1 Changes between 3.0.x and 4.0.0-dev:
2 --------------------------------
4 Platform support changes:
6 - Windows 7/2008 R2 or later (with KB2533623 installed)
9 - Android 4.1.x or later (API-16)
10 - GCC 5.0 or Clang 3.4 (or equivalent)
11 * Windows on ARM is now supported
12 * Universal Windows is only supported for Windows 10 (not Windows 8 anymore)
15 * New output clock (internal):
16 - The input clock (PCR) or the audio output can drive the output clock
17 - By default, the audio output will drive the output clock: no more audio
18 resampling or flush when the audio is late or early
19 * New medialibrary (vlc_media_library.h)
20 * New player (vlc_player.h):
21 - Replace the input_thread_t API that is now internal
22 - One instance is used to play subsequent medias
23 - Allow multiple track selection
24 - Fix TOCTOU issues (the player lock is exposed)
25 * New mediatree and mediasource (vlc_media_source.h)
26 - Browse local network and service discoveries
27 * New playlist (vlc_playlist.h)
28 - Replace the previous one
29 - Flat, new random implementation
30 - Can't browse anymore (cf. mediatree)
31 * Add support for dual subtitles selection (via the player)
34 * ALSA: HDMI passthrough support.
35 Use --alsa-passthrough to configure S/PDIF or HDMI passthrough.
38 * Support for HEIF image and grid image formats
39 * Support for DASH WebM
40 * Support for DVBSUB in mkv
41 * Support for DAV video files
42 * Improved Bluray menus, clips and stream selection
43 * Support chapters in mp3 files
44 * Support for DMX audio music (MUS) files
47 * Support for experimental AV1 video encoding
49 * Remove iomx support for Android
51 * Support for SMPTE-TT image profile
52 * Support for 16-bit greyscale
53 * Support IMM4 decoder
57 * Add NVDEC hardware decoder
58 * Remove SDL_image support
61 * Enable SMB2 / SMB3 support on mobile ports with libsmb2
62 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
63 * Added support for the AMT (Automatic Multicast Tunneling) Protocol
64 * Added support for the Gopher Protocol
65 * Added avaudiocapture module as a replacement for qtsound, which is removed now
66 * Audio CD data tracks are now correctly detected and skipped
67 * Deprecates Audio CD CDDB lookups in favor of more accurate Musicbrainz
68 * Improved CD-TEXT and added Shift-JIS encoding support
69 * Support for YoutubeDL (where available).
72 * Added support for the RIST (Reliable Internet Stream Transport) Protocol
73 * Added support for HTTP PUT (HTTP upload)
76 * Added X11 RENDER video output plugin
79 * Remove omxil_vout plugin
80 * Remove RealRTSP plugin
81 * Remove Real demuxer plugin
82 * Fix washed out black on NVIDIA cards with Direct3D9
86 * Remove remote OSD plugin
89 * New SDI output with improved audio and ancillary support.
90 Candidate for deprecation of decklink vout/aout modules.
91 * Support for DLNA/UPNP renderers
94 * MP4 files are no longer faststart by default
97 * Support Renderer discovery with avahi
100 * Remove Growl notification support
101 * Improved AppleScript API with support for playback modes, recording, rate
104 * Improved proxy configuration handling
107 Changes between 3.0.9.2 and 3.0.10:
108 ----------------------------------
111 * Update Twitch & VLSub scripts
114 Changes between 3.0.9.1 and 3.0.9.2:
115 ----------------------------------
118 * Properly bump the version in configure.ac
121 Changes between 3.0.9 and 3.0.9.1:
122 ----------------------------------
125 * Fix VLSub returning 401 for earch request
128 Changes between 3.0.8 and 3.0.9:
129 ----------------------------------
132 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item through VLM
135 * Multiple dvdread and dvdnav crashs fixes
136 * Fixed DVD glitches on clip change
137 * Fixed dvdread commands/data sequence inversion in some cases causing
139 * Better handling of authored as corrupted DVD
140 * Added libsmb2 support for SMB2/3 shares
143 * Fix TTML entities not passed to decoder
144 * Fixed some WebVTT styling tags being not applied
145 * Misc raw H264/HEVC frame rate fixes
146 * Fix adaptive regression on TS format change (mostly HLS)
147 * Fixed MP4 regression with twos/sowt PCM audio
148 * Fixed some MP4 raw quicktime and ms-PCM audio
149 * Fixed MP4 interlacing handling
150 * Multiple adaptive stack (DASH/HLS/Smooth) fixes
151 * Enabled Live seeking for HLS
152 * Fixed seeking in some cases for HLS
153 * Improved Live playback for Smooth and DASH
154 * Fixed adaptive unwanted end of stream in some cases
155 * Faster adaptive start and new buffering control options
158 * Fixes H264/HEVC incomplete draining in some cases
159 * packetizer_helper: Fix potential trailing junk on last packet
160 * Added missing drain in packetizers that was causing missing
162 * Improved check to prevent fLAC synchronization drops
165 * avcodec: revector video decoder to fix incomplete drain
166 * spudec: implemented palette updates, fixing missing subtitles
168 * Fixed WebVTT CSS styling not being applied on Windows/macOS
169 * Fixed Hebrew teletext pages support in zvbi
170 * Fixed Dav1d aborting decoding on corrupted picture
171 * Extract and display of all CEA708 subtitles
172 * Update libfaad to 2.9.1
173 * Add DXVA support for VP9 Profile 2 (10 bits)
174 * Mediacodec aspect ratio with Amazon devices
177 * Added support for iOS audiounit audio above 48KHz
178 * Added support for amem audio up to 384KHz
181 * Fix for opengl glitches in some drivers
182 * Fix GMA950 opengl support on macOS
183 * YUV to RGB StretchRect fixes with NVIDIA drivers
184 * Use libpacebo new tone mapping desaturation algorithm
187 * Fix crashes on macOS with SSA/ASS subtitles containing emoji
188 * Fixed unwanted growing background in Freetype rendering and Y padding
191 * Fixed some YUV mappings
194 * Use a layer based video output on 10.14 and higher, which should
195 fix various rendering issues where the vout would glitch between
196 a wrong size and the correct size.
197 Additionally this works around OpenGL issues with Macs that have a
198 dedicated NVIDIA GPU, which caused rendering artifacts in the whole
199 OS, especially when the "Reduce transparency" accessibility option
201 * Remove qtsound module and add avaudiocapture module as replacement
202 * Fix audio capture on macOS Catalina by using avaudiocapture
203 * Inform the user in case OS permissions are missing for certain actions
204 * Fix Apple Remote support on macOS Catalina
205 * Add support for pausing Apple Music on macOS Catalina
206 * Fix UPnP discovery crash without an active network interface
207 * Fix rare placement issues with fullscreen panel
208 * Fix problem in audio output remembering the last device configuration
212 * Update libmicrodns to 0.1.2
215 * Update YouTube, SoundCloud and Vocaroo scripts: this restores
216 playback of YouTube URLs.
217 * Add missing .wpl & .zpl file associations on Windows
218 * Improved chromecast audio quality
221 Changes between 3.0.7.1 and 3.0.8:
222 ----------------------------------
225 * Fix stuttering for low framerate videos
228 * Fix channel ordering in some MP4 files
229 * Fix glitches in TS over HLS
230 * Add real probing of HLS streams
231 * Fix HLS MIME type fallback
234 * Fix WebVTT subtitles rendering
237 * Improve network buffering
240 * Update Youtube script
243 * macOS/iOS: Fix stuttering or blank audio when starting or seeking when using
244 external audio devices (bluetooth for example)
245 * macOS: Fix AV synchronization when using external audio devices
248 * Direct3D11: Fix hardware acceleration for some AMD drivers
251 * Fix transcoding when the decoder does not set the chroma
254 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14970)
255 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the avcodec decoder (CVE-2019-13962)
256 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the FAAD decoder
257 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the OGG demuxer (CVE-2019-14437, CVE-2019-14438)
258 * Fix a read buffer overflow in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14776)
259 * Fix a use after free in the MKV demuxer (CVE-2019-14777, CVE-2019-14778)
260 * Fix a use after free in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14533)
261 * Fix a couple of integer underflows in the MP4 demuxer (CVE-2019-13602)
262 * Fix a null dereference in the dvdnav demuxer
263 * Fix a null dereference in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14534)
264 * Fix a null dereference in the AVI demuxer
265 * Fix a division by zero in the CAF demuxer (CVE-2019-14498)
266 * Fix a division by zero in the ASF demuxer (CVE-2019-14535)
269 * Update to a newer libmodplug version (0.8.9.0)
272 Changes between 3.0.7 and 3.0.7.1:
273 ----------------------------------
276 * Update libbluray to 1.1.2
279 * Fix bluray java menu playback regression in 3.0.7
282 * Fix hardware acceleration with some AMD drivers
283 * Improve direct3d11 HDR support
286 Changes between 3.0.6 and 3.0.7:
287 --------------------------------
290 * Improve Blu-ray support
291 * Fix sftp module build with libssh >= 1.8.1
294 * Fix pass-through on Android-23
295 * Fix DirectSound drain
298 * Improve MP4 support
301 * Fix 12 bits sources playback with Direct3D11
303 * Fix midstream aspect-ratio changes when Windows hardware decoding is on
304 * Fix HLG display with Direct3D11
307 * Improve Chromecast support with new ChromeCast apps
310 * Fix UPNP service discovery, services are discovered on the highest priority
311 active network interface now
312 * Fix video distortion on macOS Mojave
315 * Update Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Soundcloud scripts
316 * Work around busy looping when playing an invalid item with loop enabled
319 * Update of most translations
322 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the ps demuxer
323 * Fix a buffer overflow when copying a biplanar YUV image
324 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the faad decoder
325 * Fix buffer overflow in the svcdsub decoder
326 * Fix buffer overflows in the ogg muxer & demuxer
327 * Fix buffer overflows in libavformat demuxer
328 * Fix multiple buffer overflows in the MKV demuxer
329 * Fix a buffer overflow in the MP4 demuxer
330 * Fix a buffer overflow in the textst decoder
331 * Fix a buffer overflow in the webvtt decoder
332 * Fix a buffer overflow in the ASF demux
333 * Fix a buffer overflow in the UPNP SD
334 * Fix use after free in the ogg demuxer
335 * Fix multiple use after free in the MKV demuxer
336 * Fix multiple use after free in the DMO decoder
337 * Fix integer underflow in the MKV demuxer
338 * Fix an updater NULL pointer dereference on invalid signing keys
339 * Fix NULL pointer dereference in the MKV demuxer
340 * Fix an integer overflow in the spudec decoder
341 * Fix an integer overflow in the nsc demuxer
342 * Fix an integer overflow in the avi demuxer
343 * Fix reads of uninitialized pointers in the MKV demuxer
344 * Fix a floating point exception in the MKV demuxer
345 * Fix an infinite loop in the flac packetizer
348 Changes between 3.0.5 and 3.0.6:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Fix potential subtitle picture allocation failures
355 * Add support for 12 bits decoding of AV1
356 * Fix HDR support in AV1 when the container provides the metadata
359 Changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5:
360 --------------------------------
363 * Improve RTSP playback
364 * BluRay fixes and improvements, notably for menus and seeking
365 * Improve the UDP/RTP truncated issue
368 * Add a new AV1 decoder based on dav1d library
369 * Enable libaom decoder by default
370 * Fix decoding of some HEVC streams with macOS hardware decoding
373 * MP4: Fix reading of some HDR metadata
374 * Miscellaneous AV1 demuxing improvements
375 * Fix CAF integer-underflow
376 * Fix an MKV crash on iOS 12.0, on iPhone XS phones
379 * Add an AV1 packetizer
382 * Starting with VLC 3.0.5, VLC will be distributed with runtime hardening
383 enabled on macOS Mojave.
384 All external VLC plugins need to be signed by a DeveloperID certificate in order
385 to continue working with the official VLC package.
386 * Update the VLC dark UI to better match the dark mode of macOS Mojave
387 * Fix convert & save panel stream option
390 * Fix corking when the playback state is paused
391 * Improve corking on Android
394 * Fix Direct3D11 tone-mapping when HDR is displayed on an SDR screen
395 * More accurate colors for SD sources in Direct3D11
396 * Disable hardware decoding on some old Intel GPUs
397 * Fix zero-copy GPU acceleration on AMD RX Vega
398 * Misc Direct3D11 fixes
402 * Update numerous 3rd party libraries, including for minor security issues
403 * Update Youtube support
404 * Fix subtitles rendering with specific fonts with negative horizontal advance
407 Changes between 3.0.3 and 3.0.4:
408 --------------------------------
411 * Blacklist some intel GPU when decoding HEVC
413 * Fix playback of low-fps files
414 * Fix hardware decoding of low-latency sliced H.264 streams on macOS
415 * Fix seeking with streams containing WebVTT subtitles
416 * Fix decoding some CC-608 streams with roll-up
417 * Fix crashes with LPCM streams
418 * Fix colorspace of JPEG, PNG and screen inputs
419 * Fix MediaCodec rotation handling
422 * Improve FLV fps detection
424 * Improve support for broken HEVC inside MKV
425 * Fix some AVI regression for broken files and for DVAudio
426 * Support files splitted in the .mts%d pattern
427 * Fixes for MKV seeking
428 * Fix for MP4 disabled track selection
429 * Fix playback of incomplete RAR files (downloading)
432 * Improve iOS session management and resume-from-pause
433 * Improve macOS audio performance
434 * Support 44.1kHz DTS passthrough
435 * Fix crashes on DirectSound output
438 * Fix some crash in Direct3D11/Direct3D9 because of sensors
439 * Fix some broken DVD subtitles rendering (OpenGL, notably)
440 * Fix crashes on old mac machines, after some time
441 * Fix memleaks on the EGL output (Android notably)
442 * Fix misc display in Direct3D11 due to broken drivers
443 * Fix potential green screen on Windows XP
446 * Fix rendering of arabic fonts fallback on macOS
447 * Fix head buffer overflow on macOS with some fonts
448 * Fix rendering of fonts with specific fonts
449 * Fix some RTL rendering
452 * Fix live555, macOS-UI, screen capture crashes
453 * Change the extension registration names on Windows
455 * Fixes on the HTTPD server
456 * Fix on the NTservice registration
457 * Fix --stop-time option
458 * Fix ChromeCast compatibility with web interface
459 * Fix subtitles alignment
460 * Fix infinite recursion on directory playback
461 * Fix detection SAT>IP servers
464 * Fix tooltip display when using Wayland
467 * macOS 10.7.5 is required now, VLC will no longer launch on earlier releases
468 * Fix delay and fps setting in subtitle dialog
469 * Modernized and improved support for media keys
470 * Fix issues with drag and drop of playlist items
471 * Fix support for audio capturing with qtsound module
472 * Fix layout issues in the Convert and Save panel
475 * Update of most translations
478 Changes between 3.0.2 and 3.0.3:
479 --------------------------------
482 * Update subtitles display while paused
485 * Enable srt support on binary builds
488 * Allow videotoolbox hardware decoding to be disabled
489 * Disable VideoToolbox for 10bits H.264
490 * Fix VideoToolbox with some invalid HEVC streams
491 * Fix subsdec wide character support
492 * Fix 1st order Ambisonics in AAC
495 * Miscellaneous ogg improvements & bugfixes, including oggds
496 * Fix forced tracks selection
498 * Probe AAC/ADTS inside TS
499 * Fix tracks detection issues with DolbyVision and Bluray streams
502 * Fix "Open Network Stream" URL box focus
503 * Add option to disable hardware acceleration for video decoding
504 * Remove option to force dolby mode from simple preferences
507 * Fix crashes on Direct3D11
510 * Fix tooltip display on some desktop environments
511 * Fix spurious movement of the main Window
512 * Fix playlist being displayed in fullscreen
516 * Fix numerous issues on fonts fallback and font shaping
517 * Fix subtitles toggle through hotkeys
518 * Fix audioscrobbling
519 * Fix buffer over-read in avcodec audio encoding with non-default layouts
520 * Numerous 3rd party libraries updated, fixing security issues
523 * Update of most languages
526 Changes between 3.0.1 and 3.0.2:
527 --------------------------------
530 * Fix snapshotting with subtitles when using hardware acceleration
531 * Fix green/missing line/column when the picture dimensions are odd
534 * Important improvements in hardware decoding for macOS, notably faster,
535 supporting more samples and removing crashes/deadlocks
536 * Improve compatibility for DxVA2 and D3D11 decoding, fix crashes when seeking
537 and fix blacklisting of broken drivers
538 * Fix SSA subtitles forced alignment
539 * Fix E-AC-3 stuttering
540 * Fix MIDI playback on macOS
541 * Add playback support for ProRes 4444 XQ
544 * Fix wrong colors in some AVI files
545 * Fix IFO files playback to start DVDs
546 * Fix a crash with missing/invalid MPEG SDT
547 * Update VP8/9/10 ISOBMFF bindings and improve HDR for those cases
548 * Fix TTML inside MP4
549 * Improve MP4 read of color information
550 * Fix flac seeking and improve flac parsing
551 * Improve mkv opening & seeking speed
552 * Fix display of chapters with no name defined
553 * Miscellaneous MKV crash fixes
554 * Fix crash with multi-region DVDs
555 * Fix audio being muted on DVD chapter change
556 * Fix audio being muted when seeking in a BluRay disc
559 * Avoid a crash/assert in FTP after seeking
562 * Fix mmdevice default audio device handling
563 * Fix "reset audio volume" being forcefully deactivated
564 * Allow a default device to be used by VLC
565 * Only warn once about misconfiguration for AUhal devices on macOS
566 * Improve resampling and latency computation for CoreAudio
567 * Passthrough is now disabled by default
570 * Fix audio stutter after unpausing with headphones
571 * Fix silence when dolby-surround was mis-selected in preferences
574 * Fix OpenGL crashes or bad display with semi-planar chromas
575 * Fix OpenGL interop (zero-copy) disabled for tvOS
576 * Major rewrite of the iOS video output to fix numerous crashes
577 * Important improvements of the D3D11 video output to use less memory
578 and less GPU for HDR tone-mapping
579 * Fix crop on vertical videos with Direct3D11
580 * Fix Direct3D9 filters settings not being applied properly
581 * Fix transform filters with hardware decoding
582 * Fix snapshot and filters with HEVC hardware decoding
583 * Fix a buffer overrun during GPU/CPU image copy
584 * Fix glitches on DVD menus with Direct3D11
585 * Fix non-HDR content playback on HDR screens with Direct3D11
586 * Fix YUV full range displayed incorrectly in Direct3D11
587 * Fix miscellaneous crashes in Direct3D11
588 * Fix potential black screen with 10bits videos on Direct3D11
591 * Fix Growl notifications on recent macOS versions
592 * Fix conversion output file name encoding
593 * Fix crash reporting on macOS 10.7 and 10.8
595 * Fix remember playback position
596 * Fix Blu-ray disc Java menu
597 * Fix swiping on time slider to change position
598 * Fix problems with restoring user name from keychain
599 * Fix localization issues
602 * Fix last folder used in open dialogs
603 * Allow to customize the seek jump when using the mousewheel
604 * Fix fullscreen controller positionment on multiscreen setups
605 * Fix pasted URLs not being trimmed
606 * Fix jump size not being configurable
607 * Fix missing time labels updates
608 * Fix playback speed slider not accepting 1.0x value
610 * Fix window size after a fullscreen playback
613 * Fix lua rc & oldrc interfaces host specification
614 * Fix crashes when searching for renderers
615 * Relocate localedir for Linux (improves snap i18n support)
616 * Fix VDPAU GLX usage on Linux
617 * Improve support for NetBSD
618 * Fix MSI script for Windows
619 * Fix libvlc_media_list not going to next media
620 * Fix character encoding on win32 consoles
621 * Miscellaneous chromecast improvements
622 * Fix missing OSD navigation feedback
623 * Various VLSub improvements
624 * lua: Fix scripts not being loaded on some filesystems
625 * lua: Add vlc.io APIs to handle UTF-8 paths
628 Changes between 3.0.0 and 3.0.1:
629 --------------------------------
632 * Fix use-after-free when cleaning playlists
633 * Fix crash on exit on Windows
636 * Fix HLG tone mapping on some systems like macOS.
637 * Fix screensaver inhibition on Windows XP
638 * Fix various Direct3D11 crashes
639 * Fix HDR tone mapping in Direct3d11
640 * Fix pink screen on Windows
643 * Fix potential stack buffer overflow with faad
644 * Enable Cineform HD in avcodec
647 * macOS: Improve HEVC 10bit performance with Videotoolbox
648 * android: Add MPEG2 support via MediaCodec
649 * Fix HEVC decoding with some files on Android/macOS/iOS
650 * Improve Direct3D11 memory usage
653 * Improve MKV seeking speed
654 * Fix xspf base URL handling
655 * Fix reading mp4 trun with moof based offsets
656 * Fix adaptive http redirections
657 * Replace old API, fixing adaptive TLS leak
658 * Use mime type as fallback for HLS segment type
659 * Fix subtitle (srt,ssa..) seek when having a single entry
660 * Flag non default HDMV subset video streams
661 * Increase TS probing amount for 4K streams
662 * Miscellaneous MKV, MP4 & AVI crash fixes
665 * Fix out of bounds read in mpeg4video
668 * Improve chromecast loading speed
669 * Improve local/chromecast transition during playback
670 * Fix chromecast loading with some versions of Windows
671 * Fix chromecast loading with some chromecast devices (TVs and Android boxes)
672 * Fix wrong first cover art when casting
676 * Re-add option to disable the fullscreen controller panel
677 * Auto-layout improvements
678 * Remove misleading playback warning indicator
679 * Fix crash with the interface for lua extensions (like VLSub)
680 * Fix show sidebar setting being ignored on restart
681 * Fix MKV files association
682 * Fix chromecast audio detection
685 * Improve scaling on HiDPI displays
688 * Improve interface look and feel.
691 Changes between 2.2.8 and 3.0.0:
692 --------------------------------
694 Platform support changes:
695 * 3.0.x will be maintained as a LTS (best-effort basis, mostly for security)
696 that will be the last working version for quite a few systems.
698 Indeed the 3.0.x branch will contain the last releases running on:
699 - Windows XP, Vista, and the servers equivalent of those Windows versions
700 - macOS 10.7, 10.8 & 10.9, iOS 7 & 8
701 - Android 2.x, 3.x, 4.0.x & 4.1.x
702 - Compilers before gcc 5.0 and clang 3.4, or equivalent
704 * For the 3.0 branch, please note:
705 * The Windows XP/2003/2003R2 support for VLC is now on a best-effort basis:
706 it should work, but not without limitations.
707 libVLC support for Windows XP is deprecated.
708 You _really_ should upgrade to a more modern Windows version!
709 * Windows Vista (all versions) without Platform Upgrade is not supported.
710 * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended.
711 * Linux support requires now a kernel newer than 2.6.26.
712 * Mac OS X 10.6 support is now removed. You need OS X 10.7.
715 * Support network browsing for distant filesystems (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS...)
716 and rewrite the parsing of the media files and inputs
717 * Support keystores: fetch and store passwords securely (sic!) for common
718 protocols (HTTP, SMB, SFTP, FTP, RTSP ...)
719 * Autodetect external audio tracks (ac3, m4a, aac, dts...) similar to subtitles
720 * Support HDMI passthrough for Audio HD codecs, like E-AC3, TrueHD or DTS-HD
721 * Support for 12bits codec and extended colorspaces (HDR)
722 * Support output renderers, like ChromeCast
723 * VLC now assumes vlcrc config file is in UTF-8
724 * Support portable version of Windows build (create a "portable/" folder)
725 * Support wayland surface type
726 * Allow to start the video paused on the first frame
727 * Refactor preparsing input
728 * EPG rework: table and single event updates, now using network time
729 * Refactor and fix subtitles es selection. Demuxers can now override
730 es category single only or multiple es behavior
731 * Support for 360 video and audio, including viewpoint modification
732 * Support for ambisonic audio and more than 8 audio channels
733 * Support subtitles size live adjustments
736 * New NFS access module using libnfs
737 * New SMB access module using libdsm
738 * Adaptive streaming:
739 * Rewrite MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support, including
740 MPEG2TS and ISOBMFF profiles
741 * Support HDS (Http Dynamic Streaming) from Adobe (f4m, f4v, etc.)
742 * Large rework of the Smooth Streaming module
743 * Replaced httplive stream filter with new HLS demuxer, replaced smooth
744 stream filter with new Smooth demuxer, both using unified adaptive module
745 * Support HLSv4-7, including MP4 and raw muxing and ID3 tags
746 * Support decompression and extraction through libarchive (tar, zip, rar...)
747 * New HTTP/TLS access module for HTTP 2.0 support
748 * Improvements of cookie handling (share cookies between playlist items,
749 domain / path matching, Secure cookies)
750 * Support DVB-T2 on Windows BDA
751 * Screen capture plugin for Wayland display
752 * Support depayloading Opus from RTP
753 * New UPnP access module, to list directories without infinite recursions
754 * SMB/FTP/SFTP accesses can list directories
755 * Support sftp username and passwords options in URL, and key authentication
756 * New WASAPI audio capture module on Windows
757 * New "concat" access module for concatenating byte streams
758 * Named pipes and device nodes are no longer included in directory listings
759 by default. Use --list-special-files to include them back.
760 * Support for timeout in UDP input --udp-timeout=<seconds>
761 * New SAT>IP access module, to receive DVB-S via IP networks
762 * Improvements on DVB scanning
763 * BluRay module can open ISO over network and has full BD-J support
764 * Support for DVD ISO over network
765 * New SRT access module using libsrt
768 * Support HEVC hardware decoding on Windows, using DxVA2 and D3D11
769 * Support hardware decoding using Direct3D11, including GPU-zerocopy mode,
770 and hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
771 * DxVA2 GPU-zerocopy for hardware decoding and displaying on Windows,
772 and support for hardware filtering, for deinterlace and adjust
773 * Support HEVC hardware decoding using OMX and MediaCodec (Android)
774 * Use MediaCodec via NDK native API after Android Lollipop
775 * Support MPEG-2, VC1/WMV3 on Android using MediaCodec
776 * OMX GPU-zerocopy support for decoding and display on Android using OpenMax IL
777 * Support 4:4:4 and 4:2:2 chroma samplings with VDPAU hw acceleration
778 * Important VAAPI improvements for 10bits, HEVC, direct-rendering support
779 * Support VP9 and WMV3 decoding using OMX and performance improvements
780 * Important improvements for the MMAL decoder and output for rPI and rPI2
781 * New hardware accelerated decoder for OS X and and iOS based on Video Toolbox
782 supporting H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, H.265/HEVC, MPEG-4 Part 2, and DV
785 * Support for experimental AV1 video
786 * Support for ARIB STD-B24 subtitles
787 * Support for experimental Daala video
788 * New MPEG-1 & 2 audio layer I, II, III + MPEG 2.5 decoder based on libmpg123
789 * New BPG decoder based on libbpg
790 * Fix uncompressed DVD-Audio (AOB) LPCM decoding
791 * Rewrite WPL playlists and add ZPL playlists support (Zune)
792 * Support TDSC, Canopus HQX, Cineform, SpeedHQ, Pixlet, QDMC and FMVC codecs
793 * TTML subtitles support, including EBU-TT-D variant
794 * Rewrite of webVTT subtitles support, including CSS style support
795 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
796 * Support for the OggSpots video codec
797 * HEVC packetization is mostly fixed
798 * H264 packetizer can now generate timestamps
799 * Packetizers have support for captions in SEI
800 * DTS packetizer handle DTS extensions (like DTS-HD): decoders like avcodec
801 can now decode up to 8 channels
802 * JPEG images correctly oriented using embedded orientation tag, if present
803 * Support VPX high bit depth support
804 * Extend MicroDVD support with color, fontname, size, position extensions
805 * BluRay text subtitles (HDMV) are now decoded
806 * Improve Closed Captions detection, notably inside the video streams
808 * New MIDI decoder for macOS and iOS using the AudioToolbox framework, works
809 without a soundfont or with SoundFont2 and DLS soundfonts
812 * Important rework of the MP4 demuxer, including:
813 * Support for fragmented MP4
814 * Support EIA-608/708 subtitles in MP4/mov
815 * Support WMV and WMAV in MP4/mov, aka Flip4Mac files
816 * Support bitmap audio channel reordering in MP4/mov
817 * Support for RTP Reception Hint Track with H.264, GSM and Speex payloads
818 * Support for XiphQT(MP4) vorbis and Flac
819 * Support for VP8/VP9/VP10/AV1 in MP4
820 * Support GoPro HiLight chapters
821 * Support for TTML and WebVTT in ISOBMFF/MP4 and DASH
822 * Add new metadata fields
823 * Important rework of the TS demuxer, including:
824 * Support Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
825 * Fix program selection with recorded TS (TopField, DreamBox and others)
826 * Fix TS playback with PAT/PMT less recordings
827 * Basic support for MPEG4-SL in TS and T-DMB
828 * Support SCTE-18 / EAS inside TS
829 * Support for new descriptors and ETT tables
830 * Support for ARIB channel logos, as attachements, ARIB TR-B21/TR-B14-1
831 * Improve broken-PCR probing and fixing
832 * Improvements for scrambled state detection
833 * Support HD-DVD .evo (H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, PCM, AC-3, E-AC3, MLP, DTS)
834 * Important rework of the PS demuxer, including:
836 * Fix large number of samples, notably with PSM-less H264
837 * Partial support of PSMF
838 * Fix broken SCR samples
839 * Fix CDXA mpeg-1 support
840 * Improvements on MKV:
841 * Rewrite MKV seeking
842 * Support FFv1 inside MKV
843 * Improve ADTS and LATM inside MKV
844 * Improve DVD-menus support
845 * Support for lame's replaygain extension in mpeg files
846 * Support Daala in Ogg
847 * Improve Chained-Ogg support
848 * Fixes for DTS detection in WAV and MKV files
849 * Support for Creative ADPCM/alaw/ulaw/S16L in VOC files
850 * Support for Creative ADPCM in AVI
851 * Support WMV extended content metadata
852 * Directory Demux can now sort items, ignore extensions and hidden files
853 * Support AlbumArtist and DiscNumber metadata
854 * Support raw H265/HEVC files
855 * Support multi-channel WAV without channel-maps
856 * Support SBV subtitles
857 * Support for Scenarist Closed Caption
858 * Fix Quicktime Mp4 inside MKV and unpacketized VC1
859 * Support for isofLaC
860 * Improve fLaC seeking
861 * Replace --demux dvb-open option with --stream-filter dvb to parse
862 channels.conf digital TV channel list files
865 * Add an ADF stream filter
866 * Add a ARIB STD-B25 TS streams decoder
867 * Add a stream prebuffering plugin
868 * Rewrite libarchive module as a stream_extractor
869 * Remove HTTP Live streaming stream filter
870 * Add a zlib (a.k.a. deflate) decompression filter
871 * Add a skiptags module to help demuxers skip ID3/APE tags
874 * Add a demuxer filter chain to filter or intercept control commands and demuxing
875 * Add a demuxer filter to block seeking (--demux-filter noseek)
878 * Complete rewrite of the AudioTrack Android module, it is now the default
879 module for Android. It now supports HDMI/SPDIF passthrough for AC3/DTS/EAC3,
880 5.1/7.1 channels and float output, depending on the Android version.
881 * Add Tizen audio module
882 * HDMI/SPDIF pass-through support for WASAPI (AC3/DTS/DTSHD/EAC3/TRUEHD)
883 * Support EAC3 and TRUEHD pass-through for PulseAudio
884 * Important rework of the AudioUnit modules to share more code between iOS and macOS
885 * Support Ambisonics audio with viewpoint changes
888 * Add SoX Resampler library audio filter module (converter and resampler)
889 * a52tospdif and dtstospdif audio converters are merged into tospdif,
890 this new converter can convert AC3, DTS, EAC3 and TRUEHD to a IEC61937 frame
891 * Add a Spatialaudio module with 2 submodules:
892 * an Ambisonics audio renderer, supporting up to 3rd order
893 * an Binauralizer audio filter, working with Ambisonics or 5.1/7.1 streams
894 * Add Headphones option in Stereo Mode: use the spatialaudio module for
896 * Add a pitch shifting module
899 * Linux/BSD default video output is now OpenGL, instead of Xvideo
901 * New OpenGL provider for Windows
902 * Drop OpenGL 1.x and OpenGL ES 1 support
903 * Direct rendering with OpenGL (starting OpenGL 4.4)
904 * Hardware direct displaying with VA-API interop
905 * Hardware direct displaying with VDPAU interop
906 * Hardware direct displaying with DxVA2/D3D9Ex interop
907 * Hardware direct displaying with VideoToolbox interop (iOS and macOS)
908 * HDR tonemapping support through libplacebo
909 * Wayland shell surface window provider
910 * Wayland shared memory video output
911 * Large rework of the Android video outputs: there is now Surface (2.1, 2.2)
912 NativeWindow (2.3+, supports hw rotation, subpicture blending, opaque)
913 * Support rotation in Android NativeWindow output and hardware decoders
914 * Rename the Direct3D output module to Direct3D9
915 * Add a Direct3D11 video output supporting both Windows desktop and WinRT modes,
916 supporting subpicture blending and hardware acceleration
917 * Support HDR10 in Direct3D11 with Windows 10 Fall Creator Update
918 * EFL Evas video output with Tizen TBM Surface support
921 * Hardware deinterlacing on the rPI, using MMAL
922 * New video filter to convert between fps rates
923 * Add 9-bit and 10-bit support to image adjust filter
924 * New edge detection filter uses the Sobel operator to detect edges
925 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/sharpen/chroma with VA-API
926 * Hardware accelerated adjust/invert/posterize/sepia/sharpen with CoreImage
927 * Hardware accelerated deinterlacing/adjust/chroma with D3D9 and D3D11
930 * CTL support through Harfbuzz in the Freetype module
931 * New font fallback algorithm on most platforms
932 * More conforming EIA608 captions layout and aspect ratio
933 * More styles support for TTML, WebVTT and 708
936 * Chromecast output module
937 * RGB24 and YCbCr 4:2:0 RTP packetization
940 * Support for Daala video in 4:2:0 and 4:4:4
941 * VP8 and VP9 encoder using libvpx
944 * Add fragmented/streamable MP4 muxer
945 * Add support for muxing VC1 and WMAPro in MP4
946 * Opus in MPEG Transport Stream
950 * New NetBios service discovery using libdsm
951 * New mDNS services discovery using libmicrodns
952 * New mDNS services discovery using Bonjour (Mac OS X, tvOS, iOS)
953 * Rewrite of the UPnP service discovery
956 * Drop support for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
957 * Support right-to-left user interface layout for right-to-left languages
958 * New resizable fullscreen controller with improved design
959 * Add status bar icon which displays metadata and play controls
960 * Add support for keyboard blacklight dimming during fullscreen video playback
961 * Improve and simplify preferences window
962 * Huge performance improvements in playlist handling and other areas
963 * New AppleScript API giving access to audio desynchronization
964 * Expand AppleScript API for menu detection and navigation
965 * Support for building with disabled sparkle update mechanism
966 * Remove deprecated transcoding wizard, use convert and save dialog instead
969 * Drop support for iOS 6.x
972 * Batch convert support
973 * It is now possible to specify 'stop-time' in Convert/Save dialog
976 * Support key accelerators
979 * Add libvlc_media_new_callbacks for custom input byte streams
980 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_enum to enumerate devices of current aout
981 * Split of libvlc_media_discoverer_new_from_name into libvlc_media_discoverer_new,
982 libvlc_media_discoverer_start and libvlc_media_discoverer_stop
983 This allows to attach media events between create and start
984 * Add libvlc_media_get_codec_description to get a human readable description of a codec
985 * Add libvlc_MediaListEndReached Event to get notified when a media list reached the end
986 * Add libvlc_media_list_player_get_media_player to get the media player instance of a list player
987 * Add libvlc_media_parse_with_options that uses a flag to specify parse options
988 * Add libvlc_audio_output_device_get to get the currently selected audio output device
989 identifier (if there is one available)
990 * Add libvlc_media_get_type to get the type of the media
991 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_title_descriptions to get full title info of the media
992 and +libvlc_title_descriptions_release to match it
993 * Add libvlc_media_player_get_full_chapter_descriptions to get full chapter info of the media
994 and libvlc_chapter_descriptions_release to match it
995 * Deprecate libvlc_video_get_title_description, libvlc_video_get_chapter_description,
996 libvlc_media_player_get_agl, libvlc_media_player_set_agl
997 * Add libvlc_media_player_set_android_context to integrate in an Android surface
998 * Add a new libvlc dialog API to forward dialogs requests to the applications:
999 libvlc_dialog_set_context, libvlc_dialog_get_context, libvlc_dialog_set_callbacks,
1000 libvlc_dialog_dismiss, libvlc_dialog_post_action, libvlc_dialog_post_login
1001 * Add libvlc_media_discoverer_list_get|release to list the media discoverers
1002 * Add libvlc_media_slaves_add, libvlc_media_slaves_clear
1003 libvlc_media_slaves_get, libvlc_media_slaves_release to add and get slaves
1005 * Add libvlc_media_player_(get|set)_role to set the media role
1006 * Add libvlc_media_player_add_slave to replace libvlc_video_set_subtitle_file,
1007 working with MRL and supporting also audio slaves
1008 * Add vlc_epg_event_(New|Delete|Duplicate), vlc_epg_AddEvent, vlc_epg_Duplicate
1009 and removes vlc_epg_Merge
1012 * Support for the SystemD Journal
1013 * Use --syslog and --syslog-debug command line options to include debug
1014 messages in syslog. With --syslog, errors and warnings will be sent only.
1015 * New Android module for logging
1018 * remove langfromtelx
1019 * remove ZPL playlist format
1020 * Update libVLC doxygen modules
1021 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on OS X/iOS
1022 * Add a text-to-speech renderer for subtitles on Windows
1023 * Add Gnome libsecret-based crypto keystore
1024 * Add KDE Kwallet-based crypto keystore
1025 * Add a memory keystore
1026 * Add a file keystore that can use a submodule to crypt secrets
1027 * Add Keychain based crypto keystore for iOS, Mac OS X and tvOS
1031 * QTCapture access module (use AVCapture instead)
1032 * httplive (use adaptive instead)
1033 * smooth (use adaptive instead)
1034 * Gnome-VFS access module (i.e. Gnome 2.x)
1035 * QuartzText text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
1036 * Win32 GDI text renderer module (use Freetype instead)
1037 * Growl notification (replaced by osx_notifications)
1038 * VCDX "extended" Video CD access module (use the normal VCD module)
1039 * Mac OS X Dialog Provider (use VLCKit instead)
1040 * iOS Dialog Provider (use MobileVLCKit / TVVLCKit instead)
1041 * QuickTime decoder module (use native codecs)
1042 * BD access module (use libbluray)
1043 * Direct2D module (use Direct3D11)
1044 * EyeTV access module
1045 * Rar access and stream filter: use libarchive
1046 * VDA decoder: use VT
1047 * Audioqueue: use audiounit
1048 * SDL video output module
1049 * DirectFB video output module
1050 * RAOP stream output module
1053 Changes between 2.2.7 and 2.2.8:
1054 --------------------------------
1057 * Fix AVI invalid pointer dereferences
1059 Translations updates
1062 Changes between 2.2.6 and 2.2.7:
1063 --------------------------------
1066 * Fix flac heap write overflow on format change
1067 * Fix crash in libavcodec module (heap write out-of band) (CVE-2017-10699)
1068 * Fix infinite loop in sami subtitle
1069 * Fix AAC 7.1 channels detection
1072 * Fix potential crash in ASX parser
1073 * Fix AVI read/write overflow
1076 * Fix compatibility with macOS High Sierra
1077 * Fix regression in ASS subtitle decoding
1078 * Fix crash during automatic update. Some users might need to manually
1079 update to the newest version.
1082 * Fix Direct3D9 output with odd offsets
1086 * Support libupnp 1.8
1088 Translations updates
1091 Changes between 2.2.5.1 and 2.2.6:
1092 ----------------------------------
1095 * Fix systematic green line on nvidia
1096 * Fix direct3d SPU texture offsets handling
1099 * Fix heap buffer overflows (CVE-2017-8310, 8311, 8312, 8313)
1101 Changes between 2.2.5 and 2.2.5.1:
1102 ----------------------------------
1104 Security hardening for DLL hijacking environments
1106 Translations updates
1109 * Update for Soundcloud, liveleak and Youtube scripts
1110 * Fix potential out-of-band dereference in flac decoder (CVE-2017-9300)
1111 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in mpeg packetizers (CVE-2017-9301)
1112 * Fix infinite loop in subtitles demuxer
1113 * Fix incorrect memory free in ogg demuxer
1114 * Fix potential out-of-band reads in subtitle decoders and demuxers
1115 * Fix green line on Windows with odd sizes
1118 Changes between 2.2.4 and 2.2.5:
1119 --------------------------------
1122 * Fix mp3 playback quality regression in libmad
1123 * Fix video scaling in VDPAU
1124 * Fix playback of palettized codecs
1125 * Fix ADPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-067)
1126 * Fix AES3 16bps decoding
1127 * Fix DVD/LPCM heap corruption (FG-VD-16-090)
1128 * Fix SCTE-27 colors
1131 * Fix possible ASF integer overflow
1132 * Fix MP4, VOC, XA, SMF divide-by-zero errors
1133 * Fix MP4 heap buffer overflows
1134 * Fix Flac metadata integer overflow
1135 * Fix NSVf and AIFF infinite loops
1136 * Fix flac null-pointer dereference
1137 * Fix vorbis and opus comments integer overflows and leaks
1140 * Fix green line on Windows with AMD drivers
1141 * Fix screenshots size
1144 * Fix crash in screen recording on Windows
1145 * Fix FTP scan string injection
1146 * Fix HTTP size handling
1152 * Fix vimeo, youtube, dailymotion, cli, appletrailers, http,
1156 * Fix heap write in stereo_widen audio filter
1159 * The plugins loading will not load external DLLs by default.
1160 Plugins will need to LoadLibrary explicitely.
1161 * Fix uninstaller path handling
1162 * Fix taskbar buttons behavior
1165 * Fix scrolling sensitivity on Sierra
1166 * Resume points are deleted now if the user clears the list of
1170 Changes between 2.2.3 and 2.2.4:
1171 --------------------------------
1174 * Fix crash in G.711 wav files
1175 * Fix mp3 crash in libmad
1176 * Fix out-of-bound write in adpcm QT IMA codec (CVE-2016-5108)
1179 * Fix resizing issues
1182 * Fix overlay creation on Windows XP for DirectDraw video output
1185 * Build fixes for Hurd
1188 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, German, French, Italian, Marathi, Norwegian
1189 Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Swedish,
1190 Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese translations
1193 Changes between 2.2.2 and 2.2.3:
1194 --------------------------------
1197 * Fix HLS quality selection and a potential stack overflow
1198 * Fix potential MKV infinite loop and improve MKV tags support
1199 * Fix WMV regression
1202 * Fix hardware decoding with libvdpau-va-gl
1203 * Fix crashes with libvpx
1204 * Use libass without caching dialog
1207 * Fix green lines on Direct3D output
1210 * Fix maximizing Window in multi-screen context
1213 * Fix resume where you left off
1214 * Fix infinite recursion in the customize dialog
1215 * Fix size when switching to/from the minimal interface
1216 * Fix size after resume toolbar is displayed
1219 * Fix crashes in media information panel
1220 * Correctly respect the disable-screensaver option
1223 * Allow opening more than 15 elements in Explorer
1226 * Update of most translations
1229 Changes between 2.2.1 and 2.2.2:
1230 --------------------------------
1233 * Fix SetupFormat for continuous framesize in v4l2
1234 * Fix off-by-one buffer overflow in RealRtsp module
1235 * Fix screen recording aspect-ratio, framerate and potential crash
1236 * Fix Windows directshow input freeze
1237 * Fix MMS segmentation fault/abort when server forces a large allocation
1240 * Fix support for ms-dvr files
1241 * Fix time detection in AVI files over HTTP
1242 * HLS: fix hang on stop, crashes and small improvements
1243 * Fix mp4 NULL dereference reported by by Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs
1244 * Fix regression for VC-1 in WMV
1245 * Fix MXF crashes on stop
1246 * Fix EAC3 detection in some TS files
1249 * Fix importing surface from main memory in VDPAU
1250 * Fix possible double-free in ADPCM decoder
1251 * Support 9-bit and 10-bit GBR planar formats
1252 * Support GoToMeeting 2 and GoToMeeting 3 codecs
1253 * Fix crash in teletext (zvbi) decoder
1254 * Fix Bluray subtitles (PGS) timestamps
1257 * Fix audio drop after a flush with pulseaudio
1258 * Fix audio initialization on iOS
1259 * Fix audio stuttering with AirPlay devices on OS X (2 sec delay needs to
1260 be set manually by the user)
1261 * Fix pulseaudio latency computation
1262 * Fix alsa default device selection
1265 * Fix video control that fails to show up
1266 * Fix UTF-8 conversion issues
1267 * Fix Unicode folders location failing to open the skins
1268 * Fix crash over malformed skins bitmaps
1269 * Fix fullscreen for Gnome3/Unity Window Managers
1272 * Support for OS X El Capitan
1273 * Fix code signature for releases on El Capitan
1274 * Improve resume dialog, starting time, preferences, lua extensions
1275 * Fix threads ordering, preferences crashes, URL drag'n drops
1278 * Fix crash when opening multiple items on Windows
1279 * Fix recent items appending when using a playlist
1280 * Improve addons manager dialog, playlist
1281 * Fix changing the audio-device in the menu
1282 * Fix key and mouse event support for Qt >= 5.5 under X11
1286 * Fix build if one disables XCB but activate VDPAU on Unix
1287 * Fix Direct3D plane allocation size to avoid colour bleeding
1288 * Fix some crashes in swscale resizing
1291 * Fix build with recent FreeRDP versions
1292 * Fix interface crashes when input-title-format option is empty
1293 * Fix MP4 mux divide-by-zero crash
1294 * Improve PNG encoding time
1295 * Fix some UPnP initialization lag
1296 * Rewrite of the Jamendo Service Discovery
1297 * Fix snapshot aspect ratio for anamorphic contents
1298 * Fix custom snapshot sizes
1299 * Dynamic generation of GnuTLS Diffie-Hellman parameters
1300 * Fix "vb" transcoding parameter
1301 * Fix superfluous audio channel extraction in the core
1302 * Fix miscellaneous crashes, double-frees, integer overflows, infinite loops,
1303 read overflow, invalid frees and division by zero issues
1304 * Fix support for lua 5.2 and fix XSS in the http interface
1305 * Update and improve Soundcloud, Vimeo and Youtube scripts
1306 * Update of codecs and libraries to fix 3rd party security issues (like
1307 TALOS-CAN-0036, TALOS-CAN-0037, CVE-2015-7981, CVE-2015-8126
1310 * Add Kashmiri and Maithili languages
1311 * Update of most translations
1314 * Expose audio mute, cork and volume change events: libvlc_MediaPlayerCorked,
1315 libvlc_MediaPlayerUncorked, libvlc_MediaPlayerMuted,
1316 libvlc_MediaPlayerUnmuted and libvlc_MediaPlayerAudioVolume
1317 * Fix propagation of libvlc_MediaPlayerTitleChanged event
1320 * Update of most translations
1323 Changes between 2.2.0 and 2.2.1:
1324 --------------------------------
1327 * Fix compilation with older libavcodec versions
1328 * Fix some VP9 decoding
1330 * Fix lpcm channel ordering
1331 * Fix potential NULL dereference in dmo
1332 * Fix teletext framing code in DVB PES packets
1333 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroendinger decoder (CVE-2014-9629)
1334 * Fix AAC samplerate
1338 * Fix MKV overseeking, introducing slowness over network shares
1339 * Fix crash when playing SPC files
1340 * Fix ATRAC3 playback in MKV
1341 * Revert to older ASX code
1342 * Workaround TS issue with mpeg-audio
1345 * Fix sftp read and close sockets
1346 * Fix DTV build with Linux DVB versions < 5.8
1347 * Fix UDP/RTP input on Windows
1350 * Fix Alsa HDMI plugs
1351 * Improve Alsa output, with larger buffers
1352 * Fix DirectSound output with multi-channel files
1355 * Fix numerous crashes in the UI
1356 * Fix video-wallpaper mode
1357 * Fix race when starting VLC from command line
1360 * Fix recent items behaviour
1361 * Fix rotation filter activation
1362 * Fix mux modules names for the streaming wizard
1365 * Timestamp the signature of the dlls
1366 * Fix extensions registration during install
1367 * Fix extensions dialog crash
1368 * Default to no DxVA decoding
1371 * fix libvlc_media_get_stats
1374 * Update of Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
1375 English (United Kingdom), Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian,
1376 Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Macedonian, Malay, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål,
1377 Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian,
1378 Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai,
1379 Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian translations
1382 Changes between 2.1.6 and 2.2.0:
1383 --------------------------------
1386 * The licenses of more modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+,
1387 notably most of the streaming output, muxers and access output modules
1390 * Support automatic rotation using streams metadata, GPU-accelerated when possible
1391 * Add extensions manager and downloading from external repositories
1392 * Rework the metadata fetching algorithm and policies
1393 * Partial fix of playback of short audio samples
1396 * Added TLS support for ftp access and sout access
1397 New schemes for implicit (ftps) and explicit (ftpes) modes
1398 * MMS audio selection on split audio streams
1399 * Blu-Ray: support overlays, preferred menu languages, region selection
1401 * Digital Cinema Package support, including encrypted DCP with KDM
1402 * Partial fixes for Arccos protected DVDs
1403 * Fix CDDB lookups, including pregap data
1406 * Support VDPAU acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1407 * Support MediaCodec acceleration for GPU-zerocopy decoding
1408 * Add Media Foundation Transform audio and video decoder
1409 * Add video decoder module based on GStreamer plugins
1410 * Add MMAL decoder for Broadcom VideoCore chips (like the RaspberryPi)
1411 supporting MPEG-2 and H.264, supporting GPU-zerocopy display
1412 * Partial support for Voxware MetaSound
1413 * libvpx decoder for VP8 and VP9
1414 * Support MSN Audio, Atrac3+, VP7, Bink, TAK, On2 AVC, DK3, DK4, IMC, Vivo g723.1,
1415 Smacker, FIC, Auravision, Canopus Lossless, and numerous videogame codecs
1416 * Teletext subtitles display improvements
1417 * Mediacodec speed improvements on x86
1418 * Support setting the post processing level in Theora
1419 * OpenMax IL improvements, notably for RaspberryPi
1420 * Fix channel ordering of LPCM codec in m2ts files
1421 * New jpeg image decoder
1422 * Add tx3g subtitles decoder
1423 * New SVG image decoder
1424 * Fix Speex decoding over RTP and in flv
1425 * Support more x264 and FFv1 RGB modes
1426 * Improvements on ZVBI teletext decoder, notably for speed and alignments
1429 * Support for MPEG-2 encoding using x262
1430 * Support for HEVC/H.265 encoding using x265
1431 * Support for Opus encoding using libopus
1432 * New jpeg image encoder using libjpeg
1433 * New png image encoder using libpng
1436 * Support for Core Audio Format (CAF) files
1437 * Important rework of the Ogg demuxer, notably improving seeking,
1438 streaming resilience, speex demuxing and chained Ogg
1439 * Important rework of the ASF/WMV demuxer, notably for seeking,
1440 synchronization and tracks exclusion
1441 * AVI improvements for better seek-indexing in non-fastseekable situations
1442 * AVI fixes for uncompressed, indexed and paletized bitmaps
1443 * MP4 fixes for fragmented files, vobsub, duration, aspect-ratio
1444 and support for rotation, covr atom and tracks exclusion
1445 * Support Opus in MKV
1446 * Support VP8 in OGG
1447 * Basic support for WebVTT
1448 * Handle support for ISO/IEC 14496-3 (AAC) Audio stream type in TS
1449 * Support HDPR TS files
1450 * Support microseconds in SubRip subtitles
1451 * FLAC packets validation using CRC
1452 * Improvements in metadata support in Ogg/Opus/Vorbis files
1453 * Fix encoding issues and relative paths in some XML playlist formats
1454 * Support THP Wii/Gamecube, RenderWare and Escape Replay game video files
1455 * New HEVC raw packetizer and demuxer
1456 * TS support for WiDi/Miracast LPCM
1457 * Handle MOV/MP4 tx3g styled subtitles through codec
1458 * Support SVG images files (on glib platforms)
1459 * Keep selection of tracks on segment changes in MKV
1460 * Support detection of SRT languages based on filename
1461 * Support for seeking Standard MIDI Files
1464 * Direct rendering and filtering for VDPAU hardware acceleration
1465 * New CoreAnimation OpenGL video output module for NPAPI plugins
1466 * New OpenGL ES 2.0 through EGL video output module for Android
1467 * New Android native window provider module
1468 * Direct rendering for MediaCodec Android hardware acceleration
1469 * Support for loading HLSL shaders in Direct3D video output
1470 * Add MMAL based video output for RaspberryPi
1473 * New Oldmovie effect filter
1474 * New VHS effect filter
1475 * New Freeze effect filter
1476 * Support I422 and J422 in transform
1477 * NEON optimizations for deinterleaving chroma, notably NV12->I420
1478 * Fix audiobargraph activation and usage
1481 * Allow setting volume while not connected with PulseAudio
1482 * Audio device notifications for WASAPI
1483 * Fix replay of sound buffer in DirectSound
1484 * Split of MMDevice and WinRT audio modules
1485 * Numerous fixes on AUHAL, including device management and stream changes
1486 * Fixes for SPDIF passthru in most modules
1489 * Important rework of the Ogg muxer, notably for skeleton
1490 * Fixes for the AVI muxer to respect the specification
1491 * Support VP8 in OGG
1492 * Add HEVC muxing in MP4 and TS
1495 * Important rework of the transcoding module to fix numerous bugs
1496 * WebM streaming, including live sources, compatible with all major browsers
1497 vlc <your-source> vlc://quit --sout '#transcode{vcodec=VP80,vb=1000,acodec=vorb,ab=128}
1498 :std{access=http{mime=video/webm},mux=webm,dst=:4212}'
1499 * GSM, VP8, Opus and JPEG RTP packetization
1500 * HLS: Allow setting the first segment number and numerous improvements
1501 * new stats module to output block timing values and md5 sums
1502 * transcode module access fps values as rationals now, eg 30000/1001
1503 * VLC now streams all elementary streams, you can revert to previous behaviour
1505 * --ts-out option has been removed, it has been superceded by --demux demuxdump
1506 --demuxdump-access udp --demuxdump-file 127.0.0.1:1234
1507 * Support Metacube protocol when streaming over HTTP
1510 * add equalizer API libvlc_audio_equalizer_* functions
1511 * add libvlc_media_player_program_scrambled function
1514 * Add a 3D OpenGL spectrum visualization.
1515 * Allow setting the FFT windowing style for 3D and normal spectrum
1518 * Add support for subtitles drag 'n drop in skins2
1519 * Add record button in Qt menus
1520 * New module for core dialogs on iOS
1521 * New layout for Qt buttons customization
1522 * Support to continue media playback where it was left off for Qt and OS X
1525 * Support for OS X Yosemite
1526 * Avoid grey bars in fullscreen when using Mavericks with multiple monitors
1527 * Improve fullscreen behavior for the native and VLCs own mode
1528 * Fixes for advanced preferences
1529 * Added 'file size' column to playlist table
1530 * in addition to iTunes, Spotify is automatically paused on playback start
1531 * Option to increase playlist font size
1532 * Improved crash log reporting
1535 * New module for TLS on OS X and iOS
1536 * Windows installer will kill running instance before installing
1537 * Teletext navigation buttons support in Qt4 gui
1538 * Update and improve Koreus, Dailymotion, Soundcloud and Youtube scripts
1541 * Numerous integer and heap overflow in Ogg, AVI, ASF, TTA and MP4 demuxers
1544 * iOS video output: use ios2
1545 * OpenMash H.261 video decoder
1546 * dirac encoder: use schroedinger
1549 * New translation in Urdu, Tatar, Silesian, Samoan, Kapampangan, N'ko,
1550 Kurdish, Kabyle, Mexican Spanish, Catalan, Amharic
1551 * Update of all translations:
1552 Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Vietnamese, Uzbek, Ukrainian,
1553 Turkish, Thai, Swedish, Serbian, Albanian, Slovenian, Slovak, Russian,
1554 Romanian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Punjabi, Dutch, Nepali, Norwegian
1555 Bokmål, Malay, Marathi, Latvian, Lithuanian, Korean, Kannada, Khmer,
1556 Japanese, Italian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Hebrew, Galician, Scottish
1557 Gaelic, French, Finnish, Persian, Estonian, Spanish, Modern Greek, German,
1558 Danish, Welsh, Czech, Bosnian, Bengali, Asturian
1561 Changes between 2.1.5 and 2.1.6:
1562 --------------------------------
1565 * Fix OSS stuttering
1568 * Fix heap overflow in decomp stream filter
1569 * Fix buffer overflow in updater (CVE-2014-9625)
1570 * Fix potential buffer overflow in schroedinger encoder
1571 * Fix null-pointer dereference in DMO decoder
1572 * Fix buffer overflow in parsing of string boxes in mp4 demuxer (CVE-2014-9626,9627,9628)
1573 * Fix SRTP integer overflow
1574 * Fix potential crash in zip access
1575 * Fix read overflow in Ogg demuxer
1576 * Fix RTP overflow (CVE-2014-9630)
1579 * Update translations and greek encoding
1582 Changes between 2.1.4 and 2.1.5:
1583 --------------------------------
1586 * Fix compilation on OS/2
1589 * Stability improvements for the QTSound capture module
1591 Mac OS X audio output:
1592 * Fix channel ordering
1593 * Increase the buffersize
1596 * Fix DxVA2 decoding of samples needing more surfaces
1597 * Improve MAD resistance to broken mp3 streams
1598 * Fix PGS alignment in MKV
1601 * Don't rename mp3 converted files to .raw
1604 * Correctly support video-on-top
1605 * Fix video output event propagation on Macs with retina displays
1606 * Stability improvements when using future VLC releases side by side
1609 * Fix transcode when audio format changes
1612 * Updated GnuTLS to 3.1.25 (CVE-2014-3466)
1613 * Updated libpng to 1.6.10 (CVE-2014-0333)
1616 * Update British English
1619 Changes between 2.1.3 and 2.1.4:
1620 --------------------------------
1623 * Fix issue in WMV with multiple compressed payload and empty payloads
1626 * Fix subtitles size rendering on Windows
1629 * Fix DVD playback regression
1630 * Fix misleading error message during video playback on OS X 10.9
1631 * Fix hardware acceleration memleaks
1634 Changes between 2.1.2 and 2.1.3:
1635 --------------------------------
1638 * Fix broken behaviour with SOCKSv5 proxies
1639 * Fix integer overflow on error when using vlc_readdir
1642 * Fix DVB-T2 tuning on Linux
1643 * Fix encrypted DVD playback
1644 * Fix v4l2 frequency conversion
1647 * Fix numerous issues (M2TS, VC1 interlaced, Lagarith, FFv1.3, Xvid)
1648 by updating codec libraries
1649 * Bring fluidsynth back on Mac OS X
1650 * Fix some Opus crashes with some filters
1651 * Fix teletext crash on Windows
1654 * Avoid an infinite recursion in MKV tags parsing
1655 * Fix an issue with some Vobsub tracks
1656 * Fix missing samples at the end of some wav files
1657 * Fix divide by 0 on ASF/WMV parsing
1660 * Fix audio device selection via command line on Mac OS X
1661 * Fix audio crashes on Mac OS X
1664 * Fix selection of DirectDraw as the default output for XP
1665 * Fix transform off-by-one issue
1666 * Fix screensaver disabling on Windows outputs
1667 * Fix DirectDraw device enumeration and multi-display output
1668 * Fix a potential crash when playing a fullscreen game at the same time as VLC
1671 * Fix 24bits audio MTU alignment in RTP
1672 * Fix record file names
1675 * Fix minimal size possible on start
1676 * Fix a crash with the simple volume widget
1677 * Fix a crash in the audio menu building
1678 * Fix multimedia keys issues on Windows
1679 * Fix opening of DVD and BD folders on Windows
1682 * Fix album art display on Windows
1685 * Update of Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Modern Greek,
1686 Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Hebrew,
1687 Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Nepali,
1688 Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
1689 Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
1690 and Simplified Chinese translations
1691 * Fix encoding for Windows installer translations
1694 Changes between 2.1.1 and 2.1.2:
1695 --------------------------------
1698 * Fix digital playback on OS X when more than one audio device is installed
1699 * Fix digital playback (SPDIF/HDMI) on Windows
1700 * Fix stuttering or silent playback when using sound enhancers or external
1701 audio devices on OS X
1702 * Improve responsiveness on OS X when playback starts or is being paused
1703 * Improve responsiveness, silent playback intervals and reliability on iOS
1706 * Fix Vimeo and DailyMotion parsing
1707 * Various WMV playback improvements and fixes
1710 * Fix LPCM 20/24-bit decoding and 16 bits with channel padding
1711 * Fix playback of some HEVC samples
1714 * Fix crash on deinterlace selection
1717 * Fix some streaming profiles when copy existed
1718 * Improve A-B loop control
1719 * Fix album art update when changing media
1722 * Add a language option in the interface
1723 * Option to control VLC's iTunes pausing behavior is more easy to find
1724 * Improved UI resetting when requested in the preferences
1725 * Fix issue which prevented to enable more than one video filter on Mavericks
1726 * Fix an issue which could prevent automatic UI language settings from working
1727 * Fix opening subtitles files through drag & drop or double-clicking
1728 * Fix crash when closing window without decorations
1729 * Fix issue where extra video window was resized even if this was disabled
1732 * Kill running VLC process on uninstall/update
1735 * Update of Basque, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian,
1736 French, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Kannada, Khmer,
1737 Lithuanian, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Scottish Gaelic, Sinhala,
1738 Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Uzbek, Welsh translations
1741 Changes between 2.1.0 and 2.1.1:
1742 --------------------------------
1745 * Fix random and reshuffling behaviour
1747 * Fix some subtitles track selection
1750 * VP9 support in WebM
1751 * HEVC/H.265 support in MKV, MP4 and raw files
1752 * Fix GPU decoding under Windows (DxVA2) crashes
1755 * Fix crashes on wav, mlp and mkv and modplug files
1756 * Support Speex in ogg files
1757 * Fix some .mov playlists support
1758 * Support Alac in mkv
1759 * Fix WMV3 and palette in AVI
1760 * Fix FLAC packetizer issues in some files
1763 * Fix DVB options parsing
1764 * Fix DeckLink HDMI input
1765 * Fix HTTPS connectivity on OS X by loading root certificates from Keychain
1768 * Fixes for DirectSound pass-through
1769 * Fixes for OSS output, notably on BSD
1772 * Fix HTTP interface infinite loop
1773 * Fix D-Bus volume setting
1776 * Reinstore right click subtitle menu to open a subtitle
1777 * Fix saving the hotkeys in preferences
1778 * Fix saving the audio volume on Win32, using DirectSound
1779 * Fix play after drag'n drop
1780 * Fix streaming options edition and scale parameter
1783 * Fix transcoding audio drift issues
1784 * Fix numerous audio encoding issues
1787 * Important rewrite to fix numerous bugs, notably about updates
1788 * Simplification of the upgrade mechanism
1791 * Reintroduce the language selector known from pre-2.1 releases
1792 * Fix fullscreen behaviour and various crashes
1793 * Fix about dialog crash in Japanese
1794 * Fix crashes on proxy lookups
1795 * Fixes on the playlist and information behaviours
1796 * Fixes on the streaming dialogs
1797 * Improves interface resizings
1800 * Update of Arabic, Basque, Belarusian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French,
1801 Galician, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
1802 Lithuanian, Marathi, Modern Greek, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian,
1803 Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
1804 Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek
1808 Changes between 2.0.9 and 2.1.0:
1809 --------------------------------
1812 * The licenses of numerous modules have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
1813 * Discontinued support for PowerPC-based Macs; VLC now requires Mac OS X 10.6+
1814 Moreover, the official builds will be 64bit only
1815 * The --with-tuning and --without-tuning options are removed; to tune
1816 compilation for a specific processor type, set CFLAGS manually
1818 3rd party libraries (contrib):
1819 * /extras/contrib has been replaced by a cleaner build system in /contrib
1822 * Audio core rewrite, supporting higher samplerates, better volume management,
1823 better device selection, new channel layouts and new output capabilities
1824 * Fix support for .001, .00x split files on Windows
1825 * Full support for UNICODE Windows mode
1826 * Disable and mark obsolete --language selection
1829 * Partial support for Windows Store App / WinRT
1830 * Add an audio fingerprinter, using AcoustID!
1831 * Remove SQL support
1834 * Support for CDXL, Ut Video, VBLE, Dxtory codecs via libavcodec
1835 * Numerous improvements on the OpenMAX IL codec module
1836 * Support for Ulead DV audio
1837 * Support for TechSmith Screen Codec 2, Microsoft Expression Encoder Screen,
1838 Microsoft Application Screen Decoder 1 (MSS1) and 2 (MSS2)
1839 * Support for Indeo Audio Coder, RealAudio Lossless
1840 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on OS X for H.264 based upon VDADecoder
1841 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Android Jelly Bean using MediaCodec
1842 * Add Hardware Acceleration support on Linux using VDPAU
1843 * Support for SCTE-27 subtitles
1844 * Split G.711 decoder from Araw decoder
1845 * X Window system raster image dump pseudo-decoder
1846 * Support for Webinar GoToMeeting 4 (G2M4)
1849 * high10, high422 and high444 encoding support in h264
1850 * QuickSyncVideo Encoding (Intel Media SDK) support using Intel GPU on Windows
1851 * New AAC encoder using the fdk-aac library (non-free)
1854 * Screen: add support for OS X Lion and later,
1855 remove support for previous OS X releases
1856 * Major improvements in DASH support
1857 * Improvements in Blu-Ray module, notably for multiple video tracks support
1858 * Important improvements and rewrite of the v4l2 access module
1859 * HTTP: support for Internationalized Domain Names
1860 * Microsoft Smooth Streaming support (H264 and VC1) developed by Viotech.net
1861 * NTSC EIA-608 closed caption input support via V4L2 VBI devices
1862 * Add support for VNC/rfb in view only mode
1863 * Add support for Remote Desktop/RDP in view only mode
1864 * Timecode: generate a clock/timecode as a subtitle track
1865 vlc video.mkv --input-slave timecode:// --timecode-fps 30/1001
1866 * New video capture module for OS X based on AVFoundation, named AVcapture
1867 * New shared memory framebuffer access module, named shm
1870 * MP4: partial support for fragmented MP4
1871 * Vorbis: better support for metadata and cover art
1872 * AVI: better support for tags and extended metadata
1873 * Support for FLAC, Atrac and some ADPCM in AVI
1874 * Support for DV data type 1 in AVI and 12 bits DV Audio
1875 * Support for total number of tracks in major container
1876 * Support for Cook and Atrac in MKV
1877 * AVI: support for files produced by Nikon cameras
1878 * Support for more MJPEG streams
1879 * Add support for liveleak streams
1880 * Add support for Wave/RF64 files
1881 * Prevent numerous uncaught exceptions in MKV
1882 * Add protection against several potential heap buffer overflow in libebml
1885 * Windows Audio Session API audio output support
1886 * OpenBSD sndio audio output support
1887 * Important improvements on the Android OpenSL ES audio output
1888 * Android AudioTrack audio output support
1889 * OS X Auhal output support for 6.1, 7.1, 8.0 and 8.1 playback and layouts
1890 * Rewrite of OSS module to support OSSv4
1891 * OS X Auhal output support for multi-buffer output devices
1892 This fix was facilitated through a hardware lending by TEAC Europe GmbH
1893 distributing such devices under the brand "TASCAM" (US-122, US-144, etc.).
1894 * Rewrite of the AudioQueue output for iOS (and OS X)
1895 * New, simplified AudioUnit output for iOS
1898 * New remapping channel filter
1899 * New filter to enhance stereo effect by mono suppression and delay effect
1900 * New VSXu visualization plugin
1901 * ARM NEON acceleration of volume filter
1902 * Rewrite of the simple downmixer filter
1903 * New gain audio filter
1906 * New output for Decklink Blackmagic cards
1907 * New output using OpenMAX IL hardware acceleration API
1908 * OpenGL: use glsl instead of ARB to do the YUV->RGB conversions
1909 * OpenGLES: add support for color conversation shaders on Android and iOS
1910 * Fix and enable the OpenGL ES1 and ES2 outputs
1911 * Support for subpictures in the OpenGL ES2 output
1912 * Fix the power management issue on Windows for standby management
1913 * New output module for iOS using OpenGL ES2
1914 * Fix performance issue on Macs with multiple graphics cards
1917 * New anaglyph video filter which transforms side by side 3D video streams in
1918 anaglyph glasses (aka red/blue) compatible images
1919 * Support in deinterlacing filter for most 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 YUV formats
1920 and for bits depth higher than 8bits (like 10bits)
1921 * Improvements on the transform filter, to support 10bits and RGB formats
1922 * Revival of the openCV and openCV example filters
1923 * ARM NEON acceleration of chroma filters
1926 * Extended support for recording, notably for MKV and AVI
1927 * Options support for AVIO output module
1928 * Livehttp places more accurate segments durations in playlist
1929 * Livehttp allows setting cachin-variable in playlist
1930 * Livehttp stream encryption support
1931 * Livehttp supports changing encryption key and uri on segment change with key-loadfile option
1932 * Added chromaprint based audio fingerprinting
1935 * Add AcoustID/Musicbrainz based fingerprinter
1938 * configurable password for the HTTP server
1939 * .hosts removed from the HTTP server
1940 * fix Lua command line interface console mode under Windows
1941 * Better support for MCE remotes on Windows
1942 * Hotkey support for TS program selection
1943 * Rewrite of D-Bus inhibit interface
1944 * Improvements on motion sensing interface, fix orientation, move out
1945 rotate mode into the rotate video filter
1948 * UPnP A/V subtitles
1949 * Support for multiple UPnP resources on a single item
1952 * Add support for multiple video outputs
1953 * Add accessibility support to playback windows, open panel and fullscreen
1955 * Add a GUI to manage podcasts
1956 * Add a new panel for media conversation and streaming
1957 * Add a GUI for the QTSound access input to process audio captured locally
1958 - This also allows to capture input from a webcam and a mic at the same time
1959 * Add a GUI to capture QTSound data along with the current screen content
1960 * Add an option to let the Apple Remote control the system volume instead of
1961 VLC's internal volume level
1962 * Add a new Subtitles menu to change Subtitles and their properties during
1964 * Add the ability to create custom equalizer presets based upon the current
1965 selection and to manage the list of presets
1966 * Add custom profiles for video and audio effects, which let the user keep
1967 multiple configuration sets of all the individual filters
1968 * Support for pausing iTunes during media playback with VLC
1969 * Add support for video filters to clone the video output or split it in parts
1970 * Add A->B loop feature known from the Qt interface
1971 * Add an option to disable skipping to next/previous file with the Apple Remote
1972 * Add an option to show next / previous buttons
1973 * Add an option to hide the shuffle and repeat buttons
1974 * Add an option to hide the audio effects button (default enabled)
1975 * Add optional playlist columns for track number, genre, album, description,
1977 * Add options to the Advanced Open File dialog for start and stop time
1978 * Add an option to play videos as a desktop background
1979 * Add support for playing video and showing audio visualizations side by side
1980 * improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
1981 * rewrite of minimal macosx module for use within VLCKit
1982 * Add support for 'macosx-autoplay' to the Apple Event / Apple Script bindings
1983 when adding new inputs - this also affects network streams opened through
1984 3rd party applications
1985 * Add a UI to the preferences dialog to configure the default application
1986 handler for ftp, mms, rtmp, rtp, rtsp, sftp, smb and udp streams
1987 (system-wide settings)
1988 * Add support for the Video Title option
1989 * Add support for the Boss Key
1990 * The Streaming/Transcoding wizard and the open dialog's output panel are
1991 deprecated now and will be removed in a future release
1994 * Partial support for Qt5.0
1995 * Menus modifications and improvements
1996 * Playlist improvements and fixes, including PictureFlow view
1997 * Streaming output wizard rewrite
1998 * Add bitrate graph in information panels
1999 * Filters panels improvements, notably Equalizer and Compressor
2000 * EPG display fixes and improvements
2001 * Add SD pixmap sources
2002 * Preferences hotkeys management fixes
2003 * Display playlist total duration
2004 * Support for a Maximum volume in the UI
2005 * Add audio track fingerprinting from media info
2006 * New profiles format and dialog to handle filters and quality
2011 * Extend sliders, offsets options
2012 * New bitmaps caching mechanism
2013 * Numerous fixes and improvements
2014 * Skinning of the Fullscreen controller
2017 * new libvlc_audio_output_device_list_get and libvlc_audio_output_device_list_release functions
2018 to replace the deprecated libvlc_audio_output_device_count, libvlc_audio_output_device_longname
2019 and libvlc_audio_output_device_id
2020 * libvlc_audio_output_get_device_type and libvlc_audio_output_set_device_type are now deprecated
2021 * new libvlc_media_tracks_get and libvlc_media_tracks_release methods to get more info about the
2022 media tracks. libvlc_media_get_tracks_info is now deprecated.
2023 * new fingerprinter_Create and fingerprinter_Destroy for fingerprinter support
2024 * new libvlc_log_set, libvlc_log_set_file, libvlc_log_unset, libvlc_log_get_context and
2025 libvlc_log_get_object for a better logger mechanism
2026 * new libvlc_set_app_id to complement libvlc_set_user_agent to set the icons
2029 * portaudio audio output: use the native audio output instead
2030 * X11 On Screen Display notifications (xosd)
2031 * Linux Framebuffer On Screen Display interface (fbosd)
2032 * PVR: IVTV analog TV encoder - use V4L instead
2033 * RTMP access: use libavformat avio instead
2034 * RTMP access_output: use libavformat avio instead
2036 * MSN messenger "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
2037 * Telepathy framework "now playing" (broken and unmaintained since VLC 1.0.0)
2038 * Nokia/Maemo MCE screen unblanking plugin
2039 * Broken crop video filter
2041 * OSD parser and menu
2042 * Xscreensaver: use xdg-screensaver
2043 * Removed DLL loader for non-Windows Operating Systems
2044 * SQL Media Library (broken and unmaintained)
2045 * SQL Lite (only used as SQL Media library backend)
2049 * Update of all translations
2052 Changes between 2.0.8 and 2.0.9:
2053 --------------------------------
2056 * Improve handling of corrupt ASF files
2057 * Fix buffer overflow in the mp4a packetizer
2060 * Fix modplug security issues
2063 Changes between 2.0.7 and 2.0.8:
2064 --------------------------------
2068 * Fix crash in QTsound
2069 * Fix screen mouse file location
2070 * Fix invalid memcpy in MMS access
2073 * Fix use after free in sgimb
2074 * Improve resistance and checking against malformed MKV files
2077 * Fix crash in the libavcodec module
2080 * Fix interface crashes
2081 * Fix autostart playback option
2082 * Respect "playlist-autostart" option
2085 * update Welsh translation
2086 * New Kannada translation
2089 Changes between 2.0.6 and 2.0.7:
2090 --------------------------------
2093 * Fix playback termination when switching ES tracks (PowerPC only)
2094 * Fix memory exhaustion vulnerability when playing specifically crafted
2098 * Fix WMA Pro, MPEG 4 ALS, APE, MLP and ADPCM-IMA4 playback
2101 * Fix audio encoding for numerous codecs, notably mp3 and aac
2104 * Fix noticeable memory leak when creating AVI files
2107 * Fix crash when using libvlc in 3rd party applications (Mac only)
2110 * Minor improvements
2111 * Fix issue which could lead to loss of media files created through transcoding
2114 * Fix two xss vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-3565)
2117 * Update Basque, Simplified Chinese, Ukrainian, Turkish, Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
2118 Burmese, Lithuanian, Italian, Hindi, Spanish, German, Czech, Danish, Welsh translations
2119 * New Azerbaijani, Kirgyz, Oriya translations
2122 Changes between 2.0.5 and 2.0.6:
2123 --------------------------------
2126 * Fix HTTPS playback with some certificates previously rejected
2129 * Improve lookup of human readable device names in AUHAL plugin (OS X)
2132 * Fix crash with broken asf files (SA-1302)
2133 * Fix MKV behaviour with unknown or new ebml elements
2134 * Fix use-after-free crash in Ogg demuxer, found by Tomi Juntunen
2135 * Fix regression on some paletted codecs in AVI
2136 * Fix ALAC in mp4 regression
2137 * Improvements to the vimeo playlist parser
2140 * Fix GPU decoding on Intel HD 2000/3000 cards on Windows
2141 * Fix FLAC 6.1 and 7.1 channel layout
2142 * Fix crashes in HTML srt subtitles
2143 * 3rd party codecs updates
2146 * Fix subtitle rendering resolution when using OS X's native fullscreen mode
2147 * Improve fullscreen controller time slider with larger click target
2148 * Fix listing of the lua interfaces (web, telnet and console)
2149 in the advanced preferences panel
2150 * Fix spatializer audio filter panel
2151 * Fix crash within the video output code
2152 * Fix BDMV folder selection issue on OS X Mountain Lion, which treats such
2153 folders as a AVCHD file as soon as they include an item named INDEX.BDM
2154 * Fix bug which caused a hidden fullscreen panel
2155 * Fix various minor UI drawing issues (main window, fullscreen controller,
2156 lua extensions, ...)
2157 * Allow VLC to be associated with .dvdmedia packages
2160 * Fix clearing of Media Info panel on dialog exit
2163 * Numerous D-Bus and MPRIS2 improvements
2164 * Reject broken versions of PulseAudio
2167 * Fix uninstallation in different location than C:\
2170 * Update of Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Thai, Portuguese,
2171 Japanese, Italian, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Bosnian,
2172 Asturian, French, Romanian, Serbian, Russian, Hindi, Estonian, German
2173 Slovenian Norwegian Bokmål, Khmer, Icelandic, Interlingua, Welsh, Ukrainian,
2174 Dutch, Danish, translations
2175 * New Gujarati, Aragonese translations
2178 Changes between 2.0.4 and 2.0.5:
2179 --------------------------------
2182 * Fix DVB-S delivery system detection
2185 * Fix playback initial synchronization with PulseAudio
2186 (however similar bugs in PulseAudio version 2.0 and later still exist)
2187 * Fix file output bug affecting floating point on big endian systems
2190 * Fix crash with some embedded subtitle fonts
2191 * Fix buffer overflow in HTML subtitles parser
2192 * Fix koreus lua parser
2193 * Improve reliability for RTSP streams sent by some IP cameras
2194 * Fix division by 0 in AIFF demuxer
2195 * Fix some MKV crashes when ordered editions have empty or broken links
2196 * Fix SWF potential crash on malformed files.
2199 * Fix crash in Freetype with embedded fonts
2200 * Fix wrong aspect ratio in some cases
2203 * Fix Mpeg-2 audio and video encoders initialization
2206 * Fix Reveal-in-Finder for files with non-Western file names
2207 * Fix crash with local statistics disabled
2208 * Fix Time counter UI look
2209 * Fix system sleep issue on OS X 10.5
2212 * Fix https streaming
2215 * Fix audio and video track selection:
2216 The constant track identifier is now always used. Some functions previously
2217 incorrectly used the (moving) index of the track in the table of tracks.
2220 * Update of Asturian, Bengali (India), Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Danish,
2221 Dutch, Estonian, French, Galician, Scottish Gaelic, German, Hebrew,
2222 Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Malayalam, Polish, Slovak, Simplified Chinese,
2223 Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish, Thai translations
2224 * Initial translations for Welsh and Interlingua
2227 Changes between 2.0.3 and 2.0.4:
2228 --------------------------------
2231 * Improve playback synchronization with PulseAudio.
2232 * Fix ALSA digital pass-through ("S/PDIF").
2233 * Fix live audio device selection on Mac OS X
2234 * Fix detection of some 5.1 and 7.1 kits on Windows.
2235 * Fix audio output behavior when the output device is plugged or unplugged
2236 during playback on Mac OS X
2239 * Fix numerous DVD (dvdnav) crashes
2240 * Fix HTTP playback through proxy and advertise gzip correctly
2241 * Fix TLS busy-loop during client-side handshake
2244 * Support for Opus decoding via libopus, including multi-channel files
2245 * Support MSS1 and MSS2 decoding through DMO libraries
2246 * Fix Hebrew and Greek subtitles encoding
2247 * Fix crashes on malformed subtitles and malformed png files
2248 * Fix crashes when using hardware decoding
2251 * Fix issues in Ogg with zero length packets
2252 * Fix file duration of Ogg/Theora and Ogg/Vorbis files
2253 * Fix vimeo, koreus and youtube lua parsers
2254 * Support Youtube live streams
2257 * Fix Wallpaper mode on Windows 7/8
2260 * Fix media info dialog update
2261 * Fix random/repeat preferences saving
2262 * Fix crashes when opening audio effects dialog, with skins and playlist
2263 * Fix crash on association dialog on Windows XP
2264 * Fix album art display at start
2267 * Fix command-line options to control the interface behavior
2268 * Deactivate CoreAnimation effects on Leopard
2269 * Fix menus display and behavior
2270 * Fix various crashes and small issues including bookmarks, playlist, buttons,
2271 streaming wizard, video size, hotkeys and fullscreen controller
2272 * Fix font selection for Unicode subtitles
2273 * Improve system sleep behavior when playing audio-only media. The screen is
2274 allowed to sleep while the system is kept awake during playback.
2275 * Fix code signing of Delete Preferences application
2276 * Add option to Audio Effects panel to activate the Karaoke filter
2279 * Fix Notify (D-Bus) plugin deadlock.
2280 * Fix buffer corruption in freetype and subtitles modules
2281 * Improve Blu-Ray and HLS support
2282 * Fix issues on selection of playlist items for WebUI
2283 * Codec and other 3rd party library updates
2284 * Fix swscale and canvas behavior with Aspect Ratio
2285 * Fix mime-type when streaming Webm over HTTP
2286 * Fix recording behaviour in Windows network environments
2287 * Codecs and 3rd party libary updates
2290 * Updates of Norwegian Bokmål, Korean, Slovak, Serbian, Russian, Traditional
2291 Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Walloon, Turkish, Thai, Polish,
2292 Dutch, Khmer, Hindi, Japanese, Galician, Hebrew, German, Breton, Scottish
2293 Gaelic, Czech, Estonian translations
2294 * Initial translations for Bengali, Fula, Gujarati and Bosnian
2297 Changes between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3:
2298 --------------------------------
2301 * Fix some HTTP request that broke some radio channels
2304 * Fix support for some flv files (notably joined)
2305 * Fix a crash when opening ape files with ID3v1 tags
2308 * Add GateKeeper support
2309 * Fix handling for some hotkeys
2310 * Fix fullscreen toggle over extra interfaces
2311 * Minor bugfixes and improvements
2314 * Fix Windows 8 interface style
2317 * Updates for Breton, Czech, Dutch, Gaelic, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic,
2318 Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovenian,
2319 Thai, Turkish and Walloon
2320 * New translations to Uzbek and Marathi
2321 * Fix activation of Gaelic and Thai translations
2324 Changes between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2:
2325 --------------------------------
2328 * XP machine will now use DirectX mode by default, like in previous versions.
2329 There were too many errors with broken drivers.
2330 * More accurate colourspaces conversions for YUV->RGB in OpenGL
2331 * Add menu support for libvlc / VLCKit applications on Mac OS X
2332 * Various fixes on Mac OS X, notably for crop, zoom, osd and menu support
2333 * Misc fixes in OpenGL module, on all platforms
2334 * Fix video output on PowerPC-based Macs equipped with an ATI Radeon 7500,
2335 an ATI Radeon 9200 or a NVIDIA GeForceFX 5200 Ultra.
2336 * Fix video output of 10bit encoded contents on Intel-based Macs equipped
2337 with an Intel GMA 950 chipset running OS X 10.6 or later.
2338 * Add support for the HiDPI mode used on recent Apple products with so-called
2342 * Rework Digital TV module for Windows. DVB-T and DVB-C should work again
2343 * Fixes for RAR compressed files
2344 * Fix DirectShow crashes on exit
2345 * Improve PulseAudio input latency
2346 * Fixes for HTTP access through a proxy
2347 * v4l2 webcam outputting H264 can now be used directly (use --v4l2-chroma=h264)
2348 * Fix subtitles auto-detection in subfolders and detection behaviour
2349 * IE http proxy is not used anymore by VLC on Win32
2350 * Accept more extensions for DVD images
2351 * Fix crash in VC1 packetizer
2352 * Improvements in Blu-Ray playback
2353 * Improvements and fixes in HLS support
2356 * Fix crashes in AAC decoder on channels changes, notably in ISDB streams
2357 * Fix compilation with multiple FFmpeg and libav versions
2359 * Fix MP3 free format support
2362 * Fixes for MKV segments, seeking and MKV title display
2363 * Fix for some mp4, voc, midi and au crashes
2364 * Fix for Real .ram, .f4v, .avi and .ra files support
2365 * Fix for DVB channels file support
2366 * Fixes for alac, vorbis, DTS, VC-1 and Dirac in mp4
2369 * Fix for MPEG Audio encoding, use layer2 when using fourcc "mp2 " and "mp2a"
2370 * Fix for JPEG generation, when doing snapshots
2372 Audio filters and output:
2373 * Limitation of spatializer volume output
2374 * Fix DirectSound device selection
2375 * Correct PulseAudio volume control
2376 * Do not apply volume in file output
2377 * Fix sampling rate in JACK output
2378 * Fixes in ALSA output for latency and for broken drivers
2381 * Enable drag and drop of playlist items between the temporary playlist and
2382 the persistant media library
2383 * Enable import of playlist items taken from the service discovery modules
2384 to the media library or the temporary playlist
2385 * Media key support for keyboards by other manufacturers than Apple
2386 This fix was facilitated through a hardware donation by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
2387 manufacturing keyboards under the brand "Cherry".
2388 * Add support for the Apple Remote to set the Mac to sleep using a longer
2389 press on the Play/Pause button
2390 * Remove libfontconfig's font cache by an Apple Type Services lookup.
2391 This removes the "Updating Cache" dialog, before finding all fonts.
2392 * Re-add an option to hide the window decoration during video playback
2393 * Improve compatibility with other 3rd party apps using SPMediaKeyTap
2394 * Many Fullscreen fixes
2395 * Keep Aspect Ratio when resizing is back
2396 * Add controls to manipulate the Subtitles Duration to the Track
2397 Synchronization panel
2398 * Hidden items in the sidebar are being retained for the next launch now
2399 * Fix crash when trying to open an Audio CD by drag & drop
2400 * Improve reliability when opening DVDs or BDs by drag & drop
2401 * Fix crashes on exit
2402 * Fix crash when mounting a device with multiple logical volumes while
2404 * Chosen audio output device is retained throughout multiple sessions
2405 * Since running the Mac OS X interface as an Extra Interface or Control
2406 Interface can lead to undefined results, eventual settings will be
2407 automatically reset on the first launch.
2408 - This fixes issues with unresponsive playback controls and crashes on quit.
2409 * Update Growl plugin for use with Growl 1.3
2410 * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements
2413 * Fixes for stdin/stdout and for different locale issues
2414 * Fixes for icecast SD
2417 * Fix preferences for audio devices on Windows
2418 * Fix playlist search and selector behaviour
2419 * Fix multiple issues in the Open Disc dialog
2420 * Miscellaneous fixes in preferences, buttons, EPG, playlist and customize dialog
2421 * Fix tags and file names display
2422 * Fix various crashes, display issues and usability issues
2425 * Fix mousewheel on Windows
2426 * Fix for key events and focus loss
2429 * Fix display of some buttons
2430 * Fix listing of files in the Open interface
2431 * Fixes for widgets behaviour and vlm dialog
2434 * Fix Ogg Heap buffer overflow
2435 * Update taglib (CVE-2012-2396)
2436 * Update libavcodec and other codecs libraries
2439 * Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Walloon, Slovak, Polish, Khmer,
2440 Japanese, Italian, French, Czech, Belarusian, Breton, Greek, Spanish,
2441 Estonian, Irish, Galician, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, Telugu, Ukrainian,
2442 Thai translations update
2443 * New Scottish Gaelic translation
2446 Changes between 2.0.0 and 2.0.1:
2447 --------------------------------
2450 * fix and improve the CDDB information retrieval
2451 * fix the samba module compilation
2452 * fix UDP / RTP multicast stream reception on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2453 * multiple fixes for HLS support, notably on Win32 and for encryption
2454 * multiple fixes for Bluray discs playback
2455 * fix for DVD decryption on some RPC-I drives
2458 * Support for MXPEG files
2459 * limit auto-detected threads to 4 in avcodec module
2460 * fix quicktime audio codecs in RTSP streams
2463 * Fix multi-file splitted RAR archive support
2464 * Fix a crash when seeking in mka
2465 * Improve MKV multi-video tracks support
2468 * Fix ogm header creation
2471 * limit spatializer filter distortions
2472 * Use fastest SinC algorithm for samplerate module
2475 * Fix S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA.
2476 * Remove flawed ALSA channels autodetection.
2477 The available ALSA channels MUST be configured now (stereo by default).
2478 * Fix delay when changing the volume on Mac OS X
2481 * Fix gradfun unloading on Windows platform
2484 * allow to hide the playlist to get a small controller window
2485 * allow to hide the sidebar
2486 * disable Lion fullscreen mode by default, since its behavior is misleading
2487 - this fixes fullscreen video output on a secondary screen
2488 * noticebly faster launch time
2489 * correct a few visual glitches and accessibility support
2490 * re-enable visual feedback on seek and volume changes
2491 * improve track synchronization panel
2492 * fix fontconfig cache dialog, closure of the interface and numerous crashes
2493 * fix crop, aspect ratio handling, DVD (no menu) support and Open subtitle menu
2496 * allow a native seek slider instead of the blue one
2497 * fixes in the playlist, the addons dialog, the menus, the main toolbar
2498 the open dialogs, preferences and customization dialogs
2499 * fix for fontconfig cache dialog, when rebuilding ASS fonts
2502 * fix for menus display
2503 * Addition of $R to display current playback speed
2504 * documentation update
2507 * fix mobiles display for remote control mode
2508 * support for .drc and .3ga extensions
2511 * fix SAP discovery, where an item was added multiple times
2512 * fix SAP discovery on Mac OS X when using the 10.7 SDK
2513 * Update Jamendo selections
2517 * fix build issues on BSD, Linux/PPC and Linux/Sparc
2518 * fix a crash on VLM close
2521 * Update libpng to 1.5.9 (CVE-2011-3026)
2522 * Update freetype to 2.4.9 (CVE-2012-1126 up to CVE-2012-1144)
2523 * Fix MMS stack overflow (SA-1201 - CVE-2012-1775)
2524 * Fix RealRTSP heap overflow (SA-1202 - CVE-2012-1776)
2527 * Update of Czech, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Walloon translations
2530 Changes between 1.1.13 and 2.0.0:
2531 ---------------------------------
2534 * The licenses of libVLC and libVLCcore have changed from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+
2535 * Start/end titles/chapters are now specified with # rather than @ to fix
2536 conflicts with some URLs and file names. For instance, this plays a DVD
2537 from the 2nd chapter of the 1st title up to the 4th chapter of the 3rd
2538 title: vlc dvd://#1:2-3:4
2539 * The 40+ --*-caching options were simplified and dumbed down to 4 options:
2540 - --file-caching specifies caching for local files,
2541 - --network-caching specifies caching for network resources,
2542 - --live-caching specifies caching for capture devices and
2543 - --disc-caching specifies caching for local optical media.
2544 All values are expressed in milliseconds as in previous versions.
2545 * HTTP server IP address, port, and TLS configuration is now centralized:
2546 - The --http-host option sets the address, e.g. "--http-host=[2001:db8::1]".
2547 By default, both :: and 0.0.0.0 are used.
2548 - The --http-port and --https-port options set the port numbers.
2549 By default, 8080 is used for HTTP, and 8443 for HTTPS.
2550 - The TLS credentials are configured with --http-cert (public certificate),
2551 --http-key (private key), --http-ca (optional CA) and
2552 --http-crl (optional CRL).
2553 * RTSP server IP address and port are updated similarly.
2554 Use --rtsp-host and --rtsp-port respectively.
2555 * The --miface-addr option does not exist anymore. To select the multicast
2556 output interface, use --miface instead, e.g. --miface=eth0.
2557 * The Windows version will only work with Windows XP SP2 or later.
2558 Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP < SP2, Windows 2003 SP0 are now unsupported.
2559 * The Mac OS version will require Quartz Extreme compatible machines.
2561 Important changes for packagers:
2562 * The default builds now assume that the operating system uses UTF-8 for
2563 its file systems and files content (except the Windows port). If this is
2564 not acceptable, pass --enable-non-utf8 to the configure script.
2565 Non-UTF-8 file systems support will be removed in future versions.
2566 * The VLC plugins path can be overridden with the VLC_PLUGIN_PATH environment
2567 variable. The --plugin-path command line option was removed.
2568 * The default tarballs are now compressed with XZ/LZMA: .tar.xz
2569 * OSS support is not compiled on Linux by default, pass --enable-oss to the
2570 configure script if you use OSSv4 or really want to use OSS emulation.
2571 * The webplugins have moved to: git://git.videolan.org/npapi-vlc.git
2574 * Major Video Core and Outputs rework and rewrite:
2575 Subtitles, subpictures and OSD can now be sized and blent inside outputs
2576 x11 (Unix), OpenGL (Unix) and Direct3D (Windows) are such video outputs.
2577 * Almost every video filter can now be transcoded
2578 * Playback rate doesn't get resetted to 1 between items anymore
2579 * Option --sub-filter was renamed --sub-source
2580 * Port to Android, iOS, OS/2 and Win64.
2583 * Multiple files are now supported inside RAR files
2584 * Experimental support for ClearQam devices in the BDA/DTV module
2585 * DVB-S scanning support on Unix
2586 * DVB-C scanning on Unix scans correct modulation/symbolrate if needed
2587 * Support for freq and video standard selection in DirectShow
2588 * Support for VDR recordings (http://www.tvdr.de/) folders
2589 * Experimental Blu-Ray Discs support using libbluray
2590 * HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) playback support
2591 * Blackmagic DeckLink SDI cards input support (Linux only currently)
2592 * Linear Systems (HD-)SDI cards input support (Linux)
2593 * PulseAudio audio input support
2594 * Support for RTP dynamic payload types by specifying the payload format
2595 in an option (no autodetection): only Theora supported for now
2596 * Basic HTCPCP implementation for Coffee Pot control
2597 * Support for all QTKit-compatible video input devices, aka QTCapture
2598 * Support for all QTKit-compatible audio input devices, aka QTSound
2599 * Support for capturing partially hidden windows in the X11 Screen input
2600 * MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) support
2601 * Support for HTTPS is now fixed in the Windows port
2604 * One can now use ffmpeg-mt in conjunction with vlc, to split decoding load
2605 on multiple cores. H.264, VP3, VP8, JPEG-2000, Mpeg-4 ASP/DivX and RV3/RV4
2606 are notably concerned.
2607 * Important fixes for RealVideo 3.0 and 4.0 playback, notably in MKV
2608 * Experimental Hardware decoding using Broadcom CrystalHD cards
2609 * New module for decoding EBU subtitles (.stl)
2610 * Support for 9bits and 10bits H.264/AVC decoding
2611 * Support for 20-bits PCM and DAT-12 (digital magnetic tapes) from RTP
2612 * New module for Dirac encoding, using the faster libschroedinger
2613 The Schroedinger module should be prefered to the Dirac one
2614 * Support for WMV Images, aka WMVP and WVP2, as used by Photo Story
2615 * Support for Lagarith Lossless video codec
2616 * Support for ProRes 422 video codec in 10bits
2617 * Support for DNxHD (VC-3) and JPEG-2000 in 10bits
2618 * EIA-608 closed captions improvements
2619 * Support for JPEG-2000 and Motion JPEG-2000 in the Windows and Mac binaries
2620 * Experimental support of IOMX for OpenMAX IL codecs on Android
2621 * One can use "mp2 " fourcc to encode in mpeg1/2 layer 2
2624 * New images demuxer supporting jpeg, png, targa, xcf, git, tiff, bmp, pcx, lbm
2625 * C64 SID file playback support of using sidplay2
2626 * Support for images/cover art in wma/wmv/asf files
2627 * Improvements in .ape files metadata reading and writing
2628 * New demuxer module for EBU subtitles (.stl)
2629 * Support for caf, mtv, awb, f4v, amr, vro (DVD-VR) files
2630 * Ogg, flv, mxf, amr seeking improvements
2631 * Major improvements in Matroska (mkv) chapters/segments handling and seeking
2632 * Support for duration and better seeking in Mpeg-TS files (.ts, .m2ts, .mts)
2633 * Mov improvements, notably for aspect-ratio handling and Audio DV tracks
2634 * Improved support of tracker files
2635 * Real Media (.rm and .rmvb) demuxer is now based on libavformat
2638 * Qt: effects dialogs rework
2639 * Qt: new CoverFlow-like view of the playlist
2640 * Qt: port to MacOS X platform
2641 * Qt: various interface improvements, notably on the seek bar
2642 * Skins2 / Qt: misc improvements and usability fixes
2643 * Skins2: fullscreen controller support, relative placement support
2644 and important cleanups and optimisations
2645 * Mac OS X: re-written Main Window, which also includes the Video Windows
2646 It is available in 2 looks, one grey (Lion style) and one black (QTX style)
2647 * Mac OS X: new Audio Effects panel adding Compressor and Spatializer filters
2648 * Mac OS X: new Track Synchronization panel
2649 * Mac OS X: new Video Effects panel for color and geometry adjustments
2650 * Mac OS X: re-written Open Disc functionality with automatic media detection
2651 * Mac OS X: support for the native fullscreen mode on OS X Lion
2652 * Mac OS X: enhanced AppleScript support
2653 * Mac OS X: support for lua extensions
2654 * The rc and telnet lua interfaces were merged into a new "cli" interface
2655 * lua: the recommended way to run custom interface scripts is now to pass
2656 -I luaintf --lua-intf myscript
2657 * ncurses: heavy refactor of the complete interface
2658 * dbus: Upgrade to an mpris2 compliant interface, see http://www.mpris.org
2659 * dbus: Rewrite of the main loop to use a more efficient poll-based model
2660 * webUI/http: Rewrite of the web interface, using jQuery
2661 * webUI/http: some requests are now supported in JSON in addition to XML
2662 * webUI/http: path values for input and output are deprecated in favour of uri
2663 * Qt/Win32: the update system now downloads the updates in the temp folder
2664 * Qt: preferences are now searchable
2665 * Qt: the fullscreen controller is now stackable, full-width, at the bottom
2668 * New video output based on Direct2D for Windows 7 and Vista (with Platform Update)
2669 * New video output for iOS platform
2670 * Experimental work in progress on a video output using EGL
2671 * Adaptation of the OpenGL layer for OpenGL ES 1.1
2672 * Various vmem improvements
2673 * OpenGL video output now accepts YUV as input and uses fragment programs for
2674 chroma conversion between YUV and RGB
2675 * New video output for Android platform, based on Surface
2676 * Support for 9/10bits output in the OpenGL output
2677 * Updated OpenGL video output for Mac, requires a Quartz Extreme capable machine
2678 * New video output based on kva API for OS/2
2680 Audio Output and Filters:
2681 * New audio output based on AudioQueue API for iOS
2682 * New audio output in memory (amem)
2683 * Important simplification and improvements in the core audio output
2684 * New audio output based on OpenSL ES API for Android
2685 * New audio resampler using Speex (DSP)
2686 * New audio resampler using the Secret Rabbit Code (a.k.a. libsamplerate)
2687 * New Compressor filter, a dynamic range compressor
2688 * New simplistic Karaoke filter
2689 * New audio output based on kai API for OS/2
2690 * Automatic handover from S/PDIF to PCM with PulseAudio 1.0
2693 * New gradfun filter for debanding videos using dithering
2694 * Rewrite of the grain filter, faster and with better quality
2695 * New posterize filter for lowering the number of colors
2696 * Atmo ambilight: improve Fnordlicht support up to 254 channels
2697 * New sepia filter for creating sepia effect in videos
2698 * New deinterlacer mode Phosphor, a framerate doubling CRT TV simulator
2699 * New deinterlacer mode IVTC, to do live inverse telecine for NTSC films
2700 * New subsdelay filter to change subtitles delay
2701 * New anti-flickering filter
2702 * New OpenMAX DL IPCS filter for color space conversion and resizing
2703 * New video filter for denoising, based on the famous hqdn3d filter
2704 * Major improvements in the freetype text-rendering module, notably supporting
2705 blackbox and customizable shadow.
2706 NB: The freetype module is now used by default on the Mac OS X instead of
2707 the quartztext module, which can still be enabled manually.
2708 The Win32 font selection was improved too.
2711 * New livehttp-module for HTTP Live Streaming (IETF draft) output
2712 example: vlc inputfile :sout="#transcode{vcodec=h264,acodec=mp3,
2713 venc=x264{profile=baseline},width=320,vb=256,ab=96}:std{
2714 access=livehttp{index=public_html/iphonestream.m3u8,
2715 index-url=http://url-to-iphonestreamfile-###.ts},mux=ts{use-key-frames},
2716 dst=public_html/iphonestreamfile-###.ts}"
2717 * Support for Vorbis and Theora in RTP
2718 * Major rework of VoD support
2719 * New delay module, to introduce delays of one ES, when streaming:
2720 #delay{id=12,delay=500}:standard...
2721 * New setlang, setid modules to change lang or id of one ES, when streaming:
2722 #setid{id=12,new-id=42}:std...
2723 * New langfromtelx module, to change lang of one ES, when streaming, based on
2724 a telextex page: #langfromtelx{id=12,magazine=7,page=0x99,row=1}:std...
2725 * New select module, to replace an existing ES with another ES in the same track
2726 #duplicate{dst=bridge-out{id=1},select=video,dst=bridge-out{id=0xa3},select=audio}
2727 #transcode{...}:bridge-in{id-offset=0}:select{disable=0}:setid{id=0,newid=0xa3}:autodel:std{...}
2728 * New libavformat/avio access_output module for network streaming
2731 * Search API to be able to query distant search APIs from the interfaces
2732 * Upnp module was ported to Win32
2735 * New capabilities for libVLC:
2736 ** libvlc_media_player_navigate for DVD navigation
2737 ** libvlc_audio_filter_list_get, libvlc_video_filter_list_get to get the
2738 list of available audio and video filters
2739 ** libvlc_audio_set_format, libvlc_audio_set_format_callbacks,
2740 libvlc_audio_set_callbacks
2741 allow grabbing audio data from a chosen memory location in real-time.
2744 * asademux, subsass: use libass
2745 * fake, invmem: use the new image demuxers
2746 * hal, v4l, gapi, omapfb, hd1000a, hd1000v: obsolete unmaintained modules
2747 * id3tag: use taglib
2748 * upnp: use upnp_intel
2749 * removal of old telnet interface in favor of the new lua CLI
2750 * removal of http interface in favor of luahttp
2751 * removal of the noise filter
2752 * removal of the SDL audio output, use the native outputs
2753 * growl_udp: use Growl for local notifications on the Mac. UDP support will be
2754 removed in Growl's next release, too.
2755 * removal of the OSSO screensave module, use the MCE one
2758 * Update of translations for most languages.
2759 * New Telugu and Kurmanji translations.
2762 Changes between 1.1.12 and 1.1.13:
2763 ----------------------------------
2766 * Heap overflow in TiVo demuxer fixed.
2767 * Same default ACL for HTTP requests as for the rest of the HTTP interface.
2770 * PulseAudio channels mapping (non-stereo) fix.
2771 * PulseAudio stream accidental overflow recovery.
2774 * XVideo support for mixed CPU/GPU endianess (especially on PowerPC).
2775 * XVideo support for automatic color keying.
2776 * xosd Xlib initialization failure fix.
2779 * Camtasia decoding fix.
2782 * Rare crash while seeking fixed.
2783 * V4L2 video standard selection fixed.
2786 * Update of Chinese simplified, Estonian, German and Polish languages.
2789 Changes between 1.1.11 and 1.1.12:
2790 ----------------------------------
2793 * Mac OS X / auhal: multiple fixes for the Digital Audio output (S/PDIF)
2794 including support for OS X Lion
2795 * Multiple fixes and improved synchronization for PulseAudio support
2796 * Support for AC-3 and DTS passthrough with PulseAudio 1.0
2799 * Fix build compatibility with taglib < 1.6 and Xulrunner 1.9.1
2802 * Fix crashes with Japanese locale on OS X
2803 * Minor fixes for Webplugin under Win32, AVI demuxer, smem and AudioScrobbler
2804 * Fix crash in HTTP and RTSP server (stream output or Web interface)
2807 * Update of Breton, Chinese Simplified and Basque
2810 Changes between 1.1.10 and 1.1.11:
2811 ----------------------------------
2814 * Fix buffer overflows in the RealMedia demuxer (CVE-2011-2587)
2815 and the AVI one (CVE-2011-2588).
2818 * Fixed scrolling direction if the input device's signal is inverted
2819 * Update Auhal audio output to the latest API
2820 * Fix images disappearing issue on the interface
2821 * Reduced installation size by up to 30 MB
2822 * Resolved conflict between iTunes and VLC wrt Media Key handling
2824 Mozilla/ActiveX webplugin:
2825 * Fullscreen mode is fixed on Win32
2826 * Very simple fullscreen controller is visible on Win32
2828 Demuxers/Meta Readers:
2829 * Better support for cover art embedded in mp4, wma
2832 * Fix AVI muxer so the generated files are readable on other players
2835 * Multiple fixes for crashes and malfunctionning issues
2838 * Fix quitting on Linux
2839 * Fix opening of VIDEO_TS folders through the open disc dialog on Windows
2843 * Update of codecs, fixing the mpeg-2 decoder crash
2846 * Update of Slovak, Lithunanian, Russian, Brazillian Portuguese, Serbian
2849 Changes between 1.1.9 and 1.1.10:
2850 ---------------------------------
2852 Windows and Mac OS X:
2853 * Update of external library modplug, to address multiple security issues
2856 * Improved Media Key handling based upon SPMediaKeyTap by Spotify AB
2857 * Fix for various crashes and small issues
2860 * Fix heap corruption / integer overflow in XSPF playlist parser
2863 * PulseAudio output re-written due to unstability of the current one
2866 * Remove the fontconfig dependency from the freetype module
2868 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2869 * Windows 7 taskbar buttons
2871 * asx, live555, dvdnav demuxer
2872 * RTP output and XML export
2873 * Subtitles colours when using GPU decoding on Windows
2877 * Update of Norwegian Bokmål, Slovak, Afrikaans, Luganda,
2878 Brazillian Portuguese, Irish, Thai, Estonian, Chinese, Polish,
2879 Dutch, German, Galician, Bulgarian, Lithuanian and Japanese translations
2880 * Initial Basque, Zulu, Peul, Amharic, Acoli, Chiga translations
2883 Changes between 1.1.8 and 1.1.9:
2884 --------------------------------
2886 Windows and Mac OS X:
2887 * Update of external library modplug, to address a security issue
2890 * mp4: Fix heap-based buffer overflow (VideoLAN-SA-1103)
2893 * Miscellaneous interface look adjustments
2894 * Improve Apple Remote handling
2895 * Fixe bugs in the Streaming / Transcoding wizard
2896 * Layout fixes in the Preferences and Controls windows
2897 * Fix incomplete list of hotkeys in the Preferences dialog
2898 * Fix quitting through Apple Events (Dock menu, App Switcher, AppleScript, etc.)
2901 * Fix Growl local notification plugin
2902 * VLC bundle now includes the Growl framework
2906 * Updates of Lithuanian, Estonian, Chinese, Japanese, Bengali, Dutch, Polish,
2907 German, Galician, Traditional Chinese translations
2908 * New Luganda Translation
2911 Changes between 1.1.7 and 1.1.8:
2912 --------------------------------
2915 * New UI graphics by Damien Erambert
2918 * Oldrc interface is again the default RC interface, on Windows
2919 * Luarc, luahttp and luatelnet fixes
2920 * Qt and Mac OS X fixes
2921 * numerous Skins2 fixes, notably winamp2 skins
2924 * new libschroedinger-based Dirac codec encoder, faster than the current one
2926 Access/Demuxers/Codecs:
2927 * Subtitles auto-detection is back for .txt files
2928 * vod/rtsp server and rtsp input fixes
2929 * mp4 demuxer improvements
2930 * ogg, rstp input, video filters minor fixes
2931 * taglib's replaygain is fixed for mp3
2932 * vobsub support has an improved auto-detection
2933 * fix a crash in malformed ape files
2935 Miscellaneous fixes in:
2936 * Pulseaudio audio output, notably for usb cards
2937 * Stacktraces are now limited in size on Windows
2938 * Video resolution is now limited to 8192x8192, for security reasons
2939 See CORE-2011-0208, CVE-2010-3275, CVE-2010-3276
2940 * Configure and build system improvements
2941 * DirectShow and BDA build headers have been updated
2944 * Update for Finnish, Galician, Dutch, Chinese, German, Japanese, Lithuanian,
2945 Slovak, French, Polish, Estonian, Brazillian Portuguese and Hebrew
2946 * New icelandic translation
2949 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.7:
2950 --------------------------------
2953 * Integration with the KDE GUI platform is disabled due to KDE bugs
2954 #234484 and #260719.
2957 * Updated live555 library to fix playback of RTSP and Freebox streams
2958 * Running VLC in 64bit mode requires Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later for speed
2959 and stability reasons
2962 * Fix for Matroska / WebM remote code execution vulnerability.
2966 * Update for Hebrew, Japanese, Danish and Russian translations
2969 Changes between 1.1.6 and 1.1.6.1:
2970 ----------------------------------
2973 * Fix libnotify, lirc, pulse compilation and packaging for Unix/Linux
2976 Changes between 1.1.5 and 1.1.6:
2977 ---------------------------------
2980 * Multiple fixes and improvements on PulseAudio output
2981 PACKAGERS are VERY STRONGLY advised to update libpulse to 0.9.22.
2982 Update is required to use PulseAudio with the Phonon-VLC backend (KDE)
2983 and with the Mozilla VLC web browser plugin.
2986 * Fix the Audio CD crash when looking for CDDB metadata on Windows
2989 * Support for MPC SV7 and SV8 on Windows and Mac OS X (Unix was already working)
2990 * Enabled FluidSynth MIDI playback plugin on Mac OS X
2991 * Faster VP8/Webm decoding with recent codecs libraries
2992 * Fix heap corruption in CD+G decoder - CVE-2011-0021 / VideoLAN-SA-1101
2995 * Fix Buffer overflow in Real demuxer - CVE-2010-3907 / VideoLAN-SA-1007
2996 * Fix some asf/wmv seeking issues, notably when seek didn't go to a keyframe
2997 * Support for 24-bits PCM over RTP (audio/L24)
2999 Subtitles and renderer:
3000 * Do not auto-detect .txt files for subtitles
3001 * Mark more freetype options as safe
3002 * Mac OS X: fixed fontconfig cache creation
3003 * Fix heap corruption in subtitle decoders, potentially exploitable,
3004 discovered by Harry Sintonen - sintonen at iki.fi - CVE-2011-0522
3007 * Fix projectM visualization for Linux in all locales
3008 * Fix projectM visualization support for Windows
3009 * Various projectM improvements: the module should be working now
3010 * Fix goom crash on Windows XP and Mac OS X
3013 * Qt4: fixes for media keys processing and MCE remotes
3014 * Qt4: various fixes and portability improvements
3016 Miscellaneous fixes:
3017 * KDE device solid actions
3019 * Transcode integer overflow
3020 * HTTP Icy metadata reading
3021 * Windows: revert to 1.1.4 performance timers
3024 * Update translations for Chinese, Nippon, Slovak, Estonian, Spanish, Galician,
3025 Swedish, Bulgarian, French, Bengalese, German, Slovak, Japanese, Dutch,
3026 Polish, Hungarian, Indonesian, Sinhala and Irish
3029 Changes between 1.1.4.1 and 1.1.5:
3030 ----------------------------------
3033 * Fix a Windows crash on accessing Network Shared files/drives,
3037 * Support for RTP access for H264 streams by specifying the demux in the MRL
3040 * Integration in the playlist, of a list of web shows, provided by channels.com
3043 * Game Music Emu (GME) plugin rewritten, using the proper C API
3044 * DVDnav and DVDread fixes for encoding and misc issues
3045 * Playback of live http .Webm streams
3046 * Taglib thread-safety fix
3049 * Fix decoding of H264 using DxVA2 using Intel IGP, thanks to the donation from
3053 * Add an icon to VLC on Linux
3056 * fix a bug that could lead to 100% CPU usage on XCB
3059 * fix for Qt bug where VLC didn't exit properly on some Windows XP configuration
3060 * fixes on luatelnet and luarc
3062 Miscellaneous crashes and fixes in various plugins (telnet, live555, theora and
3066 * add libvlc_media_new_fd() to play directly file descriptors (not Win32/Win64)
3067 * Miscellaneous fixes
3070 * Update translations for Walloon, Lithuanian, Spanish, Turkish, Estonian, Dutch,
3071 Bengali, German, Polish, Brazillian Portuguese, Japanese, Italian, Galician,
3072 French and Ukrainian
3073 * Major update and activation on Windows of Modern Greek
3074 * New Asturian translation
3077 Changes between 1.1.4 and 1.1.4.1:
3078 ----------------------------------
3081 * Fixed video output on PowerPC-based Macs for videos with widths divisible
3083 * Fixed an issue with the Equalizer's 170Hz slider
3086 * Fix crash when closing rtsp streams
3089 * Fix Windows 7 jumplists with Unicode files
3090 * Various fixes for Windows
3093 * New Armenian translation
3094 * Update translations for Dutch, Estonian, Lithuanian, Japanese, Nynorsk,
3095 Brazillian Portuguese, Armenian, Wallon
3098 Changes between 1.1.3 and 1.1.4:
3099 --------------------------------
3102 * Fix a security issue when loading DLLs, especially in Qt4 and dmo modules,
3103 See VideoLAN-SA-1005
3104 * Fix folders opening from the interface
3107 * Update translations for Lithuanian, Bengali, Slovak, French, Dutch, Ukrainian
3108 Polish, Simplified Chinese, German and Galician
3111 Changes between 1.1.2 and 1.1.3:
3112 --------------------------------
3114 Access and demuxers:
3115 * fixes for FTP relatives path and FTP directory support
3116 * fix for podcasts parsing
3117 * DVD: fix an assert error and various memory leaks
3120 * fix NULL dereferences, as reported by FortiGuard Lab,
3121 CVE-2010-2937 / VideoLAN-SA-1004
3124 * fix a regression where the wrong entry was played
3125 * fix m3u playlists exports
3128 * fix video autoresize behaviour
3131 * Update translations for Dutch, Sinhala, Hebrew, Estonian, Spanish and Bengali
3134 * Update of many codecs libraries, fixing bugs and improving speed
3137 * architecture-specific installations will now be replaced by specific updates
3140 * Add AltiVec detetion for OpenBSD/powerpc
3143 Changes between 1.1.1 and 1.1.2:
3144 --------------------------------
3147 * Avformat fps displaying fix
3148 * TS, fix an issue where some programs would get dropped (fixes DVB issues too)
3151 * fix timestamps handling on some filters that provoked issues when playback
3152 of mono streams, especially on Windows
3155 * fix a bug in direct3d video output with old nVidia drivers that broke video
3156 playback with overlay (YUV->RGB)
3157 * fix console output encoding
3159 Interface and extensions:
3160 * Youtube and other scripts updates
3161 * Misc fixes in Qt4 (especially VLM and EPG dialogs) and MacOS interface
3164 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.1.1:
3165 --------------------------------
3168 * New capabilities for libVLC:
3169 * Adjust video filter control: libvlc_adjust_Enable,
3170 libvlc_adjust_Contrast, libvlc_adjust_Brightness, libvlc_adjust_Hue,
3171 libvlc_adjust_Saturation, libvlc_adjust_Gamma
3172 * libvlc_media_player_set_pause() can force the pause state, whereas
3173 libvlc_media_player_pause() would only toggle it.
3174 * libvlc_set_user_agent() configures the "user agent" strings used for some
3175 protocols (HTTP, PulseAudio...). This replaces the --http-user-agent and
3176 the former --user-agent libvlc_new() parameters.
3177 * libvlc_video_set_callbacks() and libvlc_video_set_format() allow grabbing
3178 video frames from a chosen memory location in real-time. This replace the
3179 ugly --vmem-* libvlc_new() parameters in previous versions.
3180 See http://wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_SDL as an example.
3181 * libvlc_audio_get_delay() and libvlc_audio_set_delay() configure the delay
3182 between audio and video/subpictures for the current input.
3183 * Various fixes and crash preventions, especially when video functions were
3187 * Fix performance issues with GPU decoding using DxVA2 using ATI graphic cards
3188 You NEED ATI Catalyst 10.7
3189 * Fix :program selection in TS and DVB-T
3190 * Fixes and improvements for MKV, Avformat and Avcodec modules
3191 * Fix mod (.xm, .s3m, .it) files support on Windows and Mac builds
3194 * Fix h264 streaming in ts
3197 * Qt: fix preferences, hotkeys, messages and some fulscreen behaviour
3198 * Skins: support for mousewheel in fullscreen, fix radialsliders
3199 * Http: fix fullscreen toggle
3203 * VAAPI small improvements, notably for extraction mode selection
3206 * Multiple interface and crash fixes
3207 * Deinterlace selection is repaired
3208 * Crashes when playing multi-channel tracks fixes
3211 * Activation of DEP on XP SP3
3212 * Fix opening of .m3u and .pls playlists
3213 * Fix crash when My Document isn't available
3214 * Fix crash when Windows was getting into standby while playing video
3217 * Update translations for Spanish, Polish, German, Sinhala, Hungarian, Khmer,
3218 Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Hebrew, Slovak, Galician
3221 Changes between 1.0.6 and 1.1.0:
3222 --------------------------------
3224 Important changes for users:
3225 * On Linux, known bugs in the ALSA library might prevent audio output.
3226 Update to alsa-lib 1.0.24 or later, or use the PulseAudio output instead.
3228 Important changes for packagers:
3229 * The module cache has moved to ${libdir}/vlc/. The module cache can now be
3230 generated at install time except if you use staged installation. In the
3231 later case, you can generate the module cache in your post-inst script
3232 by invoking 'vlc-cache-gen'. If the module cache is not present and vlc
3233 can't write in ${libdir}/vlc/, it will result it vlc taking a long time to
3235 * Most X11-related plugins now use XCB instead of Xlib. VLC now uses
3237 - xcb, xcb-shm, xcb-xv, xcb-randr (from libxcb),
3238 - xcb-keysyms (from xcb-utils),
3239 - x11-xcb (from libx11) - only for GLX support.
3240 * On X11 platforms, a _working_ version of xdg-screensaver is typically
3241 required to inhibit the screensaver during video playback.
3244 * Support for the sftp protocol
3245 * Support for CDDB servers for Audio-CD on the Windows port
3246 * New memory input (imem) access and access_demux module to feed VLC from data in memory
3247 * New avio module to use libavformat capabilities for network streams, like rtmp://
3248 * Port of the screen module from Xlib to XCB
3249 * Port of the dc1394 module from libdc1394 to libdc1394 v2.0
3252 * Support for DxVA2 for H.264 decoding on GPU on Windows Vista and 7
3253 * Support for VAAPI for H.264 decoding on GPU on GNU/Linux
3254 * Support for Audio/Video decoders and encoders using OpenMAX IL components for DSP
3256 * Support PGS subtitles for Blu-Ray
3257 * Support for HD-DVB subtitles - Display Definition Segment
3258 * Invmem module improvements
3259 * Support for Atrac1 audio codec
3260 * Support for SSE3 and SSE4 capabilities in some codecs
3261 * Multiple improvements for subtitles styles in .SRT and .SSA
3262 * Support for native decoding of Windows Media Speech (Voice) audio codec
3263 * Support for AMR-NB audio codec on the Windows and Mac port
3264 * Support for Indeo5 video codec
3265 * Improvements on the FLAC format (7.1 channels and 88.2/176.4/192 kHz support)
3266 * Direct rendering is used more often with H.264 in avcodec module
3267 * Support for MPEG-4 ALS lossless audio codec
3268 * Support for VP8 codec
3269 * Support for 7.1 channels in vorbis audio
3272 * Many fixes on Matroska support (notably seeking) and support for Webm format
3273 * Support for .aob files from DVD-Audio (MLP and LPCM) (Full disc support is NOT present yet)
3274 * Support for ADPCM in .flv streams
3275 * Support for TwinVQ (.vqf) and AMV (.amv) files
3276 * Various EGP improvements
3277 * Support for embedded subtitles in OpenDML and legacy .avi files
3278 * Metadata and cover art improvements
3281 * WPL and ZPL playlist support
3282 * Lua scripts for Mpora, Vimeo playback and Rockbox FM radios
3283 * New Play-And-Pause function to stop playback on latest video image
3284 * Podcast images are now displayed
3287 * Rewrite of the video output core and most video outputs
3288 * Added desktop mode to the Direct3D output module. It differs from DirectX
3289 desktop mode, because it hides the desktop icons, but reacts to mouse clicks.
3290 * New x11, glx and xv modules based on XCB
3291 * New deinterlacing modes based on yadif and yadif(x2)
3292 * New audio/video filter to show audio level on the video output
3293 * Enhanced AtmoLight filter with hardware support for
3294 Classic AtmoLight (http://www.vdr-wiki.de/wiki/index.php/Atmo-plugin)
3295 Quattro AtmoLight (use just 4 Classic AtmoLights as one)
3296 MoMoLight (http://www.ambilight4pc.com/momolight/momolight.html)
3297 Simple serial DMX controller (http://www.ulrichradig.de/ search for DMX)
3300 * New content extensions lua framework
3303 * Chorus/Flanger audio filter
3304 * 3F1R to stereo down-mix filter
3305 * Dolby mixer, parameterized equalizer, trivial mixer, scaletempo, bandlimited
3306 resampler, linear resampler, ugly resampler, converter_fixed, DTS to SPDIF
3307 and A/52 to SPDIF filters have been upgraded to the "audio filter2" API
3308 * NEON assembly audio converter module
3309 * Converter filters have been rewritten and extended to support s32 as input
3312 * Service discoveries can now be written in lua
3313 * Service discovery for Picture/Music/Video user directories
3314 * Service discovery based on libudev
3315 * Shoutcast Service discoveries are now removed
3318 * x264, add psy-rd parameter and change default settings
3319 * x264, add profile-limitter same way as x264.exe has, for example
3320 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=1.2},vb=384,width=320,height=176}
3321 * x264, defaults to crf=23 as x264.exe-does, if bitrate is given,
3322 uses ABR and if qp-value is set uses CQP
3323 * libx264-version 0.76 or higher is required
3324 * x264 has tune/preset parameters supported
3327 * New smem module, streaming to memory
3328 * Allow duplicate outputs to be merged, like:
3329 --sout "#duplicate{dst=transcode{vcodec=mp2v},select=es=0,dst=transcode,select=es=1}:std{...}"
3332 * Renamed the legacy rc, telnet and http interfaces to oldrc, oldtelnet
3334 * rc, telnet and http are now implemented using the lua interface system.
3335 * qt4 interface contains new iconview and listview mode for playlist
3338 * Support of .milk visualization files using projectM libraries
3341 * Vastly improved VLCKit framework
3342 * A new dialog provider for libvlc-internal interaction without full interface
3343 * Improved update detection and installation by using the Sparkle framework
3344 by Andy Matuschak et al.
3345 * New CoreText based text renderer replacing the former ATSUI renderer
3346 * New Video output module (mostly targetting VLCKit)
3347 * Optimised behavior when using the 2009 Apple Remote
3350 * Integration in Windows 7 taskbar
3351 * Playback of .Midi files is supported through fluidsynth's module
3354 * Multiple improvements for N900 compliance and efficiency
3355 * Support for HW accelerated video decoding on N900
3356 * Improvements to the maemo/hildon interface
3360 * --save-config command line option not supported anymore.
3361 * Fixed and reenabled netsync module.
3362 * Improved Solaris port
3365 * new C++ wrapper around libVLC: libVLCpp
3366 * phonon-VLC backend is now usable
3369 * csri codec: use the libass module instead.
3370 * galaktos visualisation: use the new projectM module instead.
3371 * showintf: Useless in Qt and on Mac OS X
3372 * transrate: broken since too long
3373 * Xlib x11, Xlib xvideo, Xlib glx: Use the new XCB modules instead.
3374 * HAL: Use libudev instead.
3375 * gtk_main, gtk_main2, gnome_main, gnome_main2 and pda interfaces
3376 * WinCE, BeOS and qnx interfaces
3377 * opie, qte and qte_main interfaces
3378 * linear_resampler and trivial_resampler are removed: use the ugly one.
3379 * XvMC accelerated modules: use VAAPI instead.
3380 * MGA (Matroska) for Linux: use Linux Framebuffer (or X) instead.
3381 * opengllayer: use macosx_video instead.
3382 * cddax: use cdda instead.
3383 * cmml and tarkin codecs are removed because they are dead codecs.
3384 * realaudio codecs: use libavcodec
3385 * access_file removed in favor of filesystem
3386 * RTMP input and output: use avio module
3389 Changes between 1.0.5 and 1.0.6:
3390 --------------------------------
3393 * Fix crash on FTP URI with no file path
3395 Decoders/Packetizers:
3396 * Fix overflows in A/52, DTS, MPEG Audio and subtitles support
3399 * Update LUA script for Youtube pages
3400 * Fix crashes in AVI, ASF and Matroska files
3401 * Fix crashes on malformatted ZIP archives
3402 * Fix crashes and leaks in the FFmpeg/avformat plugin
3403 * Fix crash on invalid XSPF playlist
3406 * Partial Xlib threading fixes
3407 More complete fixes are available in VLC 1.1.0. Please update!
3410 * Fix crash (use after free) in Qt4 bookmarks
3411 * Fix a few crashes in Qt4 playlist
3414 * Simplified Chinese, Estonian, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swedish
3415 and Walloon translations updated
3416 * Sinhala translation started
3419 * RTMP input and output are removed due to security problems. Please update
3420 to VLC 1.1.0 which provides an FFmpeg-based RTMP input if needed.
3423 Changes between 1.0.4 and 1.0.5:
3424 --------------------------------
3427 * SubRip extra styles improvements
3428 * Fix potential crashes in SSA and svg decoders
3431 * Improved support for the 2009 Apple Remote
3434 * Use of gcc 4.4.2 to compile instead of gcc 4.2. This might slightly
3435 increase performance and fix x264 issues
3438 * Portuguese Brazilian, Lithuanian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Japanese, Bengali,
3439 Walloon, Galician, Danish, Khmer, Polish, Slovenian, Vietnamese, Finnish
3440 Russian, Slovak translation updates
3441 * New Malayalam, Macedoninan, Nynorsk translations
3444 Changes between 1.0.3 and 1.0.4:
3445 --------------------------------
3448 * Fix deadlocks in the audio output core
3449 * Make PulseAudio the default output if available
3452 * Fix fullscreen mode with KDE 4.3.3 and other window managers
3453 * Fix incompatibility with cairo-dock and compositing
3456 * Fix DVB scanning regression from VLC 1.0.3
3457 * Support for XZ-compressed byte stream (LZMA algorithm)
3460 * Support for .m3u8 playlist files (UTF-8 M3U)
3463 * Support for xcb-keysyms version 0.3.4 or higher
3464 * Fix globalhotkeys on FreeBSD
3467 * Fix opening V4L version 1 devices
3468 * Fix default destination ports in the streaming wizard
3471 * New Walloon translation
3472 * Swedish, Ukrainian and French translation updates
3475 Changes between 1.0.2 and 1.0.3:
3476 --------------------------------
3479 * Fix video quality when resizing the video on Windows Vista and 7, due to
3480 regressions in most popular drivers
3481 * New deinterlacers modules based on yadif and yadif(x2) algorithms
3484 * Windows version supports now natively the WMA Professional codec, as it
3485 didn't work in the packaged version of 1.0.2
3486 * Fix downmixing of particual 4.0 AC-3 audio tracks
3489 * x264 has profile-limitter, like:
3490 #transcode{vcodec=h264,venc=x264{profile=baseline,level=12}..}
3493 * Update for appletrailers lua script
3494 * Fixes on the RAR stream filter
3495 * Fix for E-AC3 in ATSC/TS streams
3496 * Various fixes for v4l and v4l2
3497 * Fix a crash in mjpeg demuxer
3500 * New udev module for linux
3503 * Fixes on the playlist and the stream output panels
3506 * French, Galician, Korean, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Slovak and Ukrainian updates
3509 Changes between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2:
3510 --------------------------------
3513 * Native support for WMA Professional, without the use of the Win32 dlls
3514 * Fix issues in subtitles, especially SSA ones
3515 * Various fixes on theora and ogg
3518 * Various fixes for EPG support in MPEG-TS demuxer
3519 * Fixes for potential stack overflow in .avi, .mp4 and .asf demuxers
3522 * Fixes for v4l2 devices
3523 * Fixes for dvb-c channels-scanning
3526 * Fix some playlist sorting issues
3529 * Fixed a crash when updating VLC
3530 * Fixed a crash related to QTKit when opening video files (10.6 only)
3531 * Added the ability to play 2nd media in sync to the primary item (input-slave)
3532 * Added the "Quit after Playback" feature
3535 * The "Delete Preferences" script is now delivered as a Universal Binary
3536 with native code for PowerPC, Intel and Intel 64bit
3537 * Full 64bit runtime compatibility on both Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
3538 - no support for Goom and SDL
3539 - limited text rendering support
3540 - This port is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL despite its binary release.
3543 * MPEG2 transrate stream output removed
3544 * x264 default-values closer to x264.exe defaults.
3545 * x264 rc-behaviour fixes:
3546 - if user defines qp-value, CQP-mode is used
3547 - otherwise if user defines vb=0, CRF-mode is used
3548 - otherwise ABR-mode is used
3549 * x264 set vbv-bufsize/vbv-maxsize better if user hasn't defined these:
3550 - ABR mode set vbv-max-bitrate=bitrate
3551 - vbv-bufsize is bitrate * seconds between keyframes (keyint/fps)
3555 * Lua scripts for Mpora and Vimeo playback
3558 * Various fixes to enable 1.0 to build on Solaris and OpenBSD
3561 * New Kazakh and Croatian translations
3562 * Lithunanian translation is available on Windows
3563 * Galician, Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Portuguese Brazilian,
3564 Arabic and French translation updates
3567 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1:
3568 --------------------------------
3571 * Fix wmv/asf issues that caused audio to drop
3572 * Various fixes for ac3, mp3, dts and stability for wav format
3573 * Fix seek in RTSP in conformity to RFC 2326
3574 * Fix Dailymotion access script
3575 * Fix crashes in xspf files handler
3576 * Fix seeking and timing issues in some flv files on Windows version
3579 * Add extra caching for files on network shares
3580 * Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3581 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3584 * Fix seeking in mpeg2 video files
3585 * Improve SSA subtitles rendering
3586 * Update most codecs for the Windows and Mac version
3589 * Fix sound recording of .flv files with mp3 audio
3592 * Possibility to change the opacity level of the Fullscreen controller
3593 * Fix various crashes and VIDEO_TS folders opening
3596 * Added options to disable support for Apple Remote and Media Keys
3597 * Fixed options for Volume, Last.fm password and Subtitle Encoding
3598 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3599 * Preferences panel now includes help through tool-tips
3600 * More reliable Information and Messages panels
3601 * Fix various crashes
3604 * The ZVBI module is now available for Windows, for complete teletext support
3606 Translations updates for Brazillian, French, German, Korean, Norwegian Nynorsk,
3610 Changes between 0.9.10 and 1.0.0:
3611 ---------------------------------
3615 * Alsa and OSS audio capture has been removed from the v4l and v4l2 accesses.
3616 See 'Access:' for more info.
3617 * Support for Mac OS X 10.4.x was dropped due to its technical limitations
3620 * Instantaneous pausing
3621 * Frame-by-Frame playback
3622 * Finer speed control
3623 * On-the-fly recording for all medias
3624 * Timeshift for most medias
3625 * RTSP trickplay support
3626 * Subtitles core improvements and fixes
3629 * New AES3 (SMPTE 302M) decoder
3630 * New Dolby Digital Plus - E-AC-3 (A/52b) decoder
3631 * New True HD/MLP decoder and parser
3632 * New Blu-Ray Linear PCM decoder
3633 * New QCELP (Qualcomm PureVoice) decoder
3634 * Improved Real Video 3.0 & 4.0 decoder
3635 * New WMA v1/2 fixed point integer decoder
3636 * Closed Captions using the SCTE-20 standard are now correctly decoded
3637 * Improvement of WavPack decoder to support all integer modes and float mode
3638 * Corrections on 5.1 and 7.1 channel decoding and ordering
3641 * Support for Dirac, MLP and RealVideo in Matroska files
3642 * Major improvements in RealMedia files opening (.rm and .rmvb)
3643 * Improvements of the TS demuxer for M2TS files from Blu-Ray and AVCHD
3644 * Metadata for mod files are supported
3645 * GSM codecs in Wav files are supported
3646 * New raw audio demuxer supporting raw PCM streams
3647 * New Dirac demuxer for raw Dirac streams
3650 * Dirac encoding using libdirac (supported in Ogg and in TS)
3651 * Shine mp3 fixed-point encoder
3654 * RTSP authentication with Darwin Streaming Server
3655 * On-the-fly gzip and bzip2 file decompression (except on Windows)
3656 * Playback for video in uncompressed multi-RAR archives
3657 * DVB-S and ATSC cards support on Windows
3658 * New OSS and Alsa accesses. The v4l2 and v4l modules no longer support
3659 OSS or Alsa audio input. Use --input-slave alsa:// or oss:// if needed.
3660 * DVB scanning on linux
3661 * EXPERIMENTAL Blu-Ray Disc and AVCHD Folders support
3662 * On-the-fly zip file decompression and browsing (MRL of the form
3663 zip://file.zip!/file.avi to specify the file - the development form of
3664 zip://file.zip|file.avi is not supported anymore)
3665 * Opening of any file descriptor using 'fd://'
3666 * MTP device access on Unix
3667 * CD-Text support on the cdda module (CD-Audio)
3668 * :start-time and :stop-time can handle sub-second values
3671 * Mouse cursor support in x11 and win32 screen modules
3672 * Screen module now features partial screen capture and mouse following on
3673 Windows and Mac OS X.
3676 * Export the playlist in HTML
3677 * Lua script for BBC radio playback
3678 * Better metadata handling and reading
3680 Linux/Windows interface:
3681 * Global Hotkeys on Windows and Linux
3682 * Various fixes for skins2 interface
3683 * Recently played items list
3684 * Interface toolbar customizations
3685 * Various Improvements on the Qt interface:
3686 - More menus actions
3687 - Finer speed slider
3688 - Improvements on many dialogs
3689 - New dialog for plugins listing
3690 - Fixed-size mode for videos
3691 - Better Teletext, trickplay and encrypted streams control
3692 * Better integration in GTK environments
3695 * Controllable by the Media Keys on modern Apple keyboards (brushed Aluminium)
3696 * Reveal-in-Finder functionality for locally stored items.
3697 * Easy addition of subtitles through the Video menu
3698 * Additional usability improvements
3701 * Restored the old mpeg2 transrating module.
3702 * Multiple bridge-in instances are now possible.
3703 * bridge-in can be used to configure a placeholder stream.
3704 * Remote Audio Output Protocol (AirTunes) module.
3705 * Fixed mosaic memleak. Mosaics are now usable again.
3708 * New Maemo port with:
3709 - an interface based on Hildon framework.
3710 - scaler based on the swscale_nokia770 library.
3713 EXPERIMENTAL work for the winCE port has been done.
3716 * EXPERIMENTAL 64bit support
3717 * Speed improvements by using llvm-gcc
3718 * New document icons by Dominic Spitaler
3719 * Support for latest iSight models
3722 * Removed obsolete Esound and aRts plugins
3723 * Surround support for PulseAudio
3726 * Effects (cube, torus, etc.) removed from OpenGL video output
3727 * Video is able to stay in original size and to zoom in fullscreen
3728 (hotkey 'o') while keeping black borders
3729 * Image video output has been rewritten into a video-filter named 'scene'.
3730 The old image video output has been removed.
3731 * Support for scaling and converting video chromas with FFMPEG imgresample was
3732 withdrawn due to bugs. Please use the newer FFMPEG swscale instead.
3735 * Invmem, a fake codec to display images from external applications
3743 Changes between 0.9.9a and 0.9.10:
3744 --------------------------------------
3750 * Fixed crashes on multi-screen setups
3751 * Corrected volume and subtitle encoding options in the Preferences
3752 * Improved Information panel behavior, when playlist is not displayed
3753 * Fixed QTCapture input support for the latest iSight models
3754 * Added a menu-item to unlock the video window's aspect ratio
3755 * Fixed redraw issues when autosizing the video window
3756 * Updated libpng, libgpg-error, libgcrypt, fribidi
3758 Various fixes to the following modules:
3761 - updated and additional access scripts (BBC radio, dailymotion, ...)
3762 - Prevent integer underflow in Real pseudo-RTSP module, discovered by tixxDZ,
3763 DZCORE Labs, Algeria
3765 - RTP, RTSP VoD, Mosaic Bridge
3770 Changes between 0.9.9 and 0.9.9a:
3771 ---------------------------------
3774 * Updated multiple 3rd party libraries to keep in sync with the Win32 port
3775 * Playback fixes for PowerPC-based Macs
3778 Changes between 0.9.8a and 0.9.9:
3779 ---------------------------------
3782 * Experimental new decoder for Real Video 3.0 & 4.0
3785 * Various fixes related to real demuxer
3788 * Fixed circumstances, which could lead to an empty Information panel
3789 - Note that VLC will show information on the currently _selected_ item
3790 instead of the currently _playing_ item, if the playlist is visible in the
3791 main controller window.
3792 * Fixed multiple UTF8 issues in the Streaming / Exporting Wizard
3795 * Improved video playback performance on Intel-based Macs
3800 * Updates of other localizations
3803 * Support for receiving RTP packets on odd port numbers.
3804 * Lots of small bugfixes.
3805 * Correct Fullscreen behaviour on Multi-Screen setups on Windows
3806 * Telnet fixes on Windows
3807 * Resampling fixes when transcoding
3810 Changes between 0.9.6 and 0.9.8a:
3811 ---------------------------------
3814 * Fixed buffer overflow in Real demuxer (SA-0811, CVE-2008-5276)
3816 Bunch of small bugfixes.
3819 Changes between 0.9.5 and 0.9.6:
3820 --------------------------------
3825 * Fixed overflow in CUE support from VCD access (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5032)
3826 * Fixed overflow in RealText subtitles support (SA-0810, CVE-2008-5036)
3829 Changes between 0.9.4 and 0.9.5:
3830 --------------------------------
3832 * Fixed buffer overflow in TiVo demuxer (SA-0809, CVE-2008-4686, CVE-2008-4654)
3833 * Fixed libpng CVE-2008-3964 in Win32 and MacOS builds
3836 * Closed Caption EIA 608/708 parsing enabled for libmpeg2
3839 * Fixed various potential crashes and memleaks
3840 * Fixed issues with reading from files (especially non-local)
3843 * Fix bug where interface was "eating" some media keys
3844 * Fix some crashes in DirectShow access
3847 * Fix bug when the resetting of preferences didn't reset the dialog states
3848 * Right-click menu to select playlist columns reenabled
3849 * Various fixed in playlist
3852 * MMAP module is now deactivated by default
3855 * Update of Brazillian, Swedish translation
3858 Changes between 0.9.3 and 0.9.4:
3859 ------------------------------------
3861 * Crashes fixed in ogg, vobsub, dvdread
3862 * Fixes several memory leaks.
3865 * Apple machines without Quartz Extreme are no longer supported (use 0.9.2 or earlier )
3866 * Fixed a crash with deletion of old preferences.
3867 * Fixed targetname for downloaded updates
3870 * Stability fix for the video output.
3873 Changes between 0.9.2 and 0.9.3:
3874 --------------------------------
3877 * Fixed DTS channel order on 5.1 systems
3878 * Fixed pausing behavior for subtitles and for Audio-CD
3879 * Multiple subtitles and podcast fixes
3880 * Various crashes fixed in PS, SSA, mkv, xspf, freetype
3881 * Fixed update system bugs
3882 * Other bug fixes (dvd language selection, subtitle colours, HTTP keep-alive...+)
3885 * Fixed ffmpeg slowness on PowerPC-based Macs
3886 * Fixed crash on startup when installed on old preferences
3887 * Fixed bug in directory opening on Mac OS X
3888 * Fixed font selection in the Simple Preferences
3889 * Thicker border to the subtitle renderer
3890 * Fixed the appearance of playlist items in the Streaming/Transcoding Wizard
3891 * Fixed AC3 passthrough on Mac OS X
3892 * Fixed behavior of the Volume Normalizer settings on Mac OS X
3893 * Removed the deprecated QuickDraw video output module to avoid crashes on
3894 modern Mac OS X versions
3897 * Fixed sensitivity of Fullscreen Controller
3898 * Fixed error messages on startup when VLC wasn't correctly uninstalled
3900 * Fix showing of controller when returning from fullscreen playback
3901 * Multiple directory and path location fixes.
3904 * Added Faster/Slower icons to the controller panel
3905 * Fixed lost playlist columns when switching the playlist view
3906 * Added needed options to Simple preferences (to avoid NVIDIA drivers issues)
3907 * Fullscreen controller: added time label, remembering of last position
3908 * Fixed drag'n drop behaviour on the playlist
3909 * Multiple other fixes (Enter hotkey in preferences, Skins selection...)
3912 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.2:
3913 --------------------------------
3915 * Restored the old behavior of --sout-keep. It is now de-activated by default.
3916 * Skins2 interface repaired on Windows.
3917 * Multiple bugfixes.
3920 Changes between 0.9.1 and 0.9.0:
3921 --------------------------------
3923 * Multiple bug fixes.
3926 Changes between 0.8.6i and 0.9.0:
3927 ---------------------------------
3931 * This release will need Windows 2000 and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), or more
3932 recent to work correctly
3933 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
3934 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
3935 edit the ".hosts" file.
3936 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
3937 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
3938 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
3939 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
3940 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
3941 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
3942 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
3943 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
3944 This interface has a fullscreen controller and simplified preferences.
3945 This interface lacks the "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC
3946 0.8.6, but provides basic profiles.
3947 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
3948 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
3949 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
3950 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
3951 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
3952 If you didn't name the object using @test, its name will default to the
3953 plugin name (hence 'marq') in this example.
3954 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
3955 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
3956 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
3957 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
3958 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
3959 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
3960 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
3961 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
3962 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported to resolve ambiguities
3963 with some file names. Use access://url instead.
3964 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
3965 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
3966 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by the new avcodec,
3967 avformat, swscale (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build)
3968 and postproc modules.
3969 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
3970 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
3971 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
3972 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
3974 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
3975 filter. For example:
3976 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
3977 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
3979 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
3980 * Glide video output module has been removed.
3986 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1806, CVE-2008-1806,
3988 * TTA Parser improvements (CVE-2008-3732)
3989 * MMS Access Module improvements (CVE-2008-3794 )
3992 * Vastly improved playlist support:
3993 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
3995 * Shoutcast TV listings
3996 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
3998 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
3999 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe, Google Video and
4001 * User definable Lua album art fetcher scripts. See share/lua/meta/README.txt
4004 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
4005 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
4006 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
4007 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
4008 * JACK audio input support
4009 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
4010 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
4011 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
4012 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
4013 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
4014 * Experimental EyeTV access module
4015 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
4016 (available as a separate download).
4017 * Simple RTP input (with MPEG A/V, G.711 and PCM support).
4018 * RTMP input support
4019 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
4020 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
4021 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
4023 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
4024 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
4027 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
4028 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
4029 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
4030 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
4032 * APEv1/2 tags support
4033 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
4034 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
4036 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
4037 * TiVo Series 2 support
4038 * CD+G karaoke Files support
4043 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
4044 * Flash Screen Video support
4045 * CamStudio Screen Video support
4046 * DosBox Capture support
4047 * Karl Morton's Video support
4048 * limited atrac3 support
4050 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
4051 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
4052 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
4053 * H.264 PAFF support
4054 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
4055 * NellyMoser ASAO support
4056 * APE (Monkey audio) support
4057 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
4058 * Dirac video support using libschroedinger
4061 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
4062 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
4063 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
4064 * AQTitle subtitles support
4065 * MKV USF subtitles support
4066 * HTML-based subtitles support
4067 * MPSub subtitles support
4068 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
4069 * MPL2 subtitles support
4070 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
4071 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
4072 * Realtext subtitle support
4073 * DKS subtitle support
4074 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
4075 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
4078 * Flash Screen Video support
4079 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
4081 Video outputs and filters:
4082 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
4083 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
4084 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
4085 * New puzzle video output filter
4086 * Re-written motion detection video filter
4087 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
4089 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
4090 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
4091 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
4092 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
4093 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending.
4094 The latter improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
4095 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
4096 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
4097 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
4098 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
4099 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
4100 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
4101 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
4102 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
4104 Audio outputs and filters:
4105 * Replay gain support
4106 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (with pitch correction via
4107 new scaletempo audio filter)
4108 * New spatializer audio filter
4109 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
4112 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
4113 * New RTP payload formats:
4114 * Speex voice audio codec
4115 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
4116 * G.711 (both A-law and µ-law) output
4117 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
4118 * DCCP transport for RTP
4119 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
4124 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
4125 end-user suitable way.
4126 * Improved user interaction
4127 * Improved mouse gestures
4128 * Vastly improved Update checker
4129 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
4131 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
4132 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
4134 * Improved video output features
4135 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
4136 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
4137 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
4138 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
4139 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
4141 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
4142 if libncursesw is available.
4143 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
4144 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua and
4145 share/lua/intf/README.txt for more info.
4147 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
4148 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
4149 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
4150 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
4151 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
4152 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
4153 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
4154 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
4157 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
4158 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
4159 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
4162 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
4163 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
4164 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
4165 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4166 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
4167 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
4170 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
4171 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
4181 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
4182 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
4183 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
4186 Changes between 0.8.6h and 0.8.6i:
4187 ----------------------------------
4190 * Fixed integer overflow in WAV demuxer (CVE-2008-2430)
4193 * Fixed option to use shared memory within the GLX video output module
4194 * Improved galaktos-based audio visualizations on FreeBSD
4195 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
4196 (transcode stream output, OSD menu video filter, VCD input,
4197 SAP services discovery, http control interface)
4198 * Updated Polish translation
4201 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
4202 ----------------------------------
4205 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
4206 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
4207 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
4210 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
4211 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
4212 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
4213 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
4214 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
4215 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
4216 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
4217 to an unexpected application termination
4218 * New Serbian translation
4219 * Updated Romanian translation
4222 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
4223 ----------------------------------
4226 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
4227 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
4228 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
4229 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
4230 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
4231 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
4232 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
4233 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
4236 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
4237 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
4238 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
4239 * Fixed AAC resampling
4240 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
4241 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
4244 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
4245 ----------------------------------
4248 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
4249 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
4250 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
4251 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
4252 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
4255 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
4256 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
4257 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
4258 * Close MMS access on network timeout
4259 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
4262 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
4263 ----------------------------------
4266 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
4267 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
4270 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
4271 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
4272 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
4273 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
4275 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
4279 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
4282 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
4285 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
4288 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
4291 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
4292 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
4293 encoding on multi-cpu systems
4294 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
4295 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
4297 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4298 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
4299 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
4300 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
4303 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
4306 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
4307 ----------------------------------
4310 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
4311 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
4312 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
4314 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
4315 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
4317 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
4318 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
4321 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
4323 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4324 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
4325 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
4326 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
4327 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
4328 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
4329 two different movies
4330 * Support for current Ogg file formats
4331 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
4332 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
4335 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
4338 * The automatic updating facility was removed
4339 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
4340 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
4341 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
4344 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
4345 ----------------------------------
4347 Various bugfixes, notably:
4348 * Windows Vista compatibility
4349 * Cropping in Direct3D
4350 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
4351 * RSS filter string overflow
4353 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
4355 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
4356 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
4359 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
4360 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
4363 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
4366 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
4369 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
4372 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
4373 ----------------------------------
4375 Various bugfixes, notably:
4376 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
4377 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
4378 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
4379 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
4380 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
4381 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
4384 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
4385 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
4388 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
4390 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
4391 * Diverse usability improvements
4392 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
4393 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
4394 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
4397 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
4398 ---------------------------------
4400 CDDA / VCDX plugins:
4401 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
4404 * Fullscreen controller improvements
4407 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
4408 --------------------------------
4411 * Shoutcast TV listings support
4414 * Support for RTSP authentication
4415 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
4416 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
4417 * ATSC support for DVB input
4418 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
4419 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
4420 * Improved support for Flash Video files
4423 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
4424 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
4425 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
4426 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
4427 * Matroska WavPack support
4428 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
4429 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
4430 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
4433 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
4434 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
4435 * Improved libcaca support
4439 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
4440 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
4442 * Systray support in skins
4444 * Support for Apple Remote control
4445 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4446 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjær Andersen)
4447 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
4448 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
4450 * Notifications using notification-daemon
4453 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
4454 Windows 9x/ME users:
4455 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
4456 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
4457 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
4458 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
4459 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
4461 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
4462 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
4471 * Updates to the libvlc API
4472 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
4475 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
4476 --------------------------------
4479 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
4480 * Support for downloading updates
4484 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
4485 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
4486 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
4487 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
4489 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
4490 * Improved subtitles encoding support
4491 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
4494 * Cook (Real audio) support
4496 Playlist / Services discovery:
4497 * XSPF playlist support
4499 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
4502 * New JACK audio output
4505 * New video filters:
4506 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
4507 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
4508 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
4509 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
4510 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
4511 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
4514 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
4517 * System to inform the user and request information
4518 - HTTP authentication
4522 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
4523 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4524 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
4527 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
4528 - Improved playlist handling
4529 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
4531 - Embedded Video output
4532 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
4533 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
4534 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
4535 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
4536 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
4538 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
4539 - A bunch of new RPN functions
4542 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
4545 * Mac-Intel compatibility
4546 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
4547 * Growl "Now playing" support
4550 * Ability to log to syslog
4551 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
4554 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
4556 * A bit more automatic testing
4559 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
4560 ---------------------------------
4563 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
4564 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
4567 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
4568 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
4571 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
4574 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
4575 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
4581 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
4584 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
4585 --------------------------------
4588 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
4592 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
4593 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
4594 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
4597 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
4598 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
4599 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
4600 * GnomeVFS input module
4601 * Support for RTP packet reordering
4602 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
4605 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
4606 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
4607 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
4610 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
4611 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
4617 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
4618 Mixer and Dolby Surround
4621 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
4622 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
4623 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
4626 - new cone icon by Richard ¯iestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
4628 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
4629 - New extended controls panel
4630 - New bookmarks window
4631 - Fixed playlist sorting
4632 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
4634 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
4635 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
4636 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Output dialog
4637 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
4641 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
4642 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
4644 - Include macro to include other files
4648 * Should now work outside IE as well
4651 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
4654 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
4655 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
4658 The following languages were added:
4662 * Simplified Chinese
4663 The following languages were re-added:
4667 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
4668 --------------------------------
4671 * Rewrite of the playlist
4673 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
4674 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
4675 * Preferences improvements:
4676 - New organization, designed to improve usability
4677 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
4679 * Core image manipulation support
4680 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
4681 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
4682 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
4683 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
4684 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
4685 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
4686 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
4687 now separated by ':' instead of ','
4688 * Access filter architecture
4689 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
4690 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
4694 * Support for SOCKS proxy
4695 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
4696 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
4697 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
4698 * Better support for Kasenna streams
4699 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
4700 * Massive Matroska improvements
4701 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
4703 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
4704 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
4705 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
4706 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
4707 * Support for FTP over IPv6
4709 Decoders / Encoders:
4710 * Dirac decoder and encoder
4711 * PNG decoder/encoder
4712 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
4713 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
4716 * New Record and Timeshift filters
4719 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
4720 * Brand new SAP module
4721 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
4722 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
4723 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
4724 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
4725 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
4726 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
4730 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
4733 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
4734 * Image file video output (png)
4735 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
4736 * Improvements to wall video filter
4737 * Support for font color and opacity
4743 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
4744 - Seeking support in VoD streams
4745 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
4749 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
4750 - Improved preferences
4751 - Improvements to the wizard
4752 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
4754 - Redesigned playlist
4755 - Improved preferences
4757 - Support for multiple actions
4760 - Support for the new playlist system
4762 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
4765 * Screensaver disabling fix
4766 * DirectShow tuner configuration
4767 * Support for no-decoration windows
4770 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
4771 * The OpenGL video output is back
4772 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
4773 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
4774 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
4775 is not yet available in the new module
4776 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
4779 * Support for single-buffered overlay
4788 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
4791 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
4794 The following languages were added:
4800 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
4801 --------------------------------
4804 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
4805 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
4808 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
4809 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
4810 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
4813 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4816 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
4819 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
4822 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
4823 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
4824 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
4828 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
4830 * Support of playlist group announcement
4833 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
4834 --------------------------------
4837 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
4838 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
4839 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
4840 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
4841 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
4842 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
4845 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
4846 (Stream your desktop)
4847 * Improved DVD support:
4848 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
4849 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
4850 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
4851 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
4852 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
4853 (selection of titles/chapters).
4856 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
4857 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
4858 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
4859 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
4860 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
4861 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4862 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
4863 * Improved Ogg demuxer
4864 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
4865 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
4868 * G.726 audio support
4869 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
4870 * MPEG-4 text support
4871 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
4872 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
4873 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
4877 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
4878 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
4879 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
4880 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
4881 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
4882 * DVB subtitles encoder
4883 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
4884 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
4886 * Text track muxing for mp4
4887 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
4888 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
4889 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
4890 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
4891 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
4892 * Improved ASF muxer
4894 * H.263 RTP streaming support
4895 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
4896 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
4899 * New audio equalizer filter
4900 * Very trivial volume normalizer
4901 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
4902 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
4903 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
4906 * Roku HD1000 Video output
4907 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
4908 with support for effects.
4909 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
4910 - New filters can be streamed.
4911 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
4912 - Centralized scaling and blending
4914 - "time", to display current time
4915 - "marq", to display a marquee
4918 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
4919 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
4920 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
4921 * A few skins2 improvements
4922 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
4923 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
4924 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
4925 * Improved CORBA control module
4928 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
4929 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
4930 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
4933 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
4934 * Experimental SVG rendering module
4935 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
4938 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
4939 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
4940 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
4941 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
4942 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
4945 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
4948 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
4949 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
4952 * Server/client network synchronization module
4953 * VBrick streams fully supported
4954 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
4958 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
4959 --------------------------------
4962 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
4963 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
4964 * Improved HTTP daemon.
4965 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
4968 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
4969 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
4970 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
4971 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
4972 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
4973 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
4974 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
4977 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
4978 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
4979 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
4980 * Improved directory access module.
4981 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
4982 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
4983 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
4984 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
4985 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
4988 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
4989 * mmsh streaming fixes.
4990 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
4993 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
4994 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
4995 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
4998 * Improved session announcement system.
4999 * Minimize threads usage by default.
5000 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
5001 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
5002 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
5003 * Improved transrater.
5004 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
5005 * New configuration system.
5006 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
5009 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
5010 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
5011 * Supports live streams and VoD.
5012 * Supports scheduling.
5013 * Telnet interface for vlm.
5014 * HTTP interface for vlm.
5017 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
5018 - Ability to embed video output.
5019 - Support for bitmap fonts.
5020 - Lots of improvements.
5021 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
5022 - New design and set of icons.
5023 - Ability to embed video output.
5024 - Support for hotkeys.
5025 - Support for bookmarks.
5027 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
5028 - Better hotkeys handling.
5031 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
5032 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
5033 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
5034 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
5037 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
5038 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
5039 * Improved Windows installer.
5045 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
5046 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
5049 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
5050 ---------------------------------
5053 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
5054 * Playing MOD files is working now.
5057 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
5058 --------------------------------
5061 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
5062 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
5065 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
5066 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
5067 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
5068 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
5071 * Internal improvments
5072 * Improved import/export
5075 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
5077 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
5078 small and strange formats.
5080 * New MOD audio demux.
5081 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
5082 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
5083 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
5084 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
5087 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
5088 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
5089 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
5095 * New opengl video output plugin.
5098 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
5099 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
5102 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
5103 --------------------------------
5106 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
5107 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
5108 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
5109 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
5110 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
5111 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
5112 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
5113 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
5116 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
5121 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
5122 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
5123 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
5124 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
5125 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
5126 * Reworked DVB tuning.
5127 * Better Icecast support.
5128 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
5129 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
5132 * Support for Theora video encoding.
5133 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
5134 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
5135 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
5136 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
5137 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
5138 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
5141 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
5142 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
5143 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
5144 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
5145 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
5146 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
5147 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
5148 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
5149 * Preliminary RTP support.
5150 * Fixes to SAP announces.
5155 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
5156 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
5158 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
5159 - Improvements and help in preferences
5160 - New streaming wizard
5161 - Revised Disc Open menu
5163 - Improvements of the standard pages
5164 - Support for new commands
5165 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
5168 * Many fixes to the SAP module
5169 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
5172 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
5173 * Text subtitles autodetection.
5174 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
5175 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
5176 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
5177 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
5178 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
5179 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
5180 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
5183 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
5185 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
5186 * Support for Panther.
5187 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
5188 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
5191 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
5192 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
5193 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
5194 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
5195 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
5196 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
5197 * Multimonitor support (untested).
5198 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
5201 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
5202 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
5203 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
5206 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
5209 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
5210 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
5211 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
5212 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
5215 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
5216 --------------------------------
5219 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
5222 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
5223 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
5226 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
5227 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
5230 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
5233 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5234 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5237 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5240 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5243 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5244 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5248 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5249 --------------------------------
5252 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5253 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5257 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5258 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5259 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5261 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
5262 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
5265 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
5268 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
5271 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
5272 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
5276 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
5277 --------------------------------
5280 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
5281 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
5285 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
5286 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
5287 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
5288 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
5289 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
5292 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
5293 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
5294 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
5297 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
5298 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
5299 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
5302 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
5303 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
5304 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
5305 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
5306 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
5309 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
5310 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
5311 * A new CORBA control plugin.
5314 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
5317 * Improved build system.
5318 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
5319 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
5320 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
5321 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
5324 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
5325 --------------------------------
5328 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
5331 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms
5332 (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
5333 * Fixed large file support on Windows
5334 * Video 4 Linux support
5335 * CD Digital Audio support
5336 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
5339 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
5340 * Support for OpenDML avi files
5341 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
5342 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
5345 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
5346 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
5347 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
5348 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
5349 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
5350 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
5351 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
5354 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
5355 * New HTTP remote control interface
5358 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs
5359 allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
5360 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
5361 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
5362 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
5365 * New reset option for the preferences
5366 * You can set your language in the prefences
5367 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
5368 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
5369 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
5370 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
5373 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
5374 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
5375 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
5378 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
5379 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
5380 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
5381 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
5382 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
5383 * New icons by Davor Orel.
5384 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
5385 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
5386 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
5387 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
5390 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
5391 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
5392 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
5393 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
5394 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
5395 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
5396 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
5399 * Interface localization
5400 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
5401 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
5402 * New full-featured Preferences window
5405 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
5406 --------------------------------
5409 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
5410 * support for skins at the interface level
5411 * new OSD module using Freetype2
5412 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
5413 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
5414 input level before dropping out of date frames.
5415 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
5418 * fixed HTTP redirects
5419 * support for opening an entire directory
5420 * EOF should be detected more reliably
5421 * new video4linux access plug-in
5422 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
5425 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
5426 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
5427 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
5430 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
5431 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
5432 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
5433 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
5434 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
5435 * new codec for raw I420 video
5436 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
5439 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
5440 (although it still misses some important features)
5441 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
5444 * new HTTP output support
5445 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
5446 * fixed AV synchronization issues
5449 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
5452 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
5455 * reorderable playlist
5456 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
5457 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
5458 * support for mono audio output devices
5459 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
5460 * fixed several cosmetic issues
5461 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
5462 * the messages window remembers more lines
5463 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
5464 * http and ogg stream output options
5465 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
5468 * new skinnable interface
5469 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
5471 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
5472 * support for FLAC audio format
5473 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
5475 * network tab in the interface
5476 * "apply" handling in preferences
5479 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
5480 ---------------------------------
5483 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
5484 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
5485 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
5486 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
5488 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
5489 * DTS S/PDIF support
5492 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
5493 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
5494 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
5495 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
5498 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
5499 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
5502 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
5505 * fixed the GNU-pth support
5508 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
5510 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
5511 * rc interface is now fully useable
5512 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
5515 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
5516 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
5517 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
5518 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
5519 * VLC now uses the default audio device
5521 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
5522 * support for mouse gestures
5523 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
5526 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
5527 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
5530 * improved ID3 tag detection
5531 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
5532 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
5533 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
5535 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
5538 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
5539 ---------------------------------
5542 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
5543 English was set as the preferred language
5546 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
5547 --------------------------------
5550 * new mouse gesture interface
5551 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
5555 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
5556 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
5557 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
5560 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
5561 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
5565 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
5568 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
5569 without the user consent
5572 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
5574 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
5575 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
5576 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
5579 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
5580 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
5581 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
5582 * playlist enhancements
5583 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
5584 * new step forward/step backward commands
5585 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
5586 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
5587 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
5590 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
5591 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
5592 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
5595 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
5596 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
5599 * native video output is working again
5600 * only commandline interface support
5601 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
5604 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
5605 --------------------------------
5608 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
5609 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
5610 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
5611 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
5612 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
5613 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
5614 and A/52 streams are supported)
5615 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
5620 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
5621 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
5622 * VCD entry points support
5623 * VCD image file support
5626 * support for *.asf format
5627 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
5628 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
5629 * support for ogg encapsulation
5630 * support for raw DV format
5631 * support for *.wav format
5632 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
5635 Stream discovery & playlists:
5636 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
5637 * support for .m3u file format
5638 * support for .asx file format
5639 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
5642 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
5643 (only available with the .avi demux)
5644 * support for ADPCM audio codec
5645 * support for raw PCM data
5646 * support for Cinepak video codec
5647 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
5648 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
5649 * support for Xvid codec
5650 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
5651 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
5652 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
5654 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
5656 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
5659 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
5662 * new WxWindows interface
5663 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
5664 device and the channels configuration
5665 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
5666 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
5667 format that VLC can play
5668 * new swedish translation
5669 * enhancements of the playlist window
5670 * new messages window to see debug info
5671 * fixed a few crashes
5674 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
5675 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
5676 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
5677 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working