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 network browsing for distant file system (SMB, FTP, SFTP, ...)
15 and rewrite the parsing of those files
16 * Add a keystore API: fetch and store password for common protocols (HTTP,
17 SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
18 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...), similar to subs
19 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD
20 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
21 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
22 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
23 * Support portable version of Windows build
24 * Support wayland surface type
25 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
26 * Refactor preparsing input
27 * EPG reworked: table and single event updates, now using network time
28 * Refactored and fixed subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
29 es category single only or multiple es behavior
32 * New NFS access module using libnfs
33 * New SMB access module using libdsm
34 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
35 MPEG2TS and ISOFF profiles
36 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
37 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
38 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
39 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
40 * Support HLSv4-7, including TS and raw muxing and ID3 tags
41 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
42 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
43 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
44 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
45 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
46 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
47 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
48 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
49 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
50 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
51 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
52 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
53 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
54 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
55 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
56 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
57 * Improvements on DVB scanning
58 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
61 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
62 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
63 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
64 * Support for experimental Daala video
65 * Support for experimental AV1 video
66 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
67 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
68 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
69 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
70 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
71 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
72 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
73 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
74 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
75 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
76 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
77 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
78 * Fixed uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
79 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
80 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
81 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
82 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
83 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
84 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV depending on device
86 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
87 * HEVC packetization is now correct
88 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
89 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
90 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
91 * can now decode up to 8 channels
92 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
93 * Support VPX high bit depth support
94 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
95 * BluRay text subtitles are now decoded
98 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
99 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
100 * Support Daala in Ogg
101 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
102 * Support for fragmented MP4
103 * Support EIA-608 subtitles in MP4/mov
104 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
105 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
106 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
107 * Support for XiphQt(MP4) vorbis and Flac
108 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10 in MP4
109 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
110 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
111 * Fixed program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
112 * Fixed TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
113 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
114 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
115 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
116 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
117 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
118 * Support WMV extended content metadata
119 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
120 * Support SBV subtitles
121 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
122 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
123 * Support raw h265/hevc files
124 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
125 * Rewrite MKV seeking
126 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMF/MP4 and DASH
127 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
128 * Support for isofLaC
129 * Improved fLaC seeking
130 * Replaced --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
131 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
134 * Added ADF stream filter
135 * Added ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
136 * Added stream prebuffering plugin
137 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
138 * Removed HTTP Live streaming stream filter
139 * Added zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
142 * Added a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
143 * Added a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
146 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
147 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
148 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
149 * Added Tizen audio module
150 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
151 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
154 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
155 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
156 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
159 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
160 * Wayland shell surface window provider
161 * Wayland shared memory video output
162 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
163 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
164 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
165 * Renamed the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
166 * Added Direct3D11 video mode supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
167 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
168 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
169 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
170 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
171 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
172 * Direct rendering with VA-API via EGL/OpenGL
175 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
176 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
179 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
180 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
181 * Added 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
182 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
183 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
186 * Chromecast output module
187 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
190 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
191 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
194 * Added fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
195 * Added support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
196 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
200 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
201 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
202 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
203 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
206 * Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
207 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
208 * new AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
209 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
210 * New configure flag to disable automatic updates
211 * Expanded AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
212 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
213 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
216 * Dropped support for iOS 6.x
219 * Batch convert support
220 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
223 * Support key accelerators
226 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
227 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
228 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
229 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
230 This allows to attach media events between create and start
231 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
232 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
233 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
234 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
235 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
236 identifier (if there is one available)
237 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
238 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
239 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
240 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
241 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
242 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
243 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
244 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
245 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_evas_object to draw on an EFL/Evas Object
246 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
247 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
248 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
249 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
250 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
251 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
253 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
254 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
255 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
256 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
259 * Support for the SystemD Journal
260 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
261 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
262 * New Android module for logging
265 * remove langfromtelx
266 * remove ZPL playlist format
267 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
268 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
269 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
270 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
271 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
272 * Add a memory keystore
273 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
274 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
278 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
279 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
280 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
281 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
282 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
283 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
284 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
285 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
286 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
287 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
288 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
289 * BD access module (use libbluray)
290 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
291 * EyeTV access module
292 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
293 * VDA decoder: use VT
294 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
296 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
297 --------------------------------
299 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
304 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
305 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder
306 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers
307 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
308 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
309 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
310 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
313 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
314 --------------------------------
317 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
318 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
319 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
320 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
321 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
322 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
326 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
327 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
328 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
329 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
330 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
331 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
332 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
335 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
336 * Fix screenshots size
339 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
340 * Fix FTP scan string injection
341 * Fix HTTP size handling
347 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
351 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
354 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
355 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
356 * Fix uninstaller path handling
357 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
360 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
361 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
365 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
366 --------------------------------
369 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
370 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
371 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
374 * Fix resizing issues
377 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
380 * Build fixes for Hurd
383 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
384 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
385 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
388 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
389 --------------------------------
392 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
393 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
397 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
398 * Fix crashes with libvpx
399 * Use libass without caching dialog
402 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
405 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
408 * Fix resume where you left off
409 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
410 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
411 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
414 * Fix crashes in media information panel
415 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
418 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
421 * Update of most translations
424 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
425 --------------------------------
428 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
429 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
430 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
431 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
432 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
435 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
436 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
437 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
438 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
439 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
440 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
441 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
444 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
445 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
446 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
447 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
448 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
449 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
452 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
453 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
454 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
455 be set manually by the user)
456 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
457 * Fix alsa default device selection
460 * Fix video control that fails to show up
461 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
462 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
463 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
464 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
467 * Support for OS X El Capitan
468 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
469 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
470 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
473 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
474 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
475 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
476 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
477 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
481 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
482 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
483 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
486 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
487 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
488 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
489 * Improve PNG encoding time
490 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
491 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
492 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
493 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
494 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
495 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
496 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
497 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
498 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
499 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
500 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
501 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
502 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
505 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
506 * Update of most translations
509 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
510 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
511 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
512 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
515 * Update of most translations
518 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
519 --------------------------------
522 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
523 * Fix some VP9 decoding
525 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
526 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
527 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
528 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
533 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
534 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
535 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
536 * Revert to older ASX code
537 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
540 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
541 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
542 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
545 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
546 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
547 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
550 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
551 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
552 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
555 * Fix recent items behaviour
556 * Fix rotation filter activation
557 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
560 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
561 * Fix extensions registration during install
562 * Fix extensions dialog crash
563 * Default to no DxVA decoding
566 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
569 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
570 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
571 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
572 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
573 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
574 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
577 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
578 --------------------------------
581 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
582 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
585 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
586 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
587 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
588 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
591 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
592 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
593 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
594 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
596 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
597 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
598 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
601 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
602 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
603 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
604 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
605 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
606 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
607 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
608 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
609 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
610 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
611 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
612 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
613 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
614 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
615 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
616 * New jpeg image decoder
617 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
618 * New SVG image decoder
619 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
620 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
621 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
624 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
625 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
626 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
627 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
628 * New png image encoder using libpng
631 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
632 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
633 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
634 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
635 synchronization and tracks exclusion
636 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
637 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
638 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
639 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
640 * Support Opus in MKV
642 * Basic support for WebVTT
643 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
644 * Support HDPR TS files
645 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
646 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
647 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
648 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
649 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
650 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
651 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
652 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
653 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
654 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
655 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
656 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
659 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
660 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
661 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
662 * New Android native window provider module
663 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
664 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
665 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
668 * New Oldmovie effect filter
669 * New VHS effect filter
670 * New Freeze effect filter
671 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
672 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
673 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
676 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
677 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
678 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
679 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
680 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
681 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
684 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
685 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
687 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
690 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
691 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
692 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
693 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
694 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
695 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
696 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
697 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
698 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
700 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
701 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
702 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
705 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
706 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
709 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
710 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
713 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
714 * Add record button in Qt menus
715 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
716 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
717 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
720 * Support for OS X Yosemite
721 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
722 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
723 * Fixes for advanced preferences
724 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
725 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
726 * Option to increase playlist font size
727 * Improved crash log reporting
730 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
731 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
732 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
733 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
736 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
739 * iOS video output: use ios2
740 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
741 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
744 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
745 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
746 * Update of all translations:
747 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
748 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
749 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
750 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
751 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
752 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
753 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
756 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
757 --------------------------------
763 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
764 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
765 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
766 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
767 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
768 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
769 * Fix potential crash in zip access
770 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
771 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
774 * Update translations and greek encoding
777 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
778 --------------------------------
781 * Fix compilation on OS/2
784 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
786 Mac OS X audio output:
787 * Fix channel ordering
788 * Increase the buffersize
791 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
792 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
793 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
796 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
799 * Correctly support video-on-top
800 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
801 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
804 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
807 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
808 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
811 * Update British English
814 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
815 --------------------------------
818 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
821 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
824 * Fix DVD playback regression
825 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
826 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
829 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
830 --------------------------------
833 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
834 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
837 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
838 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
839 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
842 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
843 by updating codec libraries
844 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
845 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
846 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
849 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
850 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
851 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
852 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
855 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
856 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
859 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
860 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
861 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
862 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
863 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
866 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
867 * Fix record file names
870 * Fix minimal size possible on start
871 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
872 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
873 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
874 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
877 * Fix album art display on Windows
880 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
881 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
882 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
883 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
884 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
885 and Simplified Chinese translations
886 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
889 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
890 --------------------------------
893 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
894 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
895 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
896 audio devices on OS X
897 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
898 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
901 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
902 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
905 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
906 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
909 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
912 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
913 * Improve A-B loop control
914 * Fix album art update when changing media
917 * Add a language option in the interface
918 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
919 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
920 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
921 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
922 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
923 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
924 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
927 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
930 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
931 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
932 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
933 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
936 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
937 --------------------------------
940 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
942 * Fix some subtitles track selection
945 * VP9 support in WebM
946 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
947 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
950 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
951 * Support Speex in ogg files
952 * Fix some .mov playlists support
953 * Support Alac in mkv
954 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
955 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
958 * Fix DVB options parsing
959 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
960 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
963 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
964 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
967 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
968 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
971 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
972 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
973 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
974 * Fix play after drag'n drop
975 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
978 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
979 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
982 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
983 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
986 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
987 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
988 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
989 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
990 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
991 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
992 * Improves interface resizings
995 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
996 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
997 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
998 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
999 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1003 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1004 --------------------------------
1007 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1008 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1009 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1010 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1011 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1013 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1014 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1017 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1018 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1019 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1020 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1021 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1024 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1025 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1026 * Remove SQL support
1029 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1030 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1031 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1032 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1033 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1034 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1035 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1036 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1037 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1038 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1039 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1040 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1041 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1044 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1045 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1046 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1049 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1050 remove support for previous OS X releases
1051 * Major improvements in DASH support
1052 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1053 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1054 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1055 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1056 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1057 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1058 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1059 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1060 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1061 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1062 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1065 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1066 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1067 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1068 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1069 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1070 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1071 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1072 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1073 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1074 * Add support for liveleak streams
1075 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1076 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1077 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1080 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1081 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1082 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1083 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1084 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1085 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1086 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1087 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1088 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1089 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1090 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1093 * New remapping channel filter
1094 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1095 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1096 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1097 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1098 * New gain audio filter
1101 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1102 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1103 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1104 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1105 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1106 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1107 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1108 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1109 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1112 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1113 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1114 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1115 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1116 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1117 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1118 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1121 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1122 * Options support for AVIO output module
1123 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1124 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1125 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1126 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1127 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1130 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1133 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1134 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1135 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1136 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1137 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1138 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1139 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1140 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1143 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1144 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1147 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1148 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1150 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1151 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1152 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1153 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1154 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1155 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1156 VLC's internal volume level
1157 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1159 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1160 selection and to manage the list of presets
1161 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1162 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1163 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1164 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1165 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1166 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1167 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1168 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1169 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1170 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1172 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1173 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1174 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1175 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1176 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1177 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1178 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1179 3rd party applications
1180 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1181 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1182 (system-wide settings)
1183 * Add support for the Video Title option
1184 * Add support for the Boss Key
1185 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1186 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1189 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1190 * Menus modifications and improvements
1191 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1192 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1193 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1194 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1195 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1196 * Add SD pixmap sources
1197 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1198 * Display playlist total duration
1199 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1200 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1201 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1206 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1207 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1208 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1209 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1212 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1213 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1214 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1215 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1216 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1217 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1218 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1219 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1220 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1221 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1224 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1225 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1226 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1227 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1228 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1229 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1231 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1232 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1233 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1234 * Broken crop video filter
1236 * OSD parser and menu
1237 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1238 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1239 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1240 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1244 * Update of all translations
1247 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1248 --------------------------------
1251 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1252 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1255 * Fix modplug security issues
1258 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1259 --------------------------------
1263 * Fix crash in QTsound
1264 * Fix screen mouse file location
1265 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1268 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1269 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1272 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1275 * Fix interface crashes
1276 * Fix autostart playback option
1277 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1280 * update Welsh translation
1281 * New Kannada translation
1284 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1285 --------------------------------
1288 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1289 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1293 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1296 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1299 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1302 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1305 * Minor improvements
1306 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1309 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1312 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1313 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1314 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1317 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1318 --------------------------------
1321 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1324 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1327 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1328 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1329 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1330 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1331 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1332 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1335 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1336 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1337 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1338 * 3rd party codecs updates
1341 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1342 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1343 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1344 in the advanced preferences panel
1345 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1346 * Fix crash within the video output code
1347 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1348 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1349 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1350 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1351 lua extensions, ...)
1352 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1355 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1358 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1359 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1362 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1365 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1366 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1367 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1368 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1369 Dutch, Danish, translations
1370 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1373 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1374 --------------------------------
1377 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1380 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1381 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1382 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1385 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1386 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1387 * Fix koreus lua parser
1388 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1389 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1390 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1391 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1394 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1395 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1398 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1401 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1402 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1403 * Fix Time counter UI look
1404 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1407 * Fix https streaming
1410 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1411 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1412 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1415 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1416 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1417 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1418 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1419 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
1422 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
1423 --------------------------------
1426 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
1427 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
1428 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
1429 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
1430 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
1431 during playback on Mac OS X
1434 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
1435 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
1436 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
1439 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
1440 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
1441 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
1442 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
1443 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
1446 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
1447 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
1448 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
1449 * Support Youtube live streams
1452 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
1455 * Fix media info dialog update
1456 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
1457 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
1458 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
1459 * Fix album art display at start
1462 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
1463 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
1464 * Fix menus display and behavior
1465 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
1466 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
1467 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
1468 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
1469 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
1470 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
1471 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
1474 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
1475 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
1476 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
1477 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
1478 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
1479 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
1480 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
1481 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
1482 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
1485 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
1486 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
1487 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
1488 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
1489 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
1492 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
1493 --------------------------------
1496 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
1499 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
1500 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
1503 * Add GateKeeper support
1504 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
1505 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
1506 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
1509 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
1512 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
1513 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
1514 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
1515 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
1516 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
1519 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
1520 --------------------------------
1523 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
1524 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
1525 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
1526 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
1527 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
1528 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
1529 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
1530 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
1531 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
1532 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
1533 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
1537 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
1538 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
1539 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
1540 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
1541 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
1542 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
1543 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
1544 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
1545 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
1546 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
1547 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
1548 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
1551 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
1552 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
1554 * Fix MP3 free format support
1557 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
1558 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
1559 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
1560 * Fix for DVB channels file support
1561 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
1564 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
1565 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
1567 Audio filters and output:
1568 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
1569 * Fix DirectSound device selection
1570 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
1571 * Do not apply volume in file output
1572 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
1573 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
1576 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
1577 the persistant media library
1578 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
1579 to the media library or the temporary playlist
1580 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
1581 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
1582 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
1583 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
1584 press on the Play/Pause button
1585 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
1586 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
1587 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
1588 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
1589 * Many Fullscreen fixes
1590 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
1591 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
1592 Synchronization panel
1593 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
1594 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
1595 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
1596 * Fix crashes on exit
1597 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
1599 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
1600 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
1601 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
1602 automatically reset on the first launch.
1603 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
1604 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
1605 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
1608 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
1609 * Fixes for icecast SD
1612 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
1613 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
1614 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
1615 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
1616 * Fix tags and file names display
1617 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
1620 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
1621 * Fix for key events and focus loss
1624 * Fix display of some buttons
1625 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
1626 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
1629 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
1630 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
1631 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
1634 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
1635 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
1636 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
1637 Thai translations update
1638 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
1641 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
1642 --------------------------------
1645 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1646 * fix the samba module compilation
1647 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1648 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1649 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1650 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1653 * Support for MXPEG files
1654 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1655 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1658 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1659 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1660 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1663 * Fix ogm header creation
1666 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1667 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1670 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1671 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1672 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1673 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1676 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1679 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1680 * allow to hide the sidebar
1681 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1682 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1683 * noticebly faster launch time
1684 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1685 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1686 * improve track synchronization panel
1687 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1688 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1691 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1692 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1693 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1694 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1697 * fix for menus display
1698 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1699 * documentation update
1702 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1703 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1706 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1707 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1708 * Update Jamendo selections
1712 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1713 * fix a crash on VLM close
1716 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1717 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1718 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1719 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1722 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1725 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1726 ---------------------------------
1729 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1730 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1731 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1732 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1733 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1734 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1735 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1736 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1737 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1738 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1739 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1740 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1741 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1742 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1743 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1744 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1745 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1746 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1747 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1748 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1749 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1750 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1751 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1752 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1753 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1754 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1756 Important changes for packagers:
1757 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1758 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1759 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1760 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1761 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1762 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1763 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1764 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1765 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1766 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1769 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1770 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1771 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1772 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1773 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1774 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1775 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1778 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1779 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1780 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1781 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1782 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1783 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1784 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1785 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1786 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1787 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1788 * PulseAudio audio input support
1789 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1790 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1791 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1792 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1793 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1794 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1795 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1796 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1799 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1800 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1801 are notably concerned.
1802 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1803 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1804 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1805 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1806 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1807 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1808 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1809 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1810 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1811 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1812 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1813 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1814 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1815 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1816 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1819 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1820 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1821 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1822 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1823 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1824 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1825 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1826 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1827 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1828 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1829 * Improved support of tracker files
1830 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1833 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1834 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1835 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1836 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1837 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1838 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1839 and important cleanups and optimisations
1840 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1841 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1842 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1843 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1844 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1845 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1846 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1847 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1848 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1849 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1850 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1851 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1852 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1853 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1854 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1855 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1856 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1857 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1858 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1859 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1860 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1863 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1864 * New video output for iOS platform
1865 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1866 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1867 * Various vmem improvements
1868 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1869 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1870 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1871 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1872 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1873 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1875 Audio Output and Filters:
1876 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1877 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1878 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1879 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1880 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1881 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1882 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1883 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1884 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1885 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1888 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1889 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1890 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1891 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1892 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1893 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1894 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1895 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1896 * New anti-flickering filter
1897 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1898 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1899 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1900 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1901 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1902 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1903 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1906 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1907 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1908 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1909 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1910 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1911 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1912 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1913 * Major rework of VoD support
1914 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1915 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1916 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1917 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1918 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1919 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1920 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1921 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1922 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1923 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1926 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1927 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1930 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1931 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1932 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1933 list of available audio and video filters
1934 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1935 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1936 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1939 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1940 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1941 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1942 * id3tag: use taglib
1943 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1944 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1945 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1946 * removal of the noise filter
1947 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1948 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1949 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1950 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1953 * Update of translations for most languages.
1954 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1957 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1958 ----------------------------------
1961 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1962 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1965 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1966 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1969 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1970 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1971 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1974 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1977 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1978 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1981 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1984 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1985 ----------------------------------
1988 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1989 including support for OS X Lion
1990 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1991 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1994 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1997 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1998 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1999 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2002 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2005 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2006 ----------------------------------
2009 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2010 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2013 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2014 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2015 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2016 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2017 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2019 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2020 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2021 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2023 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2024 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2027 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2030 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2033 * Fix quitting on Linux
2034 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2038 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2041 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2044 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2045 ---------------------------------
2047 Windows and Mac OS X:
2048 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2051 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2052 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2055 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2058 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2061 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2063 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2064 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2066 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2067 * RTP output and XML export
2068 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2072 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2073 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2074 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2075 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2078 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2079 --------------------------------
2081 Windows and Mac OS X:
2082 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2085 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2088 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2089 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2090 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2091 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2092 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2093 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2096 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2097 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2101 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2102 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2103 * New Luganda Translation
2106 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2107 --------------------------------
2110 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2113 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2114 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2115 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2116 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2119 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2121 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2122 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2123 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2124 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2125 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2126 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2127 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2128 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2130 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2131 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2132 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2133 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2134 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2135 * Configure and build system improvements
2136 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2139 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2140 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2141 * New icelandic translation
2144 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2145 --------------------------------
2148 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2149 #234484 and #260719.
2152 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2153 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2154 and stability reasons
2157 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2161 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2164 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2165 ----------------------------------
2168 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2171 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2172 ---------------------------------
2175 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2176 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2177 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2178 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2181 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2184 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2185 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2186 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2187 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2190 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2191 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2192 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2194 Subtitles and renderer:
2195 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2196 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2197 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2198 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2199 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2202 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2203 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2204 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2205 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2208 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2209 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2211 Miscellaneous fixes:
2212 * KDE device solid actions
2214 * Transcode integer overflow
2215 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2216 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2219 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2220 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2221 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2224 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2225 ----------------------------------
2228 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2232 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2235 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2238 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2239 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2240 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2241 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2244 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2248 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2251 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2254 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2255 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2257 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2261 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2262 * Miscellaneous fixes
2265 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2266 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2267 French and Ukrainian
2268 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2269 * New Asturian translation
2272 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2273 ----------------------------------
2276 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2278 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2281 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2284 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2285 * Various fixes for Windows
2288 * New Armenian translation
2289 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2290 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2293 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2294 --------------------------------
2297 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2298 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2299 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2302 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2303 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2306 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2307 --------------------------------
2309 Access and demuxers:
2310 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2311 * fix for podcasts parsing
2312 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2315 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2316 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2319 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2320 * fix m3u playlists exports
2323 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2326 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2329 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2332 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2335 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2338 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2339 --------------------------------
2342 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2343 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2346 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2347 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2350 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2351 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2352 * fix console output encoding
2354 Interface and extensions:
2355 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2356 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2359 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2360 --------------------------------
2363 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2364 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2365 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2366 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2367 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2368 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2369 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2370 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2371 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2372 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2373 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2374 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2375 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2376 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2377 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2378 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2382 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2383 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2384 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2385 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2386 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2389 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2392 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2393 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2394 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2398 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2401 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2402 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2403 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2406 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2407 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2408 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2409 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2412 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2413 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2416 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2417 --------------------------------
2419 Important changes for users:
2420 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2421 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
2423 Important changes for packagers:
2424 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
2425 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
2426 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
2427 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
2428 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
2430 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
2432 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
2433 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
2434 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
2435 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
2436 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
2439 * Support for the sftp protocol
2440 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
2441 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
2442 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
2443 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
2444 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
2447 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
2448 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
2449 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
2451 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
2452 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
2453 * Invmem module improvements
2454 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
2455 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
2456 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
2457 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
2458 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
2459 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
2460 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
2461 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
2462 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
2463 * Support for VP8 codec
2464 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
2467 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
2468 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
2469 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
2470 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
2471 * Various EGP improvements
2472 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
2473 * Metadata and cover art improvements
2476 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
2477 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
2478 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
2479 * Podcast images are now displayed
2482 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
2483 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
2484 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
2485 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
2486 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
2487 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
2488 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
2489 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
2490 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
2491 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
2492 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
2495 * New content extensions lua framework
2498 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
2499 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
2500 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
2501 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
2502 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
2503 * NEON assembly audio converter module
2504 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
2507 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
2508 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
2509 * Service discovery based on libudev
2510 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
2513 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
2514 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
2515 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
2516 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
2517 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
2518 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
2519 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
2522 * New smem module, streaming to memory
2523 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
2524 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
2527 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
2529 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
2530 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
2533 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
2536 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
2537 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
2538 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
2539 by Andy Matuschak et al.
2540 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
2541 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
2542 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
2545 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
2546 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
2549 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
2550 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
2551 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
2555 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
2556 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
2557 * Improved Solaris port
2560 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
2561 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
2564 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
2565 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
2566 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
2567 * transrate: broken since too long
2568 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
2569 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
2570 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
2571 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
2572 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
2573 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
2574 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
2575 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
2576 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
2577 * cddax: use cdda instead.
2578 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
2579 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
2580 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
2581 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
2584 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
2585 --------------------------------
2588 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
2590 Decoders/Packetizers:
2591 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
2594 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
2595 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
2596 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
2597 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
2598 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
2601 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
2602 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
2605 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
2606 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
2609 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
2610 and Walloon translations updated
2611 * Sinhala translation started
2614 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
2615 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
2618 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
2619 --------------------------------
2622 * SubRip extra styles improvements
2623 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
2626 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
2629 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
2630 increase performance and fix x264 issues
2633 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
2634 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
2635 Russian, Slovak translation updates
2636 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
2639 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
2640 --------------------------------
2643 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
2644 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2647 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2648 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2651 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2652 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2655 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2658 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2659 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2662 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2663 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2666 * New Walloon translation
2667 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2670 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2671 --------------------------------
2674 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2675 regressions in most popular drivers
2676 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2679 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2680 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2681 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2684 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2685 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2688 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2689 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2690 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2691 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2692 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2695 * New udev module for linux
2698 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2701 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2704 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2705 --------------------------------
2708 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2709 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2710 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2713 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2714 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2717 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2718 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2721 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2724 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2725 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2726 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2727 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2730 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2731 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2732 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2733 - no support for Goom and SDL
2734 - limited text rendering support
2735 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2738 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2739 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2740 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2741 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2742 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2743 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2744 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2745 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2746 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2750 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2753 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2756 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2757 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2758 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2759 Arabic and French translation updates
2762 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2763 --------------------------------
2766 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2767 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2768 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2769 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2770 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2771 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2774 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2775 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2776 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2779 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2780 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2781 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2784 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2787 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2788 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2791 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2792 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2793 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2794 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2795 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2796 * Fix various crashes
2799 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2801 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2805 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2806 ---------------------------------
2810 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2811 See 'Access:' for more info.
2812 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2815 * Instantaneous pausing
2816 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2817 * Finer speed control
2818 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2819 * Timeshift for most medias
2820 * RTSP trickplay support
2821 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2824 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2825 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2826 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2827 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2828 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2829 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2830 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2831 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2832 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2833 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2836 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2837 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2838 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2839 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2840 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2841 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2842 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2845 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2846 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2849 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2850 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2851 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2852 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2853 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2854 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2855 * DVB scanning on linux
2856 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2857 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2858 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2859 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2860 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2861 * MTP device access on Unix
2862 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2863 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2866 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2867 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2868 Windows and Mac OS X.
2871 * Export the playlist in HTML
2872 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2873 * Better metadata handling and reading
2875 Linux/Windows interface:
2876 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2877 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2878 * Recently played items list
2879 * Interface toolbar customizations
2880 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2881 - More menus actions
2882 - Finer speed slider
2883 - Improvements on many dialogs
2884 - New dialog for plugins listing
2885 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2886 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2887 * Better integration in GTK environments
2890 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2891 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2892 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2893 * Additional usability improvements
2896 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2897 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2898 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2899 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2900 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2903 * New Maemo port with:
2904 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2905 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2908 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2911 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2912 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2913 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2914 * Support for latest iSight models
2917 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2918 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2921 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2922 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2923 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2924 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2925 The old image video output has been removed.
2926 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2927 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2930 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2938 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2939 --------------------------------------
2945 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2946 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2947 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2948 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2949 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2950 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2951 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2953 Various fixes to the following modules:
2956 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2957 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2958 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2960 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2965 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2966 ---------------------------------
2969 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2970 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2973 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2974 ---------------------------------
2977 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2980 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2983 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2984 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2985 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2986 main controller window.
2987 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2990 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2995 * Updates of other localizations
2998 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2999 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3000 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3001 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3002 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3005 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3006 ---------------------------------
3009 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3011 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3014 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3015 --------------------------------
3020 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3021 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3024 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3025 --------------------------------
3027 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3028 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3031 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3034 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3035 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3038 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3039 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3042 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3043 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3044 * Various fixed in playlist
3047 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3050 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3053 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3054 ------------------------------------
3056 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3057 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3060 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3061 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3062 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3065 * Stability fix for the video output.
3068 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3069 --------------------------------
3072 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3073 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3074 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3075 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3076 * Fixed update system bugs
3077 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3080 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3081 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3082 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3083 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3084 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3085 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3086 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3087 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3088 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3089 modern Mac OS X versions
3092 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3093 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3095 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3096 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3099 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3100 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3101 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3102 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3103 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3104 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3107 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3108 --------------------------------
3110 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3111 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3112 * Multiple bugfixes.
3115 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3116 --------------------------------
3118 * Multiple bug fixes.
3121 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3122 ---------------------------------
3126 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3127 recent to work correctly
3128 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3129 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3130 edit the ".hosts" file.
3131 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3132 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3133 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3134 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3135 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3136 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3137 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3138 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3139 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3140 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3141 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3142 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3143 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3144 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3145 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3146 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3147 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3148 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3149 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3150 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3151 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3152 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3153 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3154 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3155 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3156 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3157 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3158 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3159 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3160 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3161 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3162 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3163 and postproc modules.
3164 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3165 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3166 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3167 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3169 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3170 filter. For example:
3171 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3172 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3174 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3175 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3181 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3183 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3184 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3187 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3188 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3190 * Shoutcast TV listings
3191 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3193 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3194 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3196 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3199 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3200 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3201 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3202 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3203 * JACK audio input support
3204 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3205 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3206 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3207 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3208 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3209 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3210 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3211 (available as a separate download).
3212 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3213 * RTMP input support
3214 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3215 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3216 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3218 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3219 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3222 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3223 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3224 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3225 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3227 * APEv1/2 tags support
3228 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3229 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3231 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3232 * TiVo Series 2 support
3233 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3238 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3239 * Flash Screen Video support
3240 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3241 * DosBox Capture support
3242 * Karl Morton's Video support
3243 * limited atrac3 support
3245 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3246 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3247 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3248 * H.264 PAFF support
3249 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3250 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3251 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3252 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3253 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3256 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3257 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3258 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3259 * AQTitle subtitles support
3260 * MKV USF subtitles support
3261 * HTML-based subtitles support
3262 * MPSub subtitles support
3263 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3264 * MPL2 subtitles support
3265 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3266 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3267 * Realtext subtitle support
3268 * DKS subtitle support
3269 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3270 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3273 * Flash Screen Video support
3274 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3276 Video outputs and filters:
3277 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3278 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3279 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3280 * New puzzle video output filter
3281 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3282 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3284 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3285 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3286 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3287 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3288 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3289 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3290 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3291 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3292 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3293 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3294 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3295 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3296 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3297 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3299 Audio outputs and filters:
3300 * Replay gain support
3301 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3302 new scaletempo audio filter)
3303 * New spatializer audio filter
3304 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3307 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3308 * New RTP payload formats:
3309 * Speex voice audio codec
3310 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3311 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3312 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3313 * DCCP transport for RTP
3314 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3319 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3320 end-user suitable way.
3321 * Improved user interaction
3322 * Improved mouse gestures
3323 * Vastly improved Update checker
3324 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3326 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3327 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3329 * Improved video output features
3330 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3331 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3332 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3333 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3334 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3336 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3337 if libncursesw is available.
3338 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3339 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3340 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3342 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3343 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3344 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3345 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3346 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3347 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3348 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3349 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3352 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3353 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3354 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3357 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3358 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3359 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3360 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3361 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3362 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3365 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3366 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3376 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3377 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3378 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3381 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3382 ----------------------------------
3385 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3388 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3389 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3390 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3391 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3392 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3393 * Updated Polish translation
3396 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3397 ----------------------------------
3400 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3401 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3402 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3405 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3406 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3407 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3408 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3409 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3410 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3411 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3412 to an unexpected application termination
3413 * New Serbian translation
3414 * Updated Romanian translation
3417 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3418 ----------------------------------
3421 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
3422 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
3423 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
3424 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
3425 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
3426 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
3427 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
3428 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
3431 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
3432 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
3433 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
3434 * Fixed AAC resampling
3435 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
3436 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
3439 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
3440 ----------------------------------
3443 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
3444 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
3445 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
3446 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
3447 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
3450 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
3451 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
3452 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
3453 * Close MMS access on network timeout
3454 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
3457 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
3458 ----------------------------------
3461 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
3462 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
3465 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
3466 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
3467 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
3468 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
3470 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
3474 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
3477 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
3480 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
3483 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
3486 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
3487 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
3488 encoding on multi-cpu systems
3489 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
3490 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
3492 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3493 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
3494 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
3495 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
3498 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
3501 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
3502 ----------------------------------
3505 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
3506 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
3507 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
3509 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
3510 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
3512 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
3513 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
3516 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
3518 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3519 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
3520 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3521 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
3522 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
3523 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
3524 two different movies
3525 * Support for current Ogg file formats
3526 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
3527 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
3530 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
3533 * The automatic updating facility was removed
3534 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3535 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
3536 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
3539 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
3540 ----------------------------------
3542 Various bugfixes, notably:
3543 * Windows Vista compatibility
3544 * Cropping in Direct3D
3545 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
3546 * RSS filter string overflow
3548 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
3550 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
3551 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
3554 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
3555 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
3558 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
3561 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
3564 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
3567 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
3568 ----------------------------------
3570 Various bugfixes, notably:
3571 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
3572 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
3573 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
3574 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
3575 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
3576 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
3579 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
3580 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
3583 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
3585 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
3586 * Diverse usability improvements
3587 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
3588 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
3589 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
3592 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
3593 ---------------------------------
3595 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
3596 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
3599 * Fullscreen controller improvements
3602 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
3603 --------------------------------
3606 * Shoutcast TV listings support
3609 * Support for RTSP authentication
3610 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
3611 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
3612 * ATSC support for DVB input
3613 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
3614 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
3615 * Improved support for Flash Video files
3618 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
3619 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
3620 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
3621 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
3622 * Matroska WavPack support
3623 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
3624 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
3625 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
3628 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
3629 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
3630 * Improved libcaca support
3634 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
3635 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
3637 * Systray support in skins
3639 * Support for Apple Remote control
3640 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3641 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
3642 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
3643 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3645 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3648 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3649 Windows 9x/ME users:
3650 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3651 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3652 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3653 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3654 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3656 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3657 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3666 * Updates to the libvlc API
3667 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3670 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3671 --------------------------------
3674 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3675 * Support for downloading updates
3679 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3680 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3681 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3682 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3684 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3685 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3686 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3689 * Cook (Real audio) support
3691 Playlist / Services discovery:
3692 * XSPF playlist support
3694 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3697 * New JACK audio output
3700 * New video filters:
3701 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3702 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3703 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3704 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3705 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3706 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3709 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3712 * System to inform the user and request information
3713 - HTTP authentication
3717 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3718 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3719 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3722 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3723 - Improved playlist handling
3724 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3726 - Embedded Video output
3727 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3728 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3729 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3730 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3731 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3733 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3734 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3737 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3740 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3741 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3742 * Growl "Now playing" support
3745 * Ability to log to syslog
3746 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3749 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3751 * A bit more automatic testing
3754 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3755 ---------------------------------
3758 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3759 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3762 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3763 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3766 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3769 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3770 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3776 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3779 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3780 --------------------------------
3783 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3787 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3788 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3789 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3792 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3793 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3794 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3795 * GnomeVFS input module
3796 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3797 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3800 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3801 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3802 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3805 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3806 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3812 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3813 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3816 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3817 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3818 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3821 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3823 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3824 - New extended controls panel
3825 - New bookmarks window
3826 - Fixed playlist sorting
3827 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3829 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3830 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3831 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3832 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3836 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3837 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3839 - Include macro to include other files
3843 * Should now work outside IE as well
3846 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3849 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3850 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3853 The following languages were added:
3857 * Simplified Chinese
3858 The following languages were re-added:
3862 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3863 --------------------------------
3866 * Rewrite of the playlist
3868 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3869 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3870 * Preferences improvements:
3871 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3872 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3874 * Core image manipulation support
3875 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3876 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3877 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3878 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3879 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3880 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3881 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3882 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3883 * Access filter architecture
3884 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3885 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3889 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3890 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3891 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3892 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3893 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3894 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3895 * Massive Matroska improvements
3896 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3898 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3899 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3900 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3901 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3902 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3904 Decoders / Encoders:
3905 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3906 * PNG decoder/encoder
3907 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3908 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3911 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3914 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3915 * Brand new SAP module
3916 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3917 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3918 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3919 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3920 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3921 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3925 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3928 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3929 * Image file video output (png)
3930 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3931 * Improvements to wall video filter
3932 * Support for font color and opacity
3938 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3939 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3940 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3944 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3945 - Improved preferences
3946 - Improvements to the wizard
3947 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3949 - Redesigned playlist
3950 - Improved preferences
3952 - Support for multiple actions
3955 - Support for the new playlist system
3957 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3960 * Screensaver disabling fix
3961 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3962 * Support for no-decoration windows
3965 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3966 * The OpenGL video output is back
3967 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3968 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3969 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3970 is not yet available in the new module
3971 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3974 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3983 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3986 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3989 The following languages were added:
3995 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3996 --------------------------------
3999 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4000 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4003 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4004 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4005 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4008 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4011 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4014 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4017 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4018 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4019 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4023 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4025 * Support of playlist group announcement
4028 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4029 --------------------------------
4032 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4033 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4034 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4035 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4036 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4037 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4040 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4041 (Stream your desktop)
4042 * Improved DVD support:
4043 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4044 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4045 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4046 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4047 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4048 (selection of titles/chapters).
4051 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4052 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4053 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4054 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4055 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4056 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4057 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4058 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4059 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4060 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4063 * G.726 audio support
4064 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4065 * MPEG-4 text support
4066 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4067 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4068 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4072 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4073 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4074 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4075 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4076 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4077 * DVB subtitles encoder
4078 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4079 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4081 * Text track muxing for mp4
4082 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4083 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4084 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4085 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4086 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4087 * Improved ASF muxer
4089 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4090 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4091 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4094 * New audio equalizer filter
4095 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4096 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4097 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4098 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4101 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4102 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4103 with support for effects.
4104 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4105 - New filters can be streamed.
4106 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4107 - Centralized scaling and blending
4109 - "time", to display current time
4110 - "marq", to display a marquee
4113 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4114 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4115 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4116 * A few skins2 improvements
4117 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4118 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4119 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4120 * Improved CORBA control module
4123 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4124 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4125 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4128 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4129 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4130 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4133 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4134 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4135 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4136 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4137 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4140 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4143 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4144 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4147 * Server/client network synchronization module
4148 * VBrick streams fully supported
4149 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4153 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4154 --------------------------------
4157 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4158 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4159 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4160 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4163 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4164 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4165 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4166 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4167 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4168 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4169 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4172 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4173 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4174 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4175 * Improved directory access module.
4176 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4177 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4178 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4179 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4180 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4183 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4184 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4185 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4188 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4189 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4190 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4193 * Improved session announcement system.
4194 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4195 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4196 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4197 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4198 * Improved transrater.
4199 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4200 * New configuration system.
4201 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4204 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4205 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4206 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4207 * Supports scheduling.
4208 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4209 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4212 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4213 - Ability to embed video output.
4214 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4215 - Lots of improvements.
4216 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4217 - New design and set of icons.
4218 - Ability to embed video output.
4219 - Support for hotkeys.
4220 - Support for bookmarks.
4222 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4223 - Better hotkeys handling.
4226 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4227 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4228 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4229 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4232 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4233 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4234 * Improved Windows installer.
4240 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4241 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4244 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4245 ---------------------------------
4248 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4249 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4252 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4253 --------------------------------
4256 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4257 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4260 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4261 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4262 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4263 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4266 * Internal improvments
4267 * Improved import/export
4270 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4272 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4273 small and strange formats.
4275 * New MOD audio demux.
4276 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4277 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4278 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4279 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4282 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4283 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4284 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4290 * New opengl video output plugin.
4293 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4294 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4297 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4298 --------------------------------
4301 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4302 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4303 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4304 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4305 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4306 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4307 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4308 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4311 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4316 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4317 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4318 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4319 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4320 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4321 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4322 * Better Icecast support.
4323 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4324 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4327 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4328 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4329 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4330 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4331 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4332 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4333 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4336 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4337 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4338 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4339 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4340 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4341 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4342 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4343 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4344 * Preliminary RTP support.
4345 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4350 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4351 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4353 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4354 - Improvements and help in preferences
4355 - New streaming wizard
4356 - Revised Disc Open menu
4358 - Improvements of the standard pages
4359 - Support for new commands
4360 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4363 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4364 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4367 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4368 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4369 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4370 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4371 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4372 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4373 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4374 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4375 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4378 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4380 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4381 * Support for Panther.
4382 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4383 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4386 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4387 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4388 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4389 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4390 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4391 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4392 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4393 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4396 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4397 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4398 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4401 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4404 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4405 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4406 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4407 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4410 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4411 --------------------------------
4414 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4417 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4418 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4421 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
4422 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
4425 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
4428 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4429 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4432 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4435 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4438 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4439 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4443 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4444 --------------------------------
4447 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4448 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4452 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4453 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4454 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4456 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
4457 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
4460 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
4463 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
4466 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
4467 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
4471 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
4472 --------------------------------
4475 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
4476 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
4480 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
4481 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
4482 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
4483 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
4484 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
4487 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
4488 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
4489 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
4492 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
4493 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
4494 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
4497 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
4498 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
4499 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
4500 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
4501 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
4504 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
4505 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
4506 * A new CORBA control plugin.
4509 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
4512 * Improved build system.
4513 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
4514 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
4515 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
4516 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
4519 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
4520 --------------------------------
4523 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
4526 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
4527 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
4528 * Fixed large file support on Windows
4529 * Video 4 Linux support
4530 * CD Digital Audio support
4531 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
4534 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
4535 * Support for OpenDML avi files
4536 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
4537 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
4540 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
4541 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
4542 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
4543 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
4544 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
4545 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
4546 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
4549 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
4550 * New HTTP remote control interface
4553 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
4554 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
4555 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
4556 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
4557 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
4560 * New reset option for the preferences
4561 * You can set your language in the prefences
4562 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
4563 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
4564 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
4565 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
4568 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
4569 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
4570 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
4573 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
4574 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
4575 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
4576 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
4577 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
4578 * New icons by Davor Orel.
4579 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
4580 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
4581 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
4582 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
4585 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
4586 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
4587 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
4588 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
4589 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
4590 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
4591 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
4594 * Interface localization
4595 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
4596 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
4597 * New full-featured Preferences window
4600 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
4601 --------------------------------
4604 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
4605 * support for skins at the interface level
4606 * new OSD module using Freetype2
4607 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
4608 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
4609 input level before dropping out of date frames.
4610 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
4613 * fixed HTTP redirects
4614 * support for opening an entire directory
4615 * EOF should be detected more reliably
4616 * new video4linux access plug-in
4617 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
4620 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
4621 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
4622 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
4625 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
4626 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
4627 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
4628 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
4629 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
4630 * new codec for raw I420 video
4631 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
4634 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
4635 (although it still misses some important features)
4636 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
4639 * new HTTP output support
4640 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
4641 * fixed AV synchronization issues
4644 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4647 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4650 * reorderable playlist
4651 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4652 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4653 * support for mono audio output devices
4654 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4655 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4656 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4657 * the messages window remembers more lines
4658 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4659 * http and ogg stream output options
4660 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4663 * new skinnable interface
4664 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4666 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4667 * support for FLAC audio format
4668 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4670 * network tab in the interface
4671 * "apply" handling in preferences
4674 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4675 ---------------------------------
4678 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4679 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4680 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4681 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4683 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4684 * DTS S/PDIF support
4687 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4688 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4689 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4690 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4693 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4694 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4697 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4700 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4703 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4705 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4706 * rc interface is now fully useable
4707 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4710 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4711 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4712 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4713 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4714 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4716 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4717 * support for mouse gestures
4718 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4721 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4722 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4725 * improved ID3 tag detection
4726 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4727 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4728 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4730 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4733 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4734 ---------------------------------
4737 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4738 English was set as the preferred language
4741 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4742 --------------------------------
4745 * new mouse gesture interface
4746 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4750 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4751 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4752 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4755 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4756 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4760 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4763 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4764 without the user consent
4767 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4769 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4770 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4771 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4774 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4775 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4776 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4777 * playlist enhancements
4778 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4779 * new step forward/step backward commands
4780 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4781 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4782 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4785 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4786 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4787 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4790 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4791 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4794 * native video output is working again
4795 * only commandline interface support
4796 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4799 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4800 --------------------------------
4803 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4804 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4805 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4806 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4807 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4808 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4809 and A/52 streams are supported)
4810 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4815 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4816 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4817 * VCD entry points support
4818 * VCD image file support
4821 * support for *.asf format
4822 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4823 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4824 * support for ogg encapsulation
4825 * support for raw DV format
4826 * support for *.wav format
4827 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4830 Stream discovery & playlists:
4831 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4832 * support for .m3u file format
4833 * support for .asx file format
4834 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4837 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4838 (only available with the .avi demux)
4839 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4840 * support for raw PCM data
4841 * support for Cinepak video codec
4842 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4843 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4844 * support for Xvid codec
4845 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4846 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4847 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4849 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4851 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4854 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4857 * new WxWindows interface
4858 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4859 device and the channels configuration
4860 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4861 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4862 format that VLC can play
4863 * new swedish translation
4864 * enhancements of the playlist window
4865 * new messages window to see debug info
4866 * fixed a few crashes
4869 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4870 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4871 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4872 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working