1 Changes between 2.2.x and 3.0.0-git:
2 --------------------------------
5 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
6 * New SMB access module using libdsm
9 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
12 Changes between 2.1.x and 2.2.0:
13 --------------------------------
16 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
19 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
20 * Add extensions download from external repositories
21 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
22 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
25 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access.
26 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes.
27 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
28 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
30 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
31 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
34 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
35 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
36 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
37 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
38 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
39 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
40 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
41 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
42 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
43 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
44 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
45 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
46 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
47 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
48 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
49 * New jpeg image decoder
50 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
51 * New SVG image decoder
52 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
53 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
54 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
57 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
58 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
59 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
60 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
61 * New png image encoder using libpng
64 * New CAF format module
65 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
66 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
67 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
68 synchronization and tracks exclusion
69 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
70 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
73 * Basic support for WebVTT
74 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
75 * Support HDPR TS files
76 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
77 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
78 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
79 * Fix encoding issues in some XML playlist formats
80 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
81 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
82 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
83 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
84 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
85 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
86 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
87 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
88 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
89 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
92 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
93 * Fixes for the AVI muxer for specification respect
95 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
98 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
99 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
100 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
101 * New Android native window provider module
102 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
103 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
104 * Add mmal based video output
107 * New Oldmovie effect filter
108 * New VHS effect filter
109 * New Freeze effect filter
110 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
111 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
112 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
115 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
116 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
117 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
118 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
119 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
120 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
123 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
124 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
125 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
126 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
127 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
128 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
129 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
130 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
131 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
133 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
134 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
135 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
138 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
139 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
142 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
143 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
146 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
147 * Add record button in Qt menus
148 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
149 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
150 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and MacOS
153 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
154 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
155 * Fixes for advanced preferences
156 * Option to increase playlist font size
159 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
160 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
161 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
164 * ios video output: use ios2
165 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
166 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
169 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
170 --------------------------------
173 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
176 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
179 * Fix DVD playback regression
180 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
181 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
184 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
185 --------------------------------
188 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
189 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
192 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
193 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
194 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
197 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
198 by updating codec libraries
199 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
200 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
201 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
204 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
205 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
206 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
207 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
210 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
211 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
214 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
215 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
216 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
217 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
218 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
221 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
222 * Fix record file names
225 * Fix minimal size possible on start
226 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
227 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
228 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
229 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
232 * Fix album art display on Windows
235 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
236 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
237 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
238 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
239 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
240 and Simplified Chinese translations
241 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
244 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
245 --------------------------------
248 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
249 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
250 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
251 audio devices on OS X
252 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
253 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
256 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
257 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
260 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
261 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
264 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
267 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
268 * Improve A-B loop control
269 * Fix album art update when changing media
272 * Add a language option in the interface
273 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
274 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
275 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
276 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
277 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
278 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
279 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
282 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
285 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
286 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
287 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
288 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
291 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
292 --------------------------------
295 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
297 * Fix some subtitles track selection
300 * VP9 support in WebM
301 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
302 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
305 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
306 * Support Speex in ogg files
307 * Fix some .mov playlists support
308 * Support Alac in mkv
309 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
310 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
313 * Fix DVB options parsing
314 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
315 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
318 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
319 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
322 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
323 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
326 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
327 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
328 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
329 * Fix play after drag'n drop
330 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
333 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
334 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
337 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
338 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
341 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
342 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
343 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
344 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
345 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
346 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
347 * Improves interface resizings
350 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
351 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
352 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
353 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
354 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
358 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
359 --------------------------------
362 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
363 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
364 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
365 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
366 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
368 3rd party libraries (contrib):
369 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
372 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
373 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
374 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
375 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
376 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
379 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
380 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
384 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
385 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
386 * Support for Ulead DV audio
387 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
388 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
389 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
390 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
391 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
392 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
393 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
394 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
395 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
396 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
399 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
400 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
401 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
404 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
405 remove support for previous OS X releases
406 * Major improvements in DASH support
407 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
408 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
409 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
410 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
411 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
412 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
413 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
414 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
415 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
416 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
417 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
420 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
421 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
422 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
423 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
424 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
425 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
426 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
427 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
428 * Support for more MJPEG streams
429 * Add support for liveleak streams
430 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
431 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
432 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
435 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
436 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
437 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
438 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
439 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
440 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
441 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
442 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
443 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
444 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
445 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
448 * New remapping channel filter
449 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
450 * New VSXu visualization plugin
451 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
452 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
453 * New gain audio filter
456 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
457 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
458 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
459 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
460 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
461 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
462 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
463 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
464 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
467 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
468 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
469 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
470 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
471 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
472 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
473 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
476 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
477 * Options support for AVIO output module
478 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
479 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
480 * Livehttp stream encryption support
481 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
482 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
485 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
488 * configurable password for the HTTP server
489 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
490 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
491 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
492 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
493 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
494 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
495 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
499 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
502 * Add support for multiple video outputs
503 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
505 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
506 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
507 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
508 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
509 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
510 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
511 VLC's internal volume level
512 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
514 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
515 selection and to manage the list of presets
516 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
517 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
518 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
519 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
520 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
521 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
522 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
523 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
524 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
525 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
527 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
528 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
529 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
530 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
531 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
532 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
533 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
534 3rd party applications
535 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
536 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
537 (system-wide settings)
538 * Add support for the Video Title option
539 * Add support for the Boss Key
540 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
541 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
544 * Partial support for Qt5.0
545 * Menus modifications and improvements
546 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
547 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
548 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
549 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
550 * EPG display fixes and improvements
551 * Add SD pixmap sources
552 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
553 * Display playlist total duration
554 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
555 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
556 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
561 * Extend sliders, offsets options
562 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
563 * Numerous fixes and improvements
564 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
567 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
568 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
569 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
570 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
571 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
572 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
573 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
574 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
575 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
576 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
579 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
580 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
581 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
582 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
583 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
584 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
586 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
587 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
588 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
589 * Broken crop video filter
591 * OSD parser and menu
592 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
593 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
594 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
595 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
599 * Update of all translations
602 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
603 --------------------------------
606 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
607 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
610 * Fix modplug security issues
613 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
614 --------------------------------
618 * Fix crash in QTsound
619 * Fix screen mouse file location
620 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
623 * Fix use after free in sgimb
624 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
627 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
630 * Fix interface crashes
631 * Fix autostart playback option
632 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
635 * update Welsh translation
636 * New Kannada translation
639 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
640 --------------------------------
643 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
644 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
648 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
651 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
654 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
657 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
661 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
664 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
667 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
668 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
669 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
672 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
673 --------------------------------
676 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
679 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
682 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
683 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
684 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
685 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
686 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
687 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
690 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
691 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
692 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
693 * 3rd party codecs updates
696 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
697 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
698 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
699 in the advanced preferences panel
700 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
701 * Fix crash within the video output code
702 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
703 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
704 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
705 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
707 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
710 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
713 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
714 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
717 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
720 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
721 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
722 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
723 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
724 Dutch, Danish, translations
725 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
728 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
729 --------------------------------
732 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
735 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
736 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
737 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
740 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
741 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
742 * Fix koreus lua parser
743 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
744 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
745 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
746 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
749 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
750 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
753 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
756 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
757 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
758 * Fix Time counter UI look
759 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
762 * Fix https streaming
765 * Fix audio and video track selection:
766 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
767 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
770 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
771 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
772 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
773 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
774 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
777 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
778 --------------------------------
781 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
782 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
783 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
784 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
785 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
786 during playback on Mac OS X
789 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
790 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
791 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
794 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
795 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
796 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
797 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
798 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
801 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
802 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
803 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
804 * Support Youtube live streams
807 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
810 * Fix media info dialog update
811 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
812 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
813 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
814 * Fix album art display at start
817 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
818 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
819 * Fix menus display and behavior
820 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
821 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
822 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
823 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
824 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
825 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
826 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
829 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
830 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
831 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
832 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
833 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
834 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
835 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
836 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
837 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
840 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
841 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
842 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
843 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
844 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
847 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
848 --------------------------------
851 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
854 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
855 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
858 * Add GateKeeper support
859 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
860 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
861 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
864 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
867 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
868 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
869 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
870 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
871 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
874 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
875 --------------------------------
878 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
879 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
880 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
881 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
882 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
883 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
884 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
885 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
886 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
887 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
888 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
892 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
893 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
894 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
895 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
896 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
897 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
898 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
899 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
900 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
901 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
902 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
903 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
906 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
907 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
909 * Fix MP3 free format support
912 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
913 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
914 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
915 * Fix for DVB channels file support
916 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
919 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
920 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
922 Audio filters and output:
923 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
924 * Fix DirectSound device selection
925 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
926 * Do not apply volume in file output
927 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
928 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
931 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
932 the persistant media library
933 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
934 to the media library or the temporary playlist
935 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
936 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
937 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
938 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
939 press on the Play/Pause button
940 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
941 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
942 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
943 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
944 * Many Fullscreen fixes
945 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
946 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
947 Synchronization panel
948 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
949 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
950 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
951 * Fix crashes on exit
952 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
954 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
955 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
956 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
957 automatically reset on the first launch.
958 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
959 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
960 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
963 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
964 * Fixes for icecast SD
967 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
968 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
969 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
970 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
971 * Fix tags and file names display
972 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
975 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
976 * Fix for key events and focus loss
979 * Fix display of some buttons
980 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
981 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
984 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
985 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
986 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
989 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
990 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
991 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
992 Thai translations update
993 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
996 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
997 --------------------------------
1000 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
1001 * fix the samba module compilation
1002 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1003 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
1004 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
1005 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
1008 * Support for MXPEG files
1009 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
1010 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
1013 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
1014 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
1015 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
1018 * Fix ogm header creation
1021 * limit spatializer filter distortions
1022 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
1025 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
1026 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
1027 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
1028 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
1031 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
1034 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
1035 * allow to hide the sidebar
1036 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
1037 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
1038 * noticebly faster launch time
1039 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
1040 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
1041 * improve track synchronization panel
1042 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
1043 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
1046 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
1047 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
1048 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
1049 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
1052 * fix for menus display
1053 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
1054 * documentation update
1057 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
1058 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
1061 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
1062 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
1063 * Update Jamendo selections
1067 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
1068 * fix a crash on VLM close
1071 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
1072 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
1073 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
1074 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
1077 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
1080 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
1081 ---------------------------------
1084 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1085 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
1086 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
1087 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
1088 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
1089 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
1090 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
1091 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
1092 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
1093 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
1094 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
1095 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
1096 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
1097 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
1098 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
1099 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
1100 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
1101 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
1102 --http-crl (optional CRL).
1103 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
1104 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
1105 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
1106 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
1107 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
1108 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
1109 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
1111 Important changes for packagers:
1112 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
1113 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
1114 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
1115 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
1116 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
1117 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
1118 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
1119 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
1120 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
1121 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
1124 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
1125 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
1126 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
1127 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
1128 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
1129 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
1130 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
1133 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
1134 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
1135 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
1136 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
1137 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
1138 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
1139 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
1140 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
1141 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
1142 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
1143 * PulseAudio audio input support
1144 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
1145 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
1146 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
1147 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
1148 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
1149 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
1150 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
1151 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
1154 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
1155 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
1156 are notably concerned.
1157 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
1158 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
1159 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
1160 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
1161 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
1162 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
1163 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
1164 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
1165 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
1166 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
1167 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
1168 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
1169 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
1170 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
1171 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
1174 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
1175 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
1176 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
1177 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
1178 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
1179 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
1180 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
1181 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
1182 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
1183 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
1184 * Improved support of tracker files
1185 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
1188 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
1189 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
1190 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
1191 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
1192 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
1193 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
1194 and important cleanups and optimisations
1195 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
1196 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
1197 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
1198 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
1199 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
1200 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
1201 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
1202 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
1203 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
1204 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
1205 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
1206 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
1207 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
1208 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
1209 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
1210 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
1211 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
1212 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
1213 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
1214 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
1215 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
1218 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
1219 * New video output for iOS platform
1220 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
1221 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
1222 * Various vmem improvements
1223 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
1224 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
1225 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
1226 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
1227 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
1228 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
1230 Audio Output and Filters:
1231 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
1232 * New audio output in memory (amem)
1233 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
1234 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
1235 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
1236 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
1237 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
1238 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
1239 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
1240 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
1243 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
1244 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
1245 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
1246 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
1247 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
1248 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
1249 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
1250 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
1251 * New anti-flickering filter
1252 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
1253 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
1254 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
1255 blackbox and customizable shadow.
1256 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
1257 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
1258 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
1261 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
1262 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
1263 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
1264 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
1265 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
1266 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
1267 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
1268 * Major rework of VoD support
1269 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
1270 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
1271 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
1272 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
1273 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
1274 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
1275 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
1276 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
1277 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
1278 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
1281 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
1282 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
1285 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1286 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
1287 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
1288 list of available audio and video filters
1289 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
1290 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
1291 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
1294 * asademux, subsass: use libass
1295 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
1296 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
1297 * id3tag: use taglib
1298 * upnp: use upnp_intel
1299 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
1300 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
1301 * removal of the noise filter
1302 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
1303 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
1304 removed in Growl's next release, too.
1305 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
1308 * Update of translations for most languages.
1309 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
1312 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
1313 ----------------------------------
1316 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
1317 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
1320 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
1321 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
1324 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
1325 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
1326 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
1329 * Camtasia decoding fix.
1332 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
1333 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
1336 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
1339 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
1340 ----------------------------------
1343 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
1344 including support for OS X Lion
1345 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
1346 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
1349 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
1352 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
1353 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
1354 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
1357 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
1360 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
1361 ----------------------------------
1364 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
1365 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
1368 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
1369 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
1370 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
1371 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
1372 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
1374 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
1375 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
1376 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
1378 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
1379 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
1382 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
1385 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
1388 * Fix quitting on Linux
1389 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
1393 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
1396 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
1399 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
1400 ---------------------------------
1402 Windows and Mac OS X:
1403 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
1406 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
1407 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
1410 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
1413 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
1416 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
1418 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1419 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
1421 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
1422 * RTP output and XML export
1423 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
1427 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
1428 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
1429 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
1430 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
1433 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
1434 --------------------------------
1436 Windows and Mac OS X:
1437 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
1440 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
1443 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
1444 * Improve Apple Remote handling
1445 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
1446 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
1447 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
1448 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
1451 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
1452 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
1456 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
1457 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
1458 * New Luganda Translation
1461 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
1462 --------------------------------
1465 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
1468 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
1469 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
1470 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
1471 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
1474 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
1476 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
1477 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
1478 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
1479 * mp4 demuxer improvements
1480 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
1481 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
1482 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
1483 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
1485 Miscellaneous fixes in:
1486 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
1487 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
1488 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
1489 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
1490 * Configure and build system improvements
1491 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
1494 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
1495 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
1496 * New icelandic translation
1499 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
1500 --------------------------------
1503 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
1504 #234484 and #260719.
1507 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
1508 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
1509 and stability reasons
1512 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
1516 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
1519 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
1520 ----------------------------------
1523 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
1526 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
1527 ---------------------------------
1530 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
1531 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
1532 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
1533 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
1536 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
1539 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
1540 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
1541 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
1542 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
1545 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
1546 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
1547 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
1549 Subtitles and renderer:
1550 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
1551 * Mark more freetype options as safe
1552 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
1553 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
1554 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
1557 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
1558 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
1559 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
1560 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
1563 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
1564 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
1566 Miscellaneous fixes:
1567 * KDE device solid actions
1569 * Transcode integer overflow
1570 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
1571 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
1574 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
1575 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
1576 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
1579 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
1580 ----------------------------------
1583 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
1587 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
1590 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
1593 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
1594 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
1595 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
1596 * Taglib thread-safety fix
1599 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
1603 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
1606 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
1609 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
1610 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
1612 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
1616 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
1617 * Miscellaneous fixes
1620 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
1621 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
1622 French and Ukrainian
1623 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
1624 * New Asturian translation
1627 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
1628 ----------------------------------
1631 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
1633 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
1636 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
1639 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
1640 * Various fixes for Windows
1643 * New Armenian translation
1644 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
1645 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
1648 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
1649 --------------------------------
1652 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
1653 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
1654 * Fix folders opening from the interface
1657 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
1658 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
1661 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
1662 --------------------------------
1664 Access and demuxers:
1665 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
1666 * fix for podcasts parsing
1667 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
1670 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
1671 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
1674 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
1675 * fix m3u playlists exports
1678 * fix video autoresize behaviour
1681 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
1684 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
1687 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
1690 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
1693 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
1694 --------------------------------
1697 * Avformat fps displaying fix
1698 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
1701 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
1702 of mono streams, especially on Windows
1705 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
1706 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
1707 * fix console output encoding
1709 Interface and extensions:
1710 * Youtube and other scripts updates
1711 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
1714 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
1715 --------------------------------
1718 * New capabilities for libVLC:
1719 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
1720 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
1721 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
1722 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
1723 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
1724 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
1725 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
1726 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
1727 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
1728 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
1729 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
1730 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
1731 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
1732 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
1733 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
1737 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
1738 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
1739 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
1740 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
1741 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
1744 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
1747 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
1748 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
1749 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
1753 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
1756 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
1757 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
1758 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
1761 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
1762 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
1763 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
1764 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
1767 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
1768 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
1771 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
1772 --------------------------------
1774 Important changes for users:
1775 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
1776 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
1778 Important changes for packagers:
1779 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
1780 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
1781 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
1782 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
1783 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
1785 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
1787 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
1788 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
1789 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
1790 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
1791 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
1794 * Support for the sftp protocol
1795 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
1796 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
1797 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
1798 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
1799 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
1802 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
1803 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
1804 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
1806 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
1807 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
1808 * Invmem module improvements
1809 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
1810 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
1811 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
1812 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
1813 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
1814 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
1815 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
1816 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
1817 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
1818 * Support for VP8 codec
1819 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
1822 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
1823 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
1824 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
1825 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
1826 * Various EGP improvements
1827 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
1828 * Metadata and cover art improvements
1831 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
1832 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
1833 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
1834 * Podcast images are now displayed
1837 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
1838 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
1839 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
1840 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
1841 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
1842 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
1843 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
1844 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
1845 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
1846 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
1847 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
1850 * New content extensions lua framework
1853 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
1854 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
1855 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
1856 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
1857 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
1858 * NEON assembly audio converter module
1859 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
1862 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
1863 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
1864 * Service discovery based on libudev
1865 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
1868 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
1869 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
1870 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
1871 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
1872 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
1873 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
1874 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
1877 * New smem module, streaming to memory
1878 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
1879 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
1882 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
1884 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
1885 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
1888 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
1891 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
1892 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
1893 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
1894 by Andy Matuschak et al.
1895 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
1896 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
1897 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
1900 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
1901 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
1904 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
1905 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
1906 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
1910 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
1911 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
1912 * Improved Solaris port
1915 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
1916 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
1919 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
1920 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
1921 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
1922 * transrate: broken since too long
1923 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
1924 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
1925 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
1926 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
1927 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
1928 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
1929 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
1930 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
1931 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
1932 * cddax: use cdda instead.
1933 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
1934 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
1935 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
1936 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
1939 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
1940 --------------------------------
1943 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
1945 Decoders/Packetizers:
1946 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
1949 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
1950 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
1951 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
1952 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
1953 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
1956 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
1957 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
1960 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
1961 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
1964 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
1965 and Walloon translations updated
1966 * Sinhala translation started
1969 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
1970 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
1973 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
1974 --------------------------------
1977 * SubRip extra styles improvements
1978 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
1981 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
1984 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
1985 increase performance and fix x264 issues
1988 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
1989 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
1990 Russian, Slovak translation updates
1991 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
1994 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
1995 --------------------------------
1998 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
1999 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
2002 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
2003 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
2006 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
2007 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
2010 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
2013 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
2014 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
2017 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
2018 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
2021 * New Walloon translation
2022 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
2025 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
2026 --------------------------------
2029 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
2030 regressions in most popular drivers
2031 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
2034 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
2035 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
2036 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
2039 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
2040 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
2043 * Update for appletrailers lua script
2044 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
2045 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
2046 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
2047 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
2050 * New udev module for linux
2053 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
2056 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
2059 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
2060 --------------------------------
2063 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
2064 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
2065 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
2068 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
2069 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
2072 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
2073 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
2076 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
2079 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
2080 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
2081 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
2082 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
2085 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
2086 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
2087 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
2088 - no support for Goom and SDL
2089 - limited text rendering support
2090 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
2093 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
2094 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
2095 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
2096 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
2097 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
2098 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
2099 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
2100 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
2101 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
2105 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
2108 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
2111 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
2112 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
2113 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
2114 Arabic and French translation updates
2117 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
2118 --------------------------------
2121 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
2122 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
2123 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
2124 * Fix Dailymotion access script
2125 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
2126 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
2129 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
2130 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2131 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2134 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
2135 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
2136 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
2139 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
2142 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
2143 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
2146 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
2147 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
2148 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2149 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
2150 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
2151 * Fix various crashes
2154 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
2156 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
2160 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
2161 ---------------------------------
2165 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
2166 See 'Access:' for more info.
2167 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
2170 * Instantaneous pausing
2171 * Frame-by-Frame playback
2172 * Finer speed control
2173 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
2174 * Timeshift for most medias
2175 * RTSP trickplay support
2176 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
2179 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
2180 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
2181 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
2182 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
2183 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
2184 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
2185 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
2186 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
2187 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
2188 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
2191 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
2192 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
2193 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
2194 * Metadata for mod files are supported
2195 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
2196 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
2197 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
2200 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
2201 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
2204 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
2205 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
2206 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
2207 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
2208 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
2209 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
2210 * DVB scanning on linux
2211 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
2212 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
2213 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
2214 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
2215 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
2216 * MTP device access on Unix
2217 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
2218 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
2221 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
2222 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
2223 Windows and Mac OS X.
2226 * Export the playlist in HTML
2227 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
2228 * Better metadata handling and reading
2230 Linux/Windows interface:
2231 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
2232 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
2233 * Recently played items list
2234 * Interface toolbar customizations
2235 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
2236 - More menus actions
2237 - Finer speed slider
2238 - Improvements on many dialogs
2239 - New dialog for plugins listing
2240 - Fixed-size mode for videos
2241 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
2242 * Better integration in GTK environments
2245 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
2246 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
2247 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
2248 * Additional usability improvements
2251 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
2252 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
2253 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
2254 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
2255 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
2258 * New Maemo port with:
2259 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
2260 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
2263 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
2266 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
2267 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
2268 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
2269 * Support for latest iSight models
2272 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
2273 * Surround support for PulseAudio
2276 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
2277 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
2278 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
2279 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
2280 The old image video output has been removed.
2281 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
2282 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
2285 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
2293 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
2294 --------------------------------------
2300 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
2301 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
2302 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
2303 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
2304 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
2305 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
2306 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
2308 Various fixes to the following modules:
2311 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
2312 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
2313 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
2315 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
2320 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
2321 ---------------------------------
2324 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
2325 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
2328 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
2329 ---------------------------------
2332 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
2335 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
2338 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
2339 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
2340 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
2341 main controller window.
2342 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
2345 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
2350 * Updates of other localizations
2353 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
2354 * Lots of small bugfixes.
2355 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
2356 * Telnet fixes on Windows
2357 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
2360 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
2361 ---------------------------------
2364 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
2366 Bunch of small bugfixes.
2369 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
2370 --------------------------------
2375 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
2376 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
2379 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
2380 --------------------------------
2382 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
2383 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
2386 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
2389 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
2390 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
2393 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
2394 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
2397 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
2398 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
2399 * Various fixed in playlist
2402 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
2405 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
2408 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
2409 ------------------------------------
2411 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
2412 * Fixes several memory leaks.
2415 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
2416 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
2417 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
2420 * Stability fix for the video output.
2423 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
2424 --------------------------------
2427 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
2428 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
2429 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
2430 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
2431 * Fixed update system bugs
2432 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
2435 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
2436 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
2437 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
2438 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
2439 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
2440 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
2441 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
2442 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
2443 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
2444 modern Mac OS X versions
2447 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
2448 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
2450 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
2451 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
2454 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
2455 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
2456 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
2457 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
2458 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
2459 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
2462 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
2463 --------------------------------
2465 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
2466 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
2467 * Multiple bugfixes.
2470 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
2471 --------------------------------
2473 * Multiple bug fixes.
2476 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
2477 ---------------------------------
2481 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
2482 recent to work correctly
2483 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
2484 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
2485 edit the ".hosts" file.
2486 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
2487 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
2488 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
2489 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
2490 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
2491 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
2492 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
2493 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
2494 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
2495 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
2496 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
2497 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
2498 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
2499 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
2500 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
2501 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
2502 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
2503 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
2504 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
2505 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
2506 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
2507 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
2508 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
2509 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2510 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
2511 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
2512 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
2513 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
2514 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
2515 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
2516 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
2517 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
2518 and postproc modules.
2519 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
2520 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
2521 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
2522 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
2524 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
2525 filter. For example:
2526 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
2527 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
2529 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
2530 * Glide video output module has been removed.
2536 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
2538 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
2539 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
2542 * Vastly improved playlist support:
2543 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
2545 * Shoutcast TV listings
2546 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
2548 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
2549 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
2551 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
2554 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
2555 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
2556 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
2557 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
2558 * JACK audio input support
2559 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
2560 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
2561 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
2562 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
2563 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
2564 * Experimental EyeTV access module
2565 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
2566 (available as a separate download).
2567 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
2568 * RTMP input support
2569 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
2570 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
2571 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
2573 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
2574 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
2577 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
2578 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
2579 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
2580 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
2582 * APEv1/2 tags support
2583 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
2584 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
2586 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
2587 * TiVo Series 2 support
2588 * CD+G karaoke Files support
2593 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
2594 * Flash Screen Video support
2595 * CamStudio Screen Video support
2596 * DosBox Capture support
2597 * Karl Morton's Video support
2598 * limited atrac3 support
2600 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
2601 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
2602 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
2603 * H.264 PAFF support
2604 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
2605 * NellyMoser ASAO support
2606 * APE (Monkey audio) support
2607 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
2608 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
2611 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
2612 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
2613 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
2614 * AQTitle subtitles support
2615 * MKV USF subtitles support
2616 * HTML-based subtitles support
2617 * MPSub subtitles support
2618 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
2619 * MPL2 subtitles support
2620 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
2621 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
2622 * Realtext subtitle support
2623 * DKS subtitle support
2624 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
2625 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
2628 * Flash Screen Video support
2629 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
2631 Video outputs and filters:
2632 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
2633 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
2634 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
2635 * New puzzle video output filter
2636 * Re-written motion detection video filter
2637 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
2639 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
2640 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
2641 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
2642 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
2643 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
2644 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
2645 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2646 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
2647 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
2648 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
2649 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
2650 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
2651 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
2652 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
2654 Audio outputs and filters:
2655 * Replay gain support
2656 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
2657 new scaletempo audio filter)
2658 * New spatializer audio filter
2659 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
2662 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
2663 * New RTP payload formats:
2664 * Speex voice audio codec
2665 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
2666 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
2667 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
2668 * DCCP transport for RTP
2669 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
2674 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
2675 end-user suitable way.
2676 * Improved user interaction
2677 * Improved mouse gestures
2678 * Vastly improved Update checker
2679 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
2681 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
2682 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
2684 * Improved video output features
2685 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
2686 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
2687 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
2688 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
2689 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
2691 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
2692 if libncursesw is available.
2693 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
2694 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
2695 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
2697 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
2698 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
2699 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
2700 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
2701 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
2702 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
2703 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
2704 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
2707 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
2708 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
2709 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
2712 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
2713 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
2714 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
2715 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2716 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
2717 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
2720 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
2721 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
2731 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
2732 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
2733 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
2736 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
2737 ----------------------------------
2740 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
2743 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
2744 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
2745 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2746 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
2747 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
2748 * Updated Polish translation
2751 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
2752 ----------------------------------
2755 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
2756 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
2757 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
2760 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
2761 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
2762 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
2763 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
2764 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
2765 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
2766 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
2767 to an unexpected application termination
2768 * New Serbian translation
2769 * Updated Romanian translation
2772 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
2773 ----------------------------------
2776 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
2777 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
2778 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
2779 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
2780 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
2781 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
2782 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
2783 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
2786 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
2787 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
2788 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
2789 * Fixed AAC resampling
2790 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
2791 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
2794 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
2795 ----------------------------------
2798 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
2799 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
2800 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
2801 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
2802 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
2805 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
2806 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
2807 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
2808 * Close MMS access on network timeout
2809 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
2812 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
2813 ----------------------------------
2816 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
2817 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
2820 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
2821 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
2822 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
2823 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
2825 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
2829 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
2832 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
2835 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
2838 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
2841 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
2842 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
2843 encoding on multi-cpu systems
2844 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
2845 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
2847 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2848 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
2849 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
2850 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
2853 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
2856 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
2857 ----------------------------------
2860 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
2861 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
2862 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
2864 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
2865 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
2867 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
2868 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
2871 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
2873 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2874 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
2875 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
2876 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
2877 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
2878 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
2879 two different movies
2880 * Support for current Ogg file formats
2881 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
2882 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
2885 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
2888 * The automatic updating facility was removed
2889 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
2890 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
2891 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
2894 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
2895 ----------------------------------
2897 Various bugfixes, notably:
2898 * Windows Vista compatibility
2899 * Cropping in Direct3D
2900 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
2901 * RSS filter string overflow
2903 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
2905 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
2906 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
2909 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
2910 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
2913 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
2916 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
2919 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
2922 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
2923 ----------------------------------
2925 Various bugfixes, notably:
2926 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
2927 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
2928 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
2929 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
2930 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
2931 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
2934 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
2935 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
2938 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
2940 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
2941 * Diverse usability improvements
2942 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
2943 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
2944 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
2947 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
2948 ---------------------------------
2950 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
2951 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
2954 * Fullscreen controller improvements
2957 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
2958 --------------------------------
2961 * Shoutcast TV listings support
2964 * Support for RTSP authentication
2965 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
2966 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
2967 * ATSC support for DVB input
2968 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
2969 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
2970 * Improved support for Flash Video files
2973 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
2974 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
2975 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
2976 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
2977 * Matroska WavPack support
2978 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
2979 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
2980 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
2983 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
2984 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
2985 * Improved libcaca support
2989 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
2990 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
2992 * Systray support in skins
2994 * Support for Apple Remote control
2995 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2996 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
2997 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
2998 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
3000 * Notifications using notification-daemon
3003 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
3004 Windows 9x/ME users:
3005 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
3006 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
3007 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
3008 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
3009 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
3011 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
3012 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
3021 * Updates to the libvlc API
3022 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
3025 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
3026 --------------------------------
3029 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
3030 * Support for downloading updates
3034 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
3035 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
3036 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
3037 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
3039 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
3040 * Improved subtitles encoding support
3041 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
3044 * Cook (Real audio) support
3046 Playlist / Services discovery:
3047 * XSPF playlist support
3049 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
3052 * New JACK audio output
3055 * New video filters:
3056 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
3057 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
3058 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
3059 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
3060 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
3061 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
3064 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
3067 * System to inform the user and request information
3068 - HTTP authentication
3072 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
3073 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3074 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
3077 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
3078 - Improved playlist handling
3079 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
3081 - Embedded Video output
3082 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
3083 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
3084 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
3085 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
3086 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
3088 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
3089 - A bunch of new RPN functions
3092 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
3095 * Mac-Intel compatibility
3096 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
3097 * Growl "Now playing" support
3100 * Ability to log to syslog
3101 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
3104 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
3106 * A bit more automatic testing
3109 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
3110 ---------------------------------
3113 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
3114 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
3117 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
3118 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
3121 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
3124 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
3125 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
3131 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
3134 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
3135 --------------------------------
3138 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
3142 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
3143 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
3144 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
3147 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
3148 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
3149 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
3150 * GnomeVFS input module
3151 * Support for RTP packet reordering
3152 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
3155 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
3156 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
3157 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
3160 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
3161 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
3167 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
3168 Mixer and Dolby Surround
3171 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
3172 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
3173 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
3176 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
3178 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
3179 - New extended controls panel
3180 - New bookmarks window
3181 - Fixed playlist sorting
3182 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
3184 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
3185 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
3186 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
3187 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
3191 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
3192 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
3194 - Include macro to include other files
3198 * Should now work outside IE as well
3201 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
3204 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
3205 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
3208 The following languages were added:
3212 * Simplified Chinese
3213 The following languages were re-added:
3217 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
3218 --------------------------------
3221 * Rewrite of the playlist
3223 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
3224 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
3225 * Preferences improvements:
3226 - New organization, designed to improve usability
3227 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
3229 * Core image manipulation support
3230 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
3231 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
3232 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
3233 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
3234 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
3235 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
3236 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
3237 now separated by ':' instead of ','
3238 * Access filter architecture
3239 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
3240 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
3244 * Support for SOCKS proxy
3245 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
3246 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
3247 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
3248 * Better support for Kasenna streams
3249 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
3250 * Massive Matroska improvements
3251 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
3253 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
3254 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
3255 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
3256 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
3257 * Support for FTP over IPv6
3259 Decoders / Encoders:
3260 * Dirac decoder and encoder
3261 * PNG decoder/encoder
3262 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
3263 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
3266 * New Record and Timeshift filters
3269 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
3270 * Brand new SAP module
3271 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
3272 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
3273 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
3274 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
3275 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
3276 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
3280 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
3283 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
3284 * Image file video output (png)
3285 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
3286 * Improvements to wall video filter
3287 * Support for font color and opacity
3293 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
3294 - Seeking support in VoD streams
3295 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
3299 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
3300 - Improved preferences
3301 - Improvements to the wizard
3302 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
3304 - Redesigned playlist
3305 - Improved preferences
3307 - Support for multiple actions
3310 - Support for the new playlist system
3312 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
3315 * Screensaver disabling fix
3316 * DirectShow tuner configuration
3317 * Support for no-decoration windows
3320 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
3321 * The OpenGL video output is back
3322 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
3323 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
3324 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
3325 is not yet available in the new module
3326 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
3329 * Support for single-buffered overlay
3338 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
3341 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
3344 The following languages were added:
3350 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
3351 --------------------------------
3354 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
3355 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
3358 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
3359 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
3360 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
3363 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3366 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
3369 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
3372 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
3373 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
3374 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
3378 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
3380 * Support of playlist group announcement
3383 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
3384 --------------------------------
3387 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
3388 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
3389 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
3390 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
3391 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
3392 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
3395 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
3396 (Stream your desktop)
3397 * Improved DVD support:
3398 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
3399 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
3400 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
3401 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
3402 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
3403 (selection of titles/chapters).
3406 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
3407 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
3408 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
3409 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
3410 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
3411 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3412 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
3413 * Improved Ogg demuxer
3414 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
3415 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
3418 * G.726 audio support
3419 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
3420 * MPEG-4 text support
3421 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
3422 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
3423 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
3427 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
3428 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
3429 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
3430 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
3431 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
3432 * DVB subtitles encoder
3433 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
3434 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
3436 * Text track muxing for mp4
3437 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
3438 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
3439 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
3440 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
3441 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
3442 * Improved ASF muxer
3444 * H.263 RTP streaming support
3445 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
3446 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
3449 * New audio equalizer filter
3450 * Very trivial volume normalizer
3451 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
3452 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
3453 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
3456 * Roku HD1000 Video output
3457 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
3458 with support for effects.
3459 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
3460 - New filters can be streamed.
3461 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
3462 - Centralized scaling and blending
3464 - "time", to display current time
3465 - "marq", to display a marquee
3468 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
3469 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
3470 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
3471 * A few skins2 improvements
3472 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
3473 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
3474 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
3475 * Improved CORBA control module
3478 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
3479 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
3480 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
3483 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
3484 * Experimental SVG rendering module
3485 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
3488 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
3489 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
3490 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
3491 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
3492 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
3495 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
3498 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
3499 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
3502 * Server/client network synchronization module
3503 * VBrick streams fully supported
3504 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
3508 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
3509 --------------------------------
3512 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
3513 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
3514 * Improved HTTP daemon.
3515 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
3518 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
3519 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
3520 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
3521 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
3522 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
3523 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
3524 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
3527 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
3528 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
3529 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
3530 * Improved directory access module.
3531 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
3532 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
3533 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
3534 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
3535 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
3538 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
3539 * mmsh streaming fixes.
3540 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
3543 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
3544 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
3545 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
3548 * Improved session announcement system.
3549 * Minimize threads usage by default.
3550 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
3551 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
3552 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3553 * Improved transrater.
3554 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
3555 * New configuration system.
3556 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
3559 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
3560 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
3561 * Supports live streams and VoD.
3562 * Supports scheduling.
3563 * Telnet interface for vlm.
3564 * HTTP interface for vlm.
3567 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
3568 - Ability to embed video output.
3569 - Support for bitmap fonts.
3570 - Lots of improvements.
3571 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
3572 - New design and set of icons.
3573 - Ability to embed video output.
3574 - Support for hotkeys.
3575 - Support for bookmarks.
3577 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
3578 - Better hotkeys handling.
3581 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
3582 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
3583 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
3584 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
3587 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
3588 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
3589 * Improved Windows installer.
3595 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
3596 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
3599 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
3600 ---------------------------------
3603 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
3604 * Playing MOD files is working now.
3607 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
3608 --------------------------------
3611 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
3612 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
3615 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
3616 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
3617 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
3618 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
3621 * Internal improvments
3622 * Improved import/export
3625 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
3627 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
3628 small and strange formats.
3630 * New MOD audio demux.
3631 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
3632 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
3633 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
3634 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
3637 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
3638 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
3639 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
3645 * New opengl video output plugin.
3648 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
3649 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
3652 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
3653 --------------------------------
3656 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
3657 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
3658 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
3659 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
3660 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
3661 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
3662 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
3663 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
3666 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
3671 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
3672 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
3673 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
3674 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
3675 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
3676 * Reworked DVB tuning.
3677 * Better Icecast support.
3678 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
3679 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
3682 * Support for Theora video encoding.
3683 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
3684 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
3685 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
3686 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
3687 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
3688 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
3691 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
3692 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
3693 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
3694 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
3695 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
3696 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
3697 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
3698 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
3699 * Preliminary RTP support.
3700 * Fixes to SAP announces.
3705 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
3706 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
3708 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
3709 - Improvements and help in preferences
3710 - New streaming wizard
3711 - Revised Disc Open menu
3713 - Improvements of the standard pages
3714 - Support for new commands
3715 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
3718 * Many fixes to the SAP module
3719 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
3722 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
3723 * Text subtitles autodetection.
3724 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
3725 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
3726 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
3727 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
3728 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
3729 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
3730 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
3733 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
3735 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
3736 * Support for Panther.
3737 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
3738 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
3741 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
3742 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
3743 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3744 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
3745 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
3746 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
3747 * Multimonitor support (untested).
3748 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
3751 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
3752 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
3753 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
3756 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
3759 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
3760 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
3761 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
3762 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
3765 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
3766 --------------------------------
3769 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
3772 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
3773 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
3776 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
3777 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
3780 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
3783 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3784 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3787 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3790 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3793 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3794 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3798 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3799 --------------------------------
3802 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3803 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3807 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3808 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3809 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3811 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
3812 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
3815 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
3818 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
3821 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
3822 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
3826 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
3827 --------------------------------
3830 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
3831 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
3835 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
3836 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
3837 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
3838 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
3839 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
3842 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
3843 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
3844 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
3847 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
3848 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
3849 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
3852 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
3853 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
3854 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
3855 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
3856 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
3859 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
3860 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
3861 * A new CORBA control plugin.
3864 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
3867 * Improved build system.
3868 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
3869 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
3870 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
3871 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
3874 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
3875 --------------------------------
3878 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
3881 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
3882 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
3883 * Fixed large file support on Windows
3884 * Video 4 Linux support
3885 * CD Digital Audio support
3886 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
3889 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
3890 * Support for OpenDML avi files
3891 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
3892 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
3895 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
3896 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
3897 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
3898 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
3899 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
3900 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
3901 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
3904 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
3905 * New HTTP remote control interface
3908 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
3909 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
3910 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
3911 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
3912 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
3915 * New reset option for the preferences
3916 * You can set your language in the prefences
3917 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
3918 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
3919 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
3920 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
3923 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
3924 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
3925 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
3928 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
3929 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
3930 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
3931 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
3932 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
3933 * New icons by Davor Orel.
3934 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
3935 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
3936 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
3937 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
3940 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
3941 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
3942 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
3943 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
3944 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
3945 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
3946 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
3949 * Interface localization
3950 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
3951 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
3952 * New full-featured Preferences window
3955 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
3956 --------------------------------
3959 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
3960 * support for skins at the interface level
3961 * new OSD module using Freetype2
3962 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
3963 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
3964 input level before dropping out of date frames.
3965 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
3968 * fixed HTTP redirects
3969 * support for opening an entire directory
3970 * EOF should be detected more reliably
3971 * new video4linux access plug-in
3972 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
3975 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
3976 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
3977 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
3980 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
3981 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
3982 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
3983 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
3984 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
3985 * new codec for raw I420 video
3986 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
3989 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
3990 (although it still misses some important features)
3991 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
3994 * new HTTP output support
3995 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
3996 * fixed AV synchronization issues
3999 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
4002 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
4005 * reorderable playlist
4006 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
4007 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
4008 * support for mono audio output devices
4009 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
4010 * fixed several cosmetic issues
4011 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
4012 * the messages window remembers more lines
4013 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
4014 * http and ogg stream output options
4015 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
4018 * new skinnable interface
4019 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
4021 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
4022 * support for FLAC audio format
4023 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
4025 * network tab in the interface
4026 * "apply" handling in preferences
4029 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
4030 ---------------------------------
4033 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
4034 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
4035 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
4036 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
4038 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
4039 * DTS S/PDIF support
4042 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
4043 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
4044 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
4045 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
4048 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
4049 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
4052 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
4055 * fixed the GNU-pth support
4058 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
4060 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
4061 * rc interface is now fully useable
4062 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
4065 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
4066 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
4067 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
4068 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
4069 * VLC now uses the default audio device
4071 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
4072 * support for mouse gestures
4073 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
4076 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
4077 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
4080 * improved ID3 tag detection
4081 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
4082 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
4083 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
4085 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
4088 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
4089 ---------------------------------
4092 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
4093 English was set as the preferred language
4096 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
4097 --------------------------------
4100 * new mouse gesture interface
4101 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
4105 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
4106 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
4107 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
4110 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
4111 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
4115 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
4118 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
4119 without the user consent
4122 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
4124 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
4125 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
4126 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
4129 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
4130 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
4131 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
4132 * playlist enhancements
4133 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
4134 * new step forward/step backward commands
4135 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
4136 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
4137 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
4140 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
4141 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
4142 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
4145 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
4146 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
4149 * native video output is working again
4150 * only commandline interface support
4151 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
4154 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
4155 --------------------------------
4158 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
4159 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
4160 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
4161 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
4162 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
4163 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
4164 and A/52 streams are supported)
4165 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
4170 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
4171 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
4172 * VCD entry points support
4173 * VCD image file support
4176 * support for *.asf format
4177 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
4178 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
4179 * support for ogg encapsulation
4180 * support for raw DV format
4181 * support for *.wav format
4182 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
4185 Stream discovery & playlists:
4186 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
4187 * support for .m3u file format
4188 * support for .asx file format
4189 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
4192 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
4193 (only available with the .avi demux)
4194 * support for ADPCM audio codec
4195 * support for raw PCM data
4196 * support for Cinepak video codec
4197 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
4198 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
4199 * support for Xvid codec
4200 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
4201 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
4202 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
4204 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
4206 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
4209 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
4212 * new WxWindows interface
4213 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
4214 device and the channels configuration
4215 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
4216 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
4217 format that VLC can play
4218 * new swedish translation
4219 * enhancements of the playlist window
4220 * new messages window to see debug info
4221 * fixed a few crashes
4224 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
4225 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
4226 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
4227 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working