1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
11 * Windows on ARM is now supported
14 * New output clock (internal):
15 - The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
16 - By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
17 resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
18 * New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
19 * New player (vlc_player.h):
20 - Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
21 - One instance is used to play subsequent medias
22 - Allow multiple track selection
23 - Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
24 * New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
25 - Browse local network and service discoveries
26 * New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
27 - Replace the previous one
28 - Flat, new random implementation
29 - Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
30 * Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
33 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
34 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
37 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
38 * Support for DASH WebM
39 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
40 * Support for DAV video files
41 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
42 * Support chapters in mp3 files
43 * Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
46 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
48 * Remove iomx support for Android
50 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
51 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
52 * Support IMM4 decoder
56 * Add NVDEC hardware decoder
59 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
60 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
61 * Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol
62 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
63 * Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
64 * Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
65 * Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
68 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
71 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
74 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
75 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
76 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
80 * Remove remote OSD plugin
83 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
84 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
85 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
88 * MP4 files are no longer faststart by default
91 * Support Renderer discovery with avahi
94 * Remove Growl notification support
95 * Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
98 * Improved proxy configuration handling
101 Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
102 --------------------------------
105 * Improve Blu-ray support
108 * Fix pass-through on Android-23
111 * Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
115 * Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
118 * Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo scripts
121 Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
122 --------------------------------
125 * Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures
128 * Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
129 * Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata
132 Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
133 --------------------------------
136 * Improve RTSP playback
137 * BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
138 * Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
141 * Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
142 * Enable libaom decoder by default
143 * Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
146 * MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
147 * Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
148 * Fix CAF integer-underflow
149 * Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
152 * Add an AV1 packetizer
155 * Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
156 enabled on macOS Mojave.
157 All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
158 to continue working with the official VLC package.
159 * Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
160 * Fix convert & save panel stream option
163 * Fix corking when the playback state is paused
164 * Improve corking on Android
167 * Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
168 * More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
169 * Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
170 * Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
171 * Misc Direct3D11 fixes
175 * Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
176 * Update Youtube support
177 * Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
180 Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
181 --------------------------------
184 * Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
186 * Fix playback of low-fps files
187 * Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
188 * Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
189 * Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
190 * Fix crashes with LPCM streams
191 * Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
192 * Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
195 * Improve FLV fps detection
197 * Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
198 * Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
199 * Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
200 * Fixes for MKV seeking
201 * Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
202 * Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
205 * Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
206 * Improve macOS audio performance
207 * Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
208 * Fix crashes on DirectSound output
211 * Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
212 * Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
213 * Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
214 * Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
215 * Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
216 * Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
219 * Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
220 * Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
221 * Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
222 * Fix some RTL rendering
225 * Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
226 * Change the extension registration names on Windows
228 * Fixes on the HTTPD server
229 * Fix on the NTservice registration
230 * Fix --stop-time option
231 * Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
232 * Fix subtitles alignment
233 * Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
234 * Fix detection SAT>IP servers
237 * Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
240 * macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
241 * Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
242 * Modernized and improved support for media keys
243 * Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
244 * Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
245 * Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
248 * Update of most translations
251 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
252 --------------------------------
255 * Update subtitles display while paused
258 * Enable srt support on binary builds
261 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
262 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
263 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
264 * Fix subsdec wide character support
265 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
268 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
269 * Fix forced tracks selection
271 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
272 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
275 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
276 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
277 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
280 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
283 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
284 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
285 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
289 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
290 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
291 * Fix audioscrobbling
292 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
293 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
296 * Update of most languages
299 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
300 --------------------------------
303 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
304 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
307 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
308 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
309 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
310 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
311 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
312 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
313 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
314 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
317 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
318 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
319 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
320 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
321 * Fix TTML inside MP4
322 * Improve MP4 read of color information
323 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
324 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
325 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
326 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
327 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
328 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
329 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
332 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
335 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
336 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
337 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
338 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
339 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
340 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
343 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
344 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
347 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
348 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
349 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
350 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
351 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
352 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
353 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
354 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
355 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
356 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
357 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
358 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
359 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
360 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
361 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
364 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
365 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
366 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
368 * Fix remember playback position
369 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
370 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
371 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
372 * Fix localization issues
375 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
376 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
377 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
378 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
379 * Fix jump size not being configurable
380 * Fix missing time labels updates
381 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
383 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
386 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
387 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
388 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
389 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
390 * Improve support for NetBSD
391 * Fix MSI script for Windows
392 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
393 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
394 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
395 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
396 * Various VLSub improvements
397 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
398 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
401 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
402 --------------------------------
405 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
406 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
409 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
410 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
411 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
412 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
413 * Fix pink screen on Windows
416 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
417 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
420 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
421 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
422 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
423 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
426 * Improve MKV seeking speed
427 * Fix xspf base URL handling
428 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
429 * Fix adaptive http redirections
430 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
431 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
432 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
433 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
434 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
435 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
438 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
441 * Improve chromecast loading speed
442 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
443 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
444 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
445 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
449 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
450 * Auto-layout improvements
451 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
452 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
453 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
454 * Fix MKV files association
455 * Fix chromecast audio detection
458 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
461 * Improve interface look and feel.
464 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
465 --------------------------------
467 Platform support changes:
468 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
469 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
471 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
472 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
473 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
474 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
475 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
477 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
478 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
479 it should work, but not without limitations.
480 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
481 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
482 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
483 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
484 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
485 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
488 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
489 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
490 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
491 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
492 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
493 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
494 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
495 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
496 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
497 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
498 * Support wayland surface type
499 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
500 * Refactor preparsing input
501 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
502 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
503 es category single only or multiple es behavior
504 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
505 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
506 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
509 * New NFS access module using libnfs
510 * New SMB access module using libdsm
511 * Adaptive streaming:
512 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
513 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
514 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
515 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
516 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
517 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
518 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
519 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
520 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
521 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
522 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
523 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
524 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
525 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
526 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
527 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
528 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
529 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
530 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
531 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
532 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
533 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
534 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
535 * Improvements on DVB scanning
536 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
537 * Support for DVD ISO over network
538 * New SRT access module using libsrt
541 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
542 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
543 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
544 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
545 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
546 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
547 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
548 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
549 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
550 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
551 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
552 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
553 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
554 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
555 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
558 * Support for experimental AV1 video
559 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
560 * Support for experimental Daala video
561 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
562 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
563 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
564 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
565 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
566 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
567 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
568 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
569 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
570 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
571 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
572 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
573 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
574 can now decode up to 8 channels
575 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
576 * Support VPX high bit depth support
577 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
578 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
579 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
581 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
582 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
585 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
586 * Support for fragmented MP4
587 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
588 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
589 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
590 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
591 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
592 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
593 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
594 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
595 * Add new metadata fields
596 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
597 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
598 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
599 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
600 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
601 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
602 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
603 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
604 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
605 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
606 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
607 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
609 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
610 * Partial support of PSMF
611 * Fix broken SCR samples
612 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
613 * Improvements on MKV:
614 * Rewrite MKV seeking
615 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
616 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
617 * Improve DVD-menus support
618 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
619 * Support Daala in Ogg
620 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
621 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
622 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
623 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
624 * Support WMV extended content metadata
625 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
626 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
627 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
628 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
629 * Support SBV subtitles
630 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
631 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
632 * Support for isofLaC
633 * Improve fLaC seeking
634 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
635 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
638 * Add an ADF stream filter
639 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
640 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
641 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
642 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
643 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
644 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
647 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
648 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
651 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
652 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
653 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
654 * Add Tizen audio module
655 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
656 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
657 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
658 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
661 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
662 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
663 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
664 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
665 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
666 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
667 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
669 * Add a pitch shifting module
672 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
674 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
675 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
676 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
677 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
678 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
679 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
680 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
681 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
682 * Wayland shell surface window provider
683 * Wayland shared memory video output
684 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
685 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
686 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
687 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
688 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
689 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
690 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
691 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
694 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
695 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
696 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
697 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
698 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
699 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
700 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
703 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
704 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
705 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
706 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
709 * Chromecast output module
710 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
713 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
714 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
717 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
718 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
719 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
723 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
724 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
725 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
726 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
729 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
730 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
731 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
732 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
733 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
734 * Improve and simplify preferences window
735 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
736 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
737 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
738 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
739 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
742 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
745 * Batch convert support
746 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
749 * Support key accelerators
752 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
753 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
754 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
755 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
756 This allows to attach media events between create and start
757 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
758 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
759 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
760 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
761 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
762 identifier (if there is one available)
763 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
764 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
765 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
766 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
767 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
768 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
769 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
770 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
771 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
772 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
773 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
774 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
775 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
776 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
778 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
779 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
780 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
781 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
782 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
785 * Support for the SystemD Journal
786 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
787 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
788 * New Android module for logging
791 * remove langfromtelx
792 * remove ZPL playlist format
793 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
794 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
795 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
796 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
797 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
798 * Add a memory keystore
799 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
800 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
804 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
805 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
806 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
807 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
808 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
809 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
810 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
811 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
812 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
813 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
814 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
815 * BD access module (use libbluray)
816 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
817 * EyeTV access module
818 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
819 * VDA decoder: use VT
820 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
821 * SDL video output module
822 * DirectFB video output module
823 * RAOP stream output module
826 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
827 --------------------------------
830 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
835 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
836 --------------------------------
839 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
840 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
841 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
842 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
845 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
846 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
849 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
850 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
851 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
852 update to the newest version.
855 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
859 * Support libupnp 1.8
864 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
865 ----------------------------------
868 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
869 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
872 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
874 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
875 ----------------------------------
877 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
882 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
883 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
884 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
885 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
886 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
887 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
888 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
891 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
892 --------------------------------
895 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
896 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
897 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
898 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
899 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
900 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
904 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
905 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
906 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
907 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
908 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
909 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
910 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
913 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
914 * Fix screenshots size
917 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
918 * Fix FTP scan string injection
919 * Fix HTTP size handling
925 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
929 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
932 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
933 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
934 * Fix uninstaller path handling
935 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
938 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
939 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
943 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
944 --------------------------------
947 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
948 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
949 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
952 * Fix resizing issues
955 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
958 * Build fixes for Hurd
961 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
962 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
963 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
966 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
967 --------------------------------
970 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
971 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
975 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
976 * Fix crashes with libvpx
977 * Use libass without caching dialog
980 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
983 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
986 * Fix resume where you left off
987 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
988 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
989 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
992 * Fix crashes in media information panel
993 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
996 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
999 * Update of most translations
1002 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
1003 --------------------------------
1006 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
1007 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
1008 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
1009 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
1010 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
1013 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
1014 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
1015 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
1016 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
1017 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
1018 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
1019 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
1022 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
1023 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
1024 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
1025 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
1026 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
1027 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
1030 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
1031 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
1032 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
1033 be set manually by the user)
1034 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
1035 * Fix alsa default device selection
1038 * Fix video control that fails to show up
1039 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
1040 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
1041 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
1042 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
1045 * Support for OS X El Capitan
1046 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
1047 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
1048 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
1051 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
1052 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
1053 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
1054 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
1055 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
1059 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
1060 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
1061 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
1064 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
1065 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
1066 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
1067 * Improve PNG encoding time
1068 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
1069 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
1070 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
1071 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
1072 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
1073 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
1074 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
1075 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
1076 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
1077 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
1078 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
1079 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
1080 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
1083 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
1084 * Update of most translations
1087 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
1088 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
1089 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
1090 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
1093 * Update of most translations
1096 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
1097 --------------------------------
1100 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
1101 * Fix some VP9 decoding
1103 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
1104 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
1105 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
1106 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
1107 * Fix AAC samplerate
1111 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
1112 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
1113 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
1114 * Revert to older ASX code
1115 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
1118 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
1119 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
1120 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
1123 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
1124 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
1125 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
1128 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
1129 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
1130 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
1133 * Fix recent items behaviour
1134 * Fix rotation filter activation
1135 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
1138 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
1139 * Fix extensions registration during install
1140 * Fix extensions dialog crash
1141 * Default to no DxVA decoding
1144 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
1147 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
1148 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
1149 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
1150 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
1151 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
1152 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
1155 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
1156 --------------------------------
1159 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
1160 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
1163 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
1164 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
1165 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
1166 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
1169 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
1170 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
1171 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
1172 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
1174 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
1175 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
1176 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
1179 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1180 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1181 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
1182 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
1183 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
1184 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
1185 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
1186 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
1187 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
1188 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
1189 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
1190 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
1191 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
1192 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
1193 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
1194 * New jpeg image decoder
1195 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
1196 * New SVG image decoder
1197 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
1198 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1199 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1202 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1203 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1204 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1205 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1206 * New png image encoder using libpng
1209 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1210 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1211 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1212 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1213 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1214 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1215 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1216 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1217 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1218 * Support Opus in MKV
1219 * Support VP8 in OGG
1220 * Basic support for WebVTT
1221 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1222 * Support HDPR TS files
1223 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1224 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1225 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1226 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1227 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1228 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1229 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1230 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1231 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1232 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1233 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1234 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1237 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1238 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1239 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1240 * New Android native window provider module
1241 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1242 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1243 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1246 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1247 * New VHS effect filter
1248 * New Freeze effect filter
1249 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1250 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1251 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1254 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1255 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1256 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1257 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1258 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1259 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1262 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1263 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1264 * Support VP8 in OGG
1265 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1268 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1269 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1270 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1271 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1272 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1273 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1274 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1275 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1276 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1278 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1279 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1280 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1283 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1284 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1287 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1288 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1291 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1292 * Add record button in Qt menus
1293 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1294 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1295 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1298 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1299 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1300 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1301 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1302 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1303 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1304 * Option to increase playlist font size
1305 * Improved crash log reporting
1308 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1309 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1310 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1311 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1314 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1317 * iOS video output: use ios2
1318 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1319 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1322 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1323 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1324 * Update of all translations:
1325 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1326 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1327 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1328 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1329 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1330 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1331 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1334 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1335 --------------------------------
1338 * Fix OSS stuttering
1341 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1342 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1343 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1344 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1345 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1346 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1347 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1348 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1349 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1352 * Update translations and greek encoding
1355 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1356 --------------------------------
1359 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1362 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1364 Mac OS X audio output:
1365 * Fix channel ordering
1366 * Increase the buffersize
1369 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1370 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1371 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1374 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1377 * Correctly support video-on-top
1378 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1379 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1382 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1385 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1386 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1389 * Update British English
1392 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1393 --------------------------------
1396 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1399 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1402 * Fix DVD playback regression
1403 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1404 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1407 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1408 --------------------------------
1411 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1412 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1415 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1416 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1417 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1420 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1421 by updating codec libraries
1422 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1423 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1424 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1427 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1428 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1429 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1430 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1433 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1434 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1437 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1438 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1439 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1440 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1441 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1444 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1445 * Fix record file names
1448 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1449 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1450 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1451 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1452 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1455 * Fix album art display on Windows
1458 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1459 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1460 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1461 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1462 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1463 and Simplified Chinese translations
1464 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1467 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1468 --------------------------------
1471 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1472 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1473 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1474 audio devices on OS X
1475 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1476 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1479 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1480 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1483 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1484 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1487 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1490 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1491 * Improve A-B loop control
1492 * Fix album art update when changing media
1495 * Add a language option in the interface
1496 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1497 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1498 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1499 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1500 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1501 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1502 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1505 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1508 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1509 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1510 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1511 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1514 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1515 --------------------------------
1518 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1520 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1523 * VP9 support in WebM
1524 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1525 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1528 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1529 * Support Speex in ogg files
1530 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1531 * Support Alac in mkv
1532 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1533 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1536 * Fix DVB options parsing
1537 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1538 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1541 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1542 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1545 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1546 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1549 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1550 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1551 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1552 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1553 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1556 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1557 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1560 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1561 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1564 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1565 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1566 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1567 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1568 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1569 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1570 * Improves interface resizings
1573 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1574 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1575 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1576 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1577 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1581 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1582 --------------------------------
1585 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1586 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1587 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1588 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1589 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1591 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1592 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1595 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1596 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1597 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1598 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1599 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1602 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1603 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1604 * Remove SQL support
1607 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1608 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1609 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1610 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1611 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1612 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1613 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1614 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1615 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1616 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1617 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1618 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1619 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1622 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1623 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1624 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1627 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1628 remove support for previous OS X releases
1629 * Major improvements in DASH support
1630 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1631 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1632 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1633 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1634 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1635 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1636 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1637 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1638 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1639 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1640 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1643 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1644 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1645 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1646 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1647 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1648 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1649 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1650 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1651 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1652 * Add support for liveleak streams
1653 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1654 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1655 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1658 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1659 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1660 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1661 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1662 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1663 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1664 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1665 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1666 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1667 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1668 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1671 * New remapping channel filter
1672 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1673 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1674 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1675 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1676 * New gain audio filter
1679 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1680 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1681 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1682 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1683 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1684 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1685 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1686 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1687 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1690 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1691 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1692 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1693 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1694 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1695 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1696 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1699 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1700 * Options support for AVIO output module
1701 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1702 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1703 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1704 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1705 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1708 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1711 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1712 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1713 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1714 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1715 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1716 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1717 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1718 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1721 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1722 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1725 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1726 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1728 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1729 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1730 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1731 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1732 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1733 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1734 VLC's internal volume level
1735 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1737 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1738 selection and to manage the list of presets
1739 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1740 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1741 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1742 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1743 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1744 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1745 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1746 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1747 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1748 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1750 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1751 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1752 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1753 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1754 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1755 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1756 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1757 3rd party applications
1758 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1759 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1760 (system-wide settings)
1761 * Add support for the Video Title option
1762 * Add support for the Boss Key
1763 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1764 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1767 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1768 * Menus modifications and improvements
1769 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1770 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1771 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1772 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
1773 * EPG display fixes and improvements
1774 * Add SD pixmap sources
1775 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
1776 * Display playlist total duration
1777 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
1778 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
1779 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
1784 * Extend sliders, offsets options
1785 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
1786 * Numerous fixes and improvements
1787 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
1790 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
1791 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
1792 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
1793 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
1794 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
1795 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
1796 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
1797 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
1798 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
1799 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
1802 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
1803 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
1804 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
1805 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
1806 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
1807 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
1809 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1810 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
1811 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
1812 * Broken crop video filter
1814 * OSD parser and menu
1815 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
1816 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
1817 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
1818 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
1822 * Update of all translations
1825 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
1826 --------------------------------
1829 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
1830 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
1833 * Fix modplug security issues
1836 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
1837 --------------------------------
1841 * Fix crash in QTsound
1842 * Fix screen mouse file location
1843 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
1846 * Fix use after free in sgimb
1847 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
1850 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
1853 * Fix interface crashes
1854 * Fix autostart playback option
1855 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
1858 * update Welsh translation
1859 * New Kannada translation
1862 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
1863 --------------------------------
1866 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
1867 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
1871 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
1874 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
1877 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
1880 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
1883 * Minor improvements
1884 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
1887 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
1890 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
1891 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
1892 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
1895 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
1896 --------------------------------
1899 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
1902 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
1905 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
1906 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
1907 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
1908 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
1909 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
1910 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
1913 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
1914 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
1915 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
1916 * 3rd party codecs updates
1919 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
1920 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1921 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
1922 in the advanced preferences panel
1923 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
1924 * Fix crash within the video output code
1925 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
1926 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
1927 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
1928 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
1929 lua extensions, ...)
1930 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
1933 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
1936 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
1937 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
1940 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
1943 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
1944 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
1945 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
1946 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
1947 Dutch, Danish, translations
1948 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
1951 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
1952 --------------------------------
1955 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
1958 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
1959 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
1960 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
1963 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
1964 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
1965 * Fix koreus lua parser
1966 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
1967 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
1968 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
1969 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
1972 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
1973 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
1976 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
1979 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
1980 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
1981 * Fix Time counter UI look
1982 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
1985 * Fix https streaming
1988 * Fix audio and video track selection:
1989 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
1990 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
1993 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
1994 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
1995 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
1996 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
1997 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
2000 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
2001 --------------------------------
2004 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
2005 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
2006 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
2007 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
2008 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
2009 during playback on Mac OS X
2012 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
2013 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
2014 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
2017 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
2018 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
2019 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
2020 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
2021 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
2024 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
2025 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
2026 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
2027 * Support Youtube live streams
2030 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
2033 * Fix media info dialog update
2034 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
2035 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
2036 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
2037 * Fix album art display at start
2040 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
2041 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
2042 * Fix menus display and behavior
2043 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
2044 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
2045 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
2046 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
2047 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
2048 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
2049 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
2052 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
2053 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
2054 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
2055 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
2056 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
2057 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
2058 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
2059 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
2060 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
2063 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
2064 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
2065 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
2066 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
2067 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
2070 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
2071 --------------------------------
2074 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
2077 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
2078 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
2081 * Add GateKeeper support
2082 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
2083 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
2084 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
2087 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
2090 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
2091 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
2092 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
2093 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
2094 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
2097 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
2098 --------------------------------
2101 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
2102 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
2103 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
2104 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
2105 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
2106 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
2107 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
2108 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
2109 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
2110 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
2111 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
2115 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
2116 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
2117 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
2118 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
2119 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
2120 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
2121 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
2122 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
2123 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
2124 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
2125 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
2126 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
2129 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
2130 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
2132 * Fix MP3 free format support
2135 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
2136 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
2137 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
2138 * Fix for DVB channels file support
2139 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
2142 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
2143 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
2145 Audio filters and output:
2146 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
2147 * Fix DirectSound device selection
2148 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
2149 * Do not apply volume in file output
2150 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
2151 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
2154 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
2155 the persistant media library
2156 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
2157 to the media library or the temporary playlist
2158 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
2159 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
2160 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
2161 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
2162 press on the Play/Pause button
2163 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
2164 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
2165 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
2166 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
2167 * Many Fullscreen fixes
2168 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
2169 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
2170 Synchronization panel
2171 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
2172 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
2173 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
2174 * Fix crashes on exit
2175 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
2177 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
2178 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
2179 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
2180 automatically reset on the first launch.
2181 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
2182 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
2183 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
2186 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
2187 * Fixes for icecast SD
2190 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
2191 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
2192 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
2193 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
2194 * Fix tags and file names display
2195 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
2198 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2199 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2202 * Fix display of some buttons
2203 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2204 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2207 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2208 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2209 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2212 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2213 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2214 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2215 Thai translations update
2216 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2219 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2220 --------------------------------
2223 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2224 * fix the samba module compilation
2225 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2226 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2227 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2228 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2231 * Support for MXPEG files
2232 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2233 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2236 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2237 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2238 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2241 * Fix ogm header creation
2244 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2245 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2248 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2249 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2250 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2251 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2254 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2257 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2258 * allow to hide the sidebar
2259 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2260 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2261 * noticebly faster launch time
2262 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2263 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2264 * improve track synchronization panel
2265 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2266 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2269 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2270 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2271 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2272 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2275 * fix for menus display
2276 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2277 * documentation update
2280 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2281 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2284 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2285 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2286 * Update Jamendo selections
2290 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2291 * fix a crash on VLM close
2294 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2295 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2296 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2297 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2300 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2303 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2304 ---------------------------------
2307 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2308 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2309 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2310 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2311 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2312 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2313 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2314 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2315 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2316 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2317 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2318 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2319 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2320 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2321 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2322 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2323 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2324 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2325 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2326 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2327 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2328 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2329 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2330 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2331 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2332 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2334 Important changes for packagers:
2335 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2336 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2337 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2338 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2339 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2340 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2341 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2342 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2343 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2344 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2347 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2348 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2349 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2350 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2351 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2352 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2353 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2356 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2357 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2358 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2359 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2360 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2361 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2362 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2363 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2364 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2365 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2366 * PulseAudio audio input support
2367 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2368 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2369 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2370 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2371 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2372 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2373 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2374 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2377 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2378 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2379 are notably concerned.
2380 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2381 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2382 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2383 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2384 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2385 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2386 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2387 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2388 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2389 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2390 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2391 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2392 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2393 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2394 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2397 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2398 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2399 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2400 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2401 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2402 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2403 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2404 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2405 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2406 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2407 * Improved support of tracker files
2408 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2411 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2412 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2413 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2414 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2415 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2416 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2417 and important cleanups and optimisations
2418 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2419 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2420 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2421 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2422 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2423 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2424 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2425 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2426 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2427 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2428 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2429 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2430 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2431 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2432 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2433 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2434 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2435 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2436 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2437 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2438 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2441 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2442 * New video output for iOS platform
2443 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2444 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2445 * Various vmem improvements
2446 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2447 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2448 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2449 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2450 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2451 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2453 Audio Output and Filters:
2454 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2455 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2456 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2457 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2458 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2459 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2460 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2461 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2462 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2463 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2466 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2467 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2468 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2469 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2470 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2471 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2472 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2473 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2474 * New anti-flickering filter
2475 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2476 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2477 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2478 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2479 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2480 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2481 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2484 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2485 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2486 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2487 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2488 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2489 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2490 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2491 * Major rework of VoD support
2492 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2493 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2494 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2495 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2496 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2497 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2498 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2499 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2500 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2501 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2504 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2505 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2508 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2509 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2510 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2511 list of available audio and video filters
2512 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2513 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2514 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2517 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2518 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2519 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2520 * id3tag: use taglib
2521 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2522 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2523 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2524 * removal of the noise filter
2525 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2526 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2527 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2528 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2531 * Update of translations for most languages.
2532 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2535 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2536 ----------------------------------
2539 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2540 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2543 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2544 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2547 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2548 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2549 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2552 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2555 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2556 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2559 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2562 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2563 ----------------------------------
2566 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2567 including support for OS X Lion
2568 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2569 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2572 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2575 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2576 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2577 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2580 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2583 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2584 ----------------------------------
2587 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2588 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2591 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2592 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2593 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2594 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2595 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2597 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2598 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2599 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2601 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2602 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2605 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2608 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2611 * Fix quitting on Linux
2612 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2616 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2619 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2622 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2623 ---------------------------------
2625 Windows and Mac OS X:
2626 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2629 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2630 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2633 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2636 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2639 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2641 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2642 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2644 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2645 * RTP output and XML export
2646 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2650 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2651 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2652 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2653 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2656 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2657 --------------------------------
2659 Windows and Mac OS X:
2660 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2663 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2666 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2667 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2668 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2669 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2670 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2671 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2674 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2675 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2679 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2680 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2681 * New Luganda Translation
2684 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2685 --------------------------------
2688 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2691 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2692 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2693 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2694 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2697 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2699 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2700 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2701 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2702 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2703 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2704 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2705 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2706 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2708 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2709 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2710 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2711 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2712 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2713 * Configure and build system improvements
2714 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2717 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2718 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2719 * New icelandic translation
2722 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2723 --------------------------------
2726 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2727 #234484 and #260719.
2730 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2731 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2732 and stability reasons
2735 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2739 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2742 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2743 ----------------------------------
2746 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2749 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2750 ---------------------------------
2753 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2754 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2755 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2756 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2759 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2762 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2763 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2764 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2765 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2768 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2769 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2770 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2772 Subtitles and renderer:
2773 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
2774 * Mark more freetype options as safe
2775 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
2776 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
2777 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
2780 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
2781 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
2782 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
2783 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
2786 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
2787 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
2789 Miscellaneous fixes:
2790 * KDE device solid actions
2792 * Transcode integer overflow
2793 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
2794 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
2797 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
2798 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
2799 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
2802 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
2803 ----------------------------------
2806 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
2810 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
2813 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
2816 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
2817 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
2818 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
2819 * Taglib thread-safety fix
2822 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
2826 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
2829 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
2832 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
2833 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
2835 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
2839 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
2840 * Miscellaneous fixes
2843 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
2844 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
2845 French and Ukrainian
2846 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
2847 * New Asturian translation
2850 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
2851 ----------------------------------
2854 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
2856 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
2859 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
2862 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
2863 * Various fixes for Windows
2866 * New Armenian translation
2867 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
2868 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
2871 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
2872 --------------------------------
2875 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
2876 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
2877 * Fix folders opening from the interface
2880 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
2881 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
2884 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
2885 --------------------------------
2887 Access and demuxers:
2888 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
2889 * fix for podcasts parsing
2890 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
2893 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
2894 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
2897 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
2898 * fix m3u playlists exports
2901 * fix video autoresize behaviour
2904 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
2907 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
2910 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
2913 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
2916 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
2917 --------------------------------
2920 * Avformat fps displaying fix
2921 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
2924 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
2925 of mono streams, especially on Windows
2928 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
2929 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
2930 * fix console output encoding
2932 Interface and extensions:
2933 * Youtube and other scripts updates
2934 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
2937 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
2938 --------------------------------
2941 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2942 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
2943 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
2944 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
2945 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
2946 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
2947 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
2948 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
2949 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
2950 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
2951 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
2952 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
2953 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
2954 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
2955 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
2956 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
2960 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
2961 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
2962 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
2963 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
2964 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
2967 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
2970 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
2971 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
2972 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
2976 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
2979 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
2980 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
2981 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
2984 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
2985 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
2986 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
2987 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
2990 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
2991 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
2994 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
2995 --------------------------------
2997 Important changes for users:
2998 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
2999 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
3001 Important changes for packagers:
3002 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
3003 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
3004 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
3005 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
3006 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
3008 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
3010 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
3011 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
3012 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
3013 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
3014 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
3017 * Support for the sftp protocol
3018 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
3019 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
3020 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
3021 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
3022 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
3025 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
3026 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
3027 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
3029 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
3030 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
3031 * Invmem module improvements
3032 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
3033 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
3034 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
3035 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
3036 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
3037 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
3038 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
3039 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
3040 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
3041 * Support for VP8 codec
3042 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
3045 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
3046 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
3047 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
3048 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
3049 * Various EGP improvements
3050 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
3051 * Metadata and cover art improvements
3054 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
3055 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
3056 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
3057 * Podcast images are now displayed
3060 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
3061 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
3062 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
3063 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
3064 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
3065 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
3066 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
3067 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
3068 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
3069 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
3070 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
3073 * New content extensions lua framework
3076 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3077 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
3078 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
3079 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
3080 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
3081 * NEON assembly audio converter module
3082 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
3085 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
3086 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
3087 * Service discovery based on libudev
3088 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
3091 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
3092 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
3093 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
3094 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
3095 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
3096 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
3097 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
3100 * New smem module, streaming to memory
3101 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
3102 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
3105 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
3107 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
3108 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
3111 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
3114 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
3115 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
3116 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
3117 by Andy Matuschak et al.
3118 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
3119 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
3120 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
3123 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
3124 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
3127 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
3128 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
3129 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
3133 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
3134 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
3135 * Improved Solaris port
3138 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
3139 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
3142 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
3143 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
3144 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
3145 * transrate: broken since too long
3146 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
3147 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
3148 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
3149 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
3150 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
3151 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
3152 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
3153 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
3154 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
3155 * cddax: use cdda instead.
3156 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
3157 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
3158 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
3159 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
3162 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
3163 --------------------------------
3166 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
3168 Decoders/Packetizers:
3169 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
3172 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
3173 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
3174 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
3175 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
3176 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
3179 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
3180 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
3183 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
3184 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
3187 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
3188 and Walloon translations updated
3189 * Sinhala translation started
3192 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
3193 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
3196 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
3197 --------------------------------
3200 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3201 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3204 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3207 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3208 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3211 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3212 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3213 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3214 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3217 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3218 --------------------------------
3221 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3222 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3225 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3226 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3229 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3230 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3233 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3236 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3237 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3240 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3241 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3244 * New Walloon translation
3245 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3248 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3249 --------------------------------
3252 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3253 regressions in most popular drivers
3254 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3257 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3258 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3259 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3262 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3263 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3266 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3267 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3268 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3269 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3270 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3273 * New udev module for linux
3276 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3279 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3282 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3283 --------------------------------
3286 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3287 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3288 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3291 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3292 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3295 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3296 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3299 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3302 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3303 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3304 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3305 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3308 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3309 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3310 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3311 - no support for Goom and SDL
3312 - limited text rendering support
3313 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3316 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3317 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3318 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3319 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3320 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3321 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3322 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3323 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3324 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3328 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3331 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3334 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3335 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3336 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3337 Arabic and French translation updates
3340 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3341 --------------------------------
3344 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3345 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3346 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3347 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3348 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3349 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3352 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3353 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3354 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3357 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3358 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3359 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3362 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3365 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3366 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3369 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3370 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3371 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3372 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3373 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3374 * Fix various crashes
3377 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3379 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3383 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3384 ---------------------------------
3388 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3389 See 'Access:' for more info.
3390 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3393 * Instantaneous pausing
3394 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3395 * Finer speed control
3396 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3397 * Timeshift for most medias
3398 * RTSP trickplay support
3399 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3402 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3403 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3404 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3405 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3406 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3407 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3408 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3409 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3410 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3411 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3414 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3415 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3416 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3417 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3418 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3419 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3420 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3423 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3424 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3427 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3428 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3429 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3430 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3431 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3432 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3433 * DVB scanning on linux
3434 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3435 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3436 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3437 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3438 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3439 * MTP device access on Unix
3440 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3441 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3444 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3445 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3446 Windows and Mac OS X.
3449 * Export the playlist in HTML
3450 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3451 * Better metadata handling and reading
3453 Linux/Windows interface:
3454 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3455 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3456 * Recently played items list
3457 * Interface toolbar customizations
3458 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3459 - More menus actions
3460 - Finer speed slider
3461 - Improvements on many dialogs
3462 - New dialog for plugins listing
3463 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3464 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3465 * Better integration in GTK environments
3468 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3469 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3470 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3471 * Additional usability improvements
3474 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3475 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3476 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3477 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3478 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3481 * New Maemo port with:
3482 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3483 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3486 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3489 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3490 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3491 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3492 * Support for latest iSight models
3495 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3496 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3499 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3500 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3501 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3502 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3503 The old image video output has been removed.
3504 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3505 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3508 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3516 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3517 --------------------------------------
3523 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3524 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3525 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3526 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3527 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3528 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3529 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3531 Various fixes to the following modules:
3534 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3535 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3536 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3538 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3543 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3544 ---------------------------------
3547 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3548 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3551 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3552 ---------------------------------
3555 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3558 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3561 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3562 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3563 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3564 main controller window.
3565 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3568 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3573 * Updates of other localizations
3576 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3577 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3578 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3579 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3580 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3583 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3584 ---------------------------------
3587 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3589 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3592 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3593 --------------------------------
3598 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3599 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3602 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3603 --------------------------------
3605 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3606 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3609 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3612 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3613 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3616 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3617 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3620 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3621 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3622 * Various fixed in playlist
3625 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3628 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3631 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3632 ------------------------------------
3634 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3635 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3638 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3639 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3640 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3643 * Stability fix for the video output.
3646 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3647 --------------------------------
3650 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3651 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3652 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3653 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3654 * Fixed update system bugs
3655 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3658 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3659 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3660 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3661 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3662 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3663 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3664 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3665 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3666 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3667 modern Mac OS X versions
3670 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3671 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3673 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3674 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3677 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3678 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3679 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3680 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3681 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3682 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3685 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3686 --------------------------------
3688 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3689 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3690 * Multiple bugfixes.
3693 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3694 --------------------------------
3696 * Multiple bug fixes.
3699 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3700 ---------------------------------
3704 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3705 recent to work correctly
3706 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3707 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3708 edit the ".hosts" file.
3709 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3710 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3711 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3712 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3713 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3714 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3715 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3716 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3717 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3718 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3719 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3720 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3721 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3722 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3723 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3724 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3725 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3726 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3727 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3728 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3729 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3730 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3731 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3732 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3733 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3734 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3735 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3736 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3737 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3738 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3739 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3740 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3741 and postproc modules.
3742 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3743 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3744 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3745 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3747 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3748 filter. For example:
3749 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3750 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3752 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3753 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3759 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3761 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3762 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3765 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3766 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3768 * Shoutcast TV listings
3769 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3771 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3772 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
3774 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
3777 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
3778 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
3779 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
3780 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
3781 * JACK audio input support
3782 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
3783 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
3784 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
3785 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
3786 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
3787 * Experimental EyeTV access module
3788 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
3789 (available as a separate download).
3790 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
3791 * RTMP input support
3792 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
3793 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
3794 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
3796 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
3797 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
3800 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
3801 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
3802 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
3803 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
3805 * APEv1/2 tags support
3806 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
3807 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
3809 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
3810 * TiVo Series 2 support
3811 * CD+G karaoke Files support
3816 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
3817 * Flash Screen Video support
3818 * CamStudio Screen Video support
3819 * DosBox Capture support
3820 * Karl Morton's Video support
3821 * limited atrac3 support
3823 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
3824 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
3825 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
3826 * H.264 PAFF support
3827 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
3828 * NellyMoser ASAO support
3829 * APE (Monkey audio) support
3830 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
3831 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
3834 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
3835 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
3836 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
3837 * AQTitle subtitles support
3838 * MKV USF subtitles support
3839 * HTML-based subtitles support
3840 * MPSub subtitles support
3841 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
3842 * MPL2 subtitles support
3843 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
3844 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
3845 * Realtext subtitle support
3846 * DKS subtitle support
3847 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
3848 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
3851 * Flash Screen Video support
3852 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
3854 Video outputs and filters:
3855 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
3856 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
3857 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
3858 * New puzzle video output filter
3859 * Re-written motion detection video filter
3860 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
3862 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
3863 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
3864 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
3865 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
3866 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
3867 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
3868 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3869 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
3870 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
3871 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
3872 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
3873 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
3874 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
3875 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
3877 Audio outputs and filters:
3878 * Replay gain support
3879 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
3880 new scaletempo audio filter)
3881 * New spatializer audio filter
3882 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
3885 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
3886 * New RTP payload formats:
3887 * Speex voice audio codec
3888 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
3889 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
3890 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
3891 * DCCP transport for RTP
3892 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
3897 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
3898 end-user suitable way.
3899 * Improved user interaction
3900 * Improved mouse gestures
3901 * Vastly improved Update checker
3902 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
3904 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
3905 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
3907 * Improved video output features
3908 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
3909 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
3910 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
3911 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
3912 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
3914 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
3915 if libncursesw is available.
3916 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
3917 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
3918 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
3920 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
3921 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
3922 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
3923 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
3924 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
3925 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
3926 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
3927 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
3930 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
3931 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
3932 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
3935 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
3936 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
3937 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
3938 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
3939 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
3940 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
3943 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
3944 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
3954 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
3955 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
3956 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
3959 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
3960 ----------------------------------
3963 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
3966 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
3967 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
3968 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3969 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
3970 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
3971 * Updated Polish translation
3974 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
3975 ----------------------------------
3978 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
3979 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
3980 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
3983 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
3984 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
3985 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
3986 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
3987 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
3988 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
3989 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
3990 to an unexpected application termination
3991 * New Serbian translation
3992 * Updated Romanian translation
3995 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
3996 ----------------------------------
3999 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
4000 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
4001 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
4002 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
4003 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
4004 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
4005 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
4006 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
4009 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
4010 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
4011 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
4012 * Fixed AAC resampling
4013 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
4014 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
4017 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
4018 ----------------------------------
4021 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
4022 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
4023 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
4024 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
4025 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
4028 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
4029 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
4030 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
4031 * Close MMS access on network timeout
4032 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
4035 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
4036 ----------------------------------
4039 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
4040 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
4043 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
4044 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
4045 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
4046 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
4048 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
4052 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
4055 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
4058 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
4061 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
4064 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
4065 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
4066 encoding on multi-cpu systems
4067 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
4068 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
4070 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4071 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
4072 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
4073 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
4076 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
4079 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
4080 ----------------------------------
4083 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
4084 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
4085 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
4087 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
4088 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
4090 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
4091 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
4094 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
4096 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4097 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
4098 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4099 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
4100 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
4101 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
4102 two different movies
4103 * Support for current Ogg file formats
4104 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
4105 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
4108 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
4111 * The automatic updating facility was removed
4112 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
4113 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
4114 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
4117 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
4118 ----------------------------------
4120 Various bugfixes, notably:
4121 * Windows Vista compatibility
4122 * Cropping in Direct3D
4123 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
4124 * RSS filter string overflow
4126 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
4128 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
4129 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
4132 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
4133 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
4136 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
4139 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
4142 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
4145 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
4146 ----------------------------------
4148 Various bugfixes, notably:
4149 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
4150 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
4151 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
4152 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
4153 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
4154 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
4157 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
4158 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
4161 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
4163 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4164 * Diverse usability improvements
4165 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
4166 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
4167 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
4170 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
4171 ---------------------------------
4173 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
4174 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
4177 * Fullscreen controller improvements
4180 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
4181 --------------------------------
4184 * Shoutcast TV listings support
4187 * Support for RTSP authentication
4188 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
4189 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
4190 * ATSC support for DVB input
4191 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
4192 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
4193 * Improved support for Flash Video files
4196 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
4197 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
4198 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4199 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4200 * Matroska WavPack support
4201 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4202 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4203 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4206 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4207 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4208 * Improved libcaca support
4212 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4213 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4215 * Systray support in skins
4217 * Support for Apple Remote control
4218 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4219 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4220 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4221 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4223 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4226 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4227 Windows 9x/ME users:
4228 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4229 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4230 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4231 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4232 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4234 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4235 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4244 * Updates to the libvlc API
4245 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4248 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4249 --------------------------------
4252 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4253 * Support for downloading updates
4257 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4258 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4259 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4260 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4262 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4263 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4264 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4267 * Cook (Real audio) support
4269 Playlist / Services discovery:
4270 * XSPF playlist support
4272 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4275 * New JACK audio output
4278 * New video filters:
4279 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4280 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4281 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4282 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4283 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4284 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4287 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4290 * System to inform the user and request information
4291 - HTTP authentication
4295 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4296 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4297 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4300 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4301 - Improved playlist handling
4302 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4304 - Embedded Video output
4305 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4306 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4307 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4308 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4309 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4311 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4312 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4315 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4318 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4319 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4320 * Growl "Now playing" support
4323 * Ability to log to syslog
4324 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4327 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4329 * A bit more automatic testing
4332 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4333 ---------------------------------
4336 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4337 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4340 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4341 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4344 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4347 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4348 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4354 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4357 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4358 --------------------------------
4361 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4365 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4366 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4367 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4370 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4371 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4372 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4373 * GnomeVFS input module
4374 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4375 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4378 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4379 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4380 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4383 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4384 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4390 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4391 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4394 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4395 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4396 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4399 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4401 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4402 - New extended controls panel
4403 - New bookmarks window
4404 - Fixed playlist sorting
4405 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4407 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4408 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4409 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4410 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4414 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4415 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4417 - Include macro to include other files
4421 * Should now work outside IE as well
4424 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4427 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4428 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4431 The following languages were added:
4435 * Simplified Chinese
4436 The following languages were re-added:
4440 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4441 --------------------------------
4444 * Rewrite of the playlist
4446 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4447 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4448 * Preferences improvements:
4449 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4450 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4452 * Core image manipulation support
4453 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4454 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4455 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4456 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4457 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4458 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4459 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4460 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4461 * Access filter architecture
4462 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4463 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4467 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4468 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4469 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4470 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4471 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4472 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4473 * Massive Matroska improvements
4474 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4476 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4477 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4478 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4479 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4480 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4482 Decoders / Encoders:
4483 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4484 * PNG decoder/encoder
4485 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4486 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4489 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4492 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4493 * Brand new SAP module
4494 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4495 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4496 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4497 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4498 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4499 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4503 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4506 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4507 * Image file video output (png)
4508 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4509 * Improvements to wall video filter
4510 * Support for font color and opacity
4516 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4517 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4518 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4522 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4523 - Improved preferences
4524 - Improvements to the wizard
4525 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4527 - Redesigned playlist
4528 - Improved preferences
4530 - Support for multiple actions
4533 - Support for the new playlist system
4535 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4538 * Screensaver disabling fix
4539 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4540 * Support for no-decoration windows
4543 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4544 * The OpenGL video output is back
4545 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4546 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4547 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4548 is not yet available in the new module
4549 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4552 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4561 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4564 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4567 The following languages were added:
4573 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4574 --------------------------------
4577 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4578 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4581 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4582 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4583 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4586 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4589 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4592 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4595 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4596 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4597 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4601 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4603 * Support of playlist group announcement
4606 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4607 --------------------------------
4610 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4611 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4612 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4613 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4614 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4615 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4618 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4619 (Stream your desktop)
4620 * Improved DVD support:
4621 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4622 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4623 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4624 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4625 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4626 (selection of titles/chapters).
4629 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4630 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4631 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4632 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4633 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4634 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4635 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4636 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4637 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4638 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4641 * G.726 audio support
4642 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4643 * MPEG-4 text support
4644 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4645 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4646 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4650 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4651 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4652 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4653 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4654 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4655 * DVB subtitles encoder
4656 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4657 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4659 * Text track muxing for mp4
4660 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4661 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4662 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4663 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4664 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4665 * Improved ASF muxer
4667 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4668 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4669 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4672 * New audio equalizer filter
4673 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4674 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4675 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4676 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4679 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4680 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4681 with support for effects.
4682 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4683 - New filters can be streamed.
4684 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4685 - Centralized scaling and blending
4687 - "time", to display current time
4688 - "marq", to display a marquee
4691 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4692 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4693 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4694 * A few skins2 improvements
4695 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4696 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4697 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4698 * Improved CORBA control module
4701 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4702 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4703 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4706 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4707 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4708 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4711 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4712 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4713 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4714 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4715 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4718 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4721 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4722 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4725 * Server/client network synchronization module
4726 * VBrick streams fully supported
4727 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4731 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4732 --------------------------------
4735 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4736 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4737 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4738 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4741 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4742 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4743 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4744 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4745 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4746 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4747 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4750 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4751 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4752 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4753 * Improved directory access module.
4754 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4755 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4756 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4757 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4758 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4761 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4762 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4763 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4766 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4767 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4768 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4771 * Improved session announcement system.
4772 * Minimize threads usage by default.
4773 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
4774 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
4775 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4776 * Improved transrater.
4777 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
4778 * New configuration system.
4779 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
4782 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
4783 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
4784 * Supports live streams and VoD.
4785 * Supports scheduling.
4786 * Telnet interface for vlm.
4787 * HTTP interface for vlm.
4790 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
4791 - Ability to embed video output.
4792 - Support for bitmap fonts.
4793 - Lots of improvements.
4794 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
4795 - New design and set of icons.
4796 - Ability to embed video output.
4797 - Support for hotkeys.
4798 - Support for bookmarks.
4800 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
4801 - Better hotkeys handling.
4804 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
4805 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
4806 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
4807 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
4810 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
4811 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
4812 * Improved Windows installer.
4818 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
4819 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
4822 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
4823 ---------------------------------
4826 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
4827 * Playing MOD files is working now.
4830 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
4831 --------------------------------
4834 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
4835 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
4838 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
4839 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
4840 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
4841 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
4844 * Internal improvments
4845 * Improved import/export
4848 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
4850 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
4851 small and strange formats.
4853 * New MOD audio demux.
4854 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
4855 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
4856 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
4857 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
4860 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
4861 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
4862 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
4868 * New opengl video output plugin.
4871 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
4872 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
4875 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
4876 --------------------------------
4879 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
4880 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
4881 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
4882 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
4883 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
4884 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
4885 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
4886 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
4889 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
4894 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
4895 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
4896 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
4897 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
4898 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
4899 * Reworked DVB tuning.
4900 * Better Icecast support.
4901 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
4902 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
4905 * Support for Theora video encoding.
4906 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
4907 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
4908 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
4909 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
4910 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
4911 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
4914 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
4915 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
4916 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
4917 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
4918 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
4919 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
4920 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
4921 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
4922 * Preliminary RTP support.
4923 * Fixes to SAP announces.
4928 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
4929 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
4931 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
4932 - Improvements and help in preferences
4933 - New streaming wizard
4934 - Revised Disc Open menu
4936 - Improvements of the standard pages
4937 - Support for new commands
4938 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
4941 * Many fixes to the SAP module
4942 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
4945 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
4946 * Text subtitles autodetection.
4947 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
4948 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
4949 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
4950 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
4951 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
4952 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
4953 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
4956 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
4958 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
4959 * Support for Panther.
4960 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
4961 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
4964 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
4965 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
4966 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4967 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
4968 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
4969 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
4970 * Multimonitor support (untested).
4971 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
4974 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
4975 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
4976 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
4979 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
4982 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
4983 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
4984 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
4985 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
4988 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
4989 --------------------------------
4992 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
4995 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
4996 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
4999 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
5000 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
5003 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
5006 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5007 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5010 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5013 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5016 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5017 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5021 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5022 --------------------------------
5025 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5026 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5030 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5031 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5032 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5034 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5035 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5038 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5041 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5044 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5045 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5049 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5050 --------------------------------
5053 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5054 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5058 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5059 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5060 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5061 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
5062 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
5065 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
5066 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
5067 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
5070 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
5071 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
5072 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
5075 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
5076 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
5077 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
5078 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
5079 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
5082 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
5083 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
5084 * A new CORBA control plugin.
5087 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
5090 * Improved build system.
5091 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
5092 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
5093 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
5094 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
5097 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
5098 --------------------------------
5101 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
5104 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
5105 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
5106 * Fixed large file support on Windows
5107 * Video 4 Linux support
5108 * CD Digital Audio support
5109 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
5112 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
5113 * Support for OpenDML avi files
5114 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
5115 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
5118 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
5119 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
5120 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
5121 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
5122 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
5123 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
5124 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
5127 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
5128 * New HTTP remote control interface
5131 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
5132 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
5133 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
5134 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
5135 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
5138 * New reset option for the preferences
5139 * You can set your language in the prefences
5140 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
5141 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
5142 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
5143 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
5146 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
5147 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
5148 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
5151 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
5152 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
5153 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
5154 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
5155 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
5156 * New icons by Davor Orel.
5157 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
5158 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
5159 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
5160 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
5163 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
5164 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
5165 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
5166 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
5167 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
5168 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
5169 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
5172 * Interface localization
5173 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
5174 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
5175 * New full-featured Preferences window
5178 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
5179 --------------------------------
5182 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
5183 * support for skins at the interface level
5184 * new OSD module using Freetype2
5185 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
5186 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
5187 input level before dropping out of date frames.
5188 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
5191 * fixed HTTP redirects
5192 * support for opening an entire directory
5193 * EOF should be detected more reliably
5194 * new video4linux access plug-in
5195 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
5198 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5199 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5200 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5203 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5204 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5205 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5206 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5207 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5208 * new codec for raw I420 video
5209 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5212 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5213 (although it still misses some important features)
5214 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5217 * new HTTP output support
5218 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5219 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5222 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5225 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5228 * reorderable playlist
5229 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5230 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5231 * support for mono audio output devices
5232 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5233 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5234 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5235 * the messages window remembers more lines
5236 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5237 * http and ogg stream output options
5238 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5241 * new skinnable interface
5242 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5244 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5245 * support for FLAC audio format
5246 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5248 * network tab in the interface
5249 * "apply" handling in preferences
5252 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5253 ---------------------------------
5256 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5257 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5258 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5259 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5261 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5262 * DTS S/PDIF support
5265 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5266 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5267 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5268 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5271 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5272 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5275 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5278 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5281 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5283 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5284 * rc interface is now fully useable
5285 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5288 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5289 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5290 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5291 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5292 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5294 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5295 * support for mouse gestures
5296 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5299 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5300 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5303 * improved ID3 tag detection
5304 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5305 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5306 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5308 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5311 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5312 ---------------------------------
5315 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5316 English was set as the preferred language
5319 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5320 --------------------------------
5323 * new mouse gesture interface
5324 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5328 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5329 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5330 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5333 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5334 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5338 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5341 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5342 without the user consent
5345 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5347 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5348 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5349 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5352 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5353 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5354 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5355 * playlist enhancements
5356 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5357 * new step forward/step backward commands
5358 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5359 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5360 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5363 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5364 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5365 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5368 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5369 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5372 * native video output is working again
5373 * only commandline interface support
5374 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5377 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5378 --------------------------------
5381 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5382 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5383 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5384 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5385 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5386 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5387 and A/52 streams are supported)
5388 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5393 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5394 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5395 * VCD entry points support
5396 * VCD image file support
5399 * support for *.asf format
5400 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5401 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5402 * support for ogg encapsulation
5403 * support for raw DV format
5404 * support for *.wav format
5405 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5408 Stream discovery & playlists:
5409 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5410 * support for .m3u file format
5411 * support for .asx file format
5412 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5415 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5416 (only available with the .avi demux)
5417 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5418 * support for raw PCM data
5419 * support for Cinepak video codec
5420 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5421 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5422 * support for Xvid codec
5423 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5424 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5425 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5427 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5429 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5432 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5435 * new WxWindows interface
5436 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5437 device and the channels configuration
5438 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5439 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5440 format that VLC can play
5441 * new swedish translation
5442 * enhancements of the playlist window
5443 * new messages window to see debug info
5444 * fixed a few crashes
5447 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5448 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5449 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5450 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working