3 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-git (not released yet):
4 -------------------------------------------------------
8 * On Linux, localization will be disabled if you have glibc 2.6 or 2.7 due
9 to a major bug in libintl with these glibc versions.
10 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
11 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
12 edit the ".hosts" file.
13 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
14 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
15 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
16 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
17 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
18 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
19 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
20 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux. This
21 interface lacks a few features that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6:
22 - "Streaming wizard". These features will be replaced
23 by a better alternative in the next version. If you absolutely need these
24 features, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
25 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
26 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
27 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
28 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
29 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
30 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
31 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed:
32 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
33 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
34 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
35 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
36 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
37 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
38 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
39 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
40 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
46 * Vastly improved playlist support:
47 * Media library support
49 * Shoutcast TV listings
50 * Audioscrobbler/last.fm support
52 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
53 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
54 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
55 share/lua/meta/README.txt
58 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
59 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
60 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
61 * JACK audio input support
62 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
63 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
64 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
65 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
66 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
68 * APEv1/2 tags support
69 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
70 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
72 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
73 * TiVo Series 2 support
74 * v4l2 access module support
75 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
76 * CD+G karaoke Files support
80 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
81 * MKV USF subtitles support
82 * HTML-based subtitles support
83 * Flash Screen Video support
84 * CamStudio Screen Video support
85 * DosBox Capture support
86 * Karl Morton's Video support
87 * limited atrac3 support
88 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
89 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
90 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
91 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
93 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
94 * NellyMoser ASAO support
95 * APE (Monkey audio) support
96 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support
99 * Flash Screen Video support
101 Video output and filters:
102 * New CoreAnimation output module (Mac OS X 10.5 only)
103 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
104 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
105 * New puzzle video output filter
106 * Re-written motion detection video filter
107 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
109 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
110 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
111 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
112 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
113 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
114 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
115 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
116 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
117 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
118 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
119 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
120 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
122 Audio output and filters
123 * Replay gain support
124 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
125 * New spatializer audio filter
126 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
129 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
130 * New RTP payload formats:
131 * Speex voice audio codec
132 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
133 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
134 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
135 * DCCP transport for RTP
136 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
140 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
142 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
143 end-user suitable way.
144 * Improved user interaction
145 * Improved mouse gestures
146 * Fastly improved Update checker
147 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
149 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
150 if libncursesw is available.
151 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
153 * Improved video output features
154 * Access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
155 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
157 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
158 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
159 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
160 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
161 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
162 * Motion module use disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
163 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
164 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
167 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
168 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
169 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
172 * Mac OS X Framework that can be used to embed VLC in third party
173 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project)
174 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
177 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
178 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
186 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
187 ----------------------------------
190 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
191 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
192 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489)
193 * Fixed cinepak integer overflow
196 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
197 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
198 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
199 * Close MMS access on network timeout
200 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
203 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
204 ----------------------------------
207 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
208 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
211 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
212 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
213 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
214 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
216 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
220 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
223 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
226 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
229 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
232 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
233 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
234 encoding on multi-cpu systems
235 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
236 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
238 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
239 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
240 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
241 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
244 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
247 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
248 ----------------------------------
251 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
252 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
253 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
255 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
256 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
258 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
259 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
262 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
264 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
265 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
266 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
267 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
268 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
269 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
271 * Support for current Ogg file formats
272 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
273 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
276 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
279 * The automatic updating facility was removed
280 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
281 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
282 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
285 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
286 ----------------------------------
288 Various bugfixes, notably:
289 * Windows Vista compatibility
290 * Cropping in Direct3D
291 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
292 * RSS filter string overflow
294 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
296 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
297 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
300 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
301 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
304 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
307 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
310 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
313 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
314 ----------------------------------
316 Various bugfixes, notably:
317 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
318 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
319 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
320 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
321 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
322 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
325 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
326 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
329 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
331 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
332 * Diverse usability improvements
333 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
334 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
335 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
338 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
339 ---------------------------------
342 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
345 * Fullscreen controller improvements
348 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
349 --------------------------------
352 * Shoutcast TV listings support
355 * Support for RTSP authentication
356 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
357 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
358 * ATSC support for DVB input
359 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
360 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
361 * Improved support for Flash Video files
364 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
365 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
366 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
367 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
368 * Matroska WavPack support
369 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
370 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
371 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
374 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
375 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
376 * Improved libcaca support
380 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
381 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
383 * Systray support in skins
385 * Support for Apple Remote control
386 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
387 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
388 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
389 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
391 * Notifications using notification-daemon
394 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
396 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
397 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
398 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
399 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
400 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
402 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
403 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
412 * Updates to the libvlc API
413 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
416 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
417 --------------------------------
420 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
421 * Support for downloading updates
425 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
426 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
427 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
428 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
430 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
431 * Improved subtitles encoding support
432 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
435 * Cook (Real audio) support
437 Playlist / Services discovery:
438 * XSPF playlist support
440 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
443 * New JACK audio output
447 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
448 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
449 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
450 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
451 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
452 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
455 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
458 * System to inform the user and request information
459 - HTTP authentication
463 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
464 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
465 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
468 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
469 - Improved playlist handling
470 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
472 - Embedded Video output
473 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
474 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
475 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
476 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
477 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
479 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
480 - A bunch of new RPN functions
483 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
486 * Mac-Intel compatibility
487 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
488 * Growl "Now playing" support
491 * Ability to log to syslog
492 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
495 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
497 * A bit more automatic testing
500 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
501 ---------------------------------
504 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
505 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
508 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
509 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
512 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
515 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
516 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
522 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
525 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
526 --------------------------------
529 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
533 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
534 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
535 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
538 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
539 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
540 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
541 * GnomeVFS input module
542 * Support for RTP packet reordering
543 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
546 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
547 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
548 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
551 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
552 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
558 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
559 Mixer and Dolby Surround
562 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
563 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
564 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
567 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
569 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
570 - New extended controls panel
571 - New bookmarks window
572 - Fixed playlist sorting
573 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
575 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
576 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
577 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
578 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
582 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
583 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
585 - Include macro to include other files
589 * Should now work outside IE as well
592 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
595 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
596 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
599 The following languages were added:
604 The following languages were re-added:
608 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
609 --------------------------------
612 * Rewrite of the playlist
614 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
615 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
616 * Preferences improvements:
617 - New organization, designed to improve usability
618 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
620 * Core image manipulation support
621 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
622 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
623 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
624 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
625 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
626 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
627 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
628 now separated by ':' instead of ','
629 * Access filter architecture
630 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
631 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
635 * Support for SOCKS proxy
636 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
637 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
638 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
639 * Better support for Kasenna streams
640 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
641 * Massive Matroska improvements
642 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
644 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
645 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
646 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
647 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
648 * Support for FTP over IPv6
651 * Dirac decoder and encoder
652 * PNG decoder/encoder
653 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
654 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
657 * New Record and Timeshift filters
660 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
661 * Brand new SAP module
662 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
663 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
664 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
665 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
666 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
667 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
671 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
674 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
675 * Image file video output (png)
676 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
677 * Improvements to wall video filter
678 * Support for font color and opacity
684 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
685 - Seeking support in VoD streams
686 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
690 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
691 - Improved preferences
692 - Improvements to the wizard
693 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
695 - Redesigned playlist
696 - Improved preferences
698 - Support for multiple actions
701 - Support for the new playlist system
703 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
706 * Screensaver disabling fix
707 * DirectShow tuner configuration
708 * Support for no-decoration windows
711 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
712 * The OpenGL video output is back
713 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
714 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
715 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
716 is not yet available in the new module
717 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
720 * Support for single-buffered overlay
729 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
732 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
735 The following languages were added:
741 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
742 --------------------------------
745 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
746 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
749 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
750 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
751 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
754 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
757 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
760 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
763 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
764 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
765 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
769 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
771 * Support of playlist group announcement
774 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
775 --------------------------------
778 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
779 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
780 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
781 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
782 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
783 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
786 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
787 (Stream your desktop)
788 * Improved DVD support:
789 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
790 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
791 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
792 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
793 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
794 (selection of titles/chapters).
797 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
798 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
799 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
800 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
801 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
802 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
803 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
804 * Improved Ogg demuxer
805 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
806 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
809 * G.726 audio support
810 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
811 * MPEG-4 text support
812 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
813 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
814 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
818 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
819 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
820 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
821 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
822 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
823 * DVB subtitles encoder
824 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
825 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
827 * Text track muxing for mp4
828 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
829 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
830 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
831 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
832 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
835 * H.263 RTP streaming support
836 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
837 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
840 * New audio equalizer filter
841 * Very trivial volume normalizer
842 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
843 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
844 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
847 * Roku HD1000 Video output
848 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
849 with support for effects.
850 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
851 - New filters can be streamed.
852 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
853 - Centralized scaling and blending
855 - "time", to display current time
856 - "marq", to display a marquee
859 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
860 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
861 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
862 * A few skins2 improvements
863 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
864 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
865 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
866 * Improved CORBA control module
869 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
870 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
871 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
874 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
875 * Experimental SVG rendering module
876 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
879 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
880 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
881 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
882 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
883 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
886 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
889 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
890 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
893 * Server/client network synchronization module
894 * VBrick streams fully supported
895 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
899 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
900 --------------------------------
903 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
904 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
905 * Improved HTTP daemon.
906 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
909 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
910 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
911 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
912 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
913 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
914 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
915 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
918 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
919 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
920 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
921 * Improved directory access module.
922 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
923 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
924 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
925 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
926 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
929 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
930 * mmsh streaming fixes.
931 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
934 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
935 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
936 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
939 * Improved session announcement system.
940 * Minimize threads usage by default.
941 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
942 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
943 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
944 * Improved transrater.
945 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
946 * New configuration system.
947 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
950 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
951 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
952 * Supports live streams and VoD.
953 * Supports scheduling.
954 * Telnet interface for vlm.
955 * HTTP interface for vlm.
958 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
959 - Ability to embed video output.
960 - Support for bitmap fonts.
961 - Lots of improvements.
962 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
963 - New design and set of icons.
964 - Ability to embed video output.
965 - Support for hotkeys.
966 - Support for bookmarks.
968 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
969 - Better hotkeys handling.
972 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
973 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
974 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
975 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
978 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
979 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
980 * Improved Windows installer.
986 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
987 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
990 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
991 ---------------------------------
994 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
995 * Playing MOD files is working now.
998 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
999 --------------------------------
1002 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1003 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1006 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1007 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1008 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1009 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1012 * Internal improvments
1013 * Improved import/export
1016 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1018 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1019 small and strange formats.
1021 * New MOD audio demux.
1022 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1023 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1024 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1025 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1028 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1029 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1030 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1036 * New opengl video output plugin.
1039 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1040 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1043 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1044 --------------------------------
1047 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1048 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1049 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1050 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1051 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1052 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1053 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1054 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1057 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1062 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1063 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1064 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1065 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1066 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1067 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1068 * Better Icecast support.
1069 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1070 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1073 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1074 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1075 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1076 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1077 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1078 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1079 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1082 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1083 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1084 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1085 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1086 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1087 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1088 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1089 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1090 * Preliminary RTP support.
1091 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1096 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1097 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1099 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1100 - Improvements and help in preferences
1101 - New streaming wizard
1102 - Revised Disc Open menu
1104 - Improvements of the standard pages
1105 - Support for new commands
1106 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1109 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1110 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1113 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1114 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1115 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1116 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1117 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1118 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1119 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1120 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1121 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1124 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1126 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1127 * Support for Panther.
1128 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1129 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1132 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1133 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1134 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1135 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1136 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1137 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1138 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1139 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1142 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1143 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1144 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1147 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1150 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1151 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1152 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1153 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1156 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1157 --------------------------------
1160 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1163 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1164 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1167 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1168 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1171 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1174 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1175 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1178 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1181 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1184 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1185 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1189 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1190 --------------------------------
1193 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1194 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1198 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1199 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1200 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1202 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1203 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1206 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1209 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1212 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1213 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1217 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1218 --------------------------------
1221 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1222 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1226 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1227 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1228 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1229 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1230 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1233 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1234 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1235 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1238 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1239 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1240 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1243 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1244 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1245 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1246 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1247 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1250 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1251 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1252 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1255 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1258 * Improved build system.
1259 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1260 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1261 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1262 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1265 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1266 --------------------------------
1269 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1272 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1273 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1274 * Video 4 Linux support
1275 * CD Digital Audio support
1276 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1279 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1280 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1281 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1282 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1285 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1286 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1287 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1288 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1289 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1290 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1291 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1294 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1295 * New HTTP remote control interface
1298 * New stream output scheme. It is now possible to build a chain of stream outputs allowing for instance to stream and display some content at the same time.
1299 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1300 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1301 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1304 * New reset option for the preferences
1305 * You can set your language in the prefences
1306 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1307 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1308 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1309 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1312 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1313 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1314 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1317 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1318 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1319 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1320 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1321 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1322 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1323 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1324 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1325 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1326 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1329 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1330 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1331 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1332 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1333 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1334 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1335 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1338 * Interface localization
1339 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1340 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1341 * New full-featured Preferences window
1344 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1345 --------------------------------
1348 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1349 * support for skins at the interface level
1350 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1351 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1352 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1353 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1354 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1357 * fixed HTTP redirects
1358 * support for opening an entire directory
1359 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1360 * new video4linux access plug-in
1361 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1364 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1365 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1366 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1369 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1370 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1371 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1372 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1373 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1374 * new codec for raw I420 video
1375 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1378 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1379 (although it still misses some important features)
1380 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1383 * new HTTP output support
1384 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1385 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1388 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1391 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1394 * reorderable playlist
1395 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1396 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1397 * support for mono audio output devices
1398 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1399 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1400 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1401 * the messages window remembers more lines
1402 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1403 * http and ogg stream output options
1404 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1407 * new skinnable interface
1408 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1410 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1411 * support for FLAC audio format
1412 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1414 * network tab in the interface
1415 * "apply" handling in preferences
1418 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1419 ---------------------------------
1422 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1423 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1424 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1425 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1427 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1428 * DTS S/PDIF support
1431 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1432 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1433 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1434 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1437 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1438 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1441 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1444 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1447 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1449 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1450 * rc interface is now fully useable
1451 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1454 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1455 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1456 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1457 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1458 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1460 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1461 * support for mouse gestures
1462 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1465 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1466 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1469 * improved ID3 tag detection
1470 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1471 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1472 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1474 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1477 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1478 ---------------------------------
1481 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1482 English was set as the preferred language
1485 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1486 --------------------------------
1489 * new mouse gesture interface
1490 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1494 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1495 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1496 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1499 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1500 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1504 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1507 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1508 without the user consent
1511 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1513 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1514 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1515 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1518 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1519 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1520 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1521 * playlist enhancements
1522 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1523 * new step forward/step backward commands
1524 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1525 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1526 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1529 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1530 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1531 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1534 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1535 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1538 * native video output is working again
1539 * only commandline interface support
1540 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1543 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1544 --------------------------------
1547 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1548 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1549 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1550 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1551 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1552 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1553 and A/52 streams are supported)
1554 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1559 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1560 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1561 * VCD entry points support
1562 * VCD image file support
1565 * support for *.asf format
1566 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1567 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1568 * support for ogg encapsulation
1569 * support for raw DV format
1570 * support for *.wav format
1571 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1574 Stream discovery & playlists:
1575 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1576 * support for .m3u file format
1577 * support for .asx file format
1578 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1581 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1582 (only available with the .avi demux)
1583 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1584 * support for raw PCM data
1585 * support for Cinepak video codec
1586 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1587 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1588 * support for Xvid codec
1589 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1590 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1591 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1593 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1595 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1598 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1601 * new WxWindows interface
1602 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1603 device and the channels configuration
1604 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1605 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1606 format that VLC can play
1607 * new swedish translation
1608 * enhancements of the playlist window
1609 * new messages window to see debug info
1610 * fixed a few crashes
1613 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1614 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1615 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1616 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working