1 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.9.0-test1 (not released yet):
2 ----------------------------------------------------------
6 * This release will not work with Windows 98/ME and Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther)
7 * The HTTP interface is now only available on the local machine by default.
8 If you want to make it available from other machines, you will have to
9 edit the ".hosts" file.
10 - On UNIX/Linux, the file is in /usr/share/vlc/http/.hosts
11 If you're using the old http interface, it's located in
12 /usr/share/vlc/http/old/.hosts
13 - On Windows they are in C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\.hosts and
14 C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\http\old\.hosts
15 - On Mac OS X, you can find it in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts
16 and respectively in VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/old/.hosts
17 * This version of VLC contains a new interface for Windows and Linux.
18 This interface has a fullscreen controller. This interface lacks the
19 "Streaming Wizard" that used to be present in VLC 0.8.6.
20 If you absolutely need it, we advise you to keep VLC 0.8.6.
21 * The behavior of --sout-keep was changed. It's now activated by default.
22 * The marq, mosaic and logo commands in the rc interface changed. They
23 now require a target name as their first argument. Example:
24 vlc --sub-filter "marq@test{marquee=Hello}" -I rc <somevideo>
25 You can then use commands like: @test marq-marquee Goodbye
26 These new commands are also available in the telnet interface.
27 * The "rtp" access output module has been removed.
28 Please use the RTP stream output instead, e.g.:
29 Old: '#std{access=rtp,mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2:5004,sap}'
30 New: '#rtp{mux=ts,dst=239.255.1.2,port=5004,sap}'
31 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
32 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists. Note that only a limited set
33 of options is available to m3u playlists (CVE-2007-6683).
34 * The old access:url syntax is no longer supported. Use access://url instead.
35 E.g.: vlc:quit -> vlc://quit ;
36 udp:@239.255.12.12 -> udp://@239.255.12.12
37 * The ffmpeg module has been removed and replaced by avcodec, avformat, swscale
38 (or imgresample if you use a swscale-less ffmpeg build) and postproc modules.
39 * The web plugins ActiveX (IE)/Firefox/Mozilla/Safari now recognize the
40 following states: IDLE/CLOSE=0, OPENING=1, BUFFERING=2, PLAYING=3, PAUSED=4,
41 STOPPING=5, FORWARD=6, BACKWARD=7, ENDED=8, ERROR=9. With FORWARD and
42 BACKWARD being reserved for future implementations and are thus not
44 * Croping and padding in transcode are now done using the croppadd video
46 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=croppadd{cropttop=20,cropbottom=30,paddleft=100}}
47 * Canvas setting in transcode is now done using the canvas video filter.
49 transcode{vcodec=mp2v,vfilter=canvas{width=640,height=480}}
50 * Glide video output module has been removed.
56 * Updated libfreetype on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-??)
59 * Vastly improved playlist support:
60 * Media library creation to save all your playlist items
62 * Shoutcast TV listings
63 * Audioscrobbler/Last.FM support
65 * User definable Lua playlist scripts. See share/lua/playlist/README.txt
66 (Default scripts open YouTube, DailyMotion, metacafe and Google Video URLs)
67 * User definable Lua metadata and album art fetcher scripts. See
68 share/lua/meta/README.txt
71 * Video for Linux 2 (V4L2) input support
72 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP/AVP
73 * DCCP transport for RTP/AVP
74 * Proxy support for MMSH stream
75 * JACK audio input support
76 * Input run time option (improved live stream recording)
77 * BDA devices access module for DVB-C/S/T capture cards on Microsoft Windows
78 * Re-written Screen access module for Mac OS X
79 using OpenGL instead of QuickDraw
80 * Screen module now supports partial screen capture and mouse following on X11.
81 * Experimental EyeTV access module
82 This requires the user to install a plugin to EyeTV.app
83 (available as a separate download).
85 * QTKit-based Input module for Mac OS X allowing display and streaming of video
86 taken from all iSight-labelled video cameras (no audio support)
87 * HTTP access now supports gzip compressed data and Digest Access
89 * New options to reduce latency between arrival of raw data and display of
90 frames. (--auto-adjust-pts-delay and --use-stream-immediate)
93 * MP4 gpac and Apple chapter support
94 * Fixed playback of AIFF stereo files
95 * Fixed audio glitch on seek
96 * Improved FLAC demuxer (duration / current time / meta data)
98 * APEv1/2 tags support
99 * Improved ID3v2 tags support
100 * Improved Ogg/Vorbis tags support
102 * Standard MIDI File (types 0 & 1) support
103 * TiVo Series 2 support
104 * CD+G karaoke Files support
109 * VP60/VP61/VP6F/VP62 support
110 * Flash Screen Video support
111 * CamStudio Screen Video support
112 * DosBox Capture support
113 * Karl Morton's Video support
114 * limited atrac3 support
115 * Fluidsynth MIDI software synthesis (with external sound fonts)
116 * New codec FOURCCs to support more specific files:
117 Avid, FCP, Sony, Samsung, ...
119 * DNxHD / VC-3 support
120 * NellyMoser ASAO support
121 * APE (Monkey audio) support
122 * RealVideo support (with the RealVideo run-time)
125 * Closed Caption Decoder (DVD, ReplayTV, TiVo, DVB/ATSC)
126 * VBI & EBU (Teletext) support (*nix, Mac OS)
127 * Ogg/Kate subtitles support
128 * AQTitle subtitles support
129 * MKV USF subtitles support
130 * HTML-based subtitles support
131 * MPSub subtitles support
132 * JacoSub subtitles basic support
133 * MPL2 subtitles support
134 * Rewrite of ASS/SSA scripts and subtitles support
135 * PowerDivx (.psb) Subtitles support
136 * Realtext subtitle support
137 * DKS subtitle support
138 * SubViewer 1.0 (SubRip09) subtitles support
139 * Correct Right-to-left languages in subtitles support
142 * Flash Screen Video support
143 * Improved H.264 encoding speed
145 Video outputs and filters:
146 * New CoreAnimation-based output module (VLCKit framework on OS X only)
147 * Adjust, Invert and Distort (now split into Wave, Ripple, Gradient and
148 Psychedelic) video filters can now be streamed
149 * New puzzle video output filter
150 * Re-written motion detection video filter
151 * New extract video filter (extract Red, Green and Blue components from a
153 * New sharpen video filter (increase the contrast of adjacent pixels)
154 * New erase video filter (removes logos from a video)
155 * Enhanced subtitles' renderer to support bold, italic and some HTML tags
156 (Google Summer of Code Student project)
157 * Support for RGBA and I420 blending. This improves Mosaic CPU usage *a lot*.
158 * New transparency mask video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
159 * New bluescreen video filter (for use with the mosaic_bridge module).
160 This was previously part of the mosaic module.
161 * Fixed random characters problem in RSS filter.
162 * Add rotate-deciangle for more precision on rotate filter
163 * Support for Intel SSE2 instruction set in chroma converters
164 * Improved use of Intel MMX instruction set in chroma converters
165 * New croppadd and canvas video filters.
167 Audio outputs and filters:
168 * Replay gain support
169 * Audio playback when going slower/faster (no pitch filter yet)
170 * New spatializer audio filter
171 * Correct DTS output via S/PDIF
174 * RTSP for TS-multiplexed broadcast streams
175 * New RTP payload formats:
176 * Speex voice audio codec
177 * ITU T.140 (for text, subtitles) output
178 * G.711 (both A-law and ยต-law) output
179 * UDP-Lite transport for RTP
180 * DCCP transport for RTP
181 * Lots of fixes for RTSP broadcasting
186 * New Simple Preferences dialogs showing the most important settings in an
187 end-user suitable way.
188 * Improved user interaction
189 * Improved mouse gestures
190 * Vastly improved Update checker
191 * Full support for meta data editing (ID3v2, Ogg/Vorbis, AAC, APEv1/2)
193 * Brand new interface for Linux and Windows, based on the Qt toolkit
194 * Fullscreen controller (transparency on Linux+Composite)
196 * Improved video output features
197 * Online access to VideoLAN's Help Wiki within VLC
198 * New setting to disable the "Recent Items" service
199 * When playing Radio (live) streams, the current track is shown correctly
200 * Correct appearance on Macs using Aqua's graphite theme
201 * Simplified Extended Controls panel
203 * Correctly displays wide characters when using an UTF-8 locale,
204 if libncursesw is available.
205 * Some nice colors if the terminal supports it (most do)
206 * Experimental Lua interface modules. See vlc -I lua for more info
208 * Option to allow only one running instance, using D-Bus interface.
209 * D-Bus Interface implementing the MPRIS
210 (Media Player Remote Interfacing specification), a common dbus control
211 interface for media players that intends to become an xdg standard when
212 finished: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Media_Player_Interfaces .
213 * Motion module using disk accelerometers to keep video horizontal
214 * Plugin to set Telepathy presence message using MissionControl
215 * Fixed VLM schedule time on Linux
218 * VLC now complies with the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6
219 http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html
220 (which means that VLC doesn't use the $HOME/.vlc directory anymore)
223 * Mac OS X Framework "VLCKit" that can be used to embed VLC in third party
224 applications (Google Summer of Code Student project, Mac OS X 10.5 only)
225 * New text renderer based on Quartz replacing the existing Freetype solution
226 * Complete compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
227 * It is now required to compile a fully featured build
228 * The support of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and QuickTime 6.x was discontinued.
231 * Event management and various improvements in libvlc
232 (Part of a Google Summer of Code Student project)
240 * LibVLC now supports externally built plugins properly.
241 A "vlc-plugin" pkg-config package is provided.
242 * Java bindings are now built from a separate source.
245 Changes between 0.8.6g and 0.8.6h:
246 ----------------------------------
249 * Updated GnuTLS and libgcrypt on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1948,
250 CVE-2008-1949, CVE-2008-1950)
251 * Updated libxml2 on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2007-6284)
254 * Updated libebml and libmatroska on Mac OS X. Reliability improvements.
255 * Miscellaneous bugfixes in multiple modules and in libvlc
256 (ftp access, record access filter, video filters, RC interface,
257 playlist demuxer, IP networking, MPJPEG muxer, stream outputs)
258 * Improved support for MPEG2 content created by Final Cut Pro
259 * More reliable audio reception for MPEG TS streams
260 * Fixed a regression in 0.8.6g where usage of the snapshot feature could lead
261 to an unexpected application termination
262 * New Serbian translation
263 * Updated Romanian translation
266 Changes between 0.8.6f and 0.8.6g:
267 ----------------------------------
270 * Removed VLC variable settings from Mozilla and ActiveX
271 (CVE-2007-6683, VideoLAN-SA-0804)
272 * Removed loading plugins from the current directory
273 (CVE-2008-2147, VideoLAN-SA-0805)
274 * Updated libpng on Windows and Mac OS X (CVE-2008-1382)
275 * Fixed libid3tag denial of service (CVE-2008-2109)
276 * Fixed libvorbis vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1419, CVE-2008-1420, CVE-2008-1423)
277 * Fixed speex insufficient boundary check (CVE-2008-1686, oCERT-2008-004)
280 * Fixed various memory leaks, improving stability when running as a server
281 * Fixed compilation with recent versions of FFmpeg
282 * Correctly parses SAP announcements from MPEG-TS
283 * Fixed AAC resampling
284 * The Fullscreen Controller appears correctly on Mac OS X,
285 if the 'Always-on-top' video option was selected.
288 Changes between 0.8.6e and 0.8.6f:
289 ----------------------------------
292 * Really fixed subtitle buffer overflow (CVE-2007-6681, CVE-2008-1881)
293 * Fixed Real RTSP code execution problem (CVE-2008-0073)
294 * Fixed MP4 integer overflows (CVE-2008-1489, CVE-2008-1768)
295 * Fixed cinepak vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1769)
296 - More information can be found in VideoLAN-SA-0801 and VideoLAN-SA-0803.
299 * The Mozilla plugin registers a usable range of MIME-types on Mac OS X
300 * Improved VLC's video output behavior on multi-screen setups running Mac OS X
301 * Fixed crashes in H264 packetizer
302 * Close MMS access on network timeout
303 * Fix some problems with AAC decoder & packetizer
306 Changes between 0.8.6d and 0.8.6e:
307 ----------------------------------
310 * Resume playback for viewing content over FTP
311 * Fixed XShm detection with remote X11
314 * Subtitle demuxers overflow (CVE-2007-6681)
315 * HTTP listener format string injection (CVE-2007-6682)
316 * Fixed buffer overflow in the SDL_image library (CVE-2006-4484)
317 * Real RTSP overflows (CVE-2008-0225, CVE-2008-0295, CVE-2008-0296,
319 * Arbitrary memory overwrite in the MP4 demuxer (CORE-2008-0130,
323 * Fixed DTS to S/PDIF converter
326 * Fixed 5.1 audio on ALSA
329 * Fixed some RTSP hanging and user/password passing through RTSP URLs
332 * Fixed waiting for SPS/PPS problem in H.264 packetizer
335 * Improved compatibility for creating H.264 video files playable on iPhones
336 * Improved detection of optimal amount of threads for multi-threaded H.264
337 encoding on multi-cpu systems
338 - Note that this is used when transcode threads is set to 0 (default)
339 - Not supported on Windows (multiple threads require manual configuration)
341 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
342 * Restored compatibility with Mac OS X 10.3.9
343 * Corrected behavior of the Preferences panel
344 * VLC no longer crashes on quit while playing
347 * Updated Romanian and Polish translations
350 Changes between 0.8.6c and 0.8.6d:
351 ----------------------------------
354 * Mozilla plugin: supports a reasonable amount of MIME types on Windows
355 * Linux: Fixed S/PDIF passthrough with ALSA
356 * Automatic recovery on unexpected stream discontinuity (clock gap) occurrences
358 * Use field order (top/bottom) for correct bob/linear deinterlacing
359 * Fix invalid free in bookmarks loading code
361 Windows and Mac OS Binaries
362 * FLAC Security Update (CVE-2007-4619) to prevent multiple integer overflows
365 * Security update (VideoLAN-SA-0703, CVE-2007-6262)
367 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
368 * Apple Remote support on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard with enhanced functionality
369 * Improved Video Output compatibility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
370 * Improved behavior of the Fullscreen Controller and mode changes between
371 Fullscreen and Windowed Video Output
372 * Softened the white flash artifacts that may appear during the transition of
374 * Support for current Ogg file formats
375 NOTE: This release requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
376 Mac OS X 10.3.9 is not supported anymore.
379 * Improved H.264 encoding speed on Mac OS X
382 * The automatic updating facility was removed
383 * You now need to append --m3u-extvlcopt to your command line to enable
384 EXTVLCOPT options parsing in m3u playlists.
385 * RTSP server remote denial of service fixed (CVE-2007-6684).
388 Changes between 0.8.6b and 0.8.6c:
389 ----------------------------------
391 Various bugfixes, notably:
392 * Windows Vista compatibility
393 * Cropping in Direct3D
394 * Fullscreen change crash on Mac OS X
395 * RSS filter string overflow
397 * MKV demuxer crash (related to seeking)
399 CDDA / Vorbis / Theora / SAP plugins:
400 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0702, CVE-2007-3316, US-CERT VU#200928)
403 * Fixed a problem with detecting embedded subtitles (GAB2 format) in AVI
404 * Prevent WAV file integer overflow (CVE-2007-3467 & CVE-2007-3468)
407 * Updated FLAC API compatibility
410 * Support for new v4l2 encoder API
413 * New localisation: Arabic, Persian
416 Changes between 0.8.6a and 0.8.6b:
417 ----------------------------------
419 Various bugfixes, notably:
420 * Out-of-bound read in demuxers
421 * Demuxers crashes (incl. CVE-2007-0256)
422 * Mac OS X Interface crashes
423 * VP31 decoding on Windows platforms
424 * Direct3D Video Output modifications for Vista compatibility
425 * Correct behaviour for feeding streams to Icecast or Shoutcast servers
428 * Enhanced Flash Video support incl. VP61 and VP60
429 * Teletext subtitles (telx) support
432 * Rectified behaviour and improved usability
434 Mac OS X Interface & Port:
435 * Diverse usability improvements
436 * New wizard option to embed subtitles
437 * Screensaver/automatic sleep mode is enabled when a video is paused
438 * Improved Delete-Preferences-Script
441 Changes between 0.8.6 and 0.8.6a:
442 ---------------------------------
445 * Security updates (VideoLAN-SA-0701, CVE-2007-0017)
448 * Fullscreen controller improvements
451 Changes between 0.8.5 and 0.8.6:
452 --------------------------------
455 * Shoutcast TV listings support
458 * Support for RTSP authentication
459 * Support for adding subtitles on the fly
460 * Fixed MPEG-PS duration calculation
461 * ATSC support for DVB input
462 * Partial reading support for DVR-ms recordings
463 * Partial reading support for MXF and GXF fileformat
464 * Improved support for Flash Video files
467 * Native WMV9/VC-1 support
468 * WMA Speech support (through binary codecs)
469 * VP5/VP6 - Flash Video support (not VP61)
470 * The True Audio Lossless codec support
471 * Matroska WavPack support
472 * Improved H.264 support (interlaced, speed improvements etc but no PAFF)
473 * Fixed a problem with MPEG2 field pictures
474 * Fixed swapped colors on DVB subtitles
477 * Additional OpenGL effects (cylinder, torus, sphere, ...)
478 * Experimental Direct3D 9 video output (win32). Best served on Vista :)
479 * Improved libcaca support
483 * New hotkeys for crop and zoom
484 * Support for snapshots from the HTTP interface
486 * Systray support in skins
488 * Support for Apple Remote control
489 * Fullscreen controller panel (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
490 * New playmode buttons (artwork by Simon Damkjรฆr Andersen)
491 * right/ctrl-click menu in video outputs
492 * Main Menu uses autohide when playing videos in fullscreen mode
494 * Notifications using notification-daemon
497 * Support for Unicode filenames (Windows NT and above)
499 - Please note that these versions of Windows are not officially supported
500 - Unicode support for Windows 9x/ME applications is available through the
501 Microsoft Layer for Unicode available from the following location:
502 http://www.microsoft.com.nsatc.net/globaldev/handson/dev/mslu_announce.mspx
503 Download the MSLU package (unicows) and extract the content into the folder
505 * Fixed IPv6 support on the client side
506 * Fixed disable screensaver (Direct3D and DirectX video output)
515 * Updates to the libvlc API
516 * Fixes for the mozilla and activeX plugins
519 Changes between 0.8.4a and 0.8.5
520 --------------------------------
523 * Statistics collection (bitrates, packets, connections, ...)
524 * Support for downloading updates
528 * Initial support for RTSP-over-HTTP (to allow NAT traversal)
529 * Linux DV (Digital Video - Firewire) input
530 * Improvements to the Audio CD input
531 - Separate playlist entries for the tracks
533 * Support for more DVB (satellite) encryption modules
534 * Improved subtitles encoding support
535 * Improved support for playing MP4 files from the Web
538 * Cook (Real audio) support
540 Playlist / Services discovery:
541 * XSPF playlist support
543 * Updated Shoutcast to use new listing
546 * New JACK audio output
550 - magnify: allows you to zoom on part of the image
551 - gradient and edge detection: "cartoon-like" effect
552 - bluescreen: overlay parts of a video transparently on another one
553 * Logo video filter: can now loop through multiple images
554 * RSS video filter: display feed images. Support for Atom feeds.
555 * Improvements to the subtitles rendering
558 * Initial support for throttling users on VOD streams
561 * System to inform the user and request information
562 - HTTP authentication
566 - VLM (VideoLAN Media Manager) control panel
567 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
568 - Drag & Drop support in the playlist
571 - Support for Winamp 2 skins
572 - Improved playlist handling
573 - Support for popup menus, animated bitmaps, equalizer, ...
575 - Embedded Video output
576 - new Go-To-Specific-Time feature
577 - Video cropping and aspect ratio changing while playing
578 - Improved media information panel (shows statistics, metadata, ...)
579 - support for processing multiple items with the wizard in a single run
580 - option to save selections in the wizard for a session (default enabled)
582 - New default interface pages for VLC and VLM (including a mosaic wizard)
583 - A bunch of new RPN functions
586 * MSN messenger "Now playing" support
589 * Mac-Intel compatibility
590 * Enhanced support of various audio output devices
591 * Growl "Now playing" support
594 * Ability to log to syslog
595 * Root wrapper to avoid running VLC as root
598 * New libvlc API (not finished yet)
600 * A bit more automatic testing
603 Changes between 0.8.4 and 0.8.4a:
604 ---------------------------------
607 * Fix a52 over spdif in alsa
608 * SPDIF output available again in the Mac OS X Audio menu.
611 * Add support for new BMP and Cook (RealAudio G2) decoders in ffmpeg
612 * Add support for some non-standard FOURCCs used for H.264/H.263
615 * Fix bug with some HE-AAC audio tracks
618 * HAL fixes, should now work with new API
619 * SAP, fix 20 second freeze on windows
625 - fixed encoding of H.264/H.263 content when using the wizard
628 Changes between 0.8.2 and 0.8.4:
629 --------------------------------
632 * Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
636 * Fixed problems with OpenGL output
637 * New --monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
638 * Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
641 * Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
642 * IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
643 * IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
644 * GnomeVFS input module
645 * Support for RTP packet reordering
646 * Fixed syntax for FTP URLs
649 * Support for libSDL_image to import different image types
650 * Musepack decoder using libmpdec
651 * QDM2 audio support (needs ffmpeg from 19th Oct 2005 or later)
654 * UPnP service discovery (Linux only at the moment)
655 * Bonjour service discovery using avahi (Linux only)
661 * Fixes, enhancements and new options related to the Headphone Channel
662 Mixer and Dolby Surround
665 * New shout output module to forward streams to icecast servers
666 * Fixed several SAP and SDP announcement bugs
667 * Fixed MTU handling to avoid IP fragments
670 - new cone icon by Richard ยฏiestad (Eurodata, retron.info)
672 - New streaming and transcoding wizard
673 - New extended controls panel
674 - New bookmarks window
675 - Fixed playlist sorting
676 - Fixed drag-and-drop inside the playlist
678 - Rename wxWindows interface in wxWidgets.
679 - All the --wxwin-* options are now --wx-*
680 - Support for RTP streaming in Stream Ouput dialog
681 - Now require wx2.6 with Unicode support
685 - New RPN functions to control VLC features (see play-howto)
686 - Facilities to correctly handle non-ASCII characters and spaces in
688 - Include macro to include other files
692 * Should now work outside IE as well
695 * New script to delete the preferences automatically
698 * Fixed bandwidth problems of HTTP streaming
699 * Fixed audio problems with DirectX audio output
702 The following languages were added:
707 The following languages were re-added:
711 Changes between 0.8.1 and 0.8.2:
712 --------------------------------
715 * Rewrite of the playlist
717 - Input preparsing (for meta-data)
718 - Grouping (by artist, ...) support
719 * Preferences improvements:
720 - New organization, designed to improve usability
721 - New configuration types (list of modules, ...)
723 * Core image manipulation support
724 * Client-side SSL/TLS support
725 * SSL Client certificates checking support (allows for secure VoD)
726 * Renamed --spu-channel to --sub-track
727 * Renamed --spumargin to --sub-margin
728 * Renamed --audio-channel to --audio-track
729 * Renamed --filter to --vout-filter
730 * filters, extra interfaces, visualizations and service discovery modules are
731 now separated by ':' instead of ','
732 * Access filter architecture
733 * Track selection based on preferred language (--sub-language and --audio-language)
734 * Zsh autocompletion for VLC's arguments
738 * Support for SOCKS proxy
739 * Support for Shoutcast Meta-data
740 * Support for (HE-)AAC raw-audio streams
741 * Support for images on a HTTP server that get refreshed on the server
742 * Better support for Kasenna streams
743 * RTSP UDP->TCP rollover support
744 * Massive Matroska improvements
745 * Support for XA and VOC audio files
747 * Samba (Windows shares) access module
748 * Improved CDDAX module (uses several playlist items)
749 * Fixes to Linux DVB support
750 * Fix the "negative subtitles delay" bug
751 * Support for FTP over IPv6
754 * Dirac decoder and encoder
755 * PNG decoder/encoder
756 * Improvements to DVB subtitles encoder
757 * Support for Apple Lossless Audio Codec
760 * New Record and Timeshift filters
763 * New type of modules, that add items to the playlist
764 * Brand new SAP module
765 * To enable SAP, you now need to use "-S sap" or add SAP in
766 the "Manage->Services Discovery" menu
767 ( IPv6 SAP is now enabled by default )
768 * Non-standard support for HTTP streams SAP announces removed
769 * HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) discovery
770 * DAAP (iTunes shares) support
774 * Support for 20/24 bits LPCM
777 * Video snapshot support (png or jpg)
778 * Image file video output (png)
779 * Motion detection filter (can trigger playlist actions)
780 * Improvements to wall video filter
781 * Support for font color and opacity
787 - Ability to load a configuration file on startup
788 - Seeking support in VoD streams
789 * Mosaic (picture-in-picture system)
793 - Redesigned playlist : add playlist, add directory, ...
794 - Improved preferences
795 - Improvements to the wizard
796 - DVD, VCD and Audio CD navigation buttons
798 - Redesigned playlist
799 - Improved preferences
801 - Support for multiple actions
804 - Support for the new playlist system
806 - Now uses new config settings. See doc/lirc/example.lirc
809 * Screensaver disabling fix
810 * DirectShow tuner configuration
811 * Support for no-decoration windows
814 * Many Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger related fixes
815 * The OpenGL video output is back
816 * A new audio module that should work more reliable for analog audio output in various configurations.
817 - Supports multichannel discrete analog output
818 - Digital audio output requires you to change a preference setting because it
819 is not yet available in the new module
820 - Please read the README.MacOSX.rtf file for more information.
823 * Support for single-buffered overlay
832 * Mozilla plugin for MacOS X is back (not yet distributed)
835 * Brand new Internet Explorer ActiveX plugin
838 The following languages were added:
844 Changes between 0.8.0 and 0.8.1:
845 --------------------------------
848 * Include TLS/SSL API (on plattforms where libgnutls is available)
849 * SSL support in the HTTP daemon (HTTP stream output and HTTP interface)
852 * Fixed win32 multichannel audio output support (which was broken in 0.8.0)
853 * Fixed DV and MPEG (WinTV PVR 250/350) support in the dshow input
854 * Fixed spurious taskbar item after switching to fullscreen
857 * A few more updates (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
860 * Portaudio audio output plugin improvements
863 * Proper subpictures scaling using the aspect-ratio info when available
866 * Fixed crash with ODML avi files
867 * Fixed autodetection of VCD/SVCD bin files
868 * Supports Kasenna VoD (MPEG2 only) and simulcast streaming
872 * Fixed aspect ratio and interlaced support in ffmpeg encoder module
874 * Support of playlist group announcement
877 Changes between 0.7.2 and 0.8.0:
878 --------------------------------
881 * Major work on libvlc. Changed/renamed/added functions
882 * Complete switch to the new input core (better seeking, multi-input, ...)
883 * New plugins cache to speed up launch time
884 * New --play-and-stop feature which stops the playlist after each played item
885 * Daemon mode (to run vlc in the background)
886 * Major improvements to the subtitle/OSD subsystem
889 * New screen capture input plugin for X11, Win32, BeOS and Mac OS X
890 (Stream your desktop)
891 * Improved DVD support:
892 - uses libdvdnav for playing DVDs with menus support
893 - uses libdvdread for simple playback with menus (eg. for streaming)
894 * Experimental multi-input support ( use --input-slave to play with it )
895 * Automatic MTU discovery for UDP streams
896 * More powerful MRL syntax for DVD/VCD/CDDA access
897 (selection of titles/chapters).
900 * Support for iTunes Music Store previews
901 * Support for MJPEG webcams (i.e. AXIS cams)
902 * Added initial mp4 and mpeg-ts text track support
903 * Windows Media Server RTSP support
904 * Support for MPEG TS streams with error correction (204/192 bytes TS packets)
905 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
906 * Skins2 .vlt file loader (only when skins2 is the current interface)
907 * Improved Ogg demuxer
908 * Support for MPEG PS streams with MPEG 4 video.
909 * Support for so called AACPlus webstreams
912 * G.726 audio support
913 * 14496-17 MPEG TS text support
914 * MPEG-4 text support
915 * Vastly improved DVB subtitles decoder (ETS 300 743)
916 * Enabled color in DVB subtitles rendering
917 * VobSub supported both externally and in Matroska
921 * Re-use audio/video/spu decoders in transcoder module. From now on,
922 everything that is playable by VLC should be transcodable as well
923 * Subtitles overlaying in transcoder
924 * Subpictures overlaying in transcoder (see video output)
925 * Frame rate selection in the transcoder
926 * DVB subtitles encoder
927 * MPEG 1 layer 2 audio encoder using libtoolame
928 * Improved vorbis/theora encoding
930 * Text track muxing for mp4
931 * Multipart mjpeg muxing. Your video is directly viewable in a Mozilla Browser
932 * 14496-17 text track muxing for MPEG TS
933 * Support for DTS audio in MPEG TS (ETSI TS 102 154 Annex G)
934 * Teletext (0x56 descriptor) streaming support in MPEG TS.
935 * New WAV muxer (supports multi-channel audio)
938 * H.263 RTP streaming support
939 * SDP generation outputs more compliant SDPs and can create SDP files now
940 * Improved RTSP and VoD server (experimental)
943 * New audio equalizer filter
944 * Very trivial volume normalizer
945 * True channel downmixing when playing 5:1 material on Stereo
946 * More gradual resampling which should improve the pitch changing effect
947 * New audio output plugin using portaudio v19
950 * Roku HD1000 Video output
951 * Experimental generic OpenGL video output (X11, Win32, MacOS X)
952 with support for effects.
953 * Improved filter and subpictures support :
954 - New filters can be streamed.
955 - "Subpicture filters" to overlay subpictures on video
956 - Centralized scaling and blending
958 - "time", to display current time
959 - "marq", to display a marquee
962 * OSD sliders for volume and postition information
963 * OSD icons for Play and Pause
964 * New Streaming Wizard for Windows and Linux default interfaces (wxWindows)
965 * A few skins2 improvements
966 * Added search, volume, loop and random functions to the ncurses interface
967 * Added a filesystem browser to the ncurses interface
968 * The remote control interface can now listen for commands on sockets
969 * Improved CORBA control module
972 * Fixed the "cannot set buffersize:[nope]" coreaudio problem
973 * Major speed improvements to the Quartz video output
974 * The Mac OS X interface is no longer required to display video
977 * New galaktos visualization plugin (MilkDrop-compatible)
978 * Experimental SVG rendering module
979 * Support for DVB CAM modules.
982 * DirectX Media Object decoder (allows playing some media types, like WMV3)
983 * DirectX Media Object audio and video encoder
984 * Fixed long standing win32 thread handles leak
985 * Fixed problem with CPU usage with subtitles rendering
986 * Wallpaper mode for the DirectX video output (only in overlay mode)
989 * Massive update (we still miss an interface and a fast video output).
992 * Added a lot of Javascript accessible funtionality
993 * Volume, position, length, seek etc etc etc.
996 * Server/client network synchronization module
997 * VBrick streams fully supported
998 * Cisco IP/TV streams supported
1002 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.2:
1003 --------------------------------
1006 * Bookmarks feature for easier seeking/access inside medias.
1007 * Support for video output embedded in interfaces.
1008 * Improved HTTP daemon.
1009 * Saved playlists now remember VLC-specific options.
1012 * New Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) codec.
1013 (http://www.annodex.net/overview.html)
1014 * New H.261 video decoder using openmash.
1015 * H264 encoder, demuxer and packetizer.
1016 * Packetizer interfaces between demux and codec when needed
1017 (allows using ffmpeg plugin to decode MPEG streams and better aac decoding).
1018 * Support for Theora alpha3 (both decoding and encoding).
1021 * --start-time <sec> and --stop-time <sec> to start and stop playing a
1022 file at the specified amount of seconds. Only works with a few
1023 fileformats (avi, mov, mkv, mp4 )
1024 * Improved directory access module.
1025 * New "file-cat" option to play truncated movies.
1026 * Better handling of meta info (title, author, description, etc...).
1027 * New options to pass meta info to the input.
1028 * It is now possible to stream programs from a DVB-S/C/T stream
1029 (satellite, cable, or digital terestrial television)
1032 * Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) support.
1033 * mmsh streaming fixes.
1034 * Fixed infinite loop in the AVI demux on broken/incomplete files.
1037 * Subviewer and subviewer v2 subtitles support.
1038 * Ability to choose autodetected subtitles path.
1039 * Subtitles delay can be changed in real time with hotkeys.
1042 * Improved session announcement system.
1043 * Minimize threads usage by default.
1044 * Added faster than realtime stream output (limited by CPU) for file output.
1045 * Improved MOV/MP4 muxer.
1046 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1047 * Improved transrater.
1048 * Meta info options used by the muxers.
1049 * New configuration system.
1050 * Better audio channels downmixing when transcoding.
1053 * New videolan (media) manager (vlm): a little manager designed to launch
1054 and manage multiple streams from within one instance of VLC.
1055 * Supports live streams and VoD.
1056 * Supports scheduling.
1057 * Telnet interface for vlm.
1058 * HTTP interface for vlm.
1061 * Skins II (Windows and Linux only)
1062 - Ability to embed video output.
1063 - Support for bitmap fonts.
1064 - Lots of improvements.
1065 * wxWindows (default Windows and Linux interface)
1066 - New design and set of icons.
1067 - Ability to embed video output.
1068 - Support for hotkeys.
1069 - Support for bookmarks.
1071 - Support for 'groups' and playlist item properties.
1072 - Better hotkeys handling.
1075 * OpenGL video output is now the default when available.
1076 * Added FAAC encoder (mp4a).
1077 * Audio output fix to work with multiple streams on a HAL device.
1078 * Possible fix for conflict with CodeTek VirtualDesktop (untested).
1081 * DirectShow input plugin should work with more devices.
1082 * Disable monitor power down when watching movies.
1083 * Improved Windows installer.
1089 * Improvements to the Goom visualisation plugin.
1090 * Roku HD1000 audio output.
1093 Changes between 0.7.1 and 0.7.1a:
1094 ---------------------------------
1097 * Fixed the infamous 'mp3 takes twice the CPU it should take' bug
1098 * Playing MOD files is working now.
1101 Changes between 0.7.0 and 0.7.1:
1102 --------------------------------
1105 * Fixed a nasty bug that causes preferences not to be saved some times.
1106 * IGMPv3 support for VLC under Windows XP and Linux.
1109 * Brand new DTS Coherent Acoustics audio decoder based on libdts
1110 (http://www.videolan.org/dtsdec.html)
1111 * Fixed DTS S/PDIF output
1112 * SVCD (Philips OGT) and CVD subtitles
1115 * Internal improvments
1116 * Improved import/export
1119 * Experimental support for Nullsoft streaming video(.nsv) and real media(.rm)
1121 * New demux module that uses libavformat from ffmpeg. Adds support for many
1122 small and strange formats.
1124 * New MOD audio demux.
1125 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 wav files.
1126 * Support for DTS and A52/AC3 audio CD.
1127 * New and experimental DVD input plugin with menus support (using libdvdnav).
1128 * Added back DV audio support in raw DV demuxer.
1131 * MP4/MOV muxer improvements (fast-start, aac in mov, etc...).
1132 * Fixed a nasty bug in the mpeg video packetizer.
1133 * Improved transcoding (multithreading, more tuning, etc...).
1139 * New opengl video output plugin.
1142 * A few improvements to the DirectShow input plugin.
1143 * Fixed ipv6 name resolution.
1146 Changes between 0.6.2 and 0.7.0:
1147 --------------------------------
1150 * Brand new decoder/packetizer api.
1151 Adds a lot more flexibility while also simplifying the decoder plugins.
1152 * New encoder api (Ffmpeg, Vorbis, Theora, Flac and Speex encoders available).
1153 * Video outputs are recycled if possible.
1154 This removes any 'flicker' between two similiar video files.
1155 * Fixed the video filters. Video should no longer go black when using filters.
1156 * New input core. Advantages are: better seeking, more responsive, support for
1157 subtitle files at the core, and much much more.
1160 * Added a repeat mode to repeat a single file over and over.
1165 * Fixed annoying seeking problem with Ogg files (seeking would take ages).
1166 * Support for Flac in Ogg files.
1167 * MPEG TS demuxer also handles A52 and AAC audio in DVB streams.
1168 * Rewrite of the Flac demuxer.
1169 * cddax and vcdx plugins using libcdio, libvcd and libvcdinfo. (Linux only)
1170 * Reworked DVB tuning.
1171 * Better Icecast support.
1172 * New MPEG video elementary streams demuxer.
1173 * New DTS audio elementary streams demuxer.
1176 * Support for Theora video encoding.
1177 * Support for Speex audio decoding/encoding.
1178 * Rewrite of the Flac decoder + encoding support.
1179 * Support for MPEG2 422 decoding which was recently added to libmpeg2 (cvs).
1180 * Support for AAC + SBR and proper multi-channel re-ordering.
1181 * MPEG 2.5 audio support.
1182 * Removed deprecated decoders (a52_old, mpeg_video and mpeg_audio).
1185 * Improvements to the MPEG TS muxer.
1186 * New transrating module for MPEG2 video.
1187 * Added packetization for MPEG AAC ADTS streams.
1188 * Added packetizers for Flac, Speex, Theora, LPCM, DTS and SPU streams.
1189 * Improved mp4 muxing and added AAC/MP4V support when transcoding.
1190 * Improved Ogg muxing and added Theora, Speex, Flac and subtitles support.
1191 * MPEG TS muxer follows the ATSC/DVB specs for embedded A52 audio.
1192 * --sout-keep option to keep the stream open while changing input.
1193 * Preliminary RTP support.
1194 * Fixes to SAP announces.
1199 - misc improvements (eg, "stay on top" option).
1200 * New standardized and customizable hotkeys.
1202 - Playlist improvements (Sort, Search, mode buttons).
1203 - Improvements and help in preferences
1204 - New streaming wizard
1205 - Revised Disc Open menu
1207 - Improvements of the standard pages
1208 - Support for new commands
1209 * OSD ( OS X and hotkeys only atm ).
1212 * Many fixes to the SAP module
1213 * SAP now supports HTTP streams
1216 * Text subtitles now have a black outline.
1217 * Text subtitles autodetection.
1218 * Text subtitles charset autodetection.
1219 * Text subtitles for all videofiles. Results may vary.
1220 * Text subtitles in Hebrew are supported. Arabic partially.
1221 * Automatic fontsize selection for text subtitles.
1222 * Fixed SAMI text subtitles support.
1223 * Support for subtitles in Matroska files.
1224 * Support for subtitles in DVB streams.
1227 * New controller designed by Max Rudberg from www.maxthemes.com
1229 * Works on 10.1.x again. Apologies for that problem.
1230 * Support for Panther.
1231 * Support for raw dumping of streams to disk.
1232 * Mozilla plugin for Mac OS X (experimental).
1235 * New DirectShow input module (for video acquisition cards, webcams, PVRs...).
1236 * VLC can be installed as a Windows NT service.
1237 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1238 * Support for 3F2R in audio output.
1239 * New --one-instance option to "force" only one running instance of VLC.
1240 * Mozilla plugin for Windows (experimental).
1241 * Multimonitor support (untested).
1242 * Fixed nasty timing bug on some dual-cpu / P4 with hyperthreading systems.
1245 * Improved Video4Linux input. Also added support for an audio only input.
1246 * Support for real-time priority when running with root privileges.
1247 * Allow on the fly switching of the main interface.
1250 * Brand new Gtk 2 interface
1253 * Audio visual effects filters (spectrum, scope and random).
1254 * Audio visual effects filter using goom.
1255 * Spanish, Portuguese Brazilian and Hungarian translations.
1256 * libcaca video output (colored ascii)
1259 Changes between 0.6.1 and 0.6.2:
1260 --------------------------------
1263 * Fixed a nasty regression in 0.6.1 which made some streams unplayable.
1266 * Transcoder now generates proper pts/dts thus should work a lot better.
1267 * Improved MPEG TS muxer.
1270 * Support for DVB-S/C/T cards using v4l2 API for Linux 2.6.x kernels.
1271 * Few fixes to the VCD navigation.
1274 * Support for DVD menus navigation added to the wxWindows interface.
1277 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1278 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1281 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1284 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1287 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1288 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1292 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1293 --------------------------------
1296 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1297 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1301 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1302 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1303 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1305 * ALSA multi-channel support fixed and tested.
1306 * Fixed fullscreen with gnome metacity.
1309 * Fixed VCD support which was broken on some machines.
1312 * Familiar interface with Gtk+-1.2 and GPE support removed (deprecreated).
1315 * Text subtitles now centered on the picture.
1316 * Ffmpeg decoder now generates proper pts and can be used to play
1320 Changes between 0.6.0 and 0.6.1:
1321 --------------------------------
1324 * There should be less bogus resampling, particularly on DVDs.
1325 * VLC will now wait for the medium to wake up before starting its clock
1329 * Added vorbis audio support in Ogg streaming.
1330 * Added vorbis audio transcoding support.
1331 * Added mp3 audio transcoding support (when ffmpeg is compiled with mp3lame).
1332 * PS muxer can create mpeg1 files now and produce streams with system headers.
1333 * You can transcode a52 with more than two channels to mpga now.
1336 * Fixed DVD support which was partly broken due to a bug in libdvdcss
1337 * Fixed 5.1 audio support for the sblive/audigy soundcards.
1338 * Fixed sound on Windows NT.
1341 * Fixed/improved ALSA support and enabled multi-channel audio output.
1342 * X11/Xvideo: Should now work on big endian machines, and you can now
1343 use the arrow keys to browse through the DVD menus.
1346 * Gtk+2 interface called PDA
1347 * Familiar Gtk+ is now deprecreated
1348 * Codec a52, Faad2 and flac added
1349 * Video4Linux enabled (demux and transcode)
1350 * Stream Out with transcode support enabled (use codecs: HuffYuvv and A-law).
1353 * Small updates/fixes to the wxWindows interface.
1354 * Improved HTTP remote control interface. You can now create your own HTML pages.
1355 * A new CORBA control plugin.
1358 * Improved support for the Matroska container format.
1361 * Improved build system.
1362 * New video filter plugin to overlay logos.
1363 * Added support for Winamp 3 B4S files.
1364 * New subtitle module which uses freetype2 to render arbitrary fonts in any size.
1365 Should also work with languages like russion for instance.
1368 Changes between 0.5.3 and 0.6.0:
1369 --------------------------------
1372 * Channel Server support was removed (was deprecated)
1375 * Fixed a big bug in ftp and http access that prevented many platforms (OSX most prominently) to view ftp and http streams.
1376 * Fixed large file support on Windows
1377 * Video 4 Linux support
1378 * CD Digital Audio support
1379 * Fixed IPv6 multicasting on Windows and OSX.
1382 * Better detection of AAC and mp3 files
1383 * Support for OpenDML avi files
1384 * More complete .mp4/.mov support
1385 * Very early support for the Matroska container format (don't complain if it doesn't work ;)
1388 * VLC's own MPEG1/2 decoder has been replaced with libmpeg2
1389 * Support for Sorenson 3 (SVQ3 or Quicktime content) via ffmpeg
1390 * OSX support for QDM2 and QDMC sound, often used in QT content.
1391 * Fixed a bug which was causing artefacts in DivX video (ffmpeg)
1392 * Updated our theora decoder to use the alpha 2 release of libtheora
1393 * If ffmpeg cannot keep up, skip and try to recover instead of stopping altogether
1394 * Indeo Video 3 (IV32) support for little-endian computers. (so not for OSX)
1397 * The wxWindows interface is now fully useable as well as Unicode safe
1398 * New HTTP remote control interface
1401 * 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.
1402 * The stream output now allows to transcode content on the fly.
1403 * Fixed major bug that prevented streaming mpeg 1/2 video with pulldown content.
1404 * SAP/SDP announcing support. (both IPv4 and IPv6)
1407 * New reset option for the preferences
1408 * You can set your language in the prefences
1409 * New video chroma conversion module using ffmpeg
1410 * Added a Gentoo ebuild to the distribution
1411 * Added a new smaller subtitles font (now the default) + scripts to generate your own
1412 * SAP/SDP IPv6 support
1415 * Basic support for the X11 Xinerama extension.
1416 * New skinable interface ported to X11.
1417 * Run opie-vlc and zaurus-vlc as GuiServer
1420 * When you add several items to the playlist, they are sorted alphabetically.
1421 * New about panel and revamped preferences panel.
1422 * Fixed the deinterlace menu.
1423 * Float on top, Fit to Screen and a Transparency option for video out.
1424 * New output dialog for transcode and display while stream capabilities.
1425 * New icons by Davor Orel.
1426 * New audio resampler. Should make VLC much faster.
1427 * Fixed disappearing and crackling sound (PTS is out of range bug)
1428 * We no longer automatically save the preferences when you quit the application
1429 * Arrow keys are now use to browse the menus in a DVD
1432 * the wxWindows interface is now the default interface
1433 * The keyboard shortcuts are now identical to the linux version
1434 * Fixed the "no sound" problem on NT4
1435 * Improved skinnable interface (it now uses the wxWindows interface dialogs).
1436 * Added support for compressed skins files (.vlt files)
1437 * Fixed SVCD chapters support.
1438 * Fixed memory leak with 5.1 audio.
1441 * Interface localization
1442 * Screensaver disabled if playing in fullscreen
1443 * A few new keyboard shortcuts
1444 * New full-featured Preferences window
1447 Changes between 0.5.2 and 0.5.3:
1448 --------------------------------
1451 * fixed DTS S/PDIF output on little-endian machines
1452 * support for skins at the interface level
1453 * new OSD module using Freetype2
1454 * video outputs are now destroyed when the associated input ends
1455 * the video output takes into account the caching delay introduced at the
1456 input level before dropping out of date frames.
1457 * configuration option to disable the translation of the interface
1460 * fixed HTTP redirects
1461 * support for opening an entire directory
1462 * EOF should be detected more reliably
1463 * new video4linux access plug-in
1464 * new kfir access plug-in designed to work around a bug in the kfir driver
1467 * added stream type for some Motorola MPEG-2 video encoders
1468 * fix for some ogg web radio streams
1469 * fixed reading TS streams over HTTP
1472 * support for 3ivx D4 (not previous versions)
1473 * support for '3ivd' and '3vid' encodings
1474 * support for 'MSS1' codec ( same as WMV2 )
1475 * support for SAMI subtitles (untested and incomplete)
1476 * better SSA4 subtitles recognition
1477 * new codec for raw I420 video
1478 * improvements to the libmpeg2-based MPEG video decoder
1481 * improvements to wxWindows based interface
1482 (although it still misses some important features)
1483 * skeleton for a Gnome2/GTK2 plug-in
1486 * new HTTP output support
1487 * fixed a segfault in the AVI muxer
1488 * fixed AV synchronization issues
1491 * support for oldstyle id3 genres
1494 * the SDL vout plug-in will now work on big-endian machines
1497 * reorderable playlist
1498 * fixed the hiding of the mouse on multiple monitors
1499 * fixed a big issue with some USB speakers
1500 * support for mono audio output devices
1501 * reset the audio-device to its default mode before quitting VLC
1502 * fixed several cosmetic issues
1503 * you can drag the controller window by its background (as it should be)
1504 * the messages window remembers more lines
1505 * delay and fps can now be overruled with subtitles files
1506 * http and ogg stream output options
1507 * Apple menu and friends will now be translated as well
1510 * new skinnable interface
1511 * the directx video output doesn't crash anymore on ctrl+alt+del events.
1513 iPAQ familiar Linux port:
1514 * support for FLAC audio format
1515 * the interface adapts to the screen size/rotation
1517 * network tab in the interface
1518 * "apply" handling in preferences
1521 Changes between 0.5.1a and 0.5.2:
1522 ---------------------------------
1525 * advanced config options are now hidden by default
1526 * new --spdif option to use the S/PDIF audio output by default
1527 * fixed a 'clicking' sound when switching between streams
1528 * new bandlimited resampler that should improve audio quality on primarily
1530 * fixed a problem with audio over http that caused some web radios to not work
1531 * DTS S/PDIF support
1534 * support for DV audio through the ffmpeg library
1535 * support for FLAC audio through libflac
1536 * new but basic MPEG video decoder based on libmpeg2
1537 * fixed a major bug in LPCM code (fixes a problem with iDVD disks)
1540 * support for streaming DivX 1/2/3, wmv1/2, h/i263 over MPEG-2 TS
1541 * new --ttl option for Time To Live
1544 * fixed quite a few problems with the dvd menu support
1547 * fixed the GNU-pth support
1550 * multi-channel audio and S/PDIF support for both the DirectX and Waveout
1552 * localization support via gettext is now fully working
1553 * rc interface is now fully useable
1554 * fixed the MSVC project files generation
1557 * several fixes for multi channel audio devices. AC3 over SPDIF with
1558 M-Audio Sonica Theater still does not work. this is most likely a driver
1559 bug and has been reported to M-Audio. (Sonica, Revolution, Delta, Griffin
1560 iMate and MOTU firewire devices should work)
1561 * VLC now uses the default audio device
1563 * very preliminary support for VLC control via applescript
1564 * support for mouse gestures
1565 * new priority scheme allowing to avoid lock-ups on low-end machines
1568 * there is a whole new port for the linupy distribution used by o.a. the
1569 YOPY PDA. It is still experimental, please test it
1572 * improved ID3 tag detection
1573 * changed several errors into warnings ; the frequently reported "this is
1574 not a PS stream, continuing" is one of these
1575 * mouse gestures work on windows and osx, but there still isn't any useful
1577 * some support for .pls playlists used by shoutcast
1580 Changes between 0.5.1 and 0.5.1a:
1581 ---------------------------------
1584 * fixed a problem that caused VLC to select the wrong language when
1585 English was set as the preferred language
1588 Changes between 0.5.0 and 0.5.1:
1589 --------------------------------
1592 * new mouse gesture interface
1593 * audio volume can now be changed at any time, even when no file is
1597 * various minor fixes on the network inputs
1598 * fixed some weird URL parsing problems (/Volumes/toto:tata/harry@coin.mpg)
1599 * VCD: fixed track number and chapter indexing
1602 * fixed a bad initialization in the mp4 plug-in
1603 * new --buggy-psi option for TS streams which do not update their
1607 * support for MPEG-2 intra slice refresh (aka. Slice-I) streams
1610 * fixed a bug which turned the default interface command-line only
1611 without the user consent
1614 * GTK: fixed a crash when going fullscreen or changing volume from the
1616 * X11: new screen saver disabling plug-in (--extraintf screensaver)
1617 * KDE: fixed compilation with KDE 3.1
1618 * ALSA: fixed mono files output
1621 * fixed a crash on start-up on some localized systems
1622 * lowered real-time priorities to avoid lock-ups on slow machines
1623 * VLC can now be made the handler of ftp http mms and udp URLs
1624 * playlist enhancements
1625 * added half, normal and double video window menu items
1626 * new step forward/step backward commands
1627 * the dock should no longer be visible in fullscreen mode
1628 * the Mac OS X binary is now compiled with Ogg/Theora support
1629 * vlc.app is now VLC.app
1632 * fixed the "RichEdit line insertion error" bug
1633 * VLC can now be run from outside its installation directory
1634 * fixed a bug that prevented to find the default subtitle font
1637 * smarter BeOS priorities to avoid lock-ups
1638 * few enhancements in the interface (especially the Settings window)
1641 * native video output is working again
1642 * only commandline interface support
1643 * support for MPEG4, DivX through ffmpeg package
1646 Changes between 0.4.6 and 0.5.0:
1647 --------------------------------
1650 * object structure which allows for full re-entrancy, known as libvlc
1651 * new audio output architecture based on filter pipelines, providing
1652 S/PDIF and multi-channel support
1653 * localization support via gettext on most architectures
1654 * new stream output architecture, allowing to use VLC to unicast,
1655 multicast or broadcast a stream to another VLC (only MPEG 1, 2 and 4
1656 and A/52 streams are supported)
1657 * build system now uses autoconf/automake/autopoint
1662 * stability fixes in the HTTP access
1663 * auto-detection of RTP encapsulation
1664 * VCD entry points support
1665 * VCD image file support
1668 * support for *.asf format
1669 * improved support for *.avi, especially over an HTTP connection
1670 * support for *.mp4 and *.mov format
1671 * support for ogg encapsulation
1672 * support for raw DV format
1673 * support for *.wav format
1674 * new demuxdump demux allowing to save a stream to a file
1677 Stream discovery & playlists:
1678 * support for the SAP/SDP and SLP protocols
1679 * support for .m3u file format
1680 * support for .asx file format
1681 * hack to find the streaming sources in html-pages with embedded wmp
1684 * support for the microdvd, subrip, ssa1, ssa2-4 subtitles file formats
1685 (only available with the .avi demux)
1686 * support for ADPCM audio codec
1687 * support for raw PCM data
1688 * support for Cinepak video codec
1689 * support for DV video codec via libdv or ffmpeg
1690 * support for AAC audio codec via libfaad2
1691 * support for Xvid codec
1692 * support for Xiph.org's Vorbis audio codec
1693 * support for Xiph.org's Tremor audio codec (when compiling from sources)
1694 * support for Xiph.org's Tarkin and Theora video codecs (when compiling
1696 * new codecs supported by latest ffmpeg versions: WMV, WMA, SVQ 1, H263,
1698 * fixed an endianness bug in LPCM codec
1701 * experimental preliminary support for DVD menus via libdvdplay
1704 * new WxWindows interface
1705 * all interfaces allow to dynamically change the volume, the audio
1706 device and the channels configuration
1707 * headphone channel mixer with virtual spatialization effect
1708 * Mozilla plugin based on libvlc for embedded playback in webpages of any
1709 format that VLC can play
1710 * new swedish translation
1711 * enhancements of the playlist window
1712 * new messages window to see debug info
1713 * fixed a few crashes
1716 * slider bar in GTK+/GPE Familiar interface
1717 * fixed crash on directory change in Familiar interface
1718 * added qte_main module for use in all modules that need Opie or Qte support
1719 * native video output module for Qt Embedded/Opie is not working