1 Changes between 2.0.x and 2.1.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
6 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based and 32bit Intel-based Macs
7 VLC requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later now on 64bit hardware
8 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed. To tune
9 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually.
11 3rd party libraries (contrib):
12 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner system in /contrib
16 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
17 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
18 * Partial support for Windows Store App
20 * Added audio fingerprinter support
21 * Disabled and marked obsolete --language selection
24 * Support for OPUS via libopus.
25 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec.
26 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec
27 * Support for Ulead DV audio
28 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
29 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
30 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
31 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
32 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
33 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
34 * Support for VDPAU hardware video decoding acceleration on Linux
35 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
38 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
41 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
42 remove support for previous OS X releases
43 * Major improvements in DASH support
44 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
45 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
46 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
47 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
48 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
49 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
50 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
51 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
52 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
53 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation
56 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
57 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
58 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
59 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
60 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
61 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
62 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
63 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
64 * Support for more MJPEG streams
65 * Add support for liveleak streams
68 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
69 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
70 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES module
71 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
72 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1 and 7.1 playback and layouts
73 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
74 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
75 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
76 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
77 * Rewrite of AudioQueue module for iOS (and OS X)
78 * New, simplified AudioUnit output module for iOS
81 * New remapping channel filter
82 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
83 * New VSXu visualization plugin
84 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
87 * New module to output using Decklink Blackmagic cards
88 * New module using OpenMAX IL to output video
89 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
90 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
91 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 modules
92 Also, subpictures now work in the OpenGL ES2 module
93 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
94 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
97 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
98 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images.
99 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
100 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
101 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
102 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
103 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
106 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
107 * Options support for AVIO output module
108 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
109 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
110 * Livehttp stream encryption support
111 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
112 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
115 * Added AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
118 * configurable password for the HTTP server.
119 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server.
120 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows.
121 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
122 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
123 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
127 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
130 * add support for multiple video outputs
131 * add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
133 * add a GUI to manage podcasts
134 * add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
135 * add a GUI for the QTSound access module to process audio captured locally
136 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time.
137 * add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
138 * add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
139 VLC's internal volume level
140 * add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
142 * add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
143 selection and to manage the list of presets
144 * add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
145 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
146 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
147 * add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
148 * add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
149 * add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
150 * add an option to show next / previous buttons
151 * add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
152 * add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
153 * add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
155 * add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
156 * add an option to play videos as a desktop background
157 * add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
158 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
159 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
160 * add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
161 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
162 3rd party applications
163 * add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
164 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
165 (system-wide settings)
166 * add support for the Video Title option
167 * add support for the Boss Key
168 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
169 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release.
172 * Partial support for Qt5.0
173 * Menus modifications and improvements
174 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
175 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
176 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
177 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
178 * EPG display fixes and improvements
179 * Add SD pixmap sources
180 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
181 * Display playlist total duration
182 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
184 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
185 * Removed language preference
186 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality.
190 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
191 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
192 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
193 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
194 * new libvlc_log_subscribe and libvlc_log_unsubscribe function to register logging callbacks
195 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
196 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
197 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support.
200 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
201 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
202 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
203 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
204 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
205 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
207 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
208 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
209 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
210 * Broken crop video filter
212 * OSD parser and menu
213 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
214 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
215 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
216 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
219 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
220 --------------------------------
223 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
226 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
227 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
228 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
231 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
232 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
233 * Fix koreus lua parser
234 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
235 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
236 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
237 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
240 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
241 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
244 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
247 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
248 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
249 * Fix Time counter UI look
250 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
253 * Fix https streaming
256 * Fix audio and video track selection:
257 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
258 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
261 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
262 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
263 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
264 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
265 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
268 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
269 --------------------------------
272 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
273 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
274 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
275 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
276 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
277 during playback on Mac OS X
280 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
281 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
282 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
285 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
286 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
287 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
288 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
289 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
292 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
293 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
294 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
295 * Support Youtube live streams
298 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
301 * Fix media info dialog update
302 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
303 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
304 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
305 * Fix album art display at start
308 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
309 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
310 * Fix menus display and behavior
311 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
312 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
313 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
314 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
315 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
316 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
317 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
320 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
321 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
322 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
323 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
324 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
325 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
326 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
327 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
328 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
331 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
332 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
333 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
334 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
335 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
338 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
339 --------------------------------
342 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
345 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
346 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
349 * Add GateKeeper support
350 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
351 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
352 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
355 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
358 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
359 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
360 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
361 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
362 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
365 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
366 --------------------------------
369 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
370 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
371 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
372 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
373 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
374 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
375 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
376 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
377 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
378 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
379 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
383 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
384 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
385 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
386 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
387 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
388 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
389 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
390 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
391 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
392 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
393 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
394 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
397 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
398 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
400 * Fix MP3 free format support
403 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
404 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
405 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
406 * Fix for DVB channels file support
407 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
410 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
411 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
413 Audio filters and output:
414 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
415 * Fix DirectSound device selection
416 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
417 * Do not apply volume in file output
418 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
419 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
422 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
423 the persistant media library
424 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
425 to the media library or the temporary playlist
426 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
427 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
428 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
429 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
430 press on the Play/Pause button
431 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
432 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
433 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
434 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
435 * Many Fullscreen fixes
436 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
437 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
438 Synchronization panel
439 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
440 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
441 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
442 * Fix crashes on exit
443 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
445 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
446 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
447 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
448 automatically reset on the first launch.
449 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
450 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
451 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
454 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
455 * Fixes for icecast SD
458 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
459 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
460 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
461 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
462 * Fix tags and file names display
463 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
466 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
467 * Fix for key events and focus loss
470 * Fix display of some buttons
471 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
472 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
475 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
476 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
477 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
480 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
481 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
482 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
483 Thai translations update
484 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
487 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
488 --------------------------------
491 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
492 * fix the samba module compilation
493 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
494 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
495 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
496 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
499 * Support for MXPEG files
500 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
501 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
504 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
505 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
506 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
509 * Fix ogm header creation
512 * limit spatializer filter distortions
513 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
516 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
517 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
518 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
519 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
522 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
525 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
526 * allow to hide the sidebar
527 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
528 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
529 * noticebly faster launch time
530 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
531 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
532 * improve track synchronization panel
533 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
534 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
537 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
538 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
539 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
540 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
543 * fix for menus display
544 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
545 * documentation update
548 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
549 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
552 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
553 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
554 * Update Jamendo selections
558 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
559 * fix a crash on VLM close
562 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
563 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
564 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
565 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
568 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
571 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
572 ---------------------------------
575 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
576 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
577 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
578 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
579 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
580 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
581 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
582 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
583 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
584 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
585 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
586 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
587 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
588 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
589 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
590 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
591 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
592 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
593 --http-crl (optional CRL).
594 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
595 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
596 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
597 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
598 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
599 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
600 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
602 Important changes for packagers:
603 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
604 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
605 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
606 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
607 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
608 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
609 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
610 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
611 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
612 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
615 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
616 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
617 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
618 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
619 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
620 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
621 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
624 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
625 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
626 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
627 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
628 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
629 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
630 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
631 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
632 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
633 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
634 * PulseAudio audio input support
635 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
636 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
637 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
638 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
639 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
640 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
641 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
642 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
645 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
646 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
647 are notably concerned.
648 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
649 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
650 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
651 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
652 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
653 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
654 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
655 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
656 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
657 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
658 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
659 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
660 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
661 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
662 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
665 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
666 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
667 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
668 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
669 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
670 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
671 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
672 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
673 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
674 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
675 * Improved support of tracker files
676 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
679 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
680 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
681 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
682 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
683 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
684 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
685 and important cleanups and optimisations
686 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
687 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
688 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
689 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
690 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
691 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
692 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
693 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
694 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
695 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
696 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
697 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
698 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
699 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
700 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
701 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
702 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
703 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
704 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
705 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
706 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
709 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
710 * New video output for iOS platform
711 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
712 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
713 * Various vmem improvements
714 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
715 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
716 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
717 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
718 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
719 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
721 Audio Output and Filters:
722 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
723 * New audio output in memory (amem)
724 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
725 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
726 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
727 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
728 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
729 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
730 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
731 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
734 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
735 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
736 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
737 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
738 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
739 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
740 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
741 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
742 * New anti-flickering filter
743 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
744 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
745 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
746 blackbox and customizable shadow.
747 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
748 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
749 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
752 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
753 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
754 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
755 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
756 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
757 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
758 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
759 * Major rework of VoD support
760 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
761 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
762 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
763 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
764 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
765 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
766 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
767 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
768 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
769 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
772 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
773 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
776 * New capabilities for libVLC:
777 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
778 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
779 list of available audio and video filters
780 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
781 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
782 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
785 * asademux, subsass: use libass
786 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
787 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
789 * upnp: use upnp_intel
790 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
791 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
792 * removal of the noise filter
793 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
794 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
795 removed in Growl's next release, too.
796 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
799 * Update of translations for most languages.
800 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
803 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
804 ----------------------------------
807 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
808 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
811 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
812 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
815 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
816 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
817 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
820 * Camtasia decoding fix.
823 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
824 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
827 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
830 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
831 ----------------------------------
834 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
835 including support for OS X Lion
836 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
837 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
840 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
843 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
844 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
845 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
848 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
851 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
852 ----------------------------------
855 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
856 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
859 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
860 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
861 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
862 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
863 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
865 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
866 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
867 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
869 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
870 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
873 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
876 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
879 * Fix quitting on Linux
880 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
884 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
887 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
890 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
891 ---------------------------------
893 Windows and Mac OS X:
894 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
897 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
898 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
901 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
904 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
907 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
909 Miscellaneous fixes in:
910 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
912 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
913 * RTP output and XML export
914 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
918 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
919 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
920 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
921 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
924 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
925 --------------------------------
927 Windows and Mac OS X:
928 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
931 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
934 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
935 * Improve Apple Remote handling
936 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
937 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
938 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
939 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
942 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
943 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
947 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
948 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
949 * New Luganda Translation
952 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
953 --------------------------------
956 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
959 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
960 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
961 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
962 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
965 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
967 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
968 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
969 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
970 * mp4 demuxer improvements
971 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
972 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
973 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
974 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
976 Miscellaneous fixes in:
977 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
978 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
979 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
980 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
981 * Configure and build system improvements
982 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
985 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
986 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
987 * New icelandic translation
990 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
991 --------------------------------
994 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
998 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
999 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1000 and stability reasons
1003 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1007 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1010 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1011 ----------------------------------
1014 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1017 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1018 ---------------------------------
1021 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1022 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1023 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1024 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1027 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1030 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1031 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1032 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1033 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1036 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1037 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1038 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1040 Subtitles and renderer:
1041 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1042 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1043 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1044 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1045 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1048 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1049 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1050 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1051 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1054 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1055 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1057 Miscellaneous fixes:
1058 * KDE device solid actions
1060 * Transcode integer overflow
1061 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1062 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1065 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1066 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1067 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1070 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1071 ----------------------------------
1074 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1078 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1081 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1084 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1085 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1086 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1087 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1090 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1094 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1097 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1100 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1101 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1103 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1107 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1108 * Miscellaneous fixes
1111 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1112 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1113 French and Ukrainian
1114 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1115 * New Asturian translation
1118 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1119 ----------------------------------
1122 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1124 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1127 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1130 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1131 * Various fixes for Windows
1134 * New Armenian translation
1135 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1136 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1139 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1140 --------------------------------
1143 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1144 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1145 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1148 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1149 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1152 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1153 --------------------------------
1155 Access and demuxers:
1156 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1157 * fix for podcasts parsing
1158 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1161 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1162 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1165 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1166 * fix m3u playlists exports
1169 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1172 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1175 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1178 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1181 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1184 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1185 --------------------------------
1188 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1189 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1192 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1193 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1196 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1197 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1198 * fix console output encoding
1200 Interface and extensions:
1201 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1202 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1205 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1206 --------------------------------
1209 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1210 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1211 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1212 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1213 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1214 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1215 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1216 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1217 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1218 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1219 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1220 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1221 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1222 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1223 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1224 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1228 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1229 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1230 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1231 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1232 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1235 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1238 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1239 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1240 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1244 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1247 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1248 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1249 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1252 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1253 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1254 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1255 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1258 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1259 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1262 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1263 --------------------------------
1265 Important changes for users:
1266 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1267 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1269 Important changes for packagers:
1270 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1271 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1272 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1273 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1274 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1276 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1278 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1279 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1280 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1281 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1282 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1285 * Support for the sftp protocol
1286 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1287 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1288 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1289 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1290 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1293 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1294 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1295 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1297 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1298 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1299 * Invmem module improvements
1300 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1301 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1302 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1303 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1304 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1305 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1306 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1307 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1308 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1309 * Support for VP8 codec
1310 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1313 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1314 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1315 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1316 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1317 * Various EGP improvements
1318 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1319 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1322 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1323 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1324 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1325 * Podcast images are now displayed
1328 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1329 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1330 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1331 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1332 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1333 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1334 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1335 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1336 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1337 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1338 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1341 * New content extensions lua framework
1344 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1345 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1346 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1347 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1348 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1349 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1350 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1353 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1354 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1355 * Service discovery based on libudev
1356 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1359 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1360 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1361 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1362 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1363 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1364 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1365 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1368 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1369 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1370 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1373 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1375 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1376 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1379 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1382 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1383 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1384 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1385 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1386 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1387 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1388 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1391 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1392 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1395 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1396 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1397 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1401 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1402 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1403 * Improved Solaris port
1406 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1407 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1410 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1411 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1412 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1413 * transrate: broken since too long
1414 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1415 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1416 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1417 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1418 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1419 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1420 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1421 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1422 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1423 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1424 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1425 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1426 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1427 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1430 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1431 --------------------------------
1434 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1436 Decoders/Packetizers:
1437 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1440 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1441 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1442 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1443 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1444 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1447 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1448 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1451 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1452 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1455 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1456 and Walloon translations updated
1457 * Sinhala translation started
1460 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1461 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1464 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1465 --------------------------------
1468 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1469 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1472 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1475 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1476 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1479 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1480 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1481 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1482 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1485 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1486 --------------------------------
1489 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1490 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
1493 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
1494 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
1497 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
1498 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
1501 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
1504 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
1505 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
1508 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
1509 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
1512 * New Walloon translation
1513 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
1516 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
1517 --------------------------------
1520 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
1521 regressions in most popular drivers
1522 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
1525 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
1526 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
1527 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
1530 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
1531 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
1534 * Update for appletrailers lua script
1535 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
1536 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
1537 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
1538 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
1541 * New udev module for linux
1544 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
1547 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
1550 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
1551 --------------------------------
1554 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
1555 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
1556 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
1559 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
1560 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
1563 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
1564 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
1567 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
1570 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
1571 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
1572 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
1573 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
1576 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
1577 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
1578 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
1579 - no support for Goom and SDL
1580 - limited text rendering support
1581 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
1584 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
1585 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
1586 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
1587 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
1588 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
1589 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
1590 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
1591 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
1592 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
1596 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
1599 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
1602 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
1603 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
1604 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
1605 Arabic and French translation updates
1608 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
1609 --------------------------------
1612 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
1613 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
1614 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
1615 * Fix Dailymotion access script
1616 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
1617 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
1620 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
1621 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1622 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1625 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
1626 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
1627 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
1630 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
1633 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
1634 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
1637 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
1638 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
1639 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1640 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
1641 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
1642 * Fix various crashes
1645 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
1647 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
1651 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
1652 ---------------------------------
1656 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
1657 See 'Access:' for more info.
1658 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
1661 * Instantaneous pausing
1662 * Frame-by-Frame playback
1663 * Finer speed control
1664 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
1665 * Timeshift for most medias
1666 * RTSP trickplay support
1667 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
1670 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
1671 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
1672 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
1673 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
1674 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
1675 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
1676 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
1677 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
1678 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
1679 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
1682 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
1683 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
1684 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
1685 * Metadata for mod files are supported
1686 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
1687 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
1688 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
1691 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
1692 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
1695 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
1696 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
1697 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
1698 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
1699 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
1700 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
1701 * DVB scanning on linux
1702 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
1703 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
1704 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
1705 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
1706 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
1707 * MTP device access on Unix
1708 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
1709 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
1712 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
1713 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
1714 Windows and Mac OS X.
1717 * Export the playlist in HTML
1718 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
1719 * Better metadata handling and reading
1721 Linux/Windows interface:
1722 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
1723 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
1724 * Recently played items list
1725 * Interface toolbar customizations
1726 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
1727 - More menus actions
1728 - Finer speed slider
1729 - Improvements on many dialogs
1730 - New dialog for plugins listing
1731 - Fixed-size mode for videos
1732 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
1733 * Better integration in GTK environments
1736 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
1737 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
1738 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
1739 * Additional usability improvements
1742 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
1743 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
1744 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
1745 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
1746 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
1749 * New Maemo port with:
1750 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
1751 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
1754 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
1757 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
1758 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
1759 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
1760 * Support for latest iSight models
1763 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
1764 * Surround support for PulseAudio
1767 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
1768 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
1769 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
1770 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
1771 The old image video output has been removed.
1772 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
1773 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
1776 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
1784 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
1785 --------------------------------------
1791 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
1792 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
1793 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
1794 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
1795 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
1796 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
1797 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
1799 Various fixes to the following modules:
1802 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
1803 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
1804 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
1806 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
1811 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
1812 ---------------------------------
1815 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
1816 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
1819 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
1820 ---------------------------------
1823 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
1826 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
1829 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
1830 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
1831 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
1832 main controller window.
1833 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
1836 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
1841 * Updates of other localizations
1844 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
1845 * Lots of small bugfixes.
1846 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
1847 * Telnet fixes on Windows
1848 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
1851 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
1852 ---------------------------------
1855 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
1857 Bunch of small bugfixes.
1860 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
1861 --------------------------------
1866 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
1867 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
1870 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
1871 --------------------------------
1873 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
1874 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
1877 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
1880 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
1881 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
1884 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
1885 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
1888 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
1889 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
1890 * Various fixed in playlist
1893 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
1896 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
1899 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
1900 ------------------------------------
1902 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
1903 * Fixes several memory leaks.
1906 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
1907 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
1908 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
1911 * Stability fix for the video output.
1914 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
1915 --------------------------------
1918 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
1919 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
1920 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
1921 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
1922 * Fixed update system bugs
1923 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
1926 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
1927 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
1928 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
1929 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
1930 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
1931 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
1932 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
1933 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
1934 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
1935 modern Mac OS X versions
1938 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
1939 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
1941 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
1942 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
1945 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
1946 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
1947 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
1948 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
1949 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
1950 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
1953 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
1954 --------------------------------
1956 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
1957 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
1958 * Multiple bugfixes.
1961 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
1962 --------------------------------
1964 * Multiple bug fixes.
1967 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
1968 ---------------------------------
1972 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
1973 recent to work correctly
1974 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
1975 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
1976 edit the ".hosts" file.
1977 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
1978 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
1979 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
1980 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
1981 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
1982 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
1983 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
1984 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
1985 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
1986 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
1987 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
1988 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
1989 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
1990 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
1991 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
1992 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
1993 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
1994 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
1995 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
1996 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
1997 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
1998 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
1999 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2000 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2001 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2002 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2003 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2004 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2005 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2006 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2007 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2008 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2009 and postproc modules.
2010 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2011 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2012 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2013 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2015 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2016 filter. For example:
2017 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2018 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2020 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2021 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2027 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2029 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2030 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2033 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2034 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2036 * Shoutcast TV listings
2037 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2039 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2040 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2042 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2045 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2046 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2047 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2048 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2049 * JACK audio input support
2050 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2051 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2052 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2053 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2054 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2055 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2056 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2057 (available as a separate download).
2058 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2059 * RTMP input support
2060 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2061 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2062 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2064 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2065 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2068 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2069 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2070 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2071 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2073 * APEv1/2 tags support
2074 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2075 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2077 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2078 * TiVo Series 2 support
2079 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2084 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2085 * Flash Screen Video support
2086 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2087 * DosBox Capture support
2088 * Karl Morton's Video support
2089 * limited atrac3 support
2091 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2092 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2093 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2094 * H.264 PAFF support
2095 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2096 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2097 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2098 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2099 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2102 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2103 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2104 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2105 * AQTitle subtitles support
2106 * MKV USF subtitles support
2107 * HTML-based subtitles support
2108 * MPSub subtitles support
2109 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2110 * MPL2 subtitles support
2111 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2112 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2113 * Realtext subtitle support
2114 * DKS subtitle support
2115 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2116 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2119 * Flash Screen Video support
2120 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2122 Video outputs and filters:
2123 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2124 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2125 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2126 * New puzzle video output filter
2127 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2128 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2130 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2131 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2132 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2133 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2134 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2135 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2136 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2137 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2138 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2139 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2140 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2141 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2142 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2143 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2145 Audio outputs and filters:
2146 * Replay gain support
2147 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2148 new scaletempo audio filter)
2149 * New spatializer audio filter
2150 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2153 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2154 * New RTP payload formats:
2155 * Speex voice audio codec
2156 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2157 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2158 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2159 * DCCP transport for RTP
2160 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2165 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2166 end-user suitable way.
2167 * Improved user interaction
2168 * Improved mouse gestures
2169 * Vastly improved Update checker
2170 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2172 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2173 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2175 * Improved video output features
2176 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2177 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2178 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2179 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2180 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2182 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2183 if libncursesw is available.
2184 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2185 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2186 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2188 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2189 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2190 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2191 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2192 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2193 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2194 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2195 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2198 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2199 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2200 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2203 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2204 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2205 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2206 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2207 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2208 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2211 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2212 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2222 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2223 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2224 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2227 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2228 ----------------------------------
2231 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2234 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2235 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2236 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2237 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2238 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2239 * Updated Polish translation
2242 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2243 ----------------------------------
2246 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2247 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2248 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2251 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2252 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2253 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2254 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2255 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2256 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2257 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2258 to an unexpected application termination
2259 * New Serbian translation
2260 * Updated Romanian translation
2263 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2264 ----------------------------------
2267 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2268 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2269 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2270 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2271 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2272 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2273 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2274 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2277 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2278 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2279 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2280 * Fixed AAC resampling
2281 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2282 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2285 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2286 ----------------------------------
2289 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2290 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2291 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2292 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2293 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2296 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2297 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2298 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2299 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2300 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2303 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2304 ----------------------------------
2307 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2308 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2311 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2312 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2313 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2314 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2316 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2320 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2323 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2326 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2329 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2332 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2333 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2334 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2335 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2336 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2338 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2339 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2340 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2341 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2344 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2347 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2348 ----------------------------------
2351 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2352 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2353 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2355 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2356 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2358 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2359 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2362 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2364 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2365 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2366 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2367 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2368 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2369 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2370 two different movies
2371 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2372 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2373 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2376 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2379 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2380 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2381 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2382 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2385 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2386 ----------------------------------
2388 Various bugfixes, notably:
2389 * Windows Vista compatibility
2390 * Cropping in Direct3D
2391 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2392 * RSS filter string overflow
2394 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2396 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2397 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2400 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2401 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2404 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2407 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2410 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2413 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2414 ----------------------------------
2416 Various bugfixes, notably:
2417 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2418 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2419 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2420 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2421 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2422 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2425 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2426 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2429 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2431 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2432 * Diverse usability improvements
2433 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2434 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2435 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2438 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2439 ---------------------------------
2441 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2442 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2445 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2448 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2449 --------------------------------
2452 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2455 * Support for RTSP authentication
2456 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2457 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2458 * ATSC support for DVB input
2459 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2460 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2461 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2464 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2465 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2466 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2467 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2468 * Matroska WavPack support
2469 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2470 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2471 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2474 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2475 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2476 * Improved libcaca support
2480 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2481 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2483 * Systray support in skins
2485 * Support for Apple Remote control
2486 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2487 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2488 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2489 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
2491 * Notifications using notification-daemon
2494 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
2495 Windows 9x/ME users:
2496 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
2497 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
2498 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
2499 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
2500 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
2502 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
2503 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
2512 * Updates to the libvlc API
2513 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
2516 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
2517 --------------------------------
2520 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
2521 * Support for downloading updates
2525 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
2526 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
2527 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
2528 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
2530 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
2531 * Improved subtitles encoding support
2532 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
2535 * Cook (Real audio) support
2537 Playlist / Services discovery:
2538 * XSPF playlist support
2540 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
2543 * New JACK audio output
2546 * New video filters:
2547 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
2548 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
2549 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
2550 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
2551 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
2552 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
2555 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
2558 * System to inform the user and request information
2559 - HTTP authentication
2563 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
2564 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2565 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
2568 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
2569 - Improved playlist handling
2570 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
2572 - Embedded Video output
2573 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
2574 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
2575 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
2576 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
2577 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
2579 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
2580 - A bunch of new RPN functions
2583 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
2586 * Mac-Intel compatibility
2587 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
2588 * Growl "Now playing" support
2591 * Ability to log to syslog
2592 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
2595 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
2597 * A bit more automatic testing
2600 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
2601 ---------------------------------
2604 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
2605 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
2608 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
2609 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
2612 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
2615 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
2616 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
2622 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
2625 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
2626 --------------------------------
2629 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
2633 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
2634 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
2635 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
2638 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
2639 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
2640 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
2641 * GnomeVFS input module
2642 * Support for RTP packet reordering
2643 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
2646 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
2647 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
2648 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
2651 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
2652 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
2658 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
2659 Mixer and Dolby Surround
2662 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
2663 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
2664 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
2667 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
2669 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
2670 - New extended controls panel
2671 - New bookmarks window
2672 - Fixed playlist sorting
2673 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
2675 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
2676 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
2677 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
2678 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
2682 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
2683 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
2685 - Include macro to include other files
2689 * Should now work outside IE as well
2692 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
2695 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
2696 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
2699 The following languages were added:
2703 * Simplified Chinese
2704 The following languages were re-added:
2708 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
2709 --------------------------------
2712 * Rewrite of the playlist
2714 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
2715 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
2716 * Preferences improvements:
2717 - New organization, designed to improve usability
2718 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
2720 * Core image manipulation support
2721 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
2722 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
2723 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
2724 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
2725 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
2726 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
2727 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
2728 now separated by ':' instead of ','
2729 * Access filter architecture
2730 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
2731 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
2735 * Support for SOCKS proxy
2736 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
2737 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
2738 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
2739 * Better support for Kasenna streams
2740 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
2741 * Massive Matroska improvements
2742 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
2744 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
2745 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
2746 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
2747 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
2748 * Support for FTP over IPv6
2750 Decoders / Encoders:
2751 * Dirac decoder and encoder
2752 * PNG decoder/encoder
2753 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
2754 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
2757 * New Record and Timeshift filters
2760 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
2761 * Brand new SAP module
2762 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
2763 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
2764 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
2765 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
2766 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
2767 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
2771 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
2774 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
2775 * Image file video output (png)
2776 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
2777 * Improvements to wall video filter
2778 * Support for font color and opacity
2784 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
2785 - Seeking support in VoD streams
2786 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
2790 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
2791 - Improved preferences
2792 - Improvements to the wizard
2793 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
2795 - Redesigned playlist
2796 - Improved preferences
2798 - Support for multiple actions
2801 - Support for the new playlist system
2803 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
2806 * Screensaver disabling fix
2807 * DirectShow tuner configuration
2808 * Support for no-decoration windows
2811 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
2812 * The OpenGL video output is back
2813 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
2814 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
2815 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
2816 is not yet available in the new module
2817 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
2820 * Support for single-buffered overlay
2829 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
2832 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
2835 The following languages were added:
2841 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
2842 --------------------------------
2845 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
2846 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
2849 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
2850 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
2851 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
2854 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2857 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
2860 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
2863 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
2864 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
2865 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
2869 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
2871 * Support of playlist group announcement
2874 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
2875 --------------------------------
2878 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
2879 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
2880 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
2881 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
2882 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
2883 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
2886 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
2887 (Stream your desktop)
2888 * Improved DVD support:
2889 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
2890 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
2891 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
2892 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
2893 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
2894 (selection of titles/chapters).
2897 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
2898 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
2899 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
2900 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
2901 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
2902 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2903 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
2904 * Improved Ogg demuxer
2905 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
2906 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
2909 * G.726 audio support
2910 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
2911 * MPEG-4 text support
2912 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
2913 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
2914 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
2918 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
2919 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
2920 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
2921 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
2922 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
2923 * DVB subtitles encoder
2924 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
2925 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
2927 * Text track muxing for mp4
2928 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
2929 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
2930 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
2931 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
2932 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
2933 * Improved ASF muxer
2935 * H.263 RTP streaming support
2936 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
2937 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
2940 * New audio equalizer filter
2941 * Very trivial volume normalizer
2942 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
2943 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
2944 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
2947 * Roku HD1000 Video output
2948 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
2949 with support for effects.
2950 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
2951 - New filters can be streamed.
2952 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
2953 - Centralized scaling and blending
2955 - "time", to display current time
2956 - "marq", to display a marquee
2959 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
2960 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
2961 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
2962 * A few skins2 improvements
2963 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
2964 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
2965 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
2966 * Improved CORBA control module
2969 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
2970 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
2971 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
2974 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
2975 * Experimental SVG rendering module
2976 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
2979 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
2980 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
2981 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
2982 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
2983 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
2986 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
2989 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
2990 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
2993 * Server/client network synchronization module
2994 * VBrick streams fully supported
2995 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
2999 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3000 --------------------------------
3003 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3004 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3005 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3006 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3009 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3010 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3011 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3012 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3013 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3014 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3015 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3018 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3019 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3020 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3021 * Improved directory access module.
3022 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3023 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3024 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3025 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3026 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3029 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3030 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3031 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3034 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3035 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3036 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3039 * Improved session announcement system.
3040 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3041 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3042 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3043 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3044 * Improved transrater.
3045 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3046 * New configuration system.
3047 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3050 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3051 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3052 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3053 * Supports scheduling.
3054 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3055 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3058 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3059 - Ability to embed video output.
3060 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3061 - Lots of improvements.
3062 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3063 - New design and set of icons.
3064 - Ability to embed video output.
3065 - Support for hotkeys.
3066 - Support for bookmarks.
3068 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3069 - Better hotkeys handling.
3072 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3073 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3074 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3075 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3078 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3079 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3080 * Improved Windows installer.
3086 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3087 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3090 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3091 ---------------------------------
3094 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3095 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3098 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3099 --------------------------------
3102 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3103 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3106 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3107 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3108 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3109 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3112 * Internal improvments
3113 * Improved import/export
3116 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3118 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3119 small and strange formats.
3121 * New MOD audio demux.
3122 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3123 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3124 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3125 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3128 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3129 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3130 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3136 * New opengl video output plugin.
3139 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3140 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3143 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3144 --------------------------------
3147 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3148 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3149 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3150 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3151 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3152 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3153 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3154 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3157 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3162 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3163 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3164 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3165 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3166 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3167 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3168 * Better Icecast support.
3169 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3170 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3173 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3174 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3175 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3176 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3177 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3178 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3179 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3182 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3183 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3184 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3185 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3186 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3187 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3188 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3189 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3190 * Preliminary RTP support.
3191 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3196 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3197 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3199 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3200 - Improvements and help in preferences
3201 - New streaming wizard
3202 - Revised Disc Open menu
3204 - Improvements of the standard pages
3205 - Support for new commands
3206 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3209 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3210 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3213 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3214 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3215 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3216 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3217 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3218 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3219 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3220 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3221 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3224 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3226 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3227 * Support for Panther.
3228 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3229 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3232 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3233 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3234 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3235 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3236 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3237 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3238 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3239 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3242 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3243 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3244 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3247 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3250 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3251 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3252 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3253 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3256 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3257 --------------------------------
3260 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3263 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3264 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3267 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3268 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3271 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3274 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3275 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3278 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3281 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3284 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3285 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3289 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3290 --------------------------------
3293 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3294 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3298 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3299 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3300 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3302 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3303 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3306 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3309 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3312 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3313 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3317 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3318 --------------------------------
3321 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3322 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3326 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3327 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3328 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3329 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3330 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3333 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3334 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3335 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3338 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3339 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3340 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3343 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3344 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3345 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3346 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3347 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3350 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3351 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3352 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3355 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3358 * Improved build system.
3359 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3360 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3361 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3362 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3365 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3366 --------------------------------
3369 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3372 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3373 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3374 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3375 * Video 4 Linux support
3376 * CD Digital Audio support
3377 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3380 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3381 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3382 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3383 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3386 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3387 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3388 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3389 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3390 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3391 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3392 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3395 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3396 * New HTTP remote control interface
3399 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3400 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3401 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3402 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3403 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3406 * New reset option for the preferences
3407 * You can set your language in the prefences
3408 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3409 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3410 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3411 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3414 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3415 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3416 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3419 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3420 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3421 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3422 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3423 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3424 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3425 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3426 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3427 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3428 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3431 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3432 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3433 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3434 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3435 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3436 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3437 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3440 * Interface localization
3441 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3442 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3443 * New full-featured Preferences window
3446 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3447 --------------------------------
3450 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3451 * support for skins at the interface level
3452 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3453 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3454 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3455 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3456 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3459 * fixed HTTP redirects
3460 * support for opening an entire directory
3461 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3462 * new video4linux access plug-in
3463 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3466 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3467 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3468 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3471 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3472 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3473 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3474 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3475 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3476 * new codec for raw I420 video
3477 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3480 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3481 (although it still misses some important features)
3482 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3485 * new HTTP output support
3486 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3487 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3490 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
3493 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
3496 * reorderable playlist
3497 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
3498 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
3499 * support for mono audio output devices
3500 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
3501 * fixed several cosmetic issues
3502 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
3503 * the messages window remembers more lines
3504 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
3505 * http and ogg stream output options
3506 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
3509 * new skinnable interface
3510 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
3512 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
3513 * support for FLAC audio format
3514 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
3516 * network tab in the interface
3517 * "apply" handling in preferences
3520 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
3521 ---------------------------------
3524 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
3525 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
3526 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
3527 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
3529 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
3530 * DTS S/PDIF support
3533 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
3534 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
3535 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
3536 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
3539 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
3540 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
3543 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
3546 * fixed the GNU-pth support
3549 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
3551 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
3552 * rc interface is now fully useable
3553 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
3556 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
3557 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
3558 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
3559 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
3560 * VLC now uses the default audio device
3562 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
3563 * support for mouse gestures
3564 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
3567 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
3568 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
3571 * improved ID3 tag detection
3572 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
3573 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
3574 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
3576 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
3579 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
3580 ---------------------------------
3583 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
3584 English was set as the preferred language
3587 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
3588 --------------------------------
3591 * new mouse gesture interface
3592 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
3596 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
3597 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
3598 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
3601 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
3602 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
3606 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
3609 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
3610 without the user consent
3613 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
3615 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
3616 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
3617 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
3620 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
3621 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
3622 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
3623 * playlist enhancements
3624 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
3625 * new step forward/step backward commands
3626 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
3627 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
3628 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
3631 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
3632 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
3633 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
3636 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
3637 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
3640 * native video output is working again
3641 * only commandline interface support
3642 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
3645 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
3646 --------------------------------
3649 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
3650 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
3651 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
3652 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
3653 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
3654 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
3655 and A/52 streams are supported)
3656 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
3661 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
3662 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
3663 * VCD entry points support
3664 * VCD image file support
3667 * support for *.asf format
3668 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
3669 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
3670 * support for ogg encapsulation
3671 * support for raw DV format
3672 * support for *.wav format
3673 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
3676 Stream discovery & playlists:
3677 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
3678 * support for .m3u file format
3679 * support for .asx file format
3680 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
3683 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
3684 (only available with the .avi demux)
3685 * support for ADPCM audio codec
3686 * support for raw PCM data
3687 * support for Cinepak video codec
3688 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
3689 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
3690 * support for Xvid codec
3691 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
3692 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
3693 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
3695 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
3697 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
3700 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
3703 * new WxWindows interface
3704 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
3705 device and the channels configuration
3706 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
3707 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
3708 format that VLC can play
3709 * new swedish translation
3710 * enhancements of the playlist window
3711 * new messages window to see debug info
3712 * fixed a few crashes
3715 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
3716 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
3717 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
3718 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working