .m3u file format
4548 * support for .asx file format
4549 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4552 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4553 (only available with the .avi demux)
4554 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4555 * support for raw PCM data
4556 * support for Cinepak video codec
4557 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4558 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4559 * support for Xvid codec
4560 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4561 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4562 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4564 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4566 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4569 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4572 * new WxWindows interface
4573 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4574 device and the channels configuration
4575 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4576 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4577 format that VLC can play
4578 * new swedish translation
4579 * enhancements of the playlist window
4580 * new messages window to see debug info
4581 * fixed a few crashes
4584 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4585 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4586 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4587 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working